WWE unveiled the Universal Championship at SummerSlam and fans didn’t react very well to the new belt. Fans are trashing the belt on social media and fans in attendance at SummerSlam booed the belt when it was presented.
Seth Rollins took to Twitter after his match and he commented on the reaction from the Brookyln crowd saying that Brooklyn let him down. Mick Foley also chimed in with his thoughts on the negative reaction. You can read an excerpt from his Facebook post below along with the full entry here.
“I have long felt, and often spoken about the element of magic needed to make a good match great and a great match classic. Finn Balor and Seth Rollins had a GREAT match last night – a match that I was HONORED to watch from ringside. But instead of that element of magic necessary to turn that great match into a classic, what Finn and Seth got instead was the stench of self-congratulatory snarkiness from a a very vocal minority of the sold-out Barklay’s Center. But a couple thousand self-important chanters, mixed in with 14,000 other people who genuinely WANT TO WATCH THE FREAKING MATCH is an awful distraction.
Yes, the chants were clever. Maybe the look of the Universal Championship isn’t the one that I personally wouldn’t have wanted. But remember the Hardcore Title? It was supposed to be a joke when it was presented to me – broken pieces of metal held together by duct tape. But we made that title mean something by busting our asses to show it’s worth. As Seth Rollins writes in his tweet, a title is about more than appearance; it’s about what it represents for the men fighting for it. Remember the WWE title I won from The Rock – that moment that has gone down as among the greatest in Monday Night Raw history? Did you know that title belt reeked of beer and mildew, and stunk up my bag every day for the 37 days (or whatever the exact number was) that I held it? Did you know that I didn’t give an F about the beer and mildew… or what it looked like, what color it was, if it spun or had my name on it? I only cared about the hard work that had gone into winning it, and that those responsible for running the company felt that I was worthy of holding it.”
WWE Universal Champion Finn Balor and WWE Women’s Champion Charlotte both had new custom plates installed on their title belts and you can check out videos of the plates being switched out below.
