Idea For The Two World Titles

[Mustafar Reginald]

I'm all for this, especially if Ziggler was the guy they had do this. I can't imagine it ever happening, but it's one of the more interesting ideas. I always kind of figured if this would happen, we'd just get like a double cash-in to end it. Like after successful defending his titles at the beginning and end of the show, or successfully defends both in similar vein to the WrestleMania 2000 (it's a lot less generic than WrestleMania XVI, going purely on the definition of generic and pertaining it to how WWE normally names their WrestleMania's . . . will concede that it sounds lame though) triple threat or even some other way. Then the person who won the WHC MITB comes out and cashes in and wins the belt. Then the person who won the WWE MITB cashes in and wins the belt. Not saying I particularly want it to go that way (though I certainly wouldn't mind it, and have even booked that in one of my fantasy bookings) but I can totally see WWE ending the reign(s) that way if they ever were to do this. But yeah, great idea.

 

[Lockard 23]

I like the double cash-in idea. That would work as well, especially if they went the Wrestlemania 2000 route and tried to drill it into people's heads that the champ could lose both belts in separate falls without even being pinned. And then after he retained in what was probably his biggest win yet (such would certainly be true if you did use Ziggler for this idea), the two MITB winners take turns cashing in on him and he walks out with neither belt.

That said, I don't agree that someone who is iconic has to be the guy who wins both belts or even unifies them. Who's iconic on the current roster other than Cena? Jericho wasn't exactly iconic per se when he defeated Austin and The Rock in the same night at Vengeance 2001. I certainly don't think that Punk is any less iconic at the moment than Jericho was then. Not that Punk necessarily has to be the one to it, but he's a good candidate I feel.

Onto a slightly different topic - if they had already actually unified the belts, I do think Punk would have bee the perfect guy to do it with. It would have worked as part of his long title reign last year and added to his claim as being the best in the world and stuff. Would have been a helluva way for the Punk/Cena feud to return in the summer. The WHC could have somehow ended up around Cena's waist, and then his and Punk's match at Summerslam could have been one on one, with Punk walking out as the undisputed world champion. He could also brag about how he even defeated the original Undisputed Champion from years past (Jericho) at the grand stage of Wrestlemania earlier in the year.