5 Ways To Have Better Handled The Vacant WWE Championship

5. Rushing To Crown A New Champion

The first thing that WWE got wrong was the urgent nature in which the company planned to crown a new champion. In all of the areas where the WWE could benefit from by having a sense of urgency, this was not one of them. Establishing a new WWE Champion immediately is something that was always the assumed course of action. Given the title's recent history, does that really need to be the path taken? In each of the past two years, there was a period of a couple months when WWE did not have the WWE Champion appear on television every week. In 2014, Brock Lesnar took a sabbatical with the title after retaining against John Cena at Night of Champions in September; he would not reappear on WWE programming until January 2015. In 2013, Daniel Bryan's controversial victory over Randy Orton in September caused the title to be vacated and not decided until Hell In A Cell. So in 2015, the WWE would have benefited from considering a path where the WWE Championship remained vacant beyond the Survivor Series. By having the Authority decide NOT to immediately crown a new champion, every episode of RAW or SmackDown could have been teased as "Tonight Could Be The Night." it would have made for interesting TV and required the viewers to tune into every WWE television episode with the hopes that a new champion would be crowned. With the WWE's tendency to drag things on well past their expiration date, one concern would be dragging the angle on too long, but there's a perfect ending that will be discussed later. Instead, the WWE rushed into the passe and tired way of thinking that says the WWE Champion must be crowned immediately.