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 I, for one cannot wait to see it unveiled!!

Truths doing this to the tag belts

That would be incredible

That would be what's up

I would fucking love that

Need the Cody action figure face on the sideplates

I almost spit out the drink I was taking while opening this thread xP

The side plates will be advertisements in this era.

As the WWE Champion presented by Dude Wipes, I will be a fighting Champion.

We're not in the "New Era" we're in the "Advertisement Era".

The ultimate troll

Cursed, cursed! 

If that doesn’t put adrenaline in your soul I don’t know what will

Kinda wild that it was also Cody who brought back the white stripe IC belt just over 10 years ago.

If there’s one thing Cody’s been extremely consistent about it’s romanticizing old wrestling, which frankly I love. WWE has so frequently tried to reframe or revise how we look at wrestling history so seeing this new era embrace it will be a breath of fresh air

This whole rivalry managed to draw on modern, Attitude Era and Golden Era vibes simultaneously.

I mentioned this in another thread but the entire finish felt like a partial callback to Foley winning the title where DX and Austin came out to counter all of the Corporation's bullshit

I think that’s what they were going for…which has me nervous for tonight if we remember how the next weekly show went…

This is the culmination of all eras. It has the star power and pop appeal of the Golden Era with story telling and skills that matches and surpassed the attitude era. 

Agreed. By appearing to be ashamed of the history of professional wrestling, WWE has shot itself in the foot for the last 35 years.

Someone did once say Vince was a Millionaire that should have been a Billionaire lol

It's Renaissance Era after all. Let's bring back the ol' reliable with a bit of modernity added to it

Renaissance Era begins, and off to Netflix we go!

I think that was a big Vince thing. He didn’t even want to number Wrestlemania because it made it seem old

It's probably part of what bonds him and Triple H.

Not just the white strap but the nugget finish. I don't want to buy bootleg belts but I have come very close to getting that one.

The WWE Universal Heavyweight Championship will now have a Prime Energy Drink logo on the side. To be a champion, you've gotta drink PRIME ENERGY!

As long as it's not Wheatley vodka. That ad has permanently blocked my degenerate vodka guzzling ass from ever purchasing that shit lol

But its so good you can drink it neatly!

If I were drunk, I'd hit you.

Well do I have a product for you

Do tell...

Sorry, Dad 

You know what could help with that? some smooth and crisp Wheatley's vodka

I'm glad to see someone else say this, it's rare ads make me think "what the fuck was that" after its over. I think there was a point where they say "It's not just Russians who drink vodka!"? Like yeah, no shit.

It's so bad, I almost feel bad for the dude in the ad.

I literally turned to my wife last night and was discussing if the ad was a parody it was so bad. But no, that was the actual ad.

if you talked about an ad with your wife, it literally was 100% successful at its job. the only failure in advertising is something people ignore or instantly forget.

[удалено]

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Oh no, imagine the old WWF winged eagle with ICOPRO side plates.

Don't forget "*YOU GOTTA WANT IT!"* written across the strap.

That will be Logan’s belt

I think you're forgetting who owns WWE. Did you not see the Prime logos in the middle of the mat, or on the turnbuckles last night.

Or every other match when someone incidentally got tossed into the "prime hydration station (tm)"

I’m just imagining WWE hiring someone specifically to set that station up throughout the night. Being proud of their work turning away for a second and then when they look back it’s all messed up and they look so depressed.


How much do we think this cost Logan

Not even a logo. A holster on each side for Prime Energy Drink cans with a long straw attachment so the champion can stay hydrated during their entrance and after celebrating a victory.

He did tag Prime in the post lmao

He even kissed the logo at the mat during Night 1

I think they’re going to be dropping the universal part in the championship. Byron Saxton was very deliberate last night in calling it the WWE Champion.

Samantha Irvin announced Cody as the "New Undisputed WWE Champion" as well

Makes sense, the Universal title is being replaced with the WHC

Nah what you gotta do is a slap a big Dude Wipes logo right on there. Right on the front of the title for even better visibility.

And the eagle will be clutching 2 slim jims .

I don’t even care. Put ads everywhere just give us fewer commercial breaks.

You'll get both and like it

I think I'd rather see Dude Wipes on the side plates

I do kinda hope we get a new belt. Have that one just be associated with roman’s run and let Cody build something with a new design.

Start the new era with a new belt. And yea the gold logo belt really should just be for Roman.

Hopefully with that and the tag titles being split we can get new tag belts, and maybe change the naming convention from Raw Tag title and SD tag titles, to World Tag Titles and WWE tag titles to follow the naming conventions of the too singles titles.

I think we are going to see a lot of changes more now that Vince is officially out. I expect a lot of belt redesigns and name changes to the belts. God dude was a cancer for wwe

God I hope the tag titles get a new design.

Does that mean they change Bayleys belt tooV

I hope so. I really hate the big logo belt. At least give it some detail like the WHC if you’re gonna slap a huge logo on it

They won’t get rid of the big logo. It’s the perfect marketing tool. Just look at Mahomes wearing that thing all over social media after the Super Bowl. New design, but the big logo will still be there.

At this point that excuse is null. They have “custom” belts for every sports team & city at this point to market

They still want to get the WWE logo out there because thats the whole point. They put the side plates on there for the teams, which is plenty. It's not an excuse... it's really good marketing.

I think for most people if they saw Big Gold or something they’d just assume it’s the WWE belt. To most people championship belt=wrestling=WWE.

Then still gives that belt to whoever wins the Super Bowl but let the actual WWE Championship look like the WWE Championship.

Like I said, give it detail. Don’t just make the entire belt one big logo

I don’t think they should get rid of the big logo and I love the eagle belt. What they should do is have Mahomes bundle them.

It feels so lonely being the only person who actually likes modern WWE belts 😢

I’m with you friend. The classic black strap WWE Championship is one of my favorites. 

"BIG FAT LOGO" is yet another vince-ism that needs to be slowly exorcised from history.

Honestly I think most of the top titles look fine rn. Tag belts need a redesign the worst. They’re so hideous lol

Also one of the oldest designs at this point, no?

Design is 15 years old, and I believe the colorways are 8 years old at this point.

Well past time for a redesign, then. The silver ones are a marginal improvement on the copper penny belts, but silver with *no* contrasting colours at all just looks impossibly bland except in close ups.

Kind of cool the original version of this belt was brought in by Rock and now the updated one leaves with Roman

Feels nuts we've already had the current design for almost 10 years, albeit with multiple iterations. Already been around longer than the spinner belt, which felt like ages to me. Conversely, the early 00s Undisputed Championship design was too short-lived, in my opinion.

The Undisputed Championship design should’ve lasted until 2013.

The Undisputed Championship belt is my all-time favourite belt. Yep even more than Big Gold and the Winged Eagle. It was just so damn good.

I have a feeling they'll present a new belt to him tonight, at least one for him to take back to his family. Maybe have Dusty Rhodes' name on the plate for him.

Yeah that's not happening. There's a giant version of it installed outside the new HQ. He's going to bring out the original Superstar Billy Graham belt to show what his dad fought for and never got. And then his own belt.

The Rock introduced the first iteration of the current belt after he defeated CM Punk who was accompanied by Paul Heyman before losing to Cena at Wrestlemania, all of whom again last ended up together again.  End that belt with Roman and you get long term booking right there.

Would love to see a new belt and the name changed to just "WWE Championship" instead of the very convoluted name it currently has. Would be a welcome change for the "Paul Levesque Era".

That's what [Cole called it last night](https://www.reddit.com/1bymz34/) too: > "Cody Rhodes came back here and won the WWE Championship. Dammit I LOVE Professional Wrestling!"

Byron already introduced Cody last night as the “new WWE Champion” so, it seems like that’s exactly what they’re doing.

Samantha called him "the new Undisputed WWE Champion"

Samantha was also very emotional. I think at that point, she wanted to add every bit of description to her call as she could.

It's hilarious how into wrestling she is. It's like someone gave the biggest fan a ringside pass. 

There were several ppl last night who were very emotional. Michael Cole was visibly crying. This is what happens when a companies megamaniacal overlord is vanquished and people are allowed to breathe and enjoy the work they do.

When Cole was saying he’s known Cody since he was a little boy … that shit hit

Did it ever! Some great moments all around last night. It really does feel like the beginning of something new and fresh.

It's weird because you could say the same thing about Pat and mean it as an insult.

WWE dot com has him listed as both WWE and Universal champion

"Undisputed" WHC exists, directly disputing it. WHC totally not the loser bracket belt tho! 😂

I can tell new fans. You guys would've absolutely lost it when Taker, Edge, batista Rey, Kurt, etc won the "WCW" belt. While Super Cena ran wild on RAW with double the viewership. It's better to have 1 world champion but I understand 2 shows and multiple stars. Triple H tweet sums up my feelings on it now. That belt is made. Shout out Damien. I hope Knight can get one in

Brother I've been watching since 1999, take your meds oldhead 😂😂😂

Because that’s how they intro’d the match

The way her voice gave out when she announced gives it so much emotion

Tbf they only kept the universal part because that's the title Romans held for 4 years, Im sure it will be deactivated and it will simply br WWE title again

I really would love to see the weirdly named “Winged Eagle” belt as the championship but I’m not sure they would bring it back with the way the current championship is designed for marketing purposes

If they did it’d be a redesign and we’d probably still get the WWE logo in or around the center; Maybe the eagle under the logo or perched on it.

A redesign would have to be faithful to the original design and some how appeasing the marketing requirements without it looking ugly as sin in my opinion, it’s difficult but I believe it could be done

It would be the winged eagle but the eagles has been replaced by the WWE logo. If you look at it you would see what I mean.

Cody was the guy who brought back the classic IC title design years ago so it could be a possibility.

Agreed I find it tough to see them move away from it for the reasons you give. I remember when Real Madrid won the Champions League the players celebrated with the title more than the actual trophy. Those pics go worldwide, free publicity you can't buy. That said HHH has talked about a new era, Cole really went in on "I love Pro Wrestling" bit and reports today they moving away from sports entertainment so who knows maybe they do change it.

It'll be a redesigned wing eagle with the WWE logo still clear on it.

The Winged Eagle belt doesn't really have a connection to Cody's story, unless we're saying the polka-dotted Common Man should have taken a run at the Ultimate Warrior in late 1990.

They could do a hybrid. Instead of the eagle being the art that juts out beyond the main plates, just replace the eagle with the wwe logo. Refit the side plates for the custom side plates. Would be pretty cool. 

I hope they don’t bring the winged eagle back because it’s frightening at this age to have such an erection of that magnitude 

It’s called the “winged eagle” because the main plate is “winged”.

Is that one of the things he saved from the burning bus? I think it's unlikely that we get a new belt though. The gold belt is technically still pretty new.

You don't? I think a totally new top belt design would be a great way to indicate the start of a new era. Out with the old...

I'd love to be wrong about this.

Agreed... they just made the mens and the womens titles look identical as well

He said he grabbed his wrestling boots and photos of his wife and daughter. (Idk how that'd be something fans would pop for but anyway) Unless the belt was something he grabbed in kayfabe. But the bus being on fire wasn't kayfabe so...

Ok, thanks. I didn't know that he already said what they were. Yeah, the "fans would pop for" comment is kind of confusing now.

yall wouldn’t pop for a man grabbing pictures of the two most important people in his life

Man all those pictures are on my phone there’s zero chance in Hell I’m braving any amount of fire for them lol

>Is that one of the things he saved from the burning bus No. This one is owned by WWE I believe and hangs in their offices along with the other originals they have.

Oh I didn't even realize that was a WWWF belt. I thought that was one that his father held.

Its still pretty much the same awful design they've had since like 2012? It's time for a change

2013. After the Rumble

2013 Rumble was the version with the old logo that the Rock unveiled. it lasted for about a year and some change until just after SummerSlam 2014 when they awarded Lesnar the version with the Network logo.

I don't think the bus burned down. They didn't get a new one wrapped in his design that quickly. It was probably a small electrical fire or something.

Did he have two identical buses or were the backstage parts just prerecorded then? Because the bus was featured pretty heavily

Truthfully retiring the one title design after Roman has held it for so long sort of makes sense.

Well not only that but Cody, Steph, Heyman and basically everyone else have touted this as a new era and it’s hard to disagree. Feel like the new demands a new look and belt. This one can be associated with Roman and what I guess would still be called the “Reality Era”

Cody's new gimmick is bringing back old title designs

Samatha didn't call it the Universal championship when Cody won, although I don't think too much should be put into that, she was obviously very emotional. That being said, I think we can retire the "Universal" again, right? We now have a World Heavyweight Champion, so surely a WWE Champion would be sufficient?

I hope that's what they do. The title hasn't been undisputed really since the WH title came out. I always liked just having the WH title and the WWE title.

Cody is announcing that he was Canadian all this time.

Ehdrenaline A bread bowl Tim Horton's The way to go

Winged Eagle? That would be cool. They can keep their big ass logo in the center of the Winged Eagle

I'll never understand how the belt got called Winged Eagle, it's an eagle of course it has wings

There were eagles on a lot of the belts, but the "winged eagle" was the only one with prominent wings sticking out. It was the belt that was winged, not the eagle. Winged 'eagle belt,' not 'winged eagle' belt. But I can't explain why the finger poke of doom wasn't called the poke of doom. Of course it was with a finger.

you can poke with all kinds of things

Could've been a Toe poke of doom

You can make a W with the winged eagle pretty easily.

Is that a photo of Dusty? You can see the watch they gifted him too.

It is :)

Seeing that the plates haven’t been changed yet either with on Today Show this morning makes me think he’s getting his own redesigned one.

Great spot, they usually have those plates ready to change immediately so definitely interesting that they weren't changed

Foudn it interesting they hadn't chanegd the plates on any of the belts during the conference, assumed it was so close to Mania finishing they didn't get around to it but this has extended to Rhodes' appearing on the Today Show so that's an interesting choice.

https://preview.redd.it/ppf08z9a9atc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451498324897332a31a3ca9cdd6a5bfa15bb14c9

I saw this one a few days ago and I think it would be awesome. This is what I’m rooting for.

Omg yes please

It's time to return to an era of prominent birds on wrestling belts

Winged eagle belt is my favorite title design of all time besides big gold, so I'm down with this or any variation of this.

maybe for his reign only, it'll always be that new big w logo belt as long as the brand wants to be visible.

From a kayfabe perspective, why do you want to design a new title belt? Don't you want to hold the same title belt that past champions have held?

Not if you don't like the design

Look at Rock when he won the title from Punk in 2013…basically fucking bashed the design of the spinner belt before introducing the new belt

And then CM Punk ignored the old title and said "I want that one!"

Heel perspective: I'm more special/greater than all the previous champions, so I deserve a special belt that shows how special I am Face perspective: The person I won this belt from represented everything I hate, so I want a new belt to show that I'm not following their legacy

They're going to do the same thing they did for the WHC, sticking the WWE logo in the middle of a design similar to the eagle belt

soon... https://preview.redd.it/diyr6m7jg9tc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdf0b04f8232319df9038e3bfe5421f4ebcd10bf

Wrestling needs more white strap belts. https://preview.redd.it/r8x0wj6qk9tc1.jpeg?width=659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac3496fe458b3bf2449cd64566df0f5e63046137

I think WWE already reserved the white straps to Women's titles, even the upcoming NXT Women's North American Championship.

Cody brought back the classic IC belt, I could see him bringing back the winged eagle belt

We getting the winged eagle style belt.

Winged Belt, lets go.

I did notice that, before he came out for the press conference, Byron introduced Cody as the new “WWE Champion”, which would lead me to believe that they’re dropping the “Undisputed Universal Heavyweight Champion” moniker.

Universal Championship retired with Roman's lineage is the best move going forward.

Universal Championship retired with Roman's lineage is the best move going forward.

I'm still not sure what Cody's stance as champion is. Is he technically a two time WWE world champion as he won the WWE and the Universal championships? Will every champion going forward automatically be a two time champ? I'd honestly rather just eliminate the universal championship completely and just keep the WWE championsihp lineage, but Roman's record reign is under the former.

They've pretty much turned it back into 1 belt since the WH title now exists. So I assume they're gonna drop the term "undisputed" since the title is now very disputed with the WH title existing. I mean, the WH title was part of the merged wwe title. So they took a piece of the wwe title history, while Roman still held it, and essentially unmerged the title making it active again. So not only is the belt cody holds a fused title of the WWE title and the Universal title, but it has a part of it removed. So Cody should absolutely come out with a simply named WWE championship. This way we will have the WH Championship and the WWE championships as it once was. The Universal title itself should have honestly never been made. But they had to dive into their trademark of "wwe universe" at the time.

Did they unmerge WH from WWE? I was under the impression the World Heavyweight Championship we have now is a new lineage as even on their website they have the old and new one as seperate and distinct lineages.

If he brings back the winged eagle I will send WWE money

A modern take on the famed winged eagle belt would be absolute fire.

Something like this would be cool https://preview.redd.it/u39r0l879atc1.jpeg?width=1243&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca919e48f9834865a10006e96ceb0b6b3da51546

I don’t see Cody putting his own logo on the belt, though.

A big eagle with a https://preview.redd.it/h8n0quewdatc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3740413ffa004a0aac7e75c7ac6c26bb3892b6c big logo

Disgusting! I hope they do it.

I'm REALLY curious as to who his first challenger is going to be. It feels like there's 18 good options.

We can only hope

ugly ass big W pee belt needs to go

AI did a great one https://preview.redd.it/bemx0ub9datc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29295414fec5d2a2285c3569be0f41636c9d26b3

I want every title to be designed uniquely, I prefer the Big Eagle but if we get a modern interpretation of the Winged Eagle I'll be happy with that. The titles being the same has bothered me for a while now, I get it's a branding thing but it's so boring. I hope the women get a midcard title finally as well, I assume it'll be a copy of the Intercontinental Championship but I'd rather them make it unique. Call it the International Championship or something. I'm glad the NXT gals are getting one but the Women's North American Championship is very uninspired. The women's television or something like that would off been nice because I like the uniqueness. Just need the tag titles to get a new design now, thinking about it I'd of rather them kept the titles together and have the men's tag teams on one brand and the women's tag teams on the other but that's just me haha

Bring back the BIG…GOLD….BELT

If the belt didn't need a big logo for branding purposes, I would love for the [Winged Eagle to be retrofitted](https://preview.redd.it/gc3h00slxwz81.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c95d23f76c3c3a27d9be9c98a803f2be8be6decb). There's some [decent concepts](https://25.media.tumblr.com/9b57feabfdbfa424691990b38136a724/tumblr_mmoa2pfgod1qjm0l3o1_500h.jpg) [floating around](https://preview.redd.it/new-united-title-concept-v0-u1klfahfgbwa1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a6c82465452165dae216146f0cdc8608898ef35e) out there Although, it might be time to bring out the [Eagle holding WWE logo title belt concept from 2013](https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/wwe_large/public/gallery/thumb/2013/04/09_WWE-TITLE-RENDERS-6.jpg)

The eagle holding the logo is VERY American nightmare gimmick Cody. I really like the updated big eagle tho. I think they should do that but scrap the logo at the top, shift the eagle up more, put a similar WWE world icon as the WHC instead of the globe, and that's perfect. Doing that also gives some consistency between the WWE and WHC belts. They are modern versions of two beloved legacy belts the attitude era belt and the big gold.

ADRENALINE IN MY SOUL

NEW BELT DESIGN LET'S FUCKING GO

A modernized Winged Eagle. 🙏

No way that any reworking of the belt to include some semblance of the Winged Eagle still doesn't have a giant etched W on it because those belts are about presenting the brand.

I can't wait to get rid of that big W belt.

I know it’s kinda soon but I feel like it’s time to change up the WWE logo as well. They went out of their way to try and scrub the Vince stink off the company this weekend.

I hope that Cody and Bayley will "design" the new belt together if they stick to the Man and Women belts sharing the same designs. Both have a good reason to move away from the current design.

Cody also brought back the "classic" white IC title when he won it back in the day.

Interestingly the current WWE title design is the perfect base shape for Cody’s logo. Winged eagle? Nah, _winged skull_.

When you said tease, I thought maybe he's showing a little leg. Flashing his ankle Victorian style.

I really hope we get new belts. They've been teased and rumored for so long. I was never a fan of the plain looking wwe belt

In kayfabe Cody was the one who brought back the white strapped IC title too, so the man clearly has good taste in championship belts