Road Dogg Says New WWE Title Belts Represent Tradition, Questions If Roman Reigns Is Still ‘Undisputed’

Road Dogg discusses the new title belts recently debuted on WWE television. 

Over the past several weeks, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Asuka, and Rhea Ripley have all been given new championship belts signifying a change of the times in WWE. 

On the latest episode of his podcast, Road Dogg opened up about the new title designs and why he feels they represent tradition and Triple H’s stance as a traditionalist in the industry. 

“Hunter has always been a traditionalist from his training with Kowalski to his mentoring by Flair. Everything he’s done has been with respect to tradition in this industry,” said Road Dogg. “You can’t just copy another title that was good. You don’t just go, ‘Oh, people loved that one.’ No, you have to be the innovator.”

Road Dogg also questioned the use of the word “Undisputed” and whether or not that will be called into question later on in storyline. 

“I think we’ve seen now, speaking very currently, is the women’s titles also have done the same thing. So you’re going to have a World champion or WWE Champion or Universal Champion and a world champion. I’m not sure where the names exactly lay now, and is Roman Reigns still ‘undisputed?’ I think things like that are going to come out and are really intriguing to me,” he said. “It’s all intriguing to me. I love the new titles. They’re huge. They’re beautiful, but yet they’re big and plain too, and I think that’s tradition. Look, we all went the way of the big eagle and the big spinner and the big this and the big that. I think these go back to what a championship title looks like.”

Roman Reigns was given a new title to mark 1,000 days as WWE Universal Champion Asuka was given a white-strapped variant of the title given to Roman, signifying her new status as WWE Women’s Champion. However, the championship belt reads Women’s Undisputed Champion. 

Seth Rollins captured the new World Heavyweight Championship at WWE Night of Champions, and Rhea Ripley has since traded in her SmackDown Women’s Championship for a Women’s World Championship, which is a white-strapped version of the title captured by Seth Rollins. 

The Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, held by Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, is still represented by two championship title belts, signifying the WWE Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships. 

The WWE and NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship will soon be unified in a match on June 23. Learn more here. 

Fans can learn more about the streamlining of title belts in WWE and the reason behind the move at this link.

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