vacating a belt without an injury really cheapens the belt and, by extension, the tournament to crown the new champ. The only thing worse would be creating a title out of thin air and then just handing it to Triple H's 2023 equivalent on a random episode of Raw.
Kind of disagree, although the context of how they do it matters. If it's me... Roman unified the titles by winning them separately. Cody beat Roman for both titles, but didn't win them separately. Thus, they are now split up again and he keeps the title belonging to the show he's on, and the other is vacated and decided via tournament. I think that celebrates Roman's accomplishment more than downgrades Cody's status, but then again I think the unified titles are stupid and have been hoping they'd separate them for a while now.
I think 1 world champion is way more preferable to 2, it's really hard to have a situation where 1 champion doesn't feel much bigger than the other. If the Sheamus-Drew-Gunther match was for the Raw world title instead of the IC belt, it would never be seen as equal to Cody vs Roman in any way, and if it headlined night 1 people would complain the tag match was a bigger deal. Keep it as one single world champion and have him float across both shows like they did when they first split the brands up. Especially considering they don't do brand specific PPVs anymore
I would stick with a single title if they can. I am sure that is driven by TV, but 1 title puts over the champ as a true top guy. Also, elevates the IC and US titles.
Yeah champ has to appear regularly on both shows, but it feels like it is possible. How many Raw or SD matches has Roman had during this run? Maybe 5 tops?
they are about to enter rights fees negotiations so for all we know they might not be on either channel when the dust clears
Trinity Fatu/Naomi showed up to the ROH show. Was or is backstage then came out to sit front row for the Athena vs. Yuka Sakazaki match
Actually that works for me, but I'd prefer him to be automatically stripped of the one he's not keeping. Seems silly for him to hand over a title that everyone should want
Has he been at a WWE show in 20+ years? They advertised that doc about him on the network a few years ago and it got pulled with no explanation. Those front row super fans fasicinate me. The combo of having that much disposable income and spending it like a 10 year old would. Some of them make more towns than Roman Reigns.
If it was me, Roman would have been putting up one of the two belts for months in these matches instead of both, and lost one of them to Sami at Elimination Chamber. Or lost one to McIntyre back at Clash at the Castle last year. Sami v. Owens (or Solo) main eventing night one would have solved some issues there. Flip side to that is it would take away from the Cody/Roman thing going into Sunday if he lost recently, which obviously would be worse for them. Either way, they're in this now and probably need to figure out a way to split them up before long.
I've seen that Sycho Sid video enough times in my life to ever watch another limb breaking in a match
Crowd chanting for Roman instead of Cody the night before Mania. Exactly how you would draw it up. Yikes.
the crowd turns on basically every good guy not named Stone Cold so very brave of him to stick with that prediction, god forbid he takes the L he's been holding for months now
Assuming Cody wins, would probably have him drop a belt at like SummerSlam. If there’s two HW title belts come WM40, would think decent odds Gunther is a heel champ with one of the two belts going into WM40.
Not at all. I think it wouldve been better. Are we denying the Roman chants when Cody had the mic tonight?
Not counting the G1 Supercard events ROH did with New Japan, tonight's Supercard of Honor was ROH's second highest attended show in its history.
If Cody vs Orton is the SummerSlam match, and it absolutely should be, I can't imagine Cody dropping it
Joey Janela's Spring Break show was a ridiculously fun spot fest. Speedball-Vikingo brought the house down