Leave it to John Cena to say what we're all thinking concerning the WWE Championship belt

by Sergio Hernandez on Nov 28, 2011 5:18 PM EST in WWE

DO IT, DOUG!

WWE poster boy John Cena took to Twitter this morning for a digital Q&A session with his over 1.1 million followers. Besides having to field the usual questions about the elephant -- or should I say Brahma Bull -- in the room and brushing off his many, many, MANY haters, Cena unleashed one interesting opinion.

Did I mention he has a lot of haters?

A plucky, young Miami Dolphins fan by the name of Doug Peterson asked the former champ what he thought about changing the look of the WWE Championship belt. The belt has been, of course, the infamous -- and reviled, can we agree on that? -- "spinner belt" since its debut after Cena's win at WrestleMania 21.

It no longer spins but it still looks like the gaudiest watch a porn producer could ever want dipped in glue and thrown into a Kay's Jewelry store. Apparently, Mr. Cena feels the same way. Maybe not as strongly but he does feel a change is in order.

The design definitely had its place when Cena was still rocking the "white rapper from the suburbs of Boston" gimmick -- did Everlast ever get his royalty check, by the way? -- but as he moved away from it, the belt's look became more archaic and even more silly.

I thought they should have changed the belt -- or gone back to the previous style -- when Edge cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase at the 2006 New Year's Revolution. But it sort of made sense for his arrogant character to keep it simply to taunt Cena. It was an entirely different story, however, when Rob Van Dam won the strap at One Night Stand five months later.

I'm surprised CM Punk hasn't gone the route of Cody Rhodes and brought back the classic "winged eagle" design, to be honest. I would love to see that title again because judging by the new, awful tag team straps, I won't hold out hope on any new designs the WWE comes up with.

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I'm fine with the Undisputed Belt, too.

But for fucks sake, no more of the current belt. It’s awful

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by Kyle Rancourt on Nov 28, 2011 5:22 PM EST reply actions

Cena abandoned the rap gimmick so long ago. That belt should have went with it.

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by mountaineers101 on Nov 28, 2011 5:23 PM EST reply actions

God yes.

Hell, the 2 world title belts in general is a ludicrous situation anyway. Either go with the big gold belt or bring back something that looks more like the classic WWE title.

How much better does the classic IC belt look? It’s not even close.

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by Billy Gomila on Nov 28, 2011 5:53 PM EST reply actions

Please do change it

The Attitude era Wingled Eagle bet is one of my fave designs. If they wanted a more modern look, the Undisputed belt design works too _

by TheMysticalNinja on Nov 28, 2011 5:57 PM EST reply actions

My 1st reaction was that Cena was sucking up to the fans

my next was, “Hey, let’s let Jeff Hardy design the new belt just for shits and giggles.”

by Patrick Eakin on Nov 28, 2011 5:58 PM EST reply actions

CM Punk, in WWE magazine, did say that he would like for the Winged belt to come back.

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by TheHeat on Nov 28, 2011 5:58 PM EST via mobile reply actions

they were gonna change it when edge got it

suposedly edge already had the new design in paper and everything, but they ran out of time to make it and decided to just customize it a little with the background, just like miz did with the inverted W, i guess they havent felt anybody worthy of a new design since that

by chaggo on Nov 28, 2011 6:08 PM EST reply actions

The belt can spin.. when Del Rio 1st came out on Raw with it, it was slightly kicked.

Also, Cody didn’t make the decision to bring back any belt. WWe management did.. maybe Cody asked.. but he didn’t have any say so.

Also.. the US belt Cena had was pretty cool.. I don’t care for the one that Dolph has much.. I like the idea of the lesser belts being Silver, the World titles being Gold.. and the tag belts being bronze.. gives it the Olympic feel and gives an outsider the instant understanding of who is where in the pecking order.

by Rawuncutnxrated on Nov 28, 2011 6:39 PM EST reply actions

The WWE title is ugly, but the tag team belts are hideous. You could call this the era of the ugly ass belts. Going back to the Attitude era championship would be nice or just something with a little more dignity to it than the current WWE championship belt.

by StrongStyle81 on Nov 28, 2011 7:05 PM EST reply actions