#5 The WWE Championship is still in very awkward territory
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Enough time has passed for fans to digest the news that Jinder Mahal is WWE Champion. Whether fans have learnt to like it or not, Jinder is in the record books as holding one of, if not the, most prestigious belts in all of professional wrestling. And while the modern day Maharaja hasn’t exactly done anything wrong as champion so far, his reign isn’t exactly setting the world alight.
In fact, Smackdown still feels very much focused on the United States Championship right now, as opposed to the WWE belt. There is a much more believable person holding it, and his matches are normally reserved for the main event or at least the opening match of the show.
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The fact that the next PPV is the MITB event is helping to shift the focus back on WWE’s signature championship somewhat, as 6 of Smackdown’s best are currently destroying themselves for a chance to compete for it, but that owes more to who the six men are, as opposed to how important the belt feels.
The champion himself was engaged with Mojo Rawley this week. It made sense for Rawley to be on TV, considering he did win the Andre the Giant Battle Royal at Wrestlemania and hasn’t been well utilised since, but to throw him at Jinder really did nothing for either of the two men or, for that matter, the championship itself.
Once again, the match involving the champion played second fiddle to a bout involving Kevin Owens and Shinsuke Nakamura. Perhaps Smackdown should take a leaf out of RAW’s book and not have the champion appear every week. At least this would make both the champion and the championship feel a bit more prestigious and elusive, as opposed to being lost somewhere in the middle of the card.
