7 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (June 8)

3. If You Can't Win A Title In AEW...

You f*ckin' suck, pal.

A dispirited Mick Foley once said as much without the curse word at the tail end of 2001 in a pre-Survivor Series attempt to clean up the mess of titles during the Invasion, but a company that once took 17 months to introduce a secondary male strap last night unveiled the eleventh belt that will theoretically be fought for over the three hours a week the company has on television. Twelfth including the interim AEW World Heavyweight Championship. Thirteenth including Ricky Starks FTW Championship, which has been featured on "Battle Of The Belts" and should thus count too. More still if the Owen belts are ever put up for grabs, or the AAA titles appear, which they likely will.

The Ring Of Honor belts continue to feature as long as ROH doesn't have a place of its own, and in Samoa Joe and FTR arguably have stronger holders than their AEW equivalents at present.

But back to the All-Atlantic Championship a second. Speculatively, it feels as though the belt exists as part of some political nicety between AEW and NJPW, or indeed any other promotion it may be defended in. But that doesn't give any thought to yet more creative complications, so as fans, what reasons should there be to care about it? And more worryingly, was that even considered before it was devised?