{"id":49339,"date":"2023-04-25T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49339"},"modified":"2023-04-25T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T02:58:05","slug":"lets-talk-about-the-new-wwe-world-heavyweight-championship-blet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49339","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about the new WWE World Heavyweight Championship blet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m really that surprised that the WWE went ahead and introduced a new World Championship into circulation of blets.\u00a0 Roman Reigns has the WWE and the Universal championship on lockdown and doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019ll be losing them anytime soon, Walter<\/span> Gunther is bringing generations of prestige back to the Intercontinental championship, the United States championship seems like it\u2019s the youngster\u2019s title, with Austin Theory wielding it, and I have no idea what to predict what they\u2019re going to do with the unified Tag Team championships.<\/span><\/p>\n

But because Roman has both of the company\u2019s top prizes, and it doesn\u2019t make sense for him to relinquish either, there is a modicum of sense in introducing a new World title equivalent, for a pool of upper-card talents to vie for, without getting inevitably squashed by Reigns.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also like to think that the WWE made a new blet, just so that they could have another blet to sell, considering they\u2019ve kind of caught up and released just about every single blet in the company\u2019s existence, and I don\u2019t imagine business is great on patsy fake replicas with the Boston Red Sox logo or for whatever reason, every single SEC school.\u00a0 And at an aggressive $499 price point<\/a> for a replica, they\u2019re probably grateful for AEW for inflating the cost of replicas to where they could justify upping their costs as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, let\u2019s talk about the blet\u2019s design, seeing as how I am the ultimate blet collector that I know [I know nobody else who collects personally] and my opinion holds the utmost weight on replica blets of a fake sport of mostly sweaty dudes crashing into each other in soap opera storylines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Knee-jerk reaction: meh.\u00a0 Leaning not liking it, 48-52.\u00a0 I get what the WWE is trying to do with this, in that they\u2019re trying to take the classic big gold blet from the NWA and WCW and make it inherently WWE\u2019s without just straight up re-releasing the old big gold blet.\u00a0 Most likely because they wouldn\u2019t be able to justify the $499 price point, but also because the origins of it will never be native to the WWE.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sheer amount of flourish and the thickness of the plates, and all the swirly designs with practically no contrast to give it any sort of visual separation just kind of make it look like a massive golden turd, smashed and shaped into the general shape of a gold center plate, and then slapped with a WWE logo in the middle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of which, because the globe behind the logo lacks any sort of, you know, land masses on it, it\u2019s not really a globe anymore, and doesn\u2019t really say \u201cworld\u201d about it.\u00a0 But that\u2019s okay I guess, because they have \u201cWORLD CHAMPION\u201d on it in a spiky, LA Angels-type font that is supposed to look intense and menacing or something.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like, the classic World championships of the past, and all championship blets for that matter, the WWE logo was always subtle, but present.\u00a0 It allowed for the actual title of the championship be the focal point of the blets, from the old World championships, all the way to even like the European championship<\/a>.\u00a0 There\u2019s a reason why those older blet designs are all so revered and respected and seen as the benchmark of blet design.<\/span><\/p>\n

The current WWE and Universal championships held by Roman Reigns work, because that\u2019s the WWE going full heavy handed and making the blet basically nothing but the company\u2019s logo.\u00a0 It\u2019s gaudy and intense, but because they went so ham and committed to it, it works.<\/span><\/p>\n

This new World Heavyweight championship is one part trying to be big gold, but at the same time, one part WWEEEEEEE, that it\u2019s like two conflicting forces colliding and we\u2019re left with this weird bastardized golden turd of a blet where it\u2019s stuck in the middle of two alpha objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the worst blet ever released by the WWE, but it\u2019s also not one where I see it and immediately go mmmmmmm I want it<\/em>.\u00a0 But I could be swayed, be it through an intense discount\/sale opportunity, or as simple as being happy with whom is holding the blet, and it making me want it.\u00a0 But considering the introduction of this blet screams, Cody Rhodes will be the first holder of it, I can\u2019t say that holder of the blet is going to sell me on it any time soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuckin\u2019 Cody.\u00a0 I hope he beats some transitional schmuck for the blet in Saudi Arabia, just so we can go ahead and get his bullshit contractually-obligated World title reign over with, but it mean relatively nothing in the grand spectrum of things.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then next Spring, lose it to Roman Reigns<\/a> at Wrestlemania, to great lol\u2019s for me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m really that surprised that the WWE went ahead and introduced a new World Championship into circulation of blets.\u00a0 Roman Reigns has the WWE and the Universal championship on lockdown and doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019ll be losing them anytime soon, Walter Gunther is bringing generations of prestige back to … Continue reading Let\u2019s talk about the new WWE World Heavyweight Championship blet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,151,100,94,83,54,55],"class_list":["post-49339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-blets","tag-comparison","tag-graphic-design","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49343,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49339\/revisions\/49343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}