Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day!

It was announced last night on AEW Summer Blockbuster that the winner of the Winner Takes All match at All In: Texas between Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada for the AEW International and Continental Championships will be rewarded with the “AEW Unified Championship” belt.

This appears to be a temporary championship (like MJF’s American Championship), rather than a permanent one that actually merges the titles (like what WWE eventually did with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and the Universal Championship to become the current Undisputed WWE Championship)

My question for you today is “What do you think of this title and the belt design?”

Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.

As far as my answer…

Even though I see why to an extent, and I like one aspect of it, I’m overall not a fan of this idea.

I’ve long thought three midcard titles are unnecessary in AEW, and I’ve never really liked the distinctions that there’s a World, International, and Continental champion in the company. I was hoping this would be the merger to make the AEW Intercontinental Championship and just have that and the TNT title, which would effectively be like having the IC/US titles in the WWE midcard.

This was the perfect opportunity, but this belt is designed and named in such a way that it’s impossible it’s anything but a temporary, ceremonial title and nothing more.

Effectively, the winner is going to just carry the two belts and this extra one for no purpose. Or, worse, imagine how messy this will get if they never carry the other two belts, and just this one, and are somehow defending only one half.

And if you say the winner gets both, then you have unified the titles, but you’d be doing so by calling it this???

How ridiculous would it be to have the AEW World Championship, AEW TNT Championship, and the AEW “Unified” Championship—not even something like the AEW Unified Intercontinental Championship, it literally just says “unified champion” on the center plate—especially if you’ve got someone like Konosuke Takeshita or Kyle Fletcher holding a belt with The Rainmaker and One-Winged Angel on it for some reason.

So what we’re getting is kind of the worst case scenario, where the winner will either be retiring the two titles and carrying this poorly-named belt going forward, or the winner will carry around an unnecessary title and the other two, defend them separately to eventually split up, but in the meantime, take one of those titles away from someone else who could have won it and done something with it until dropping one, before no longer carrying this belt because they have to revert back to just being the solo champion of whichever one they didn’t lose yet, before losing that one, too. Such a roundabout mess for the future.

But whatever. It’s wrestling. In a year, it’s not going to matter and it will just be a trivia note, or it lives on as a dumb belt with a dumb name. It doesn’t change how mustard tastes. 10 points to whoever gets that reference.

What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!