10 Things WWE Fans Want For Christmas In 2016

With the final pay-per-view of 2016 now in the books, WWE fans are looking towards 2017 to see what's on the horizon. But before the year comes to an official end, the holidays will be celebrated and gifts will be exchanged.

Gifts can come in all different shapes and sizes, have all sorts of various meanings, and carry tremendous values regardless of their monetary cost. For example, WWE has the power to give millions of fans all around the world their own type of gifts this holiday season without spending an additional dime. In fact, the company might even generate more money in 2017 by doing so!

While gifts from WWE Shop can be ordered and shipped, and toys bearing the WWE logo can be delivered by Santa, these are not the presents that we're talking about.

From new challenges and directions to continued improvement and consistency, WWE has the opportunity to fulfill many wishes this year. Some are almost guaranteed to arrive in 2017 while others may require additional patience. There are also gifts that, despite appearing at the very top of WWE fans' wish list, may still go unfulfilled.

If Vince McMahon were Santa Claus, then the WWE Universe would be grateful to find the following 10 things wrapped under their tree...

One of the most important yet often forgotten aspects of a championship is the aesthetics of the title belt itself. For years, WWE has overlooked this and have chosen to focus instead on crowbarring massive and multiple WWE logos into every championship belt that exists.

The purpose is clearly a marketing tactic, especially considering how WWE now delivers a customized championship belt to the winner of the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, and Stanley Cup every year. While fans graciously accepted the WWE Championship's redesign in 2014 to incorporate the company's new logo, when WWE unveiled the Universal Championship belt at SummerSlam 2016 as a faux-WWE Championship clad in red leather, they were less than accepting.

Some of the most popular championship designs in WWE history came when the logo and the company's branding were subtle and left to the background. Take a look at the Winged Eagle, Big Gold, or Big Eagle belts and you'll see what I'm talking about.

With the Universal title, WWE had an opportunity to present something new and fresh while also perhaps calling back to the old but popular championships of the past. Instead, they once again overlooked the belt's aesthetics and it led to an awful crowd reaction that torpedoed SummerSlam's title match, making a new Universal Championship #10 on WWE fans' holiday wishlist.