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Post by kamero00 on Dec 8, 2013 18:53:29 GMT -5
The NWA Title has never been a part the WCW Title and WWE has no legal claim to the NWA lineage other than owning the vast majority of the companies it was defended in. Much like with TNA, the NWA Title was the top title for WCW for awhile but they split in 1991 when the whole Flair/Herd debacle happened and WCW decided to have their own title since the NWA was still recognizing Flair. The first WCW Champ was Lex Luger when he won the title at the GAB and turned heel. The NWA Title is still in use and Rob Conway is the champion. When WWE talks about the World Heavyweight Championship's lineage, 99% of the time they are talking about the physical title/design and not tracing it to a company. This is one of those times they are trying to tie it to the NWA belt and it doesn't work WCW had their own recognized champion before Flair left. www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/wcwchampionshipThere is a video of the match were Flair beat Sting in '91, where JR is referring to it as the "WCW Championship"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 20:00:20 GMT -5
The continuity of the NWA title, in regards to WCW is a convoluted mess. WCW declared Flair to also be the WCW World Champion in 1991 after winning the NWA title for the 8th(?) time from Sting. At this point, he held two separate world titles, even though there was only one actual belt. I think. Flair lost the NWA title to, and regained it from Tatsumi Fujinami later that year, but the WCW title did not change hands. Flair is stripped of the WCW belt later that year(Summer?)after heading to WWE. After Flair split, Lex Luger beat Barry Windham for the vacant WCW title. The NWA officially stripped him of their title in September 1991. During Flair's WWE run, the NWA belt basically heads over to Japan for a reign by Chono and Muta, until Barry Windham wins it in early 1993. Windham drops the NWA title to Flair in September '93. Later in '93, there's a dispute between WCW and the NWA. Flair is stripped of the title by the NWA, but WCW keeps the actual Big Gold Belt. A match between Flair and Rick Rude for the NWA title ends up airing after the decision was made, which Rude won. The NWA does not acknowledge the title change, so in an effort to maintain some degree of continuity, WCW refers to the big gold belt as the WCW International Title. During this time the WCW World title is a completely separate entity with a different actual belt. Both titles change hands until a unification match in Summer 1994 between Flair (WCW World Champ) and Sting (WCW International Champ). Flair wins, and the Big Gold Belt becomes the WCW World title belt.
The current World Title was created by the WWE in 2002. It's 1st champ was Triple H. It has no actual connection to the WCW or NWA title, other than its basic design.
I think.
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