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Paul Heyman says if you have 14 titles and they all mean something, you should think about adding another. But if you only have seven and they all don’t matter, then you need to cut down.
Speaking with CBS Sports’ Shakiel Mahjouri (via SHAK Wrestling), Paul Heyman was asked about his time as the head writer of WWE SmackDown. Specifically, he was asked whether the reports that he opposed introducing a midcard title because he worried that it would undermine the tag team and cruiserweight divisions were true.
“Yeah. I’m not a big fan of a multitude of titles unless you can give them enough time,” Heyman said. “We had proper focus at that time on the championships that we held and didn’t feel that we needed more championships to tell better stories, and felt that therefore, the introduction of more championships only waters down the championships that we already have the spotlight on at the moment.”
Paul Heyman: If It Works, It Works
Heyman was then asked whether this was an ongoing problem and if promotions should narrow things down.
“What works, works. What doesn’t, doesn’t,” Paul Heyman said. “If you can make it relevant, then it will work. If you can’t make it relevant, then it won’t. If there are 14 titles and they all mean something, then you should be looking at doing number 15. If you have seven titles and you’re struggling to put relevancy on all seven, then you need to cut down the number that you have. What’s working? If it’s working, let’s do more of that. If it’s not working, change it.”
Heyman returned to WWE programming on the November 22 episode of WWE SmackDown.
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