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Post by Todd Pettengill on May 22, 2010 22:24:53 GMT -5
The Canadian Belt wasn't a card carrying title.
Dino Bravo was the only "champ" of the non-televised, defended strictly in Canada "title".
It was used to bring house show attendance up in Quebec.
I am not sure if there was an official belt.
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Post by bigjohnstudd on May 23, 2010 1:00:14 GMT -5
The Canadian Belt wasn't a card carrying title. Dino Bravo was the only "champ" of the non-televised, defended strictly in Canada "title". It was used to bring house show attendance up in Quebec. I am not sure if there was an official belt. There wasn't. It was only for a brief time that he was called the Canadian Heavyweight Champion. He would on occasion afterwards be referred to as the former champion, though. |
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Post by The Thread Barbi on May 24, 2010 18:33:07 GMT -5
The European title's inception - Owen Hart vs Davey Boy Smith in Germany - made this title worthwhile IMO.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on May 24, 2010 19:01:44 GMT -5
I'd say the Martial-Arts belt. Inoki should have just been given a WWE Title reign.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on May 24, 2010 23:22:03 GMT -5
European Championship. They already had the Intercontinental Championship, and Europe is a Continent. So even in kayfabe terms the IC title should have covered Europe. The prefix inter means among or between. Therefore, the Intercontinental title mean among our continent. Europe is a different continent, so it got its own title. |
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Post by The Spelunker! on May 25, 2010 1:35:26 GMT -5
I voted the Light Heavyweight belt, because it never meant anything that I can remember. they at least made it seem like the women's tag belts were a big deal at the time.
I also don't get the Hardcore Title hate. That belt was the most wanted belt in the company during the 24/7 time period. That always made it feel like a bigger deal than it was to me. You don't see people going to nearly as much trouble or effort to get their chance at any belt in wrestling nowadays.
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Post by SAJ Forth on May 25, 2010 16:32:44 GMT -5
The Womens Tag Team Championships seemed like a Championship for 1 team and the women they had nothing for.
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Post by kswolf on May 26, 2010 14:37:20 GMT -5
Dammit! The Women's Tag belts were held by the Jumping Bomb Angels, who were better workers than pretty much anyone else on the roster at the time. That fact alone makes it more prestigious than most of the other belts on the list.
The correct response is the Hardcore title, which was useless from its very inception.
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Post by W?Y on May 26, 2010 22:16:23 GMT -5
Looking at all these titles, and going strictly by name, European Championship.
Granted, in practice, the Women's Tag Titles are easily the most useless. But, on paper, with the Intercontinental and World titles already established, what use would there be for a European title? Doesn't being the IC champion beat being the champion of only Europe, and for that matter, what does it mean when someone from out of Europe holds the belt? Does that mean that a foreigner represents a country he has no affiliation with?
It was a fine mid-card title, sure; but the concept kinda falls apart when you think about it.
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Post by greeby on May 27, 2010 0:19:16 GMT -5
It's got to be the Women's Tag Titles. Hell, they only existed because they signed the Jumping Bomb Angels in the first place. Did a little digging. Turns out that similar to the Women's Championship, it was originally the NWA Women's Tag Team Championship. Then WWF bought the rights to both in 1983 during the first expansion. It was then pretty much forgotten about until the Jumping Bomb Angels came along |
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Post by Das Einhorn on May 28, 2010 4:31:03 GMT -5
European Championship. They already had the Intercontinental Championship, and Europe is a Continent. So even in kayfabe terms the IC title should have covered Europe. The prefix inter means among or between. Therefore, the Intercontinental title mean among our continent. Europe is a different continent, so it got its own title. I believe intra- is the prefix you're alluding to. Intercontinental would be referring to a belt held amongst different continents, while Intracontinental would be a belt held within a single continent. |
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Post by pundabaya on May 28, 2010 5:50:13 GMT -5
Light Heavyweight Title... it just wasn't used enough. The absolute nadir of the title was when Dean Malenko was champion, and was feuding with Lita and The Hardy Boyz. So thats an angle involving 4 wrestlers who were light heavyweights, one of whom held the belt. It never came up. At no point during that feud was the title defended.
The real shame is that when the writing team remembered that the title existed, you got excellent matches. I remember Malenko putting on some great matches when he was champion, same with TAKA and Essa Rios.
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Post by Kris Kobain on May 28, 2010 5:58:17 GMT -5
I didn't read the title so I voted for the ugliest belt which was the Light Heavyweight.
The most meaningless was the Women's tag without a doubt.
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Post by Celgress on May 28, 2010 19:02:48 GMT -5
WWF Light Heavyweight Title was the most meaningless, imo.
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Post by soultsukino on May 28, 2010 22:46:22 GMT -5
I'd have to go with the Light heavyweight title. At least in this country it didn't mean very much for the 20 years they had it (Mexico and Japan is another story) But yeah,m the Martial Arts title was just a way for Shinma to kiss inoki's rear end and get him to come to the US. total vanity belt. And since someone asked: www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/newjapan/wwf-ma.htmlThere is a pic of the belt right there. |
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