Top WWE Name ‘Not A Fan’ Of Having Too Many Championships On TV

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WWE’s Paul Heyman has criticized the “multitude of titles” in professional wrestling stating that they need to be given “enough time” to matter.

Speaking to CBS Sports’ Shakiel Mahjouri, Heyman, was asked about reports that he had fought against the introduction of a men’s mid-card title during his time as SmackDown Head Writer in the 2000s.

Confirming this, Heyman shared his perspective on the matter:

“I’m not a big fan of a multitude of titles, unless you can give them enough time.

“We had proper focus, at that time on the championships we had and didn’t feel we needed more championships to tell better stories, and felt that the introduction of more championships only waters down the championships that we already had the spotlight on at that moment.”

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He would go on to note that more titles aren’t directly related to relevance and that companies should take a pragmatic approach to their offering, stating:

“What works works and what doesn’t doesn’t, if you can make it relevant, all pun intended to the island of relevancy, then it will work. If you can’t make it relevant then it won’t.

“Listen, if there are 14 titles and they all mean something, then you should be looking at doing number 15; if you have seven titles and you’re struggling to put relevancy on all seven, then you need to cut down on the number that you have.”

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Heyman recently returned to WWE TV, revealing CM Punk to be the fifth man for Roman Reigns, The Usos and Sami Zayn’s team for the WarGames match against The Bloodline at this Saturday’s WWE Survivor Series.

This week’s WWE Raw saw brand GM Adam Pearce introduce the new Women’s Intercontinental Championship.

Over on WWE SmackDown, the new Women’s United States Championship was unveiled by General Manager Nick Aldis.

Previously, Bianca Belair opened up about the women’s roster being ‘so stacked‘ that another championship would ‘really highlight’ the division.

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