What if WWE decided to unify all their belts. Get rid of the World, US, World Tag, ECW, and that distasteful Diva's Championship, and kept The WWE,IC,WWE Tag, and Women's Championship? and also added back a title I miss the Cruiserweight title? How do you feel the landscape of the WWE would be changed? I personally would like to see this. It could gives a bigger more wide open mid-card roster, and bigger main event picure also. We wouldnt have to see Orton defend the title against HHH every month. Thoughts?
I agree with you on unifying the titles, but they should keep the unified titles as being called:
World Heavyweight Title
United States Heavyweight Title
World Tag-Team Title
World Women's Title
Then add/bring back:
World Television Title
World Cruiserweight Title
And if they EVER build a strong tag-team scene again:
United States Tag-Team Title
For starters, words and names say alot. World Heavyweight Champion > WWE Champion.... same goes for tag-teams. If you had the choice of being called 'champion of X promotion' or being called the 'Heavyweight Champion of the World' (world meaning planet earth), this is a no-brainer. Again, same goes for the World Tag-Team Title.
At the least, since there is no Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion (and hasn't been one since Lou Thesz), call the unfied champion either WWE World Heavyweight Champion or Unified World Heavyweight Champion. Honestly, you'd have to unify the (WWE) World, TNA World, WWE, NWA World, AJPW World, IWGP World, AAA World, and ROH World Titles (and maybe ECW) to have a Universally Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion.
Since WWE owns the WCW name and likeness, keep the United States Heavyweight Title. Not only did the NWA (JCP) and WCW have this title, but the WWWF used to as well. The exact same holds true for the United States Tag-Team Titles.
The World Cruiserweight Title is needed to give smaller wrestlers a chance - not to mention showcase them and bring far more excitement to the product how WCW did - and to keep these guys away from the heavyweights and stop them from being jobbers. The World Television Title would be good as a stepping stone to the Main Event or pre-main event level. This would be good for Superstars as well.
Women's Title > Diva's Title...... this goes without mention. No explaination needed.
And last but not least, until 2002 we didn't see multiple titles of "equal" value in the same promotion. NWA/JCP had 5 shows on TV (NWA Power Hour, NWA World Wide Wrestling, NWA Pro, NWA World Championship Wrestling, and NWA Main Event) to go with 4 Clash of the Champions per year and 4-5 PPVs. WCW and WWF both had multiple shows as well, and still only had 1 WCW World Champion and 1 WWF Champion; same for their tag-teams (except a short while WCW kept the NWA United States Tag-Team Title and NWA World 6-Man Tag-Team Title).
Now, if WCW and WWF did it before then WWE can certainly go back to single titles per level. The World Champion (or World Tag Champs) don't have to appear on or defend on all shows all the time (maybe this week on RAW, and next week on Smackdown), but have titles rotate in the main event of each show (U.S. Title one time, Cruiserweight Title another, World Tag belts another episode, etc...). What do you think they did when we had WCW Nitro, WCW Thunder, and WCW Main Event; or WWF RAW and WWF Smackdown? Storylines and title matches and rivalries can get more in-depth and develop better if the wrestlers appear on 2-3 shows per week like they used to.
For us who grew up watching wrestling in the 80's and 90's remember this and know that it worked then and would work again now as well.
We also remember the so-called "secondary titles" as they call them today being held by main eventers years ago; the World Title scene was never over-crowded because wrestlers could move between World Heavyweight Title and United States Heavyweight Title, then back to World Heavyweight Title again at any time, and the U.S. Title was a main event title (i.e. Sting, Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Barry Windham, Magnum T.A., Nikita Koloff, Ricky Steamboat, Harley Race, Dusty Rhodes, etc... they could move around at any time). You could also see tag-team wrestlers challenge singles champions WITHOUT breaking up the tag-teams...... heck, some of the tag-teams could hold single's titles and they were main eventers and singles champions as well in their own rights. Look at: Steiner Brothers, Road Warriors, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard, Lex Luger & Barry Windham, Rock 'N' Roll Express, Brian Pillman & Tom Zenk, Midnight Express, Freebirds, Doom, etc...
If Vince would look at some of his 80's footage, and some of that NWA/JCP footage, we could see wrestling hit another huge boom period again.
