Biggest Insult to the WWE Title
 

Yeah, go on with it then.

I made a thread like this 2 weeks ago. NEways to the WWE title I'd say Vince.

Yeah but did you have a POLL??? And if so, did it have my fascinating and insightful choices? And were you as mind-numbingly BORED when you made yours?

Rey Mysterio as champ. Since that's not n option, "lost smile."

I was about to put Rey up, but I'm just talking about the actual "WWE Title."

Montreal screwjob killed the illusion that the title is something won being fought tooth and nail over rather than a piece of metal placed on whoever Vince thinks should have it.

Granted this is pro wrestling and its understood the outcome is predetermined but still...

What about KFed fighting, and though uncleanly, beating the champion?

The thing is that part of the justification for the screwjob was the safeguarding of the WWF title. Which, of any reason given, comes closest to having some real credibility to it; Vince had already seen one of his titles literally dropped in the trash on WCW TV. However, that whole notion suffers from the fact that everything that proceeded to ensue would seem to have indicated that Shawn and Vince were personally above the title.

DAMMIT I forgot that one. :mad:

whats the story behind the "lost smile?

What did Mr. Perfect do?

Shawn Michaels was supposed to do a job to Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13 as a receipt for Bret's job to him at WM 12. However, Shawn came down with some 'jobberitis' and claimed a serious, career-threatening knee injury. On TV, he vacated the title claiming he had 'lost his smile' and needed to go find it again.

The spinner belt. It works great for a heel ("I'm the Champion! I earnt this belt! I can do whatever I want with it!"), but for a face...ew.

The others really didn't hurt much, in my opinion. Wrestling is a fixed sport, sometimes crazy soap opera-ish shit makes the Title more important.

The creation of the World Heavyweight Title. That's my only answer.

That's a damn good answer Tovo.

I don't find any of these listed choices to be bad at all really.

He and the Genius stole Hogan's belt and smashed it.

Did they redesign a belt after that and where did the storyline lead?

Spinner, 'nuf said.

Years later the WWF put a piece of duct tape on the belt and wrote "Hardcore" on it.

I thought it as "a" WWE title. Oops.

What's wrong with spinner belts?

More to the point, are smoking skull belts included?

Yeah, really. Austin had his own belt, why not Cena?

Cena is nowhere near as popular or good as Austin?

Also no one else held the Smoking Skull belt

Because even when Edge and RVD won the belt it was still the spinner belt.

Rock did...although he wasn't Champ at the time...:shifty:

http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com.../r/rock/19.jpg

Anyone remember the fucking terrible design they did for the Brahma Bull belt. God that was terrible, thank god they didn't go through with it.

I like the spinner belt.

Yeah, I gotta say that was pretty stupid.

What does that have to do with anything? Less popular individuals shouldn't be allowed to be marketed for merchandising?

No, just saying that why does Cena get his own belt but no one else who has been champion does?

The spinner belt wouldn't bother me if Edge hadn't have held it as well. RVD holding it made trace amounts of sense in a funny sort of way. Edge holding the spinner belt just screamed "THE TRANSITIONAL CHAMP IS HURRRR."

I wouldn't consider it the biggest insult, just the biggest one in recent memory.

You aren't a transitional champion if you job the belt back to the person you won it from 3 weeks later... Backlund in 95 was a transitional champ (beat Bret for the belt, jobbed a week later to Diesel, cause they didn't wanna do the face/face thing or they didn't wanna job Bret)

The Spinner Belt disgusts me to this day. At least the Smoking Skull belt was based on Austin.

Now if they had a wigger belt, I'd be ok with it.

It IS a wigger belt. :wtf:

Someone explain Saskatoon to me please

Does anyone has a pic of that belt or the design?

I can go one better and tell you I got the foam kiddie's replica of the Smoking Skull belt for a birthday.

It was my 19th birthday however and I think the irony was lost on me considering that I asked for a stripper, booze and some coke. :(

HBK's knee was actually fucked up pretty good, but of course, don't let the truth get in the way of your witch hunt and Bret Hart fellatio.

lol Actually I was referring to the Brahma Bull belt.