6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (28 Oct - Results & Review)

3. WWE's Crown Jewel Titles Continue Sinking

WWE Crown Jewel Title
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Even Triple H, who tried to excite a disappointed live crowd at Bad Blood when revealing the belts for the first time, has given up on trying to pretend these Crown Jewel Titles mean much of anything. One of the straps was shown off right at the start of the show, and there was a pre-taped promo from GUNTHER on Cody Rhodes, but it's all so bland.

Like, really, really bland.

Nobody cares about these championships at all, because there's no reason to believe they'll be important after Saturday's jaunt to Saudi. If anything, both Crown Jewel Titles will presumably stay in the country and be shown off as part of the WWE museum over there. Boy, isn't that thrilling? Get pumped, folks.

Keep in mind this was the final Raw before these titles are contested. Rather than doing everything in their power to big the belts up, WWE skirted over them with one of those weird 'security guards are walking with them' skits, then barely mentioned them throughout the night.

If you didn't watch every week, you'd have no clue what these things even represent.

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