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Originally Posted by redoneja
Saying the World Heavyweight title has no lineage or legitimacy is hypocritical because the WWE title was CREATED off the original NWA title after a controversial decision involving Buddy Rogers and Lou Thesz much like the World Heavyweight title was reactivated because of a similar controversy involving Brock Lesnar!!
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But the WWE never claimed their version of the World Title carried the same lineage of the NWA title. They created a NEW title, which was based off a controversy that gave them a reason to create a NEW title. But it took years for the title to be viewed as the centrepiece of pro wrestling. Look at any WWE history book, they claim Rogers was the first WWWF Champion, and prior to that there was no history for the title.
Similarly on RAW, they had a reason to cerate a NEW title based on the controversy of Brock beocming exlcusive to SD, but they have no reason/right to claim the lineage that the WWE Title had, which includes the old WWF title and whatever history you want to claim the WCW title had. Like the WWWF in the past, the history of the RAW title only dates back to HHH and the briefcase.
People just get caught up in the fact that they use the same physical World Title on RAW that was used in WCW, and therefore say they have the same lineage. But that doesn't make any sense.
Further proof to my point is with the SD version of the tag team titles. Because they created new physical belts, nobody will say their version of the titles have the same lineage of say the WWF or the WCW tag titles. The current SD tag titles were created in 2002, and thats as far as the lineage of those belts go. Whereas on RAW, those belts carry the history of the old WWF and WCW belts which were unified during the whole Invasion deal.