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The Big Gold Belt is far and away my favorite title design. Created by silversmith Charles Crumrine in 1985, the physical belt represented four distinct Championships: the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship, and the World Heavyweight Championship (WWE). Four championships over four decades. While I could ask whom was the best wrestler to hold the belt, I'm almost certain Ric Flair would win. Instead, I'm asking which REIGN of the Big Gold Belt was the greatest. After the popular response to the Greatest Match of the '00s Tournament (won by Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki from Pro Wrestling Noah Destiny) and the Greatest Pay-Per-View Event of the '90s Tournament (won by ECW Heat Wave '98), I thought I would take a bigger, yet smaller, scope. You, the goon with time to vote, will determine whose reign as Big Gold Belt holder was the greatest, and I realize I'm a bit clumsy with the wording. Unlike previous tournaments I've done in PSP, this will be bracketed. As such, I have taken the top 64 reigns in terms of length of time held, with tiebreakers going to most televised defenses, and highest-rated televised defense according to Dave Meltzer's star ratings beyond that. Apologies to David Arquette. We begin WITH.... Hulk Hogan's first WCW World Heavyweight Championship reign vs. Edge's fourth World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reign Hulk Hogan's first WCW World Heavyweight Championship reign: -won from Ric Flair at Bash at the Beach '94 -lasted 469 days -featured eight title defenses, the highest-rated being a steel cage match against Ric Flair at Halloween Havoc '94 (****1/4) -lost to the Giant at Halloween Havoc '95 Edge's fourth World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reign: -won from John Cena at No Way Out '09 -lasted 49 days -featured two title defenses, the highest-rated being the match he... -lost to John Cena at WrestleMania 25 (***1/4) Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Voted for Hogan. I hate myself
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Mar 14, 2023 23:43
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Rarity posted:Voted for Hogan. I hate myself
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Mar 14, 2023 23:49
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Mar 14, 2023 23:50
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The Giant was involved with both of these title reigns ending, but only one also had monster trucks
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Mar 14, 2023 23:59
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It's a good one Edward
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Boo to all the cowards who voted for Hogan. Boo..... to me..... 
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Mar 15, 2023 01:11
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The same match where giant fell off of cobo hall into a river several blocks away
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Mar 15, 2023 01:12
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Voting for the one where Big Show fell to his death and then reappeared a few minutes later with no ill effects
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ron garvin
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JOHN CENA posted:ron garvin You'll have your chance to vote for Garvin eventually.
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cant wait to actually get to vote for the giants reign!!
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With 89.47% of the vote, Hulk Hogan's reign advances. OUR NEXT CONTEST... Alberto Del Rio's first World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reign vs. Triple H's fourth World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reign Alberto Del Rio's first World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reign: -won from the Big Show in a last man standing match on SmackDown! -lasted 90 days -featured four title defenses, none of which received a star rating -lost to Dolph Ziggler on Raw Triple H's fourth World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) reign: -won from Randy Orton at Unforgiven '04 -lasted 85 days -featured three title defenses, the highest being a triple threat against Chris Benoit and Edge on Raw (***3/4) -was stripped of the title due to a double pin in said triple threat match
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I dig this matchup Edward. and I don't mind saying the finale of ADR puts it over the top. There is no implication that I endorse any of these people and there never will be.
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Mar 17, 2023 06:36
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Voted Del Rio cause at least losing it was memorable
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I don't remember either of those reigns but the way the Triple H one ended sounds very silly
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Mar 17, 2023 07:20
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Del Rio's is this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKqtFqpRLEk
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Mar 17, 2023 07:51
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Rarity posted:Del Rio's is this one Ah, that was long after I stopped paying atttention to WWE. Crowd seemed to love Ziggler winning it, though the action was a lot more even than I was expecting
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Mar 17, 2023 07:59
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Can you imagine a crowd being that excited for Dolph Ziggler?
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ChrisBTY posted:Can you imagine a crowd being that excited for Dolph Ziggler? People really wanted someone new at the top beyond Cena, and Ziggler was in career-best form at the time. I guess he’s found a comfortable niche as the guy expected to put on a good title match when they need a challenger of the month at a PPV, but at the time, he was someone new, and different from the big stiffs stinking up the top of the card.
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Remembering the time I was such a Ziggler mark I wore an rear end-cape to a goonmeet 
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Them start-stopping Ziggler over and over is one of those things that really made me hate WWE over time. Like someone who holds out something you want towards you, tells you to take it, then pulls it away when you try to grab for it, but they keep doing it for nearly a decade. Eventually, I just started to hate Ziggler, and I still do.
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Mar 17, 2023 19:48
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I already didn't like Ziggler but for a real dumb reason. When he was in the Spirit Squad he was Nicky but I liked the other guy in the Squad named Nick better (because he was in the Tough Enough season featuring Miz) but the company renamed him to Mitch instead of renaming Ziggles
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Remember that time period when Ziggler kept cutting promos about how he was underused and underappreciated, but the whole time he would scream real loud until his face was red because that's what WWE thinks a passionate promo is?
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Mar 18, 2023 02:38
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Held my nose and voted for Del Rio 
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You made me vote for Hogan (before I realized voting was ended) and ADR as the best. I hate you.
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Bonk posted:Remember that time period when Ziggler kept cutting promos about how he was underused and underappreciated, but the whole time he would scream real loud until his face was red because that's what WWE thinks a passionate promo is? I was on Instagram the other day and saw the segment where he did this and Steen completely shut him down, Ziggler threw out some lovely joke Steen's weight and got owned El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Mar 18, 2023 |
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Mar 18, 2023 03:32
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Voted for Del Rio because the end of the reign was great, and I don’t really want to vote for Triple H in this particular tournament.
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lamentable dustman posted:You made me vote for Hogan (before I realized voting was ended) and ADR as the best. I hate you. There are a lot of poop from a butt champs in this tourney. We're gonna get 5(?) chances to vote for Jeff Jarrett.
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ChrisBTY posted:There are a lot of poop from a butt champs in this tourney. We're gonna get 5(?) chances to vote for Jeff Jarrett. Jeff Jarrett isn’t in this tournament, due to his only occasions holding the Big Gold Belt lasting less than 7 weeks. It WAS WCW in 2000.
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where the gently caress is the people's champ Vacant?
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With 76.19% of the vote, Alberto Del Rio's reign advances. OUR NEXT CONTEST... Masahiro Chono's sole NWA World Heavyweight Championship reign vs. Hollywood Hogan's fifth WCW World Heavyweight Championship reign Masahiro Chono's sole NWA World Heavyweight Championship reign: -won against Rick Rude during the 1992 G1 Climax (title was vacant) -lasted 145 days -featured five title defenses, the highest rated being... -lost to the Great Muta at Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome (****1/4) Hollywood Hogan's fifth WCW World Heavyweight Championship reign: -won from Kevin Nash on Nitro -lasted 69 days -featured three title defenses, none of which received a star rating -lost to Ric Flair in a first blood steel cage match at Uncensored '99
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Voting for the guy whose day job was getting off of helicopters that had just landed on rooftops. 
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 1999 WCWJerusalem posted:Voting for the guy who stole a Dome main event from Naito.
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Mar 19, 2023 05:21
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There's no way I can vote against a title reign that lasted 69 days
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zetamind2000 posted:There's no way I can vote against a title reign that lasted 69 days Same tbh
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I am way too scared to not vote for Chono
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I picked the reign that wasn't the harbinger of WCW's creative tailspin.
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