1) More WWE Titles Being Renamed?
News broke this week that WWE is dropping “Women’s” from the NXT Women’s Championship. As a result, they will now be calling the belt the “NXT Championship”, just like they do for the men’s top belt.
According to WrestlingNews.co, there is talk of WWE also renaming the Women’s belts on the main roster. Here is an excerpt from the report:
I have heard that this is not the only change coming for the women’s titles. Prior to Lynch’s comments on WWE Backstage, there was already talk of renaming the women’s titles on Raw and SmackDown.
One idea that was pitched was to simply mirror the names of the men’s titles to have the Raw Women’s Championship renamed to the WWE Championship and the SmackDown Women’s Championship renamed to the WWE Universal Championship. Another idea that was pitched was to simply make the distinction between Men’s and Women’s titles, unlike now where the distinction is only made for the Women’s titles. So, for example, Brock Lesnar would be referred to as the Men’s WWE Champion and Lynch would be referred to as the Women’s WWE Champion.
The report also suggests that the changes won’t be happening right away:
I was told that the changes to the main roster titles might not come right away because if the changes happen then they would want to introduce the new title names during WrestleMania.
My Take:
- Definitely an interesting move by WWE. I am sure that it will be a polarizing topic among fans. It doesn’t both me if they do change the names as I am sure I will get used to it eventually.
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