Expert Poll: Should AEW recognize the FTW Championship? 

Louis Dangoor - WrestleTalk and Fightful

Louis Dangoor is an editor and interviewer covering all major wrestling promotions for WrestleTalk. He is also part of the review team over at Fightful co-hosting the Wednesday Night War show as the AEW contributor.

Louis has interviewed a number of wrestling's biggest names including Eric Bischoff, Christian, Brodie Lee and he just wrapped up a conversation with AEW's newest tag team, FTR.

Would Louis hop on board with the creation of a new division? Maybe fresh off a conversation with Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood he's like Tom Colohue's idea. Short answer - nope.

The FTW Belt can stay, but don't recognize it

"While I understand the nostalgia that the FTW Championship brings, I find the way it has been booked thus far in AEW to be incredibly problematic.

For me, the first mistake AEW made with the championship was commissioning a match between Brian Cage and Brian Pillman Jr. for the title on Dark. The title is not something that AEW has introduced themselves, so why would they commission a match for it on TV?

What’s to stop, next week on Dynamite, Peter Avalon coming out and declaring himself the Library Championship? Is everyone now just allowed to introduce their own title belts, declare themselves as the champion and have title matches on TV/YouTube?

From here on out, Cage should walk around with the FTW Championship saying that he is the real world champion in AEW, as he never quit under his own will in his World Championship match with Moxley.

However, it’s important to say that I DON’T think Cage should defend the title on Dynamite or Dark. That makes it look like a title that AEW has introduced, and doesn’t really go with the sort of “F*** The World” gimmick that the title was originally introduced with."