New Championship Belts Section for Main Page

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 01:47 PM

Triple A has asked me to make a thread about this so here it is. There will be a new section about championship belts in professional on the main page. It isn't really going to be a title history (so far as I know), but rather, a belt history, i.e. when this belt was introduced, a picture of it, a picture of newer versions of it, and then short write-ups about when/why it was changed.

What we need are pictures of ALL THE BELTS. WWF, WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, Japanese, Mexico, Stampede, WCCW, FCW, AWA, Smokey Mountain... there are probably more. I don't know what will end up being used.

Find a picture of a belt (just the belt) and do a write-up of what years it was active and if/when it was retired. Try to talk about what lineage the belt has.

Anyone feel free to make suggests as well.

WWE belts
European - post 2
Hardcore - post 3
Divas - post 8
Intercontinental - post 18
World Heavyweight Title - post 20

WCW
Hardcore - post 12

TNA belts
X Division - post 19
World Championship - post 20
Tag Team - post 21
TNA Global Championship - post 24
Knockout Tag Team Championship - post 25
TNA Women's Knockout Championship - post 26

NWA
World Heavyweight Championship - post 22
NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship - post 7

Stampede
Stampede North American Heavyweight - post 6

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 02:18 PM

Activated on February 2, 1997 when the British Bulldog defeated Owen Hart in the finals of a tournament. Deactivated briefly in 1999 until Mideon found it in duffel bag. Deactivated permanently when Intercontinental champion Rob Van Dam defeated European champion Jeff Hardy in a ladder match for both titles on Monday Night Raw July 22, 2002.

**The Jayman** · 11-11-2009, 02:28 PM

Vince McMahon first awarded Mankind the belt, originally known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF) Hardcore Championship, on November 2, 1998.At the time of the belt's conception, the idea was that the belt was to have been used in comedy segments to try to push Mankind's reputation as a famous hardcore wrestler, but as Foley was getting over with the crowd as well as the rising popularity of hardcore wrestling at the time, the Hardcore Championship seemed to gain a life of its own. Its growing popularity led competitor World Championship Wrestling to create their own Hardcore Championship, a move followed by numerous independent promotions.

When Crash Holly won the belt, he introduced the "24/7 rule"; which meant the belt was to be defended "at all times...as long as there was a referee present."This rule has led to the shortest title reigns and quickest title changes in WWE history.

The 24/7 rule was enforced until August 19, 2002 when Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff decided to suspend it following a six minute Hardcore Battle Royal won by Tommy Dreamer.

The title was finally retired on August 27, 2002 when WWE Intercontinental Champion Rob Van Dam defeated Hardcore Champion Tommy Dreamer to unify the titles.

**DaveBrawl** · 11-11-2009, 02:28 PM

So are we supposed to be getting a list of title holders as well?

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 02:32 PM

No, it's just a history of the belts. You can mention notable holders in your write-up, but as far as keeping up with title holders I don't think we're doing that because you can get that on wikipedia. As of now the belt sections on wikipedia are geared more towards results and wrestling fans like to stare at pictures of the belts as well.

**DaveBrawl** · 11-11-2009, 02:35 PM

Stampede North American Heavyweight Title History:

From its establishment in 1968 until 1972, it was Stampede's secondary singles championship. It became the top title in 1972 after the previous top championship, the Calgary version of the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship was abandoned.

Archie Gouldie was the initial holder of the title winning a match against Pat O'Connor on February 28, 1968. Larry Cameron won the title on April 28, 1989 and held it until the closing of the promotion in December of 1989. After Bruce and Ross Hart restarted the promotion in 1998 Tatanka defeated Sid Vicious in a tournament in October of that year to win the title. "Ravenous" Randy Myers is the current holder of the title.

**DaveBrawl** · 11-11-2009, 02:42 PM

NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Calgary version):

Calgary's version of the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship was established in 1946 when Al Mills defeated Chief Thunderbird, and it became the top championship in Stampede Wrestling when it opened in 1948. It held that status until 1972 When Dave Ruhl, the last champion was injured and the title was vacated.

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 03:00 PM

The WWE Divas Championship was introduced on Smackdown by former General Manager Vickie Guerrero. At the 2008 Great American Bash, Michelle McCool defeated Natalya in the finals of a tournament to become the first Divas Champion.

**parkmania** · 11-11-2009, 04:00 PM

I would like to suggest checking out davemillicanbelts.com. He's had a hand in designing a BUNCH of the belts that MANY organizations use.

**Fignuts** · 11-11-2009, 04:20 PM

lol triple a did not tell you to do this.

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Fignuts

lol triple a did not tell you to do this.

I sent a private message (PM) to Triple A asking if he was still redoing the front page and if so, this could be one thing to add. Here is the private message (PM) and the response:

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Originally Posted by Triple A

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedamndest

Don't know if you are still adding things/redoing the main page, but if you are you should consider pictures of championship belts from all the different promotions from all the different eras. I'm sure the Wrestling Forum people would do brief write-ups on the belts if you wanted to have those in there. Not sure if you've noticed, but wrestling fans really like looking at pictures of old belts.

Yeah definitely.

You think people from the forum would actually write up things though?

If so, yeah that would be pretty cool. Could you "do" it? Or post the thread I guess?

In conclusion, I win.

**Juan** · 11-11-2009, 04:42 PM

I hope these are all done before DAMN iNATOR logs on again.

**kareru** · 11-11-2009, 04:50 PM

The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Hardcore Championship was a title in World Championship Wrestling. The title was defended in Hardcore matches, in which there were few rules restrictions and weapons were allowed. Eventually, the rules were changed so that matches began in the backstage area but would only end by pinfall in the ring. The belt was created in response to the growing popularity of hardcore wrestling in North America, but it never reached the heights of the WWF Hardcore Championship.

The title lasted from 1999 to 2001. The very first WCW Hardcore champion was Norman Smiley who defeated Brian Knobbs in Toronto, Ontario at the WCW pay-per-view Mayhem on November 21, 1999. Other notable champions are 3 Count who won and defended the belt as a trio. Brian Knobbs who held the belt a record three times and was the one to dethrone 3 Count at WCW Uncensored 2000. Terry Funk (a two time hardcore champ) also held the title for a period of almost two months, from April-June 2000 when he was defeated by Eric Bischoff at a Monday Nitro in Atlanta, Georgia. Bischoff later awarded the title to Big Vito as a reward for helping him take it from Funk. Lance Storm later won the title and renamed it the Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title (or S.H.I.T.). The final hardcore champion in WCW was Meng who defeated Crowbar and reigning champ Terry Funk at WCW Sin on January 14, 2001. It was abandoned after Meng, the reigning champion, left the company to return to the WWF. Meng gave the belt to Barbarian as a gift, but this didn't take place on TV and isn't considered part of the title history.

The belt design of the commercially available WCW Hardcore Championship belt is not the same as the belt that was seen on WCW programming. The replica belt was based on original artwork sent to beltmaker JMar before the belt was made. Through his website a few months earlier, JMar held a contest to have a fan's belt made into a real belt.

**CSL** · 11-11-2009, 04:57 PM

Vat is ze meaning of zis?

**CSL** · 11-11-2009, 05:10 PM

Hmmmmmmmmm

**CSL** · 11-11-2009, 05:16 PM

Because I believe anything thedamndest says, including potentially fake private messaging occurances with Triple A:

Currently used as the WWE's World Heavyweight Championship, 'the big gold belt' was initially introduced in 1985 by Jim Crockett Promotions as a replacement for the NWA World title for 'The Nature Boy' Ric Flair. Also known at times as the WCW International, WCW World Heavyweight and one half of the former WWF Undisputed Championship, it is arguably the most recognizable belt in professional wrestling history.

JT · 11-11-2009, 05:56 PM

http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/wiamain.htm

If you surf through their title history sections, you'll find a large source of pictures for championship belts, expecially WWE and WCW

**Evolution** · 11-11-2009, 06:30 PM

Damn, JT, you scooped me. Anyway:

The World Wrestling Federation Intercontinental Championship was first held in 1979 by Pat Patterson. Over the last 30 years (except for a 12 month stint when the belt was merged with the World Championship in 2002 by Eric Bischoff and re-introduced in 2003 by Stone Cold Steve Austin), many of the sport's greatest stars have used the title as a stepping stone to the upper echelon of the card, ranging from Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Diesel to Triple H, Stone Cold and The Rock, to Jeff Hardy, Rob Van Dam and Edge.

Presently held by John Morrison, the current incarnation of the belt is a modification of the belt used from 1999-2002 which featured a WWF logo and no nameplate. That belt was a modified version of the 1998 belt which featured the older, block version of the logo (first held by The Rock).

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 07:49 PM

The TNA X Division Championship debuted at TNA's second weekly PPV on June 26, 2002. A.J. Styles defeated Low Ki, Jerry Lynn, and Psicosis in a Four Way Double Elimination Match.

In 2003 the X Division Championship was unified with the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship when Chris Sabin defeated champion Jerry Lynn, Frankie Kazarian, and Johnny Swinger in a Four Corners Championship Unification match.

In May 2007 the NWA left TNA, resulting in the creation of a new X Division title. It was given to then-champion Chris Sabin on May 16, 2007.

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 08:33 PM

The TNA World Heavyweight Championship was created in May of 2007 after TNA lost the rights to use NWA Championship as its main title. Kurt Angle became the first champion after defeating Samoa Joe, Chris Harris, Christian Cage, and A.J. Styles in a King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary 2007 on June 17, 2007. He won the title at the previous pay-per-view (Sacrifice 2007) in a triple threat match with Sting and Christian Cage, but due to the controversial finish the reign is not counted.

**thedamndest** · 11-11-2009, 08:48 PM

The TNA Tag Team Championship was introduced on May 17, 2007. Prior to this, TNA had been using the NWA Tag Team Champship, but with the NWA withdrawing, TNA would need a new set of belts. Team 3D, Brother Ray and Brother Devon, then-champions, were given the gold.

**Phenomenal 1** · 11-11-2009, 10:08 PM

The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the National Wrestling Alliance. Its lineage has been traced from the first World Heavyweight Championship, which traces its lineage to Georg Hackenschmidt's 1905 title and Frank Gotch's 1908 version. This effectively makes it the oldest surviving wrestling championship in the world.

With many "territories" appearing across the United States, the NWA was formed in 1948 as an overall governing wrestling body. Like franchises, these territories had the option of NWA membership. The promotion owners had to recognize the NWA heavyweight, junior heavyweight, and light heavyweight champions as world champions while retaining their own ownership and top champion.

The NWA World Heavyweight Championship was defended in all territories that belonged to the National Wrestling Alliance organization accross the United States and was defened internationally in promotions in the U.K., Canada, Australia, England, Ireland, Korea, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, and China. It was the first Heavyweight Championship in wrestling to be recognized as "World Title".

The NWA Champion was decided by members of the Executive Board of the National Wrestling Alliance. They would decide who was the champion, how they won the belt, where they would defend it against, and who and when they would lose it to.

The NWA Champion usually defended his title against the regional territory World Champion or someone who was the top babyface or heel in the territory so that the local competitors could get over and be seen as legitimate world title contenders.

The NWA Championship was prominently featured in the old Mid South Wrestling promotion, Championip Wrestling From Florida, and Georgia Championship Wrestling during the 1970's and early 1980's. The NWA Title was prominently featured in the Carolinas during the mid 80's through the early 90's until is was inactivated in Jim Crockett's Carolina based company which would later be bought by Ted Turner and become the WCW or World Championship Wrestling. The title was inactivated in 1991 when Ric Flair left the WCW organization for the WWE and WCW broke their final ties with the company when Flair took the NWA belt with him and WCW renamed their prominent title the WCW Heavyweight Championship.

The NWA Title made a brief return in WCW in 1993 and 1994 when the title was reactivated when Flair re-joined the promotion and WCW and the NWA held a tournament to crown a new champion and the tournament was held in New Japan Pro Wrestling with Masahiro Chono becoming the first champion since reactivation. The association of the NWA and WCW short lived and the title soon became the WCW International Title and the NWA went their separate ways.

They held a title tournament in the brief NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling and Shane Douglas won the vacant title from Too Cold Scorpio. Douglas denounced the title and stated he wouldn't be champion of the NWA as it was dead the moment Ted Turner and WCW was created when he bought out Jim Crockett Promotions. Douglas declared himself ECW World Champion and through the NWA Belt down.

The NWA World Title then faded to independent status over the next 10 or so years until 2002 when Jeff and Jarrey Jarret formed NWA TNA and gained the rights to display and showcase the NWA Championship, NWA Tag Team Titles, and the newly formed NWA X Division Title in their promotion.

TNA Wrestling would carry the NWA championships under their banner until 2007 when the NWA announced it was ending its 5 year relationship with TNA and then NWA President Bob Trobich proceeded to strip Christian Cage of the NWA Title and Team 3D of the Tag Team Titles.

Since then the NWA held a tournament to crown a new champion which was held in late 2007 and the title has been reactivated under the NWA banner and has been restricted to being defended in regional NWA territories and in independent promotions.

The old version of the NWA Championship to which is the first picture listed was the offical NWA Heayweight Championship belt that was used circa 1959-1973.

The second version of the NWA Heavyweight Championship is the belt that began being used in 1973 and has been used to current day except for about a 5 year period in Jim Crockett Promotions. Known as the "Dome Globe" it is perhaps the most recognizable version of the NWA Title besides the "Big Gold" version of the title. This version of the title is the championship belt that is currently being used by champion of the NWA promotions.

The third and final version of the NWA Title pictured is known as the "Big Gold" belt. This version of the belt was introduced in 1986 and was presented to Ric Flair in honor of his reign as NWA Heavyweight Champion and Jim Crockett's wishes to show appreciation to Flair and the champion he had been to his company and to the legacy that is the NWA. The belt was used until 1991 when Flair left WCW for WWF at the time. At that point in time, NWA Champions were required to secure $25,000 with the promotion as security on the belt. When WCW asked for the Belt back, Flair asked for the 25 grand and they refused. Flair ended up taking the belt with him to WWF and used it on television claiming to be the "Real Word's Champion" until he won the WWF Championship at the 1992 Royal Rumble. The belt then went back to WCW eventually and was used then as the NWA Title briefly, then the WCW International Title, and eventually the WCW title and this version is now being used as WWE's World Heavyweight Championship.

**Super V** · 11-12-2009, 08:02 AM

The McDonald's United States Championship Belt was introduced by Mayor McCheese in the year 2000. The championship was first won by Ronald McDonald at McDonald Land's very first ladder match, culminating his then year-long feud with The Hamburglar.

**thedamndest** · 11-12-2009, 03:34 PM

The TNA Legends Title was created by Booker T when he removed it from a briefcase and declared himself the champion on the October 23, 2008 episode of Impact!. It was initially defended as an unsanctioned belt, however, Booker's defeat to A.J. Styles at Destination X 2009 caused the title to become legally sanctioned by TNA.

On October 29, 2009, then-champion Eric Young renamed the title the TNA Global Championship and gave it the stipulation that he would not defend it against Americans and not defend it on American soil.

**thedamndest** · 11-12-2009, 09:08 PM

The first team to capture the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship was Sarita and Taylor Wilde when they defeated Madison Rayne and Velvet Skye in the finals of an eight-team single elimination tournament at on September 20, 2009 at No Surrender.

**thedamndest** · 11-12-2009, 09:21 PM

The TNA Women's World Championship was introduced on October 14, 2007 at Bound for Glory. Gail Kim defeated Ms. Brooks, Christy Hemme, Awesome Kong, Roxxi Laveaux, Talia Madison, Shelly Martinez, Jackie Moore, O.D.B., and Angel Williams to become the first champion. It was renamed the TNA Women's Knockout Championship in 2008.

**DAMN iNATOR** · 11-13-2009, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedamndest

Triple A has asked me to make a thread about this so here it is. There will be a new section about championship belts in professional on the main page. It isn't really going to be a title history (so far as I know), but rather, a belt history, i.e. when this belt was introduced, a picture of it, a picture of newer versions of it, and then short write-ups about when/why it was changed.

What we need are pictures of ALL THE BELTS. WWF, WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, Japanese, Mexico, Stampede, WCCW, FCW, AWA, Smokey Mountain... there are probably more. I don't know what will end up being used.

Find a picture of a belt (just the belt) and do a write-up of what years it was active and if/when it was retired. Try to talk about what lineage the belt has.

Anyone feel free to make suggests as well.

WWE belts
European - post 2
Hardcore - post 3
Divas - post 8
Intercontinental - post 18
World Heavyweight Title - post 20

WCW
Hardcore - post 12

TNA belts
X Division - post 19
World Championship - post 20
Tag Team - post 21
TNA Global Championship - post 24
Knockout Tag Team Championship - post 25
TNA Women's Knockout Championship - post 26

NWA
World Heavyweight Championship - post 22
NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship - post 7

Stampede
Stampede North American Heavyweight - post 6

Wikipedia should have most if not all of what you and AAA are looking for, thed.

**thedamndest** · 11-13-2009, 02:26 PM

They have some things, but they don't have pictures of all the belts and they don't have dates for when they changed styles on a lot of the belts, which is what we are after.

**DAMN iNATOR** · 11-13-2009, 02:32 PM

OK, fair enough. Are we going to expand the list any, to include say the WCW and WWE versions of the Light Heavyweight/Cruiserweight and United States championships? They each have their own unique lineages.

**DAMN iNATOR** · 11-13-2009, 02:44 PM

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ECW Championship

NWA ECW Heavyweight Championship Active: 1992-1994

ECW World Heavyweight Championship Active: 1994-2006

ECW World Championship Active: 2006-2007

ECW Championship Active: 2007-Present
Origin
The ECW Championship was introduced in 1992 with Jimmy Snuka becoming the inaugural champion on April 25. However, its origin is attributed to events that began in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), a promotion with various subsidiaries. In the early 1990s, Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW) was a subsidiary to the NWA and by 1994, the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, the world title of the NWA and its subsidiaries, was vacant. Consequently, a tournament was organized to crown a new NWA World Heavyweight Champion and on August 27, ECW Heavyweight Champion, Shane Douglas, defeated 2 Cold Scorpio in the finals to win the title. However, Douglas immediately relinquished the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and instead proclaimed himself the new ECW World Heavyweight Champion. ECW subsequently seceded from the NWA and became Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was thus established as having spun-off from the NWA title. It remained active until April 11, 2001 when ECW closed and World Wrestling Entertainment subsequently purchased its assets.

Recommission
By 2005, WWE began reintroducing ECW through content from the ECW video library and a series books, which included the release of The Rise and Fall of ECW documentary. With heightened and rejuvenated interest in the ECW franchise, WWE organized ECW One Night Stand on June 12, a reunion event that featured ECW alumni.Due to the financial and critical success of the production, WWE produced the second ECW One Night Stand on June 11, 2006, which served as the premiere event in the relaunch of the ECW franchise as a third WWE brand, complementary to Raw and SmackDown. On June 13, Paul Heyman, former ECW owner and newly appointed figurehead for the ECW brand, recommissioned the ECW World Heavyweight Championship to be the brand's world title and awarded it to Rob Van Dam as a result of winning the WWE Championship at One Night Stand 2006. Heyman had originally stated that either the WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship would "become" the ECW World Heavyweight Championship if a competitor designated to the ECW brand became WWE Champion or World Heavyweight Champion at the event. However, Rob Van Dam later declared that he would hold both titles simultaneously instead. The title became known as the ECW World Championship in July 2006, and later simply as the ECW Championship in August 2007.

Brand Designation
Following the events of the WWE Brand Extension, an annual WWE Draft was established, in which select members of the WWE Roster were reassigned to a different brand. After two years on the ECW brand, the ECW Championship was briefly moved to the SmackDown brand when Chavo Guerrero, a member of the SmackDown brand, defeated the ECW Champion CM Punk on January 22, 2008 to win the title. On March 30 at WrestleMania XXIV, the ECW Championship returned to ECW when Kane defeated Chavo Guerrero to win the ECW Championship and defected to the ECW brand. After the 2008 WWE Draft, Kane was drafted to Raw, moving the ECW Championship to the Raw brand. On June 29 at Night of Champions, Mark Henry defeated Kane and The Big Show in a Triple Threat match to win the ECW Championship. Henry's status as a member of the ECW brand resulted in the championship returning to ECW.

Belt Designs
Soon after its recommissioning, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship belt design was updated to a design similar to the belt used prior to ECW's original closure in 2001, which featured a black leather strap with a snakeskin pattern on the rear, snaps to wrap around the waist of the wrestler who wore it, and five pieces made of gold. In the middle of the strap was a large center piece, which featured a design of a blue globe in the center, and to the left and right of the globe were a pair of baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire. At the top of the piece, a purple ECW logo and the words "World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion" were engraved with the words "Heavyweight Wrestling" in red, which gave the text a blood-like appearance. In addition, the entire piece was engraved with a pattern similar to that of a steel cage. Along the strap, on both ends, were four smaller pieces which featured a design similar to that of the center piece. The new belt was differentiated by a full black strap with barbed wire tooling, red ECW logos, and the innards of the steel cage pattern outlined in black.

On July 22, 2008, ECW General Manager Theodore Long introduced a new 17 poundplatinum belt design for the ECW Championship belt. This current design features a large black leather strap with five platinum pieces. The large center piece features a design of a phoenix over a globe in the center with its wings expanded and rays of light emitting from it. At the top of the piece, the WWE logo and the words "World Wrestling Entertainment" are engraved with "ECW" in large letters engraved prominently over the phoenix. A nameplate, which has the name of the champion etched, is located below it and at the bottom of the piece, the word "Champion" is engraved. Additionally, the entire piece is bordered by a jagged saw-like pattern. Along the strap, on both ends, are four small biker cross-shape pieces which feature a design similar to that of the center piece.

In case you need to do the ECW title as well.

UPDATE: Added in the names and active years of each belt design of the ECW Championship.

**thedamndest** · 11-13-2009, 02:47 PM

Yes, the list is just a table of contents as we complete these to keep it organized. We are doing every version of every belt.

**thedamndest** · 11-13-2009, 02:53 PM

Find the specific dates of when the belt was introduced and when it changed designs and cut it down to those.

**Hornicane** · 11-13-2009, 03:09 PM

I'll bet DAMN iNATOR posted all that from memory.

**CWK** · 11-14-2009, 02:28 AM

Surprising that I haven't seen anyone post the belt Buddy Rogers was presented with when he became the very first WWWF champion in 1963.

**CWK** · 11-14-2009, 02:32 AM

**Phenomenal 1** · 11-17-2009, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CWK

when will you go away you little smark

**CWK** · 11-19-2009, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GimmickInfringed

when will you go away you little smark

Thats just about enough now. Leave me the fuck alone and mind your own business please.

**TerranRich** · 11-14-2009, 09:25 PM

FTW belt ftw.

I've always wanted to say that.

**Fabien Barthez** · 11-18-2009, 03:07 PM

Why do the first 2 ECW belts have TAZ written as part of the pattern on the both sides of the main plate?

**Phenomenal 1** · 11-18-2009, 07:06 PM

there were two versions of the belt....the original did not have the Taz logo....the one that has the purple lettering is the circa remake replica that WWE made after acquiring the rights to ECW's brand name and logo. The original had nothing there and then the baseball bats and taz's name were added when the black logo belt was made specifically for his title run in the original ECW. WWE's version with the red lettering, you can see the Taz logo was removed again. Its just the wrong picture to use and it doesn't matter, that belt wasn't introduced until 1999 anywayz when Shane Douglas was champion, the dates on those pictures are incorrect.

11-11-2009, 02:42 PM	#7
DaveBrawl Inconceivable Posts: 9,887	NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Calgary version): Calgary's version of the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship was established in 1946 when Al Mills defeated Chief Thunderbird, and it became the top championship in Stampede Wrestling when it opened in 1948. It held that status until 1972 When Dave Ruhl, the last champion was injured and the title was vacated. Last edited by DaveBrawl; 11-11-2009 at 03:08 PM.

11-11-2009, 06:30 PM	#18
Evolution I Just Passed You By! Posts: 1,107	Damn, JT, you scooped me. Anyway: The World Wrestling Federation Intercontinental Championship was first held in 1979 by Pat Patterson. Over the last 30 years (except for a 12 month stint when the belt was merged with the World Championship in 2002 by Eric Bischoff and re-introduced in 2003 by Stone Cold Steve Austin), many of the sport's greatest stars have used the title as a stepping stone to the upper echelon of the card, ranging from Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Diesel to Triple H, Stone Cold and The Rock, to Jeff Hardy, Rob Van Dam and Edge. Presently held by John Morrison, the current incarnation of the belt is a modification of the belt used from 1999-2002 which featured a WWF logo and no nameplate. That belt was a modified version of the 1998 belt which featured the older, block version of the logo (first held by The Rock). Last edited by Evolution; 11-11-2009 at 06:32 PM.

11-11-2009, 08:33 PM	#20
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	The TNA World Heavyweight Championship was created in May of 2007 after TNA lost the rights to use NWA Championship as its main title. Kurt Angle became the first champion after defeating Samoa Joe, Chris Harris, Christian Cage, and A.J. Styles in a King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary 2007 on June 17, 2007. He won the title at the previous pay-per-view (Sacrifice 2007) in a triple threat match with Sting and Christian Cage, but due to the controversial finish the reign is not counted. Last edited by thedamndest; 11-12-2009 at 03:23 PM.

11-11-2009, 02:18 PM	#2
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	Activated on February 2, 1997 when the British Bulldog defeated Owen Hart in the finals of a tournament. Deactivated briefly in 1999 until Mideon found it in duffel bag. Deactivated permanently when Intercontinental champion Rob Van Dam defeated European champion Jeff Hardy in a ladder match for both titles on Monday Night Raw July 22, 2002.

11-11-2009, 02:28 PM	#3
The Jayman Southern Hospitality Posts: 9,437	Vince McMahon first awarded Mankind the belt, originally known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF) Hardcore Championship, on November 2, 1998.At the time of the belt's conception, the idea was that the belt was to have been used in comedy segments to try to push Mankind's reputation as a famous hardcore wrestler, but as Foley was getting over with the crowd as well as the rising popularity of hardcore wrestling at the time, the Hardcore Championship seemed to gain a life of its own. Its growing popularity led competitor World Championship Wrestling to create their own Hardcore Championship, a move followed by numerous independent promotions. When Crash Holly won the belt, he introduced the "24/7 rule"; which meant the belt was to be defended "at all times...as long as there was a referee present."This rule has led to the shortest title reigns and quickest title changes in WWE history. The 24/7 rule was enforced until August 19, 2002 when Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff decided to suspend it following a six minute Hardcore Battle Royal won by Tommy Dreamer. The title was finally retired on August 27, 2002 when WWE Intercontinental Champion Rob Van Dam defeated Hardcore Champion Tommy Dreamer to unify the titles.

11-11-2009, 02:32 PM	#5
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	No, it's just a history of the belts. You can mention notable holders in your write-up, but as far as keeping up with title holders I don't think we're doing that because you can get that on wikipedia. As of now the belt sections on wikipedia are geared more towards results and wrestling fans like to stare at pictures of the belts as well.

11-11-2009, 02:35 PM	#6
DaveBrawl Inconceivable Posts: 9,887	Stampede North American Heavyweight Title History: From its establishment in 1968 until 1972, it was Stampede's secondary singles championship. It became the top title in 1972 after the previous top championship, the Calgary version of the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship was abandoned. Archie Gouldie was the initial holder of the title winning a match against Pat O'Connor on February 28, 1968. Larry Cameron won the title on April 28, 1989 and held it until the closing of the promotion in December of 1989. After Bruce and Ross Hart restarted the promotion in 1998 Tatanka defeated Sid Vicious in a tournament in October of that year to win the title. "Ravenous" Randy Myers is the current holder of the title.

11-11-2009, 03:00 PM	#8
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	The WWE Divas Championship was introduced on Smackdown by former General Manager Vickie Guerrero. At the 2008 Great American Bash, Michelle McCool defeated Natalya in the finals of a tournament to become the first Divas Champion.

11-11-2009, 04:00 PM	#9
parkmania #BUCTOBER Posts: 6,461	I would like to suggest checking out davemillicanbelts.com. He's had a hand in designing a BUNCH of the belts that MANY organizations use.

11-11-2009, 04:20 PM	#10
Fignuts Hey Mister! Posts: 54,952	lol triple a did not tell you to do this.

11-11-2009, 04:42 PM	#12
Juan Doin' It Right Posts: 35,460	I hope these are all done before DAMN iNATOR logs on again.

11-11-2009, 04:50 PM	#13
kareru TPWW's Hardcore Legend Posts: 2,502	The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Hardcore Championship was a title in World Championship Wrestling. The title was defended in Hardcore matches, in which there were few rules restrictions and weapons were allowed. Eventually, the rules were changed so that matches began in the backstage area but would only end by pinfall in the ring. The belt was created in response to the growing popularity of hardcore wrestling in North America, but it never reached the heights of the WWF Hardcore Championship. The title lasted from 1999 to 2001. The very first WCW Hardcore champion was Norman Smiley who defeated Brian Knobbs in Toronto, Ontario at the WCW pay-per-view Mayhem on November 21, 1999. Other notable champions are 3 Count who won and defended the belt as a trio. Brian Knobbs who held the belt a record three times and was the one to dethrone 3 Count at WCW Uncensored 2000. Terry Funk (a two time hardcore champ) also held the title for a period of almost two months, from April-June 2000 when he was defeated by Eric Bischoff at a Monday Nitro in Atlanta, Georgia. Bischoff later awarded the title to Big Vito as a reward for helping him take it from Funk. Lance Storm later won the title and renamed it the Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title (or S.H.I.T.). The final hardcore champion in WCW was Meng who defeated Crowbar and reigning champ Terry Funk at WCW Sin on January 14, 2001. It was abandoned after Meng, the reigning champion, left the company to return to the WWF. Meng gave the belt to Barbarian as a gift, but this didn't take place on TV and isn't considered part of the title history. The belt design of the commercially available WCW Hardcore Championship belt is not the same as the belt that was seen on WCW programming. The replica belt was based on original artwork sent to beltmaker JMar before the belt was made. Through his website a few months earlier, JMar held a contest to have a fan's belt made into a real belt.

11-11-2009, 04:57 PM	#14
CSL Over Like Rover Posts: 38,444	Vat is ze meaning of zis?

11-11-2009, 05:10 PM	#15
CSL Over Like Rover Posts: 38,444	Hmmmmmmmmm

11-11-2009, 05:16 PM	#16
CSL Over Like Rover Posts: 38,444	Because I believe anything thedamndest says, including potentially fake private messaging occurances with Triple A: Currently used as the WWE's World Heavyweight Championship, 'the big gold belt' was initially introduced in 1985 by Jim Crockett Promotions as a replacement for the NWA World title for 'The Nature Boy' Ric Flair. Also known at times as the WCW International, WCW World Heavyweight and one half of the former WWF Undisputed Championship, it is arguably the most recognizable belt in professional wrestling history.

11-11-2009, 05:56 PM	#17
JT #1 Senior Elite Member Posts: 7,886	http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/wiamain.htm If you surf through their title history sections, you'll find a large source of pictures for championship belts, expecially WWE and WCW

11-11-2009, 07:49 PM	#19
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	The TNA X Division Championship debuted at TNA's second weekly PPV on June 26, 2002. A.J. Styles defeated Low Ki, Jerry Lynn, and Psicosis in a Four Way Double Elimination Match. In 2003 the X Division Championship was unified with the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship when Chris Sabin defeated champion Jerry Lynn, Frankie Kazarian, and Johnny Swinger in a Four Corners Championship Unification match. In May 2007 the NWA left TNA, resulting in the creation of a new X Division title. It was given to then-champion Chris Sabin on May 16, 2007.

11-11-2009, 08:48 PM	#21
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	The TNA Tag Team Championship was introduced on May 17, 2007. Prior to this, TNA had been using the NWA Tag Team Champship, but with the NWA withdrawing, TNA would need a new set of belts. Team 3D, Brother Ray and Brother Devon, then-champions, were given the gold.

11-11-2009, 10:08 PM	#22
Phenomenal 1 Ballsy Badass Posts: 862	The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the National Wrestling Alliance. Its lineage has been traced from the first World Heavyweight Championship, which traces its lineage to Georg Hackenschmidt's 1905 title and Frank Gotch's 1908 version. This effectively makes it the oldest surviving wrestling championship in the world. With many "territories" appearing across the United States, the NWA was formed in 1948 as an overall governing wrestling body. Like franchises, these territories had the option of NWA membership. The promotion owners had to recognize the NWA heavyweight, junior heavyweight, and light heavyweight champions as world champions while retaining their own ownership and top champion. The NWA World Heavyweight Championship was defended in all territories that belonged to the National Wrestling Alliance organization accross the United States and was defened internationally in promotions in the U.K., Canada, Australia, England, Ireland, Korea, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, and China. It was the first Heavyweight Championship in wrestling to be recognized as "World Title". The NWA Champion was decided by members of the Executive Board of the National Wrestling Alliance. They would decide who was the champion, how they won the belt, where they would defend it against, and who and when they would lose it to. The NWA Champion usually defended his title against the regional territory World Champion or someone who was the top babyface or heel in the territory so that the local competitors could get over and be seen as legitimate world title contenders. The NWA Championship was prominently featured in the old Mid South Wrestling promotion, Championip Wrestling From Florida, and Georgia Championship Wrestling during the 1970's and early 1980's. The NWA Title was prominently featured in the Carolinas during the mid 80's through the early 90's until is was inactivated in Jim Crockett's Carolina based company which would later be bought by Ted Turner and become the WCW or World Championship Wrestling. The title was inactivated in 1991 when Ric Flair left the WCW organization for the WWE and WCW broke their final ties with the company when Flair took the NWA belt with him and WCW renamed their prominent title the WCW Heavyweight Championship. The NWA Title made a brief return in WCW in 1993 and 1994 when the title was reactivated when Flair re-joined the promotion and WCW and the NWA held a tournament to crown a new champion and the tournament was held in New Japan Pro Wrestling with Masahiro Chono becoming the first champion since reactivation. The association of the NWA and WCW short lived and the title soon became the WCW International Title and the NWA went their separate ways. They held a title tournament in the brief NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling and Shane Douglas won the vacant title from Too Cold Scorpio. Douglas denounced the title and stated he wouldn't be champion of the NWA as it was dead the moment Ted Turner and WCW was created when he bought out Jim Crockett Promotions. Douglas declared himself ECW World Champion and through the NWA Belt down. The NWA World Title then faded to independent status over the next 10 or so years until 2002 when Jeff and Jarrey Jarret formed NWA TNA and gained the rights to display and showcase the NWA Championship, NWA Tag Team Titles, and the newly formed NWA X Division Title in their promotion. TNA Wrestling would carry the NWA championships under their banner until 2007 when the NWA announced it was ending its 5 year relationship with TNA and then NWA President Bob Trobich proceeded to strip Christian Cage of the NWA Title and Team 3D of the Tag Team Titles. Since then the NWA held a tournament to crown a new champion which was held in late 2007 and the title has been reactivated under the NWA banner and has been restricted to being defended in regional NWA territories and in independent promotions. The old version of the NWA Championship to which is the first picture listed was the offical NWA Heayweight Championship belt that was used circa 1959-1973. The second version of the NWA Heavyweight Championship is the belt that began being used in 1973 and has been used to current day except for about a 5 year period in Jim Crockett Promotions. Known as the "Dome Globe" it is perhaps the most recognizable version of the NWA Title besides the "Big Gold" version of the title. This version of the title is the championship belt that is currently being used by champion of the NWA promotions. The third and final version of the NWA Title pictured is known as the "Big Gold" belt. This version of the belt was introduced in 1986 and was presented to Ric Flair in honor of his reign as NWA Heavyweight Champion and Jim Crockett's wishes to show appreciation to Flair and the champion he had been to his company and to the legacy that is the NWA. The belt was used until 1991 when Flair left WCW for WWF at the time. At that point in time, NWA Champions were required to secure $25,000 with the promotion as security on the belt. When WCW asked for the Belt back, Flair asked for the 25 grand and they refused. Flair ended up taking the belt with him to WWF and used it on television claiming to be the "Real Word's Champion" until he won the WWF Championship at the 1992 Royal Rumble. The belt then went back to WCW eventually and was used then as the NWA Title briefly, then the WCW International Title, and eventually the WCW title and this version is now being used as WWE's World Heavyweight Championship.

11-12-2009, 08:02 AM	#23
Super V Member Posts: 1,055	The McDonald's United States Championship Belt was introduced by Mayor McCheese in the year 2000. The championship was first won by Ronald McDonald at McDonald Land's very first ladder match, culminating his then year-long feud with The Hamburglar.

11-12-2009, 03:34 PM	#24
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	The TNA Legends Title was created by Booker T when he removed it from a briefcase and declared himself the champion on the October 23, 2008 episode of Impact!. It was initially defended as an unsanctioned belt, however, Booker's defeat to A.J. Styles at Destination X 2009 caused the title to become legally sanctioned by TNA. On October 29, 2009, then-champion Eric Young renamed the title the TNA Global Championship and gave it the stipulation that he would not defend it against Americans and not defend it on American soil.

11-12-2009, 09:08 PM	#25
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	The first team to capture the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship was Sarita and Taylor Wilde when they defeated Madison Rayne and Velvet Skye in the finals of an eight-team single elimination tournament at on September 20, 2009 at No Surrender.

11-12-2009, 09:21 PM	#26
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	The TNA Women's World Championship was introduced on October 14, 2007 at Bound for Glory. Gail Kim defeated Ms. Brooks, Christy Hemme, Awesome Kong, Roxxi Laveaux, Talia Madison, Shelly Martinez, Jackie Moore, O.D.B., and Angel Williams to become the first champion. It was renamed the TNA Women's Knockout Championship in 2008.

11-13-2009, 02:26 PM	#28
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	They have some things, but they don't have pictures of all the belts and they don't have dates for when they changed styles on a lot of the belts, which is what we are after.

11-13-2009, 02:32 PM	#29
DAMN iNATOR RIP SABU Posts: 35,541	OK, fair enough. Are we going to expand the list any, to include say the WCW and WWE versions of the Light Heavyweight/Cruiserweight and United States championships? They each have their own unique lineages.

11-13-2009, 02:47 PM	#31
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	Yes, the list is just a table of contents as we complete these to keep it organized. We are doing every version of every belt.

11-13-2009, 02:53 PM	#32
thedamndest A Property of Matter Posts: 25,543	Find the specific dates of when the belt was introduced and when it changed designs and cut it down to those.

11-13-2009, 03:09 PM	#33
Hornicane God of Warnicane Posts: 5,383	I'll bet DAMN iNATOR posted all that from memory.

11-14-2009, 02:28 AM	#34
CWK Posts: 811	Surprising that I haven't seen anyone post the belt Buddy Rogers was presented with when he became the very first WWWF champion in 1963.

11-14-2009, 09:25 PM	#38
TerranRich Herp a derp, and so on Posts: 8,830	FTW belt ftw. I've always wanted to say that.

11-18-2009, 03:07 PM	#39
Fabien Barthez Spliff & A Brew Posts: 6,754	Why do the first 2 ECW belts have TAZ written as part of the pattern on the both sides of the main plate?

11-18-2009, 07:06 PM	#40
Phenomenal 1 Ballsy Badass Posts: 862	there were two versions of the belt....the original did not have the Taz logo....the one that has the purple lettering is the circa remake replica that WWE made after acquiring the rights to ECW's brand name and logo. The original had nothing there and then the baseball bats and taz's name were added when the black logo belt was made specifically for his title run in the original ECW. WWE's version with the red lettering, you can see the Taz logo was removed again. Its just the wrong picture to use and it doesn't matter, that belt wasn't introduced until 1999 anywayz when Shane Douglas was champion, the dates on those pictures are incorrect.