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2. A Consolation Prize

Beyond Triple H’s horrible explanation of why WWE is establishing a new world title, this move evokes bad feelings of previous attempts to create a new world championship… only worse.

Triple H being crowed World Heavyweight Champion by Eric Bischoff was an all-time terrible move (and makes this announcement even more ironic), but Brock Lesnar had only been WWE Champion for a hot minute. In this situation, Roman Reigns has held a world title for nearly three years. He’s literally beaten every main event superstar along the way.

And that’s a huge problem here. Right away, you had guys like Finn Bálor and Seth Rollins eyeing this new title with zero history rather than the title they’ve failed to win. They’d rather chase a new piece of hardware than succeed in dethroning Roman.

And don’t get us started on the possibility that this new title could end up around Cody Rhodes’ waist. That would be the biggest fail of them all, with Cody literally changing his story from winning the title his father couldn’t to just shrugging and accepting another “world” title as a consolation prize.

Any of Roman’s failed challengers should be looking to win the title(s) with all the history, not a new strap created out of thin air. Even with a really good mini-tournament, this title is going to be secondary as long as Reigns is the other world champion.