Remember These ECW Titles?

[Chuck Conry]

If memory serves me correctly, ECW got brand new belts made before Barely Legal since their original titles were rather bad looking. And this is what the titles looked like...





Now, why do you think they ditched these as quick as they did for the other designs they later went with? I Actually kinda liked the World Title.

[Clawley Race]

I'd say because they are so clearly knock offs of the bigger company titles, and they very much wanted to not be a knock off of WCW/WWF

[Chuck Conry]

Aug 24, 2013 1:35:07 GMT -5 Clawley Race said:

I'd say because they are so clearly knock offs of the bigger company titles, and they very much wanted to not be a knock off of WCW/WWF

I can see that for the tag and TV, but what was the world title a knock off of?

[Clawley Race]

It looks kind of like the TV title mixed w/ big gold belt to me. Whether or not it looks like a knock off, clearly the others do. 2/3 aint bad ;-)

[celticjobber]

Aug 24, 2013 2:11:22 GMT -5 Chuck Conry said:

Aug 24, 2013 1:35:07 GMT -5 Clawley Race said:

I'd say because they are so clearly knock offs of the bigger company titles, and they very much wanted to not be a knock off of WCW/WWF

I can see that for the tag and TV, but what was the world title a knock off of?

Looks like it was "inspired" by the 1986-87 WWF title:

[SOR]

Yeah they all are similar to WWE Title belts and they are really cheap looking also.

[Sephiroth]

If memory serves me right those belts were actually starting to fall apart by the time ECW got any prominence. I am pretty sure I remember the plates falling off one belt at one point.

[crowwreak was WRONG]

Aug 24, 2013 10:34:59 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

If memory serves me right those belts were actually starting to fall apart by the time ECW got any prominence. I am pretty sure I remember the plates falling off one belt at one point.

Same with the feathers on the 1st TNA belt, which snapped off about 10 times

["I'm Batman..."]

They had those belts at Barely Legal.

[Chuck Conry]

I remember this version of the title falling apart

[WoodStoner1]

I am mixed about the J-Mar ECW titles...they weren't bad, but continued the trend of belts looking more cartoony.

[Deleted]

Good looking belts were never ECW's strong suit. I particularly hated their set of belts during the final years. The designs with the purple and orange paint, chain link fence patterns, scratchy looking text all looked horrible to me. Though the Barely Legal set looked better, the tag titles were Intercontinental Title ripoffs, TV Title was a Winged Eagle WWF ripoff, etc. Of all of their sets of belts, I liked the original "falling apart" ones best. The promotion itself was underground, dirty, low budget. Having "underground" looking belts seemed appropriate.

[WoodStoner1]

Aug 24, 2013 21:48:51 GMT -5 @kudohdriver said:

Good looking belts were never ECW's strong suit. I particularly hated their set of belts during the final years. The designs with the purple and orange paint, chain link fence patterns, scratchy looking text all looked horrible to me. Though the Barely Legal set looked better, the tag titles were Intercontinental Title ripoffs, TV Title was a Winged Eagle WWF ripoff, etc. Of all of their sets of belts, I liked the original "falling apart" ones best. The promotion itself was underground, dirty, low budget. Having "underground" looking belts seemed appropriate.

Weird that the ECW "World" title had the map of Pennsylvania, etc. on it, though. You do know those belts lasted from TWA until 1997, except for the TV title that had "ECW" on it.