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In short: AEW unveils the Unified Championship to be awarded to the winner of Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada, thus \u201cunifying\u201d the AEW All-Atlantic<\/span> International championship and the AEW Continental Championship<\/span><\/p>\n Man, there\u2019s a lot to unpack for me upon this topic coming up.\u00a0 I know that I have a fairly unhealthy collection of replica wrestling blets, but I\u2019m fairly certain that Tony Khan is worse than I am.\u00a0 Almost to the point where I begin to have doubts on whether or not I want to continue my collection, because TK is running so many blets out there that it risks them all becoming meaningless, and ultimately uncool.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean, AEW has Mercedes Mone running around carrying five blets currently, with only two of them being remotely meaningful with the TBS championship and the RevPro Women\u2019s championship.\u00a0 But she\u2019s carting around the Queen of Southside title which frankly nobody outside of England has ever heard of, recently went to Austria to win some backyard federation\u2019s championship, but my favorite is that she\u2019s carting around the Women\u2019s Owen Hart tournament blet, which really was meant to be a blet to be shown like three weeks of the year, for the winner and maybe 1-2 weeks afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n Hangman Adam Page basically held the men\u2019s title up once, and then immediately gave it back, while Mercedes is still slinging the honorary degree around like it actually means something, and it\u2019s a shame that she\u2019s inevitably going to overthrow Toni Storm for the AEW Women\u2019s championship, and as much as I like Blet Collector gimmicks, Mercedes\u2019 is just really kind of off-putting, given her station within the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n But this post isn\u2019t meant to be about Mercedes Mone, but I was able to barf out these thoughts without having to dedicate an entire post to it in the process, but rather the fact that AEW has unveiled yet another new blet on television, and all I can really do is laugh and shake my head about it, even if it\u2019s ultimately meant to kind of alleviate the excessive number of titles within the TK-verse.<\/span><\/p>\n The AEW Unified Championship is a hilarious name for a title, considering the titles in which they are unifying are for lack of a better term, mid-card titles.\u00a0 In all other combat sports, boxing, MMA, and even the WWE, the term of unifying titles is typically reserved for unifying top prizes.\u00a0 Boxing especially has had all sorts of unified world champions throughout its history, due to federations and promotions merging and separating and merging and requiring consolidation.\u00a0 Even the WWE has had unified champions in its history, but always reserved for World championships, most notably Roman Reigns unifying the World and the Universal titles and then holding it for 1,000+ days.<\/span><\/p>\n But AEW is basically unifying two mid-tier titles, into a single one, but then best of all, calling it the Unified Championship.\u00a0 It will have an A-tier name, but still have stemmed from B-tier titles, and inevitably, if they don\u2019t swap the name of it at some point like they did All-Atlantic to International, the Unified champion will run into the AEW World champion, and what are they going to do, unify the Unified championship into the World?\u00a0 Call it World Unified championship?<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, I don\u2019t really know what TK thinks, beyond when he\u2019s going to get his next bump, but I dunno, you have the International championship, and you have the Continental championship, seems natural if it were to become the\u2026 Inter-Continental championship or something.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean, it\u2019s no secret that AEW has absolutely refused to adopt that name, seeing as how the WWE Intercontinental championship is one of the most coveted prizes among those in the industry, but it\u2019s not like they own the word or anything.\u00a0 NJPW for the longest time had their own Intercontinental championship, and they built that title into something equally as coveted within the company, thanks to guys like Shinsuke Nakamura and Tetsuya Naito.<\/span><\/p>\n And perhaps NJPW has been spending too much time with TK, because they dropped the name when they unified<\/em> it with their World title, and in an attempt to re-create a mid-card title, have only produced the woefully uninspiring IWGP Global Championship, but designed it to look precariously similar to the old, white-strapped IWGP Intercontinental blet.<\/span><\/p>\n Back to AEW though, it\u2019s funny that the Unified Championship is just a merger of two mid-card titles, because within the company and all adjacent companies, there are still a whole litany of other B-tier prizes, and C-tier prizes within the TK ecosystem.\u00a0 The TNT Championship, the ROH World and Television championships, and the revolving door of straps from other promotions that their talents drag onto AEW television, like the NEVER Openweight, the IWGP Strong championship and the RevPro World championship.<\/span><\/p>\n Would the Unified champion be like a Borg and just go after other champions to unify their championships into the Unified?\u00a0 Or what if a Unified champion takes an L to another champion, does that keep the titles separate, or does the winner take the Unified and unify their titles?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So many question marks!<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, the true motivation behind all this hullaballoo most likely stems from the fact that the two titles being unified in question are currently held by Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada, two of the biggest stars within the company.\u00a0 And TK seems to have this belief that the importance of them coming together for a match actually needs the incentive of both guys carting championship straps around, and decided that two guys with blets need to be fighting over a new blet, despite the fact that they have had some of the greatest matches within the last decade, whilst in NJPW.<\/span><\/p>\n If I had to put money on it, I\u2019m guessing Okada is going to be winning, and becoming the FIRST-EVER<\/em> AEW Unified championship, because Omega is banged up and doesn\u2019t need to be taking on a champion\u2019s workload and frankly, Okada needs the professional rub more than Omega does.<\/span><\/p>\n But I would also wager that, even though it won\u2019t be for long afterward, despite the fact that the Unified championship was introduced to remove two blets from play, I would bet that Okada will show up at least once, carrying all three blets on television, like when Eddie Kingston was carting around a ton of blets at one point, because Tony Khan appears to have a bigger hard-on for championship blets than I do.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In short: AEW unveils the Unified Championship to be awarded to the winner of Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada, thus 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