Kang Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Years ago at different times, Nakamura sealed away both the IGF IWGP Third belt and NWF HW title into the IWGP HW. 2008 IWGP Third belt 2004 NWF HW 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Shame the IWGP Heavyweight Championship V3 wasn't around long. Great belt. The IWGP Heavyweight Championship V4 was even better, one of the best looking belts ever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Thankfully the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship is very similar to the V4 as the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship is horrible. My one critique of the IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship is that the belt should be bigger. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kang Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Someday in the future WWE will do a western style of unfication of the Uni and WWE World titles, could expect the Uni title to win out and the WWE world title to be retired. Anyway only 3 titles left from the 20th century in WWE, WWE World, IC, US. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 11 hours ago, D.Z said: Someday in the future WWE will do a western style of unfication of the Uni and WWE World titles, could expect the Uni title to win out and the WWE world title to be retired. Anyway only 3 titles left from the 20th century in WWE, WWE World, IC, US. I'd be stunned if the WWE Universal Championship was kept over the WWE Championship. That would be fucking stupid so I expect WWE to do just that. The WWE Championship is the belt to win for the history, past champions and lineage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Natural Posted October 20, 2021 Author Share Posted October 20, 2021 A well done video by WWE on BT Sport showing a picture of every WWE Champion and reigns held. I really liked how NJPW had their IWGP Heavyweight Championship version for years playing just before the IWGP Heavyweight Championship match. All that history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Green Meanie Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) ^ Don't forget about the Vegas Big Gold as well: https://i.ibb.co/DVv3qc0/287b2a32fe88ac1bd28723f43164d997.png Edited October 20, 2021 by The Green Meanie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Somebody help me out on this when did NWA go from the Domed Globe to big gold? Was big gold what Flair take to WWF? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 20, 2021 Author Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, zendragon said: Somebody help me out on this when did NWA go from the Domed Globe to big gold? Was big gold what Flair take to WWF? Big Gold's debut: Rick Flair nameplate. Yes, Ric Flair took Big Gold to WWE: Hope this helps. Edited October 20, 2021 by The Natural 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 20, 2021 Author Share Posted October 20, 2021 Always loved Big Gold. Ditto for The WWF Winged Eagle Championship. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Did they go back to Big Gold after this oddly WWF looking championship that vader held? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 20, 2021 Author Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, zendragon said: Did they go back to Big Gold after this oddly WWF looking championship that vader held? Yes. WCW created the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from 1991-1994, it's the one Vader's holding. Only men to win it: Lex Luger, Sting, Vader X2, Ron Simmons and Ric Flair. When WCW got Big Gold back in 1993, it was renamed the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship. It was a world title but wasn't THE World title, it was the WCW World Heavyweight Championship held by Vader. Ric Flair beat Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade 1993. Flair defeated Sting, the WCW International World Heavyweight Champion in a unification match in June 1994. The Big Gold was used ever since as the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Right call as that's the iconic design and history compared to three years of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (1991-1994). Happy to help! Edited October 20, 2021 by The Natural 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 20, 2021 Author Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) Lex Luger vs. Barry Windham at The Great American Bash 1991 to crown the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. However the belt wasn't ready in time so we had this instead: Cheap plates stuck on a different belt. So bad. Fittingly as TGAB 1991 is one of the worst ever wrestling shows. Poor, @Technico Support. Edited October 20, 2021 by The Natural 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister TV Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 3 hours ago, The Natural said: Yes. WCW created the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from 1991-1994, it's the one Vader's holding. Only men to win it: Lex Luger, Sting, Vader X2, Ron Simmons and Ric Flair. When WCW got Big Gold back in 1993, it was renamed the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship. It was a world title but wasn't THE World title, it was the WCW World Heavyweight Championship held by Vader. Ric Flair beat Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade 1993. Flair defeated Sting, the WCW International World Heavyweight Champion in a unification match in June 1994. The Big Gold was used ever since as the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Right call as that's the iconic design and history compared to three years of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (1991-1994). Happy to help! When WCW got the Big Gold back it was first the re-born NWA title belt since WCW had rejoined the NWA. The "new" NWA World Championship was pretty much a WCW-New Japan thing, the other NWA promoters wanted dates on the champion and a vote on who should be the champion, WCW said no, the NWA promoters sued WCW which lead to the name change to the WCW International World Championship. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Raziel Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 10 hours ago, zendragon said: Somebody help me out on this when did NWA go from the Domed Globe to big gold? Was big gold what Flair take to WWF? The Big Gold was Crockett's answer to the Hogan 86 belt, which I was bigger than both the previous WWF belt and the Domed Globe. Basically, it was just originally a "Our belt is bigger" dick measuring contest. If I remember right, there was contention when Flair got fired from WCW over who actually owned the Big Gold. NWA was still collecting the deposits from the champs (so they didn't pull what ended up happening anyway) even though Crockett was the one who commissioned the belt, not the NWA. So when Crockett sold to Turner, the belt was included. Then it was like NWA and Herd fighting over who owes Flair the money, so he showed up in WWF with the belt and away we went (until WCW won the C&D about showing up with the belt on TV until everything was settled.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 Minoru Suzuki, Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 The belt will be potentially revived 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 Please and thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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