[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by midLfinger Noid: I'm referring to actual lineage. The NWA title was the WCW title. After breaking from the NWA, WCW kept the title and the champion (therefore, the lineage). The NWA would go on to start a new NWA title (which, ironically, Shane Douglas won and then threw to the ground to start ECW). The NWA title that was in TNA was started in the mid-90s after another tournament and is a lesser title, in my opinion, than the X-Division belt. The WCW title was abandoned when Flair left to WWF and a new WCW title was created. Eventually, when WCW bought a new belt that looked just like Flair's, the titles were unified. The whole reason for WCW keeping the belt is because they had paid for it and they weren't just gonna give it to the NWA after paying to make a new one because Flair wouldn't give them the one he paid for. The new one they created did have a new lineage and doesn't count as the original that Flair had but that point is mute since, upon returning to WCW, Flair won this new belt anyway. Additionally, the World Heavyweight Championship still has the old lineages (although, WWE doesn't express this for promotion reasons) of the IC, Euro, US and Hardcore belts. They were never separated through means of a match. You can't just say, "whoever was champion, at that point, is no longer champion." WWE's distorting of lineages by starting new belts is equivalent to what the NWA did back in the mid-90s with their belts or what WWE did by creating the WHC.

You're a cool poster, but I'm sorry, that's just not how it works.