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10 Wrestling Title Belts That Never Made It To TV | partsFUNknown How could that belt ever hold up a pair of pants? These are questions that need answering but for now Adam is listing 10 wrestling title belts that never made it to television.  00:00 - Start 01:06 - 10 01:50 - 9 02:35 - 8 03:52 - 7 04:45 - 6 05:39 - 5 06:33 - 4 07:31 - 3 08:26 - 2 09:19 - 1  11 WORST Wrestling Championship Belts Ever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxwQA-jHlnI  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00Do you know what I want to see just one time? Just once in the history of professional wrestling,

00:04a wrestler wearing trousers with belt loops big enough for a title belt. Just

00:09once before I die in a freak kissing Sullivan accident, I want to see a wrestler use a

00:13championship belt to keep their goddamn trousers up. Do it, you cowards!

00:18Anyway, if kayfabe is to be believed, there is nothing more important in all of wrestling than

00:22obtaining a championship belt. A belt means more money, guaranteed pay-per-view paydays

00:27unless you held the Intercontinental title for any of that 28-month period after WrestleMania 37.

00:32A belt means a better life, and there have been some absolute beauties in wrestling history,

00:37the fourth iteration of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the Big Eagle, and of course,

00:41the Divas Championship, because what's more respected in the field of combat sports than

00:45a butterfly? But did you know that there have been countless wrestling titles that

00:48never made it onto our screens? Well, counting them, that's where I come in.

00:52I'm Adam Haling from PartsFunKnown, and here are 10 Wrestling Title Belts That Never Made It To TV.

00:57If you'd like to see another list about belts, why not check out our 11 Worst Championship

01:01Belts list that we did over on WrestleTalk. It's ever so good. Those belts are ever so bad.

01:0610. The Brahma Bull Belt

01:08I like The Rock. From all accounts, his tequila doesn't taste like goat piss,

01:12and that Hobbs & Shaw movie was absolutely fine, wasn't it? It was fine. Look, it's Roman! He did

01:18move. Anyway, I like The Rock. I think the Brahma Bull Belt looks like Brahma Bull s***.

01:23I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe it's the Saturday morning cartoon lightning bolt.

01:28Maybe it's the fact that the main belt plate is not a circle, it just looks slightly squashed.

01:32Or maybe it's the big f***ing cow head on it. Big, silly, lumpy nonsense. Maybe that's why.

01:37Even though it was designed and made as The Rock's equivalent of Austin's vanity plate

01:41smoking skull cummerbund, it never made it onto our screens, not even once,

01:45and now sits in whichever warehouse at WWE keep all our old tat in, and probably Ric Flair.

01:499. The Global Force X Division Belt

01:52So, time for a quick history lesson, if five years ago can be considered history. Does anyone

01:56else remember the six-month period when Impact Wrestling was kind of being rebranded into Global

02:01Force Wrestling, when Anthem, the company that owned Impact, tried to buy GFW, which was Jeff

02:05Jarrett's totally real promotion, not at all a way for him to launder all of his weird gold.

02:09At that point, GFW would be the new branding for Impact, including taking over its main belt,

02:14the deal eventually fell through, and Impact would turn to being Impact,

02:17but not before someone had a crack at designing what the X Division title would look like under

02:22the Global Force umbrella, and it would look like the brand new f***ing NXT title design

02:27that debuted a few months earlier, so yeah, probably got to change that. They did end

02:30up creating a new blue and green GFW X Division belt, but it never made it to TV.

02:358. The WWE Cruiserweight Tag Titles

02:38This is a really weird story, and I'm going to say right here and now that no pictures of the

02:42WWE Cruiserweight Tag Titles exist despite the fact they have been designed, made, and currently

02:47exist somewhere in WWE, like some weird light heavyweight cryptid. So in terms of illustrating

02:52some of these points, I don't know Editor Rich, make some belts yourself, maybe have my face

02:56as the main plate, and then something really complimentary as the side plate.

03:129. The WWE Prop Van

03:22Great, thanks man, those look really good. So the story was actually leaked by former

03:26WWE wrestler Jack Gallagher on Instagram that there exists in WWE a prop van full of stuff

03:31they might need for weekly TV at the last minute. Replacement sledgehammers, Angel Gaza, probably a

03:35bunch of kendo sticks, and as it turns out, a pair of Cruiserweight Tag Team Championships designed,

03:40made, and just sitting there, waiting for the day that someone on 205 Live ever wanted them,

03:45and they never did. Wrestlers have taken pictures with them, but if those pictures are out there,

03:48we can't find them. The belt of my face probably looks better anyway.

03:527. The Internet Championship

03:54Ah, the cautionary tale of Zack Ryder, the well-meaning himbo who got himself over via

03:58a YouTube show before anyone else really worked out how to do that, sold out all his merch,

04:02got the Daniel Bryan treatment before Daniel Bryan, and so WWE put his ambitious ass into

04:06a wheelchair and threw it off the stage. But no, do please grab the brass ring, just not the

04:11Internet Brass Ring. Ryder's popularity bloomed due to the success of his show Z! True Long Island

04:16Story, a show which also featured its very own joke title, The Internet Championship. What

04:21started as an arts-and-crafted intercontinental replica took on a life of its own, to the point

04:25where Zack commissioned an actual belt made by Wildcat Belts. There's actually a new version

04:30of the Internet title made, with a skull on it, now that Matt Cardona is a big nasty bad boy,

04:34but the one with the hair is still the most famous design, but sadly never made it to TV.

04:38Ryder took it to a few house shows, but was effectively banned from the telly,

04:41despite Ryder believing WWE could have made bank off of merch sales.

04:456. Impact TV Championship

04:47The TNA TV title has had an interesting history. It was first introduced as the TNA Legends

04:52Championship, aka a belt that could only be won if you were a f***ing legend, mate,

04:56or if you were an old-ass guy with no knees. Fun fact, Kevin Nash held the title twice.

05:00Then it was renamed the TNA Global Championship years before Global

05:04Force Wrestling came sniffing around, was deactivated by Kurt Angle,

05:07reactivated as the short-lived King of the Mountain Championship,

05:10before being retired again in 2016. The design of the belt is actually pretty

05:14great, if you ignore the TNA lettering itself, but did you know that when the

05:17television championship was going to be introduced, they had an entirely new belt

05:21designed and made? This one here, with the blue lettering. It's actually not a terrible-looking

05:25belt, but it never got used, perhaps because of these big eagle wings, which do look cool,

05:30but also, a certain other company famously had a winged eagle belt, and if TNA could

05:34spend just one day not using things after WWE have cast them off, that would be super.

05:395. Alternative Intercontinental Design

05:41It's always really surprising to me when I meet someone who hates the Atudera

05:44Intercontinental Championship belt design, the squashed blue globe belt. Maybe it's

05:48just because this was the IC title when I first started watching, or the fact it was

05:52the IC title during one of the greatest mid-cards ever, but I love this little weird blue sausage

05:57thing. Good for you, IC title. But fun fact, when WWE decided to upgrade the Intercontinental

06:02title in the 2010s, instead of bringing back the original Golden Age design, which is what

06:06they ended up doing, they actually commissioned one be made that ended up looking a lot more

06:09like the kind of title WWE would become obsessed with over the course of that decade. A big

06:14f*** off WWE logo, bang in the middle, and intricate detailing be damned. Seriously,

06:19look at this unused IC title design, and then look at the WWE title The Rock introduced

06:23in 2013, and I just wish WWE would stop using their titles with their f***ing logo.

06:284. The Original IWGP Heavyweight Title, Version 5

06:37I mean, no matter which way you slice it, I don't think they needed a fifth version,

06:41just look at you. Just look at the fourth version. Look at you, you beautiful bit of

06:46leather and gold. Might just be my favourite belt design ever, except maybe the Big Eagle.

06:51Although I'm sure my indecision on that will probably make a lot of you New Japan

06:54aficionados so cross you'll throw your pocky sticks across the room. The new version of

06:58the IWGP Heavyweight title, unveiled shortly after Kotobushi unified the Heavyweight and

07:03Intercontinental belts, is… it's… it's fine, isn't it? Looks way more like a toy.

07:09That's something that'll make New Japan aficionados throw their anime figurines with

07:12optional clothing across the room like it's okay, just a bit of an accessory for a Power Ranger,

07:17but it's fine I suppose. Made a little worse when you consider what the original design for

07:20the fifth edition was going to be, which is this. Now, is this as good as the fourth one? I mean,

07:24no. Still no, honestly. It's way more bedazzled than you'd expect New Japan to be, but it's

07:29damn sight better than this one. Oh.

07:323. The Vegas Big Gold Belt

07:34This is a fun story. In 1991, Jim Hurd's run at the top of WCW ended up forcing Ric Flair to walk

07:39out on the company. You know, Ric Flair, aka Mr. WCW. Jim Hurd was good at his job. Here's a good

07:44job sticker, Jim. There you go. When he left, Ric was famously still in possession of the WCW

07:49Heavyweight Championship, the Big Gold Belt. And because they didn't want to pay Flair his

07:52deposit money back, Flair just said, well f*** yours then, I'm keeping it, and showed up on WWF

07:57TV with the top belt of the other major wrestling promotion in the world. It was huge. He called

08:02himself the real world's heavyweight champion. It was an invasion angle before the invasion,

08:06but because Vince wanted to squeeze this WCW vs WWF storyline for all it was worth,

08:10he had an alternate version of the Big Gold Belt sketch, one that was similar,

08:14but just different enough in design to be legally distinct. It was made,

08:17they filmed promos of Flair holding it in Vegas, hence the name, the Vegas Big Gold Belt,

08:21but a lawsuit from Ted Turner put pay to the whole angle and those promos were never aired.

08:262. The King of the Ring Championship

08:28Much like Zack Ryder's Broski belt, this is another case of a wrestler paying out their

08:32pocket to have a championship made specifically for them, but here it's a little stranger because

08:36it's referencing something that actually happened on camera, but this belt would never make it on

08:40camera. In 1995, Mabel won King of the Ring and decided to celebrate by getting his own belt

08:45knocked up. The King of the Ring Championship, because apparently, a crown, cape, and throne

08:49is simply not extra enough. The belt was designed by Reggie Parks, who was known in the industry as

08:54the King of Belts, two of his previous designs, the original Winged Eagle, and the original

08:58Intercontinental title. He is the King of Belts, or at least he was. Rest in peace, Reggie Parks.

09:04The belt's pretty good, actually, for a novelty castle design with a purple crown behind it,

09:08even if the championship never actually was allowed on TV by WWF. Mabel, also known as

09:12Viscera and Big Daddy V, would take the belt to conventions and gigs on the indie circuit,

09:16but it's about as official a WWE title as our Jam That Jam belt.

09:20And number one, rejected WWE title designs. Alright, this one's a bit of a cheat as none

09:24of these were actually made, but oh man, I just want to talk about some of the WWE Championship

09:28designs that almost happened, because if we thought the Universal title was ugly,

09:32we'd dodge some bullets. See, after winning the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 21, John Cena,

09:37hippity hoppity doctor that he is, decided to make all the country club grandpas pop their

09:42monocles by ditching the actually good looking undisputed title design and replacing it with

09:46this gaudy bulls**t trinket that had the word champ on it, and somehow lasted for 8 awful years.

09:52However, WWE has since released alternative designs for what could have been John Cena's

09:56replacement belt. Some of them were okay, this one that looks like a giant Hall of Fame ring

10:01with the logo in the square was pretty close to what the title ended up being in 2013,

10:05but then just look at some of these. Look at this Hot Wheels disaster. This one's a McDonald's belt

10:10that even Hulk Hogan would think looks a bit garish, and he was the most garish man on a

10:13pay-per-view that also featured Liberace. There's the eagle clutching the big logo design that looks

10:18like a biker's belt buckle, but the worst probably has to be this one, a design that didn't even make

10:23it to the colouring stage because ow, a big WWE logo held in place with thug chains. Now don't

10:30get me wrong, the spinner belt was still the pit, but man I never thought I'd say we were lucky to

10:35have it. And that's our list. What do you think is the most beautiful wrestling title belt in

10:38existence? Let us know in the comments, don't forget to like and share this video around if

10:41you enjoyed it, make sure you subscribe to partsFUNknown for more silly wrestling content,

10:45and never forget to Jam That Jam.

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