10 Times WWE Totally BOTCHED A New Title

6. WWE Divas Championship

Mick Foley 24/7 Championship
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It’s strange to say that a title was doomed from the jump because of the name and design, but that’s kind of the case with the WWE Divas Championship.

Created in 2008 as a SmackDown exclusive title for the blue brand divas, the championship was meant to be a counterweight to Raw’s WWE Women’s Championship. But really, the Women’s Championship had more than 50 years of history to it (off and on), while the Divas title was this butterfly design with a silly name.

Just two years later, it would become the only title for a women’s division that would see its TV time shrink, match time evaporate, and storylines fall far short of expectations. The Divas Championship would be ushered out of WWE in 2016, less than a year after the “Women’s Revolution” reshaped the company’s women’s division.

Bad name, bad design, bad memories. This is one title that wasn’t entirely terrible, but also has a lot going against it in the aftermath.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.