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With my guest for Episode 8 of Dropkick DiSKussions being 22-time Hardcore Champion Stevie Richards, I had to take the opportunity to discuss the 24/7 Championship and just how he feels about WWE reincarnating a title the former ECW man held so many times.
You can watch the entire interview below or read it in full here.
For context, Richard was clearing up a rumor I'd asked him about - surrounding how many times he and Raven have won the Hardcore title:
The reason there's so much confusion over the reigns - I've technically held it 22 times. Raven had held it 21 times. Raven went to the website, magazine, whatever media people there were and had that flipped. He would relentlessly bother them until it was changed. At the end of the interview, as good as a guy he is, [they would say] just give him what he wants and tell him to shut up. That has been a friendly point of contention between ourselves - but I have had it 22 times, he's had it 21.
Richards then went on to say those reigns don't matter too much, due to how WWE is treating their newest title:
In this day and age with the 24/7 title, it doesn't even matter because it's completely morphed into something else, but the best memory of the entire thing is what it was supposed to be designed for and what they're trying to design it to do, but I don't think they're doing it as well as it was done back then, and that's really use and incorporate everybody they haven't been using to their fullest potential in the most entertaining way.
Now it seems like a Keystone Cops thing, tonnes and tonnes of schoolboys, nothing interesting.
I probed a bit further, asking what the problem was with the 24/7 Championship.
I think taking out the headshots, which we took plenty of back then, is a big deal. Taking out a lot of the danger, because we weren't thinking much about that, taking bumps on a floor, on the back concrete, in the locker room or loading dock area but there could be a happy medium - they can't just have everybody schoolboying everybody, and it's so safe. Who's going to not kick out on the lightest [roll-up]?
I'm not blaming them because I don't want someone to bang my head on the concrete on a schoolboy backstage but there should be creative ways to do it - someone falling asleep at the airport and getting pinned... Just interesting things.
Richards then spoke about what his favourite thing has been with the 24/7 title:
The best thing they've done so far was the FOX Founder's Day with the host - that's interesting, getting more mainstream people involved. That might help it out.
You can read the entire interview here.
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