Topic: belt history
WWE revived wrestling's most chaotic rule in 2019 and put it on a bright green belt. What the 24/7 Championship was, why it was not just called the Hardcore title, and why the colour was the smartest thing about the design.
For four months the world champion carried two belts, because WWF unified two titles before building one to represent them. The story of the Undisputed Championship, the design that followed, and what to check when buying a replica.
WWE's butterfly belt ran from 2008 to 2016 and was retired for what it represented rather than how it performed. The origin, the design argument, the records, the WrestleMania 32 ending, and what it takes to have one built now that nobody stocks it.
Ring of Honor's world title was carried by CM Punk, Bryan Danielson and Seth Rollins before anyone else noticed. Its 2002 origin, Samoa Joe's 645-day reign, four design eras including the Jay Briscoe memorial, and the side plate idea worth borrowing for a custom belt.
WWE has run two tag titles at once, unified them, retired the older one, split them again and swapped the names. This untangles the lineage from 1971 onward and explains how to identify which era a belt belongs to using strap colour and plate colour.
Hulk Hogan held twelve world titles across two companies, which is why a Hogan belt could mean four different designs. How to tell the eras apart, the WCW title the nWo spray painted, and why his consistency of presentation matters more than any single belt.
The nWo represented a faction rather than a promotion, and its most famous belt was made with a can of spray paint over the Big Gold. What the black and white belts were, why monochrome worked so well on television, and the colour lesson for a custom title.
The Intercontinental Championship history begins with a fictional 1979 tournament and grew into one of wrestling's most respected lineages. This covers the origin, its stepping-stone reputation, every design era, the name change, and the records that still stand.
Stone Cold Steve Austin debuted the Smoking Skull belt on Raw in July 1998, a WWE Championship he commissioned himself with skulls, rattlesnakes and barbed wire. Here is the full story, the storyline it anchored, and what separates a good reproduction from a bad one.
The spinner belt began as John Cena's personal accessory and ended up as WWE's flagship championship for eight years. Here is how custom championship belts became a wrestling tradition, from Stone Cold's Smoking Skull to Trick Williams' 2026 Legacy Edition, and what that history means if you are commissioning your own.