Paul Heyman has been associated with championships throughout the major of his WWE run as a manager, whether he was the advocate for Brock Lesnar, another voice for CM Punk, or the "Wiseman" for Roman Reigns.
Before he was the manager of champions, Heyman helped decide who was champion as the lead writer of WWE SmackDown from July 2002 to August 2003. Heyman famously put together the "SmackDown Six" and put a focus on in-ring quality and stories.
Speaking to CBS Sports' Shakiel Mahjouri, Heyman was asked if there was any truth to him not wanting a midcard title on the brand so he could keep the focus on the cruiserweight and tag team divisions.
"Yeah," he confirmed. "I'm not a big fan of a multitude of titles unless you can give them enough time. We had proper focus at that time on the championships that we had and didn't feel that we needed more championships to tell better stories, and felt that the introduction of more championships only watered down the championships that we already had the spotlight on at the moment."
Asked for his philosophy on titles, Heyman replied, "What works, works, and what doesn't, doesn't. If you can make it relevant, all pun intended to the island of relevancy, then it will work. If you can't make it relevant, then it won't. If there were 14 titles and they all mean something, then you should look 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."
WWE has introduced two new women's title in past month, adding the WWE Women's United States Title to WWE SmackDown and the WWE Women's Intercontinental Title to WWE Raw.
Elsewhere during the interview, Heyman commented on the status of Brock Lesnar. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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