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10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Universal Championship - Goldberg Ended The Fiend's Streak! Daniel Bryan Buried It! Barely Defended On TV! The Fiend's Terrible Custom Belt?!

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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WWE's Original Universal Championship shot for the stars - but barely left the mat. Simon Miller presents 10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Universal Championship...


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The Universal title was a strange old belt. It felt like it was born into the world because

0:04.8

we needed a new name and at the time the word universe was in, at least with Vince McMahon,

0:09.3

that is sort of backwards thinking. It didn't even last that long all things considered,

0:13.0

so given that it is now dead, which is a little bit too much, here's 10 things WWE likely

0:19.0

wants you to forget about. Number 10, it got booed from day one. This was at

0:23.6

Somerslam 2016, with the title itself being announced by Raw General Manager McFoly and Stephanie

0:28.2

McMahon. It was silly anyway, as the reason for its reveal was that the proper WWE title

0:33.7

had gone to smack a down following the draft and therefore Raw needed something too.

0:38.0

It's like having children, it's ridiculous.

0:39.8

What was cool was that Seth Rollins and Finn Baller were going to fight over this and yeah,

0:43.8

that was the shot on the arm we needed when fans finally saw the thing.

0:48.1

Because as soon as this universal title was unveiled, along with it being read, people did

0:52.5

not like it.

0:53.5

For starters, it didn't look good,

0:55.1

but also the audience wasn't stupid. They saw what was happening. Raw is red, and therefore

1:00.8

red, it's like Sesame Street. Where's Big Bird? This belt sucks was the chant too, and Seth was

1:05.9

so annoyed about this, he went off on social media, and that didn't help either, and it just

1:10.0

meant this wasn't the best start.

1:12.1

You know the deal with wrestling. When you arrive with a bad reaction, it's just even harder to

1:16.8

climb back from it. Number nine, the first rain only lasted 24 hours. So I personally want to forget

1:22.3

about this one because it hurt. Finn Baller winning that title at SummerSlam was the right

1:26.6

call because the man deserved it,

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