Thread: Everyone's been talking about a TNA TV Title, but what about a WWE TV Title?
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Old 01-03-2006, 10:19 PM   #9
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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.
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