Hating on the Spinner Belt

[JT]

Okay, in todays pro wrestling, most people don't care about championships anymore as we know they are all decided by a few men sitting at a big table deciding on what the people (or just themselves) want to see it around. However, at the same time the presentation of the show should still be somewhat like a sport, and if not in the camera work or the outragous storylines, how about the title belts.

This is where I get to my point: I FUCKING HATE THE SPINNER BELT! I hate it with a passion. Don't know why...maybe I'm just going crazy, and that belt is my fixation for the maddness...but I hate it. I mean it looks like a toy for christ sake. In cop movies, they don't shoot each other with nerf guns, so why in wrestling are they dedicating themselves towards winning a belt that looks like it was designed by a 13 year old.

Now don't get me wrong...I think the belt fit Cena's character, but I mean that in a pass tense. He has since dropped the rap gimmick for more than a year now, so why walk around with a belt incrusted with diamonds, spins, and spells "CHAMP" on the bottom. I mean as a gimmick belt it was fine, but now it just looks like a joke. Now not saying that a different belt would make him a better (or for some people, "worst") champion, but I think a real title belt would give the championship a little more credibility.

Oh, and it's not just Cena using it as the WWE Championship belt that annoys me...my true hatered for the belt came from the fact that WWE has seemed to have made it the OFFCIAL championship belt of the company. Cena has lost that belt 2 times now and STILL the belt didn't go onto a shelf next to the Million Dollar belt and Smoking Skull. Instead it continued on TV through Edges title reign (which we bought because we knew Cena would have it back in a month time), and then when RVD won it and followed by Edge regaining, the belt remained (and not counting that Edge placed the R in the middle...still the same fucking belt). This followed by replacing the WWE Championship icon before title matches on TV going from the Entertainment Era belt to the Spinner Belt.

Seriously, in today's wrestling era, the sport is gone and now it's about entertainment, but becoming more and more of this entertainment and getting away from the sport it once represented kills the atmophere of pro wrestling. I can live with the cheesy gimmick, the speical finishing moves, and the "would never happen in real life" angles, but when you start making the sport side of the show more cartoony than believable, it kills the feel. I think this belt (for me at least) really kills the meaning there. I mean every week I see that belt and look at the title as a joke...and hey, some people here will argue that the matches and feuds are what really kill the title (and I'll agree), but presenting this belt as your "proclaimed title" just makes it a joke that never ends.

My rant is done...discuss.