Gavin Jasper Nov 2, 2018
Whether real or fake, sometimes WWE's world champ has to give up their belt. From Antonio Inoki to Roman Reigns, here are 33 examples.
Making the championship vacant is something that pops up every now and then in all promotions for a variety of reasons. Like with the current situation with Roman Reigns, real life disaster can get in the way of pre-planned storytelling and it can’t be helped. Other times it comes from politics. Then there’s many instances where vacating a title is nothing more than a planned plot device. Maybe you want to dethrone a wrestler without them truly losing. Maybe you want to build up a rematch without having the title actually change hands. Or maybe you just want to add more interest by making a scenario where multiple wrestlers have an opportunity to be crowned the undisputed champion.
Here’s a...
Whether real or fake, sometimes WWE's world champ has to give up their belt. From Antonio Inoki to Roman Reigns, here are 33 examples.
Making the championship vacant is something that pops up every now and then in all promotions for a variety of reasons. Like with the current situation with Roman Reigns, real life disaster can get in the way of pre-planned storytelling and it can’t be helped. Other times it comes from politics. Then there’s many instances where vacating a title is nothing more than a planned plot device. Maybe you want to dethrone a wrestler without them truly losing. Maybe you want to build up a rematch without having the title actually change hands. Or maybe you just want to add more interest by making a scenario where multiple wrestlers have an opportunity to be crowned the undisputed champion.
Here’s a...
- 11/17/2015
- Den of Geek
WWE.com
World Championship Wrestling has certainly earned its place in wrestling history. The company has provided fans with memories that will live on thanks to the WWE Network and it will always hold a place in the hearts of older wrestling fans.
However, for as much good as the company did, when WCW was bad, it was terrible. For every good idea the promotion seemed to have, they had five other terrible ideas.
From Jim Crockett to Jim Herd to Bill Watts to Vince Russo, every booker of WCW came up with gimmicks that could only be summarized in one word: Garbage. Many of them were silly, pointless, stupid, ridiculous, or insulting. To the wrestler performing the gimmick, it meant the possible end of his career.
Even though most people choose to remember WCW for the glory days of Nitro and the nWo, we thought it would be fun...
World Championship Wrestling has certainly earned its place in wrestling history. The company has provided fans with memories that will live on thanks to the WWE Network and it will always hold a place in the hearts of older wrestling fans.
However, for as much good as the company did, when WCW was bad, it was terrible. For every good idea the promotion seemed to have, they had five other terrible ideas.
From Jim Crockett to Jim Herd to Bill Watts to Vince Russo, every booker of WCW came up with gimmicks that could only be summarized in one word: Garbage. Many of them were silly, pointless, stupid, ridiculous, or insulting. To the wrestler performing the gimmick, it meant the possible end of his career.
Even though most people choose to remember WCW for the glory days of Nitro and the nWo, we thought it would be fun...
- 12/4/2014
- by Mike Shannon
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
It has been over 14 years since WCW went out of business, swallowed whole by the corporate conglomerate known as the World Wrestling Federation in 2001, but it’s never a bad time to look back at some of the reasons why the company ended up the way they did. Bad booking decisions, poor managerial moments, lousy attitudes… it’s all there, ripe for the ridicule.
At one point, WCW was the wrestling promotion. The WWF has had its struggles through the years, and WCW took advantage of that as a legitimate alternative. Once the Monday Night Wars began with the creation of Nitro as a head-to-head alternative to Raw, things really took off. Their product was so different than what the WWF was putting on television, showcasing different styles of wrestling and giving a new set of characters and gimmicks to fall in love with. Once the nWo and people like Goldberg showed up,...
It has been over 14 years since WCW went out of business, swallowed whole by the corporate conglomerate known as the World Wrestling Federation in 2001, but it’s never a bad time to look back at some of the reasons why the company ended up the way they did. Bad booking decisions, poor managerial moments, lousy attitudes… it’s all there, ripe for the ridicule.
At one point, WCW was the wrestling promotion. The WWF has had its struggles through the years, and WCW took advantage of that as a legitimate alternative. Once the Monday Night Wars began with the creation of Nitro as a head-to-head alternative to Raw, things really took off. Their product was so different than what the WWF was putting on television, showcasing different styles of wrestling and giving a new set of characters and gimmicks to fall in love with. Once the nWo and people like Goldberg showed up,...
- 7/9/2014
- by Aaron Hyden
- Obsessed with Film
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