10 Ways The WWE Title Can Rebuild Its Tarnished Legacy
3. Clean It Up
We haven't seen a truly clean WWE Championship match in months.
Yes, Jinder Mahal technically pinned Shinsuke Nakamura without assistance at Hell in a Cell, but The Singh Brothers still interfered. Each of 'The Maharaja's' other bouts have been swayed by the hard-bumping duo, with his reign also featuring the Punjabi Prison's unwanted return, resulting in one of the era's worst WWE Title matches. Before that, we had Bray Wyatt projecting bugs onto the mat at WrestleMania 34 - another laughably bad contest.
Throw the rampant racism prevalent during the Mahal/Nakamura feud and the sheer nonsense purveyed throughout the Orton/Wyatt storyline into the mix, and you have a title defined by some of the worst ideas to escape WWE's creative room in 2017.
The best way to reverse this is to go in the complete opposite direction, and rebuild the division around good old-fashioned athletic competition. Over-the-top gimmicks and narratives don't get over anymore. People don't like being fed hokum in 2017, and in adopting a new, wrestling-centric approach to the WWE Title, the company would be going a long way towards giving the fans what they want, and repairing much of the year's damage.