This week’s Friday Night SmackDown featured the debut of the new WWE Universal Championship design, which sees the red belt get a pallet swap for blue due to the title now residing on the Blue Brand. Reigning champion Bray Wyatt debuted the new title during a Firefly Fun House segment, and while it’s not a Fiend-themed custom design many fans were hoping for the reaction has been pretty positive overall. But with every new decision WWE makes come the social media jokes, and wrestling fans brought them out in spades over the weekend. Check out some of the best reactions to the new title in the list below.
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Wyatt will make his first televised defense at Survivor Series when he takes on Daniel Bryan. SmackDown ended this week with Bryan challenging Wyatt, causing the champ to react with Bryan’s “Yes!” chant.
YOWIE WOWIE! ๐๐
Would you take a look at that new ๐BLUE๐ #UniversalChampionship? #SmackDown @WWEBrayWyatt pic.twitter.com/kVW5CbcdKM
โ WWE (@WWE) November 16, 2019
Loco
โ OKayFabe๐ (@OKayFabe) November 16, 2019
Long Live Bluetista!
Who will defeat The Fiend for the Blue Universal Championship?
โ Captain Ferg (@CaptainFerg) November 16, 2019
Well, the answer is simple. #smackdown pic.twitter.com/IV0hzTB2ep
We can’t lie!
The Universal Championship…
โ โฅ ~ ฮ๏ผฐ๏ผจ๏ผฉฮ ~ โฅ (@IAmAphieee) November 16, 2019
“THE GODDAMN BELT IS BLUE!” pic.twitter.com/u3SS1bcEjh
Somebody get the juicer!
The blue Universal championship kinda looks like that blueberry girl from willy wonka. ๐คฃ #UniversalChampionship pic.twitter.com/VIa6sCaf0z
โ The Blood Prince (@BestGuy_13) November 16, 2019
Anything beats that red light…
So does that mean that @WWEBrayWyatt will wrestle his title matches now under blue lights as he has the #UniversalChampionship on #SDLive ?๐ค
โ Ben Hughes (@benscotthughes) November 16, 2019
Hmmm…
Just realized the #UniversalChampionship is blue it honestly looks better lol – well maybe. #SmackDown #fireflyfunhouse pic.twitter.com/abff5JR18J
โ Wrestling101WKaren (@Wrestling101WK) November 16, 2019
Well obviously this is the better option!
Everybody is debating the blue belt vs the red belt… Iโm over here just wishing theyโd bring this one back. #wingedeagle #brethart #UniversalChampionship pic.twitter.com/z25YG4jJoU
โ Wrestle In Review (@WrestleIn) November 16, 2019
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