WWWF/WWF/WWE Title
Vince McMahon
What? You don't remember Vince defeating Triple H
for the strap? Good, I don't want to either.
WWF/WWE
European Title
Shane McMahon
Cardinal Rule, Every main McMahon family member
(sans Linda) must hold a belt. Shane won it in a weird
tag match . He only defended the belt on a few occasions
in his four month reign until he just gave the belt away
to a flustering Mideon (Dennis Knight).
NWA/WWF/WWE Women's Title
Stephanie McMahon
Yes, another McMahon as a champ. Even though
she fitted the division as being a female, she wasn't the
usual fighting champ we always had. She held the title
for nearly five months, and showcased the title only as a
prop. Sho only defended it a handful of times during her
reign before losing it to Lita.
Harvena/Harvey
Wippleman
Yeah, a man winning the Women's belt. Go
figure. Good 'ol Uncle Harvey accomplished this by
dressing up as a woman under the witty name
"Harvena" and pinned The Kat/Miss Kitty for the
title in under a minute. He unveiled himself as Harvey
Wippleman right after the match. His less than stellar
reign as Women's Champ was only a day long before losing
it to Jacquelyn. I guess the only logical explanation for
this is that The Kat didn't want to do the job to
Jacquelyn, and we needed a transitional champ. God knows
why Harvey was picked for the job. (I was being sarcastic
by the way!)
WWF Light Heavyweight Title
Duane Gill/Gillberg
Duane Gill played the role of an unkown jobber
from the early 90's who made a return at the 1998
Survivor Series as the mystery opponent for Mankind in a
world title tournament. Everyone thought that was the end
for him, until he beat Christian for the Light HW belt a
couple of days later. We all thought he'd lose the title
soon enough, but he got upset after upset. Then in
January 1999, he debuted the Gillberg gimmick (as seen on
the top of the page). Which was a rip off of the famous
Goldberg wrestler in WCW. He was wrestling many other
bigger wrestlers in non title matches. He wasn't even
defending his belt on WWF TV for the most part, but was
actually defending it a lot in the Indy circuit when the
WWF ignored the Light HW division for much of 1999. He
then made a surprise appearence on an 02/2000 episode of
Heat, where he jobbed the title to Essa Rios. We haven't
seen Mr. Gillberg since (he was suppose to make an
appearence at the Gimmick Battle Royal at Wrestlemania
X7, but couldn't make it to the show).
WWF/WWE Hardcore Title
Crash Holly
This is the guy we can thank for ruining the
Hardcore Division as a whole. You see, the previous year
and a half the Hardcore title was around, it actually was
getting some decent reigns and good matches from various
guys like Road Dogg, Hardcore Holly, Al Snow, and
Mankind. But when Crash Holly won the belt in 02/2000, he
started a 24/7 rule where he'll defend the belt anytime,
anywhere. Thus many 15 second title reigns has occured,
and men like Crash himself, Raven, Steven Richards, and
others have had over 10 Hardcore title reigns already.
Occasionally we got serious champs with lengthy reigns
like Steve Blackman, Rob Van Dam, and The Undertaker. But
the belt was always returning to the 24/7 standards set
by Crash. Since then, we've had plenty of non wrestlers
and people you've probably never heard of hold the
Hardcore title (which you can check out by clicking on
the above link). But since I'm too lazy to give
descriptions to all of them, I'll just list their names
right here:
Terri Runnels, Bobcat (one of the Godfather's hos),
Shane McMahon, Pat Patterson, Gerald Brisco, The Mean
Street Posse (Rodney, Joey Abs, & Pete Gas), and many
more!
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WCW World Title
Vince Russo
Russo booked McMahon to win the WWF title, so he
figured he could beat Booker T in a Triple Cage match to
do the same
David
Arquette
Yes, that movie actor from the Scream Trilogy and
Ready to Rumble. He's the one pictured above doing the
Diamond Cutter sign.My only idea why they decided to give
him the belt was because of him doing that Ready to
Rumble movie, featuring all the WCW stars. Gah. His reign
was the worst month the 5 remanining WCW fans had to
endure.
NWA/WCW US Title
David Flair
Sure, David Flair is training in the WWE camps
right now to become a better wrestler, and his last year
in WCW showcased some of his better matches. But back in
1999 when he was the US Champ, he was just only a half a
year into his WCW career, and most of his matches sucked
ass. The announcers picked up on it too. Pointing out his
lacking move set, and constant botching of moves. He
finally lost the belt to Chris Benoit after holding it
for close to two months.
NWA/WCW TV Title
Scott Hall
Surprised? Even though Hall was your regular wrestler,
what he did to the TV title was a travesty. Shortly after
he won the belt, he trashed the title, just destroying a
major title belt that has been around for over ten years.
It was shortly brought back by Jim Duggan for a couple of
months in early 2000. But it was focused as the main belt
for the old WCW Saturday Night show, which was mostly
centered around new WCW talent, with popular stars
popping up here and there to draw ratings. The belt was
forgotten again when Russo & Bishoff took control
over WCW in 04/2000. It hasn't been seen since.
WCW/WWF/WWE Cruiserweight Title
Madusa
Madusa was actually an accomplished Women's
grappler. But how she won the title was just plain
stupid. Evan Karagious was the then Cruiserweight champ,
and him and Madusa were "dating." She beat him
for the title, but who she lost it to was just as
worse.....
Oklahoma
This was WCW Booker Ed Fererra, he recently jumped
ship from the WWF to WCW (along with buddy, Vince Russo).
He played the onscreen role of Oklahoma. Which was a
complete rip off of WWF announcer (and VP of Management
Control or something) Jim Ross. Complete with BBQ sauce,
as seen in the pic at the top of the page. He ended up in
a feud with Madusa, and defeated her for the
cruiserweight belt (even though Fererra weighs around 300
pounds). His reign only lasted two days, where Fererra
decided he was too good to lose, and vacated the belt by
proclaiming himself as the greatest Cruiserweight Champ
Ever. As if.
Daphne
The other woman who held the Cruiserweight strap.
And she won it by the most common way for joke champs to
win belts, and that is by titles being on the line in tag
matches. Daphne, unlike Madusa, wasn't close to being
accomplished as a wrestler. Her gimmick was she wore a
random colored wig each week, and she'd always scream. To
no surprise, her reign as champ was only a couple weeks
long, and I'm shocked she held it for that long.
WCW Hardcore Title
Eric Bishoff
Recent reigns from main WCW writers like Vince
Russo & Ed Fererra inspired Bishoff himself to book
him beating legend Terry Funk for the WCW Hardcore belt,
and then vacating it the next day. He was the only joke
champ for the WCW Hardcore belt. And WCW actually had a
much better hardcore division than the WWF. Too bad when
Meng had the belt, he jumped ship to the WWF. WCW just
forgot about the Hardcore belt all together. WWF should
follow suit and do the same.
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