10 Things Wrestling Needs To Ban RIGHT NOW
5. The Creation Of More Titles
Not a single new title needs to be created across WWE, All Elite Wrestling, and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
A wrestling title is meant to feel elusive, as if capturing it will take nothing less than a career-best performance from the challenger. In Triple H's defence, his slow and uneventful approach to television exists for this very purpose: it will feel enormous when GUNTHER and Roman Reigns are eventually dethroned. That still doesn't excuse the dumb and oxymoronic concept of secondary Word titles, which exist across the men's and women's divisions. The belt Seth Rollins wears has been treated with utter disdain directly by Roman Reigns and indirectly by Cody Rhodes as a consolation prize, and that, canonically and literally, is why it exists in the first place.
AEW's title picture is out of control even if you don't factor ROH into the equation.
The TNT title used to actually reward those worthy of it - Darby Allin and Miro - and now, after it became a belt-makes-the-man rehab project for the likes of Wardlow, it is tacked onto a grudge programme, in Christian Cage Vs. Adam Copeland, that doesn't need it. That might be because it is unnecessary in and of itself in the wake of the International and Triple Crown titles, which are either synonyms of World title or were used by another promotion as the de facto World title.
It's all a bit diluted and meaningless, and NJPW - in parallel with its wider decline - promotes so many titles that lapsed fans can't keep up with the amount nor the name changes.