Do WWE Championships Hold Water Anymore?

We all remember the title reigns of yesteryear. Bruno Sammartino held the WWF Championship for almost four years, Fabulous Moolah held the Women's Championship for almost 29 years, London and Kendrick held the WWE Tag Team Titles for 11 months and even JBL held the WWE Championship for over 10 months.

These days we see Batista holding the World Heavyweight Championship for eight days, Triple H and Randy Orton both losing the WWE Title to each other on the same night they won it and CM Punk having the World Heavyweight Championship for about 9 weeks.

What happened to the days of feuds going three or four months, or sometimes years (Steve Austin/Vince McMahon)? When Chris Jericho won the World Heavyweight Championship back from Batista in a Steel Cage match, that was the end of that "feud."

Batista never got a rematch. He was put in a Triple Threat match to determine the No. 1 contender for the belt, but that's it.

Does McMahon think that we have the attention span of somebody who had one too many chair shots to the head? Half of the time when I'm watching WWE, I'm playing video games or surfing the Internet because half the time I'm bored. I stated in one of my first articles that lately it's been becoming a chore to watch wrestling, and it's true.

In my opinion, if WWE wants a title to be credible, they should make sure that the champion holds on to the title for a little while and defends it against worthy opponents. Nothing against Rey Mysterio, but having The Great Khali defend his title against him is a joke and an insult to the title.

Long gone are the days of Steve Austin vs. The Rock, Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giants, or even John Cena VS JBL. Now fans are being given such fueds as JBL vs. CM Punk or Melina vs. Beth Phoenix. Sure they're all good competitors, but there's no build up hardly at all for these title matches.

Tonight we witnessed a new WWE Triple Crown Champion in JBL. He is a former WWE Champion, a former two-time World Tag Team Champion as part of the Acolytes with Farooq, and won his first Intercontinental Championship tonight from CM Punk, who only held the title since January 19th.

Punk and JBL feuded over the World Heavyweight Championship, but haven't fought since then. All of a sudden JBL beats Punk for the Intercontinental Championship? Where did that come about? It wasn't even announced on the WWE Web site.

It pisses me off when I see all these "transitional" champions that we've been getting lately. CM Punk and Kofi Kingston are great singles wrestlers, but they should not have been given the World Tag Team Titles. This was yet another title match Punk was in that had no build up to it. I mean, Priceless never even got their rematch.

Ted DiBiase, Jr. was gone for a while and when he came back, he's all of a sudden part of Legacy along with Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes. I just wish the WWE would put more value on their titles these days. Yeah sure, Edge may be an eight-time champion. But how many of those titles did he win and defend honorably?

A wrestler isn't judged on how honest he is in the ring—it's on his accomplishments. The titles on the other hand, need to have a certain value to them. To me, a title loses credibility when somebody constantly cheats to get or keep it.

The Colons have tried to bring credibility back to the WWE Tag Team Championships after Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder diminished that, but they're not doing that good of a job. I must say that last week's title defense was freakin' awesome against Miz and Morrison.

The WWE has been teasing us with unifying the tag team titles, and I hope it happens. A new title means a new chance at credibility, a clean slate. I guess I'll just have to keep my hopes up that the WWE will start to go back to having the memorable feuds of years before.