The NWA WHC belt

[Gerard Gerard]

I'm sorry, as someone who can appreciate its history, but raised on mid-to-current WWE and WCW, the NWA gold looks like they finally made a belt for the Eurocontinental honours.

[TGM]

I hate this design, it looks like a low rent European title. Maybe it's because I associate the belt itself with Jeff Jarrett and TNA.

The title itself is something I always try to keep track of though, as it's the oldest title still active, I think.

[MC Blowfish]

I love that belt.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

The NWA belt is fine for what it is and it's the perfect symbol for the company it represents. It's a relic from a bygone age that only really has value to people who are marks for that era, basically the belt version of the current incarnations of 60s and 70s pop bands that have kept on going, performing at county fairs with an ever changing lineup, many of who weren't even born when the band was great.

[Deleted]

I like how unique it looks, and admire the legacy, but totally agree that it looks very mid-card.

Winged Eagle beats it, hands down.

[Session Moth is over]

It's ok. It would be nicer if the US flag was on the side with the other flags. It looks terrible on the main plate.

[chrom]

Ain't the one that's shown nowadays a copy or replica? Doesn't WWE own the Real NWA World belt?

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

I prefer this to so many of the big and/or gaudy belts that have came after. And they had already made the switch by the time I really started watching, so it's not a matter of what I was raised with.

[Platypus Mod, with a new hat]

I have never liked the look of this belt and I've never been quite sure why.

[Hit Girl]

Dec 9, 2014 15:39:31 GMT -5 Platypus Mod, with a new hat said:

I have never liked the look of this belt and I've never been quite sure why.

It would look better without the flags.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Dec 9, 2014 15:45:03 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

Dec 9, 2014 15:39:31 GMT -5 Platypus Mod, with a new hat said:

I have never liked the look of this belt and I've never been quite sure why.

It would look better without the flags.

See, I think the flags are part of what makes it look better.

[lildude8218]

It looks like it has a face on it. that's why I don't like it. seriously, two eyes, big nose, and a mouth.

[Chainsaw]

I've never been that big of a fan of it, design-wise. Can't really put my finger on it. Probably because I didn't grow up with the NWA legacy around me. But I can appreciate what the belt means to the business. And honestly, I appreciate that the NWA board has never considered changing or updating the belt.

[________ has left the building]

Dec 9, 2014 15:54:06 GMT -5 "Playboy" Don Douglas said:

Dec 9, 2014 15:45:03 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

It would look better without the flags.

See, I think the flags are part of what makes it look better.

Yeah, the flags make the belt. The NWA world title used to defended around the world and almost every night. It wasn't unusual the belt was defended in Singapore, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, and the Caribbeans within the same month. 

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Dec 9, 2014 10:45:13 GMT -5 TGM said:

I hate this design, it looks like a low rent European title. Maybe it's because I associate the belt itself with Jeff Jarrett and TNA.

The title itself is something I always try to keep track of though, as it's the oldest title still active, I think.

I believe there actually are some older. I tried to start a thread about obscure old belts that are technically still active recently, but it got no sold

[Kash Flagg]

Just an awesome belt to me.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Dec 9, 2014 2:55:15 GMT -5 Instant Classic said:

Dec 8, 2014 23:50:52 GMT -5 Sir Woodrow said:

I think Joe & Angle would've looked good holding it too

Shame Angle kinda beat Sting and Cage for it but then TNA did away with it.

Yeah Angle was just shy if holding it as he was the first to ring in the TNA World title belt which was a nice belt and better then what they used now. Never sure why it never was brought back after Hardy lost the title.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Dec 9, 2014 8:07:57 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Part of me would like to see the NWA belt regain its former prestige. But the NWA's model of doing things is outdated and I don't see how it possibly can.

I'd like to see the NWA change their business model a bit. Merge its assorted promotions into a Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Western and Northwest promotion as well as forming a core roster of 15-20 of its best and brightest.

For the title itself, they should find the biggest free agent on the indies they can find and give them the belt. Or heres a REALLY out there idea, get in contact with HHH and beg him to put in a security deposit (if they still do that) to buy the title for some random "workhorse" WWE/NXT wrestler

[Sephiroth]

Dec 10, 2014 10:36:56 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Dec 9, 2014 8:07:57 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Part of me would like to see the NWA belt regain its former prestige. But the NWA's model of doing things is outdated and I don't see how it possibly can.

I'd like to see the NWA change their business model a bit. Merge its assorted promotions into a Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Western and Northwest promotion as well as forming a core roster of 15-20 of its best and brightest.

For the title itself, they should find the biggest free agent on the indies they can find and give them the belt. Or heres a REALLY out there idea, get in contact with HHH and beg him to put in a security deposit (if they still do that) to buy the title for some random "workhorse" WWE/NXT wrestler

The territorial model just doesn't work anymore-that is one thing Vince McMahon put paid to when he took the WWF national.

["I'm Batman..."]

Great looking belt.