Everyone's been talking about a TNA TV Title, but what about a WWE TV Title?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Alright, just feel like starting a discussion. People have been saying that TNA should adopt a Television Championship. What does everyone think about the same idea being applied to the WWE?

Have the belt be inter-promotional, and defended on both RAW and SmackDown! every week. To start it off, have SmackDown! get the right to declare the Champion, seeing as they won the brand feud at Survivor Series. Have William Regal say he wants the belt, but have Paul London or someone get in his face about it. A tournament takes place to decide the TV Champion.

William Regal beats Scotty 2 Hotty to advance. Fairly clean and straight forward match. Paul Burchill defeats Funaki to advance with something awesome. Paul London beats Simon Dean, and Brian Kendrick beats Nunzio. Completely pulling stuff out of my ass here. Anyway, the final brackets look something like this:

William Regal vs. Paul Burchill
Paul London vs. Brian Kendrick

Regal says he really wants the belt, but Burchill won't forfeit his match against Regal, and the two go to a 10-minute draw. London and Kendrick are put into a match with no time limit to decide who will be Champion. Maybe have this take place at WrestleMania or something? London goes over well past the 10-minute mark (Hell, have them go over 20) and becomes TV Champion.

I think something like this would be a good idea, because it can really help guys get over. They're never going to put Paul London over Kurt Angle, but they might just have him go ten minutes with him, which allows London to get the moral victory over Angle. Stuff like that can help the guys in the undercard get noticed and develop relationships with the fans. You can play both sides with the belt. The guy who keeps it because his opponents can't beat him within the time limit, and the guy who keeps it because he always destroys his opponents within the time limit. It's probably the title they can do the most with stipulation-wise.

So, do you think it is a good idea or a bad idea?

[ddpBANG]

WWE has too many titles as it is.

[Lock Jaw]

They can't get the titles that they already have over, so no.

I used to love the TV title and it's time limit stuff though.

[PullMyFinger]

WWE having two diff sets of titles is already one too many. Kills the whole thing.

I think the reason why we're all talking about TNA tv is due to the fact that it's something new and fresh. It's starting up and so many people are giving their input on how to make the product successful. Really, I think that's why I like TNA a lot---after WCW's collapse it was all WWE and it got stale and boring...with TNA, there's something else to look forward to and talk about (whether it's bashing or praising).

[FourFifty]

We don't need a WWE TV title.

Each show has enough titles... However I wouldn't mind seeing both shows share the hardcore title. 24/7 rules could be a great storyline tool.

[LivingDead]

Hardcore title would have to lose the 24/7 thing. That killed it.

[Lux]

Hardcore title would have to lose the 24/7 thing. That killed it.
Killed it......it made it better as you never had time to rest and a good match could start by someone just walking out of the locker room and getting hit with a chair...............

[LivingDead]

Killed it......it made it better as you never had time to rest and a good match could start by someone just walking out of the locker room and getting hit with a chair...............

Yeah, Crash Holly vs. Pete Gas at the airport was an mazing "good match".

[Mr. Nerfect]

I knew people would bring up the "they don't have enough room for titles as it is" arguement. Which is fair enough, and completely reasonable, but I think what would work about a Television Title is the uniqueness of the title. A quick match on TV, instead of a throwaway JBL vs. Matt Hardy match without a conclusion, or instead of a random tag team match.

I really don't think it would hurt, and the belt wouldn't be designed to be prestigious as much as it would be seen as a tool for guys to appear on TV, and basically show off their record. Worst case scenario is that you have to cut out a useless segment or two.

A TV Title wouldn't require as much booking. Want to focus on the IC Title? Have William Regal just beat guys in quick matches over the next few weeks. It also allows random matches to be thrown onto PPV, making less work for the writing team which up until this week (last stop before the PPV) had four matches confirmed for PPV. Depending on what criteria you go by, that only barely makes half a PPV. Now they have five. For a PPV with a big gimmick match, they should at least have six. A 15-20 minute TV Title Match (bump up the PPV time limit to 20 minutes) could help fix that.

I'm not really talking as much a Championship for major storylines to be based around as I am using the title as an accessory to get guys noticed, and to get guys on TV. It could also be used in creative ways.

For example, say the WWE has a TV Title on Big Show right now. You can have Triple H claim that as TV Champion, Big Show has to defend the belt on PPV as well as face him later that night. Show decides that to get rid of this weakeness, he will drop the title to someone, but Triple H offers money to guys if they get counted out or disqualified, or if they last ten minutes with Show. BS goes into NYR as TV Champion, and faces Lance Cade earlier in the night or something. Show pins Cade, keeping the belt, then loses to Triple H later that night because he has already wrestled. It makes Triple H look smart, and lets Big Show save face.

[dablackguy]

Yeah, Crash Holly vs. Pete Gas at the airport was an mazing "good match".

Yeah of course, pick the worst match you possibly can

Eh, I hated the WCW TV title, how can wwe make it better?
Oh yeah, they probably couldnt

[loopydate]

Hardcore title would have to lose the 24/7 thing. That killed it.

Agreed. I'm sorry, but any title that was held 26 times by one man (Raven) in less than two years' time is worthless. There were more than two hundred title changes in the belt's four year history. That's more than a change per week!

Yeah, it was sort of amusing at first, but once Crash lost it, they should have scrapped the 24/7 thing and gone back to the way it was in the beginning.

[Stickman]

I totally agree with the idea. WCW TV Title was awesome. It would get over actual wrestling.

[Innovator]

The titles they have mean so little value, they don't need another one.

See IC title, US title.

[Savio]

I think raw could go with a European title or atleast do something with the IC title.

[Mr. JL]

It would be great if Rob Van Dam just suddenly returned with the ECW Television Championship. Claiming that he is the only credible champion in the WWE. Just have him, whomp and stomp people ECW style until the fans get bored of it (which they never will get bored of CUZ he's the Whole F'N Show!).

[Kane Knight]

I've got to agree with many people that they have enough titles already.

They can't even promote all their programs as is, so what makes you think they'd be able to book new ones to promote such a belt without further degrading the rest of the show?

[Chavo Classic]

Normally I love your ideas Alenoid, but this one stinks.

Another title? The bookers can't even promote the ones they have already properly.

[Xero]

The WWE needs LESS titles, not MORE.

[Chavo Classic]

The number of titles currently available are fine. 4 for each brand, one for the main event, the midcard and tag teams and for each brand's exclusive division.

The problem is not the quantity of belts, it's with the quality of hwo the belts are contested. For example, get that IC belt off Flair and have throw together any of the midcard on Raw and you've got an instant improvement. I don't even have to discuss how badly the Cruiserbelt has been misused (Funaki the challenger? Are you kidding? Why not use Mysterio for once!)

[Xero]

I say get rid of the Women's title completely and actually make the Cruiserweight title interbrand (instead of the world title). It's not a very important title and there are cruisers on both shows. It could bring prestige back to the CW title.

[Mr. Nerfect]

To be honest, I wouldn't mind it if Kid Kash did make the Cruiserweight Title interpromotional.

Kid Kash could complain that the cruisers don't get enough recognition, so he goes over to RAW and defends the belt against Chavo Guerrero. Would make for a great TV match. Chavo defends the title in a rematch against Kid Kash on SmackDown! the next week, and then faces Daivari or Gregory Helms on RAW.

To be honest, that would really work in getting the cruiserweights over as work horses that aren't as much in it to be the top guy in the company as they are to compete and put on great matches.

I wouldn't scrap the Women's Title, though. Actually get some women in and it will be fine.