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The "Big Gold Belt"

The Big Gold Belt is a nickname given to a famous professional wrestling title belt. It was originally designed on order by Jim Crockett Promotions to give to NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair. The belt has three gold plates and was the first title to have a name plate into which the current holder's name was etched. The original belt simply stated World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion without indicating any promotion. Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata BigGoldBelt. ... Image File history File linksMetadata BigGoldBelt. ... // A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things proper name (for example, Bob, Rob, Robbie, Robin, and Bert are possible nicknames for Robert). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Championship Belt is used primarily in combat sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling to signify the champions of the promotion or company, much like the Vince Lombardi Trophy or The Stanley Cup. ... Jim Crockett Promotions was the name of a professional wrestling promotion owned by Jim Crockett, Jr. ... The NWA World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title. ... Ric Flair (born February 25, 1949 [1] and named Richard Morgan Fliehr upon his adoption several weeks later), is an iconic American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment on its RAW brand. ...


The Big Gold Belt has represented and can refer to one or more of the following championships: WWE Womens Champion Mickie James In professional wrestling kayfabe, a championship or title is a recognition of a wrestler being the best in his or her promotion, or for lesser championships (such as the WWE Cruiserweight Championship), his or her division. ...

  • NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1986 – 1993)
    • From March 21 until May 19, 1991, Tatsumi Fujinami was recognized as NWA Champion following a disputed victory over Ric Flair but Flair retained the belt as WCW Champion.
    • For a short period in the fall of 1991, after he was fired from World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Flair wore the belt as the "Real World Champion" in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) both before and after being stripped of the title by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The belt was "by default" the property of Flair as he had a US$25,000 deposit on it when he took the belt with him after being fired from WCW by Jim Herd who refused to pay the deposit back. WCW ultimately bought the belt from Flair.
    • After stripping Flair of the title in September 1991, the title remained vacant until August 1992.
    • The belt represented the NWA Champion again when Flair returned the belt but the belt was now owned by WCW.
  • WCW World Heavyweight Championship (1991)
    • In January 1991, the NWA belt was extended to represent both the NWA title and this newly created title aside from the two months in which Fujinami was recognized as NWA Champion while Flair was WCW Champion. During this period the belt only represented the WCW title.
    • The belt represented the WCW Champion from the title's formation until Flair was fired in July 1991, when a new belt was created and a new champion was crowned.
  • WCW World Heavyweight Championship (1994 – 2001)
    • The belt again became the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 1994 in a unification match between WCW International World Title holder Sting and WCW World Champion Flair with Flair emerging victorious. The WCW Championship belt and the WCW International World Championship title were dropped.
    • After the WWF purchased WCW in 2001 the WCW World Heavyweight Championship continued to serve as WCW's main championship during the "Invasion" storyline. After the storyline ended in November the belt was unbranded and was referred to without the WCW name until it was unified with the WWF Championship. Its official lineage subsequently ended with Chris Jericho being the final WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
  • WWF/WWE Undisputed Championship (2001 – 2002)
    • Following the unification of the WWF and WCW world titles, the world championship title belts of both promotions were used to represent this title until a new single belt was introduced in April 2002.
  • World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) (2002 – Present)
    • The Big Gold Belt, which bore the name of no promotion, was originally used when this title was introduced in September 2002, but was replaced in March 2003 with a new, similar belt that incorporates the WWE logo at the top of the center plate. The championship is currently held by Edge and defended on SmackDown!.

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Notes

  • The belt leather was originally burgundy, but was later re-leathered in black. The plates were also later replaced due to wear.
  • The whereabouts of the original Big Gold Belt is an open case of dispute, as some say that it is in the possession of WWE, while some others say it is in the possession of Hulk Hogan, with Hogan himself claiming, on a Tampa radio station, that he still has it on his wall in his home and that the belt "awarded" to him at Bash at the Beach 2000 was the original belt, although this was the belt created for Ready To Rumble. It is also believed by some that the original was kept by Scott Steiner, and that the copy intended for him was the copy that was later used by WWE.[1]

Bash at the Beach was a yearly professional wrestling event presented on pay-per-view by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). ...

References

  1. ^ The "Big Gold" Title Belt History. The Vault. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.

 

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