More Disrespected Title - IC or Tag?

[a7xoff]

Both titles are pretty well disrespected by WWE. Hardy is the intercontinental champ. When was the last time he defended it? Was it that ladder match against Carlito like two months ago. If your going to have someone hold a belt.... Here's a concept... Make them defend the damn thing. There are plenty of people for Jeff to feud with for the IC title, but WWE just does not seem to care for it.
The tag titles on both Raw and SD! are the most disrespected titles in the industry aside mabey from the Women's title, but I'm not getting into that now. Anyway, the tag titles are virtually unused nowadays. I actually forgot who the champs were until we saw them for the first time in weeks this past monday. WWE has had numerous chances to work on reviving the tag team division, but has not. The tag titles have really become filler titles, used only when they need to kill off ten or so minutes of a show. WWE has really dropped the ball with they're tag team division. What I mean by that is there are absolutley no buildups to anything. The Rednecks randomly lost to Rhodes and Holly. Then before one of them got injured the Highlanders wanted a shot that never came. Cryme Tyme won a title shot over a year and a half ago that they were never able to cash in on. WWE tag team titles, most disrespected and should probably be one of the more respected titles in the buisness...

 

[thejap]

I'd say the most disrespected title are the world tag titles...Jeff hardy is cool and IC title though he never defends it, but the world teag champs are holley and code rhodes, we could have a lot better teams imo like
1. Hardyz
2. DX
3. Rated RKO
4. London & Kendrick
5. Deuce & Domino
6. New Bread...i would say originals too but most of them left (I don't blame them)

 

[mark4life]

It's hard to discuss about the state of titles in the WWE. They seem just to be a novelty trophy. It's looks pretty on the card, but when it's not pushed or placed with some kind of passion like it were 5-10 years ago, I would so mark out for "title" match. It just seems to be a filler now on the shows. So if you ask me what titles are more disrespected, it's a respectable tie unfortunately.

 

[HBK-aholic]

1. Hardyz

The Hardys were a great tag team; they worked together so well, and maybe in the future they will do again. But at the moment, the WWe has different paths for them both. It looks as if Jeff is even getting ready to have a world title reign. And because f the way the WWE views the Tag Titles atm, they won't take him away from the big thing of the WWE title, to put him into the tag division which they don't think of anyway. So really, it's a circle they're stuck in.

2. DX

DX are great together, but once again, they are pushing Shawn and HHH in different ways. It also looks as if HHH is going to become champion again, due to him being in the triple threat at Mania. Whereas Shawnis about to end Flairs career, but I don't know what they have planned for him next. Maybe a feud with Jeff Hardy, as you could see the beginning of one before.

3. Rated RKO

I think they were a good tag team. They worked well together, but I don't think it was ever to stay. They had a good feud with DX, but that was pretty much the end of it. Edge is so much better as a singles competitor, and is great at doing his job for the fans. They won't put 2 of their biggest draws into a smaller division.

All in all, some good teams here, but there is so much going on, that WWE need to think about tag teams right from the beginning, they need to see people work together before throwing them into a team, they need to find people who suit, and they need to debut them as a team. so we see this from the beginning, instead of having opinions on both separately. If, after the team breaks up, they work well together separately, well it shows what good wrestlers they are.

 

[Downward Spiral]

I'm going to have to go with the Intercontinental Title as the belt that has been completely shafted to the lower platforms of the WWE's priority list, and basically just undervalued to the point where you can call it utterly disrespected.

The main reason for this, is that over the years, the belt has rarely been used as a stepping-stone for mid card guys, nor has it been utilised as a way to garner interest for the mid card as it should be. The focus since about 2005, has been completely on the top belt, leaving the IC belt with no fuel to help get the champions and contenders over. Juxtapose this with the fact that there has probably been close to no wrestlers for about 4 years, that have been focused only on winning the championship, and not just some feud with the champion, where the belt is used meaninglessly to illustrate that the two actually have something to fight over, when this isn’t the case, and you’ve got a perfect scenario to suggest that this belt means nothing, and when your own product is blatantly suggesting that this belt means nothing, you can be sure as hell that the fans won’t care for it either.

Right now, I think the biggest disgrace is that, not only is the belt not being defended as it should be, it is just being stuck on Main-Event calibre guys for the sole point of being able to call them a champion. Case and Point, Jeff Hardy and Umaga. This is not helping them get over any more, and so the reason for placing the belt on them is not evident, but if I was to take a (somewhat educated) guess, I would say that the WWE does not have any other ideas other than to place them on people and hope that the fans forget about the belt, or for some reason think that the belt means more if top guys have it (we aren't stupid in that way, I'd hope). Putting the belt on guys who won’t defend it, and don’t need it, completely devalues a formerly great and sought-after title.

How to fix this? The first step, is to actually build a clear-cut midcard division. Right now, 95% of the Raw roster is just floating aimlessly around. Some prime examples of this are: Santino, Carlito, Burchill, Snitsky and even guys like Kennedy and Jericho (who they’ve completely left in the cold when they’ve had a main-even ready superstar in him). Solution? Build feuds around the IC belt (feuds between champion and challenger, and feuds between several wrestlers vying for the next title shot) with these guys. Santino and Carlito? The WWE just threw these two together and called them a tag team when they should be both individually trying to reach contendership for the IC title. Burchill? Give him time and get him in the ring against some credible opponents, and he’s midcard material that they can use. Snitsky? He’s the monster that would fit effectively in the midcard. Use him that way. And finally, Kennedy and Jericho, two guys that deserve higher statuses, but aren’t getting it. The WWE obviously aren’t going to completely push them into the upper echelons of the Raw roster right now, and seeing as they are doing very little, give them a go with the belt. The IWC would basically drool over the concept of a Kennedy/Jericho feud, but, instead of using the IC belt as a side-issue to the feud, make it the focal point, the reason as to why these two are fighting each other. Basically, you have the challengers-in-waiting, and the two currently fighting over the title. When guys actually want to go for the title, you give it more purpose, more credibility. There are many steps to be taken to gain a quality mid-card, and to restore some much needed credibility for the IC belt, but the WWE has the tools needed to take these steps. Get out of your slumber WWE!

The reason I believe that the tag titles, although in poor shape, are not as disrespected as the IC belt, is that for one, whenever you see the champions (as rare as that is with Rhodes/Holly), they carry their belts, and they are recognised as the champions. You don’t get any of this crap where the champions walk around without their belts, and never make mention to them. Also, the WWE at least tries different things with them. As stated in the first post I believe, there were 5 tag title holders in 2007. This is at least using the belts. This means that the belts were actually defended, and despite the fact that the belts were still rendered somewhat meaningless because of a lack of contenders and an unapparent tag division, the belts were still used on television, more than you can say for the IC belt. The Tag Titles even had a few (or just one) storylines around them. Remember the whole Hardys/Cade and Murdoch thing? When was the last storyline surrounding the IC belt?

Basically, both titles are unvalued, and have been for quite some time. The WWE dropped the ball several years ago, and haven’t been assed to pick it up again. It’s time they did. The ratings aren’t flowing in, because you can’t have two or three guys that are actually going for something (the WWE title), and have a point each and every week, and then just a bunch of people stumbling around like zombies to make up the rest of the roster. Wake these zombies (Kennedy, Jericho, Carlito and the other useful midcarders) up from their stupor by giving them an aim, a common goal. Actually try things with these guys in the midcard. That’s the place to do it. As of right now though, the first thing I see happening with the IC title is that it will either be rendered defunct, or just merged with the WWE title. Bad, bad, bad.

For the tag division, don’t just throw guys together as teams because you don’t feel like taking the time to build new, fresh actual teams. The WWE has lost their credible teams, yes, but that doesn’t mean that the Tag Titles don’t have to mean anything because there’s no one left to go for them. Titles will get over if people are showing that they mean something to them. The WWE need to get out of this lazy, short-cut taking mood they’ve been in for years, and start bringing in new tag teams and making an effort to get them over. This is the first step in re-creating the tag team division, and revaluing the belts. They seem to be doing everything they can to step around this.

Right now, if the belts aren’t the main focus for every single person on the roster, what is? The WWE aren’t giving their wrestlers reasons for getting out there every week and brutalising themselves. Especially when it comes to the lower guys. You want to make them stars? Make them credible champions. Credibility is hard to come by, especially since the WWE tries so hard to avoid this credibility. Jeff Hardy and Rhodes/Holly are not giving any credibility to their respective titles, for separate reasons. Long story short, the WWE is ‘off’ in every sense when it comes to how they treat the titles. For RAW, the Intercontinental Championship is the most disrespected. The Tag Titles are a close second.

 

[Agrex]

Both title are pretty bad off. There's really no competition for the both of them. For the world tag team titles the only possible contenders are: Londrick, Carlito & Santino, and Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch. That's three teams. Technically it's two because Londrick never get title shots. Now as for the IC title, the possible contenders are: Charlie Haas, Cody Rhodes, Umaga, and Mr.Kennedy. That's four, that is terrible, and disgusting. So, in my opinion, the IC title is less respected than the tag titles.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

I dont know id say its pretty close to equal, but Id give the nod to the IC belt. The tag titles dont have nearly the amount of quality teams competeing for them like they used to, nor are they as perstigous, but they are still the mian object of the competitors in the division, and teams still challenege for them. On the other hand, the IC title is nothing more than an ornament on Jeff Hardy at the moment. WHEN was the last time he defended it, and gainst WHO?? HAS he ever defended it since he beat Umaga for it??? I honestly cant remeber. Was the ladder match with Carlito for the belt? I guess so...So in all that time as champ, he has had all of ONE defense. No one cares to win the IC belt. At all. this title was battled over by the likes of Bret Hart, Mr.Perfect, Roddy Piper, Razor Ramon, HBK, Randy Orton, Owen Hart, STone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Rick Rude, Ultimate Warrior. The IC title used to carry a LOT of respect, and was an actual GOAL to reach. it no longer at this time is that. At all.There used to be classic wars waged over the belt, Like Piper Vs Hart, WM 8, Davey Boy Smith Vs Hart at Summerslam, Razor Ramon Vs Shawn Micheals at WM 10, and Summerslam 95. No longer. I still remember Bret Hart cutting promos when he first turned singles, saying " I dont care WHO I have to go through to get there, I WILL be the Intercontinental champion"...No one cuts promos like that about the IC title anymore. But they do over the tag titles.

 

[Danmen001]

Both of the titles are becoming more or less nothing. Both titles are hardly ever defended. Both titles, honestly no one gives a damn about anymore. But for me the Tag titles are more disrespected. Ok lets see, the last fued time I remember the belts had any decent storyline was when MVP and Matt had them. And the last time the other belts (the ones on raw because I forget the name) had any meaning was when HBK and Cena had then. A while ago, not to mention both those fueds were when the holders were against each other in a main storyline.(kinda ironic isn't it.)

They mean nothing now.

 

[ilovewrestling47]

I definitely think the tag titles are more disrespected. Holly and Rhodes is a joke. I haven't even seen them on TV for a few weeks. They might have been there but the champs are so boring I probably didn't pay attention if they were. And of course the storylines of which there was an absence of. I wish they gave the titles to a respectable team and made them look good with decent build-up of a fued. Of course it isn't all the wrestlers faults. WWE has barely any tag teams worth anything. That is why I hope they combine tag titles and have the champs go between shows. Don't get me wrong, the IC Title is still very disrespected. I was thrilled when Jericho and Hardy were going to have a lenghty fued over it but then Hardy had to do drugs and mess it all up. So I think Hardy getting suspended had the IC Title lose a chance to gain some more respect and put its prestige a little higher. Jericho holding the title now gives it some more credibility than in recent months with him being a now record 8-time champion.

 

[jpfizzle]

With the squash of Hardcore Holly by The Great Khali on past weeks Raw I am going to have to say the tag titles, for me this was the nail in the coffin on the tag titles... with The Worlds Greatest Tag Team disbanded months ago, London and Kendrick seemingly suspended and Robbie of the highlanders in hot water I think that the tag titles are in danger of being forgotten altogether. For example Carlito and Santino are supposed to be a tag team but they dont seem it at all! what was that build up for a few weeks ago?

I just dont think the tag titles are even taken into consideration in terms of importance these days.. IMO there the most meanngless titles in WWE history.