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Cena wants the WWE Title design to change
Topic Started: Nov 28 2011, 09:50 PM (1,926 Views)
Cybrus
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WWE star John Cena took part in a Twitter Q&A with his followers on Monday and was asked about changing the look of the WWE Championship. "I have thought that for three years," Cena responded. "Either classic or new. It needs a change."


I made a thread a while back about how WWE has been changing the title designs starting with the lowest belts and working up. The IC Title just changed a few months ago. I think the US Title will be the next title to get a design change. I would like if the WWE Title design changed since I hate it, have always hated it, and will always hate it. It's blocky, it's ugly, it needs to go. But looking at both the Diva Title and the Tag Team Titles, I'm not sure if I have any confidence in WWE to make a new belt that looks good. I'd rather they do what they did for the IC Title and go back to an older design. The old Winged Eagle or Attitude Belt would be a great step back. I'd even be ok with the old Undisputed Title design, even though I wasn't really a fan of it at the time.
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Yes, they need to change this piece of shit. Do you realize it's been out 6 years?! Six fucking years. That's longer than ANY previous design, except for your fabled "winged eagle" belt, which was around for 10. What a shitty, shitty SHITTY design to get second place all-time!
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Honestly, if they end up changing Cena into a heel afterall, then the first thing Heel!Cena should do is ditch the spinner belt and go for a more traditional title.
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What's really sad is that I had to look up a picture of the Undisputed title design to remind myself what it looked like...and that was my favorite design. It's been WAY too long.
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It wasnt a very good design I didnt think. Dont kill me but I actually like the belt they have now better then the undisputed. I just hated it when it spun. Its pretty nice if you can forget about that. However I would like them to change it. But not to the attitude belt. I couldnt live with myself if Cena ever got to hold that title. Hes already gotten the World Title, which anyone will admit just looked wrong. He cant get the other great belt, the attitude one. So go back to the winged eagle one. Its nicer the belt now but not TOO precious that Cena cant hold it.
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What's really sad is that I had to look up a picture of the Undisputed title design to remind myself what it looked like...and that was my favorite design. It's been WAY too long.
I didn't like the Undisputed Title at the time. When Rock and Brock had the belt, it was HUGE. It was just too big. Then they made it smaller around the time Kurt Angle and Eddie were feuding over it. When JBL had it, it never looked like a Championship belt. It is definitely one of my least favorite designs of the WWE Title (although, still better than any design prior to the Winged Eagle. All those early title designs were terrible).

But after seeing that ugly blocky WWE Title for so long, I'd gladly welcome back the Undisputed Title design. The Attitude Era belt is the best looking WWE World Title they've ever had and the Winged Eagle is great for nostalgia reasons. I would gladly welcome back any of these three designs without complaining even once (assuming they don't alter the designs and make them less than what they were).

If they were to design a completely new title, I'd give it a chance but I wouldn't expect a great design. I say this just because I haven't liked very many of the titles WWE has designed since moving away from the New Generation and Attitude Era belts. The current Diva title is a butterfly. The current Tag Titles are atrocious. The current US Title is ugly and has always been ugly. I like the current IC Title but hated the oval IC Title before it. I did like the Raw and SD! Tag Team Titles when they were around.
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It hasn't spinning for years and yet it's a spinner belt.

In Cena we trust :tu: .

IWC has been talking about title change for years.

And if Cena has been thinking about it for years why hasn't he been pitching ideas for McMahon to actually change it?

I mean by this time only probably Cena could change that belt since it doesn't seem like anyone else could. Cena is Nr. 1 guy after all.
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http://www.wwe.com/inside/bring-back-classic-wwe-title

Nice to see an article about this on WWE.com. Could change be coming?
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Could this be foreshadowing the future?...
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It seems that Internet is working and people on the net are finally getting their way. We are gonna have to thank FB and Twitter fro that I suppose.
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Fun little article to read that basically says the design is ugly and unfitting of a Champion. Actually, it says that it was designed specifically for John Cena and that it should have long been gone. As I already said, I'd be happy with the Winged Eagle, Attitude World Title, or Undisputed Title designs returning. But I do not like any title designs prior to the Winged Eagle. I'm not sure why they even mentioned those in the article.
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It would be cool to get whole new design instead of getting an original design.

They already did that with IC title and I think that's just about right.
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They didn't just bring back the old design of the IC Title. They did tweak it a little. The old design was smooth and shiny. The current design has that crumbled affect thing (I don't know how to describe it).

It's hard to find good quality images of the belts but:

Old design vs New design
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Original looks better IMO.

But the current one suits Cody just right.
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I hope it goes back to being a black strap belt after Cody drops the belt. White seems to be his colors and we've seen them color the IC Title strap for other wrestlers in the past. I hope this is just a temporary thing for Cody. Title belts should have black straps.
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I doubt that.
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During Raw, when Cena did that big angry stare down after Ryder was rushed away in the ambulance ... I have been letting myself build hope that Cena will be turning heel at WM when he beats The Rock. If that angry face is going to be Cena's heel face, then it isn't going to be as good as I had hoped. But that's neither here nor there. But if WWE is going to change the WWE Title design, do you think they'll wait for Cena to turn heel and let Cena be the one to introduce a new/old Title? I mean, he is the one that introduced the current WWE Title.
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I honestly believe that the best chance for a new championship design will be if/when it's ever merged with the World Heavyweight Championship. I want to see it differently, but I just can't at this time. :shrug:
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Yeah, but realistically WWE is not going to combine the titles any time soon. By having "two brands", it allows them to run 2 different sets of house shows. And by having 2 WWE/World Champions (and 2 IC/US Champions), it allows house shows to have more star power. So until another company shows up and poses a realisitc threat to WWE (sorry TNA and ROH, you do not qualify currently) then WWE is not going to change this.

And since WWE has been changing all their title designs over the past few years (Diva Title, Tag Titles, IC TItle) then I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility to expect WWE to change the WWE Title.
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Kraul

Whatever happened to the rumors of a WWE logo change? Was that logo from a few months ago confirmed as just a logo for WWE Network or are people still whispering about it becoming the official new logo for WWE? I'm sure you know which one I'm talking about.

I think that's the only other likely scenario that the WWE Championship will change it's design any time soon - an official logo change. The current WWE Championship has just become too iconic for this era to simply toss away, I think, regardless of opinion of it's appearance.

I thought the WWE Championship before it was probably the ugliest design since before the 1986 WWF Championship design - far uglier than the current belt has ever been - but it was symbol for it's era and once it became common, it couldn't be replaced either until that era was coming to an end.

I don't think this era over yet. But I suppose that could always change, too.
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I thought that WWE logo change rumor was immediately exposed as just that: a rumor. I have seen the logo for the new WWE Network and hope it doesn't become the new WWE logo. I suppose it could, but it really isn't much of a change. :shrug:

Current vs new
Edited by Cybrus, Jan 27 2012, 01:25 PM.
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Kraul

It would be enough of a change to require a belt change, since that logo would be outdated by then.

Then again, it would require all belts with the current logo to be re-done so...

Honestly, when I first saw the "new" logo, I thought it was absolutely awful but now that I see it again - especially compared to the current logo - I'm actually digging it. The scratch logo is really outdated, too. It's a modification of a logo created for a long dead era. This period in WWE history needs a logo of it's own and that WWE Network version is actually pretty sexy compared to the scratch logo. It fits the super clean and obsessively produced version of WWE nowadays.

Not to mention it's also similar enough to the scratch logo that even people only vaguely familiar with WWE and it's logo would still recognize it. Kind of a modern version of the gold block logo turning into the blue and yellow New Generation logo.
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The scratch logo is really outdated, too. It's a modification of a logo created for a long dead era.

I agree with this. I think WWE should have stopped using the scratch logo completely when they became WWE. The scratch logo, to me, will always represent the attitude era and there is absolutely nothing about the current era that even vaguely resembles the attitude era. Although, I guess the scratch WWE logo does represent an era in itself.

I agree that the new logo looks like a cleaner, more polished, more produced version of the logo. But I don't think they really changed it enough. I mean, other than making it cleaner looking, it is exactly the same. They even kept the red underlining. I'm sure there are ways to keep the same (w over w) idea and make it look completely different. I mean, the scratch logo looks completely different than the block logo of the New Generation logo even though it is the same basic WWF lettering design.
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Kraul

I don't know if they could really get away with as radical of a change in logo as it was going from the New Generation block logo to the Attitude scratch logo. The whole professional wrestling world was changing at that time and changing drastically. Not to mention that the WWF was barely a blip on the radar compared to how WWE is now in terms of pop culture status.

I think a totally different logo could work, but it'd have to be eased in gradually. First something like that WWE Network logo and then in a few years, maybe something spinning off from that and so on so that the public's ability to recognize the WWE logo is never at risk.
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But taking a gamble on a big logo change would instantly get people talking about WWE. We've seen it when other big companies changed logos/names. Same would work for WWE. I don't see the point in baby stepping it. It's not like WWE is going to lose their current fan base because they change their logo (if we are sticking with the current product, then nothing is driving us away!) and a drastic change would create a temporary wave of interest in the product as people talked about the logo change.
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Kraul

Possibly.

I'm not concerned that a radical change in logo will do any damage to the WWE's current fan-base but more of the outside public's ability to recognize what the logo represents. The scratch logo has been deeply ingrained in American culture, at least, as being the representation of the WWE. Any really drastic deviation from that could possibly harm the recognition factor of the WWE brand.

Then again, if WWE wanted to maybe give themselves a total makeover - like they did with the Attitude era (when the stakes were arguably nowhere near as high since they had not much left to lose compared to today) - it could work.
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