Nixed Plans Revealed For New WWE Title Belt

Between Raw, SmackDown, NXT and NXT UK there are currently quite a few title belts in WWE, but you never know when the company might introduce a new championship.

When WWE resurrected the cruiserweight division a few years ago there were rumors that the company would be introducing tag team title belts for the cruiserweights, but the belts never appeared on TV.

Former WWE Superstar Jack Gallagher recently took to Instagram to share some information about the Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles, and he revealed that two purple and silver belts were stored on a prop truck. A few members of the cruiserweight division apparently stumbled onto the belts and started pitching ideas for them to be used on TV.

One idea that got pitched was to use Mexican tag rules for the belts, and another was to use three man teams instead of two man teams, but both ideas were shot down. Gallagher posted the following on Instagram:

“It’s Tuesday. You know what that means.

It’s time to talk about 205Live!

I’ve had a few people enquiring about the existence of the cruiserweight tag team titles, so allow me to spill the tea.

There’s a truck that houses all the props that might be used during a weekly taping of Smackdown or Raw. Onboard you’ll find a collection of sledgehammers, barbed wire bats, even umbrellas. This also happens to be the place where two, purple and silver, cruiserweight tag team title belts were kept. They were kept there from the first week that the division appeared on television.

These belts were stubbled upon by a few members of the roster (who may have also took a few photos holding them 🤫), so we all pitched ideas to get the titles introduced.

The two ideas that were often favoured were: One, to change the rules of cruiserweight tag team matches to the Mexican tag rules i.e. when both feet hit the floor on the outside of the ring that constitutes a legal tag; the other was to establish three men teams, instead of the usual two, and make them trios titles.

All of these ideas were – obviously – rejected.”