When did the WWE "Smackdown" World Title become so SECONDARY?

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  • TheIraq
    TheIraq Members Posts: 5,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    @My_nameaintearl wrote: »
    how did they re-separate the titles after Jericho unified them, anyway?

    Good question
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  • Already Home_17
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    edited August 2011
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    @My_nameaintearl wrote: »
    how did they re-separate the titles after Jericho unified them, anyway?
    wikipedia wrote: »
    Following the appointment of Eric Bischoff and Stephanie McMahon as General Managers of the Raw and SmackDown brands respectively, Stephanie McMahon contracted then-WWE Undisputed Champion Brock Lesnar to the SmackDown brand, leaving the Raw brand without a world title.On September 2, after disputing the brand designation of the Undisputed title, Eric Bischoff announced the creation of the World Heavyweight Championship, spun off from the Undisputed title.

    basically the wwe wanted to give more wrestlers the opportunity to becomd champion, so they split the belts up and placed one on each brand
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  • darkstarr8
    darkstarr8 Members Posts: 455
    edited August 2011
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    f.e.d.s. wrote: »
    in Vince's mind, itz always been secondary because it was the NWA/WCW belt, not the WWE belt. They only brought it back just to say Triple H was champ again

    This. It's also the same reason why the WCW/ECW wrestler had to start from the bottom and work there way up, even if they were considered to be great. To Vince WWE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everywhere else.
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  • dalyricalbandit
    dalyricalbandit Members, Moderators Posts: 67,918 Regulator
    edited August 2011
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    doesnt WWE & WHC = Undisputed Championship?..........how the hell is the Raw belt(WWE Champ) the undisputed champ now
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  • Already Home_17
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    dalyricalbandit wrote: »
    doesnt WWE & WHC = Undisputed Championship?..........how the hell is the Raw belt(WWE Champ) the undisputed champ now

    the combination of 2 major championships is what makes it undisputed
    there were 2 wwe champions so after combining the belts, you have an undisputed wwe champion
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  • f.e.d.s.
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    edited August 2011
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    dalyricalbandit wrote: »
    doesnt WWE & WHC = Undisputed Championship?..........how the hell is the Raw belt(WWE Champ) the undisputed champ now

    Its the Undisputed WWE championship now
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  • TRILLip Brooks
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    edited August 2011
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    dalyricalbandit wrote: »
    doesnt WWE & WHC = Undisputed Championship?..........how the hell is the Raw belt(WWE Champ) the undisputed champ now

    the undisputed championship was wwe & wcw belts combined
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  • BigMeatball
    BigMeatball Members Posts: 390 ✭
    edited August 2011
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    Smackdown is secondary because it comes on Fridays. People are less likely to watch TV on Friday nights than Monday.
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  • Copper
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    edited August 2011
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    thats the old WCW/NWA titles.....its in the WWE now so its gonna be secondary
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  • T. Sanford
    T. Sanford Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 25,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    David Arquette was the best WCW/World Heavyweight champion in top notch wrestling history
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  • PanchoYoSancho
    PanchoYoSancho Members Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2011
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    It's not always secondary. The WHC was the WrestleMania headliner for 20, 21 and 24.



    I think is has more to do with Cena always being on Raw and having the customized belt for all those years while Batista held the WHC on Smackdown. The WHC was on Raw for the first 3 years of it's existence. It went back to Raw from mid '08 when Punk won it well into '09. Not sure when it went back tho.
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