Thread: The confusing lineage of the RAW Tag Team titles
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Old 03-08-2017, 07:02 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Guru Dave View Post
I am fascinated by wrestling titles and their lineages.

When I restarted watching the WWE (after a very Long hiatus) in 2003, sometime around Goldberg's debut, I was utterly confused by the championships on both the shows. I did my research online and got a general idea of how things were.

The most confusing for me at the time was the World Heavyweight Championship (represented by the Big Gold belt). While it shared the lineage of the old NWA World Heavyweight Championship and the WCW Championship (renamed as the World Championship after The Alliance was vanquished), it did not share the title history. It was extremely confusing and the documentary DVD didn't help much.
WWE pretty much went back and forth on the Big Gold belt's lineage and usually for storyline reasons. If they care about a feud or a wrestler, the belt suddenly got treated a lot more prestigious while other times it got treated as just a regular RAW/Smackdown title.

Think the WWE belt still holds the real WCW/NWA lineage since the World belt given to Triple H was just Big Gold in design only and WWE belt never got split into 2 titles.
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