What do you consider the 2nd most important men's title?

[Canadian Dragon]

With Orange Cassidy's epic reign and the fall from grace of the TNT title, an argument can be made that the International title is now the 2nd most prestigious title in AEW. What do you guys think?

 

[Chris]

I think it has been Internarional for awhile now. TNT was on the down swing when it started so all it took was the first few months if All Atlantic booking and it felt more important

 

[John McHenry]

Knowing the little I do know. I'd say the IC. And if I knew nothing at all I'd say IC. A TV or network title has never screamed number two to me.

I think the better questions though overall is, before the drama, were they going to position "The real world title" to be some sort of number two? Or Number 1 for a specific show in plans to do some sort of brand split down the line? Genuinely asking that one. Plan to try and start getting into AEW this week. Watched a bit of All In I assume most of the storylines complete after All in and it's a good starter point.

 

[Chris]

I think it was just gonna be a Collision "world" title until a unification

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Knowing the little I do know. I'd say the IC. And if I knew nothing at all I'd say IC. A TV or network title has never screamed number two to me.

I think the better questions though overall is, before the drama, were they going to position "The real world title" to be some sort of number two? Or Number 1 for a specific show in plans to do some sort of brand split down the line? Genuinely asking that one. Plan to try and start getting into AEW this week. Watched a bit of All In I assume most of the storylines complete after All in and it's a good starter point.

about half the stories ended , some probably ending this weekend. obviously dynamite was a bit of an outlier due to all the travel issues but right now is a good time to get in for sure

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I think it was just gonna be a Collision "world" title until a unification

yeah and it still, to me, felt less important than most if not all the other titles. I didn't really feel Punk vs Ricky was some big time match with huge stakes, especially that Ricky had 0 chance of winning. until a unification is actually teased it will always feel like a Make-Punk-Happy belt / a delusional heel belt

 

[Canadian Dragon]

@John McHenry in fact its a great time. ALL OUT this weekend, then the NYC supershow will be big (Grand Slam), then the OCtober new PPV they annouced and usually all the major angles and stories come to a head at Full Gear - thats usually the PPV where a lot of things end - its usually the last big PPV of the calendar year for AEW

 

[Cwalker]

TNT title has been booked terribly for a while now so the correct answer is the International

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Christian is doing a good job but there's a lot of stink to remove I agree

 

[Daddy Dom]

Still think in terms of Khan it's TNT second & IC third but def think IC title run of OC is incredible

 

[Dubb]

Definitely IC title thanks to this run by OC. I mean based on the current card, it should be the Main Event of All Out (which kinda says more about the All Out card than anything but still).

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I think Mox OC is a fine main event. Mox is a top 3 heel in the company. Orange Cassidy is a top 3 face in the company. I think looking at it from the pov it makes a lot of sense to me. unfortunate it's in Chi town

 

[CakeWalker]

FTW

 

[Dubb]

I think Mox OC is a fine main event. Mox is a top 3 heel in the company. Orange Cassidy is a top 3 face in the company. I think looking at it from the pov it makes a lot of sense to me. unfortunate it's in Chi town

It's definitely the match I'm most looking forward to by far.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I’m not sure how Tony views it, but I think between the booking for this reign and the fact it’s called the International Championship, it should be viewed as just under the world title. Champion of the international scene is certainly bigger than champion of TNT television.

Not to mention I feel tnt has kinda always meandered. It’s a terrible design, odd naming choice, made worse when Dynamite was moved off TNT and they have never nailed how to book it. Even before the recent shirt reigns they had potatoes with Cody and Sammy and Scorpio.