11 Worst Wrestling Championship Belts Ever

6. Rated Arse

Look, it spins, you know, for kids! So let’s talk about spinner belts and the grown white men who carried them. Easily the worst thing John Cena ever did was introduce a phase of toy titles to the WWE. The most famous is the vajazzled WWE Championship that ran for an unforgivable 8 years. It span, it was covered in more tacky gems than your mother’s wedding dress and worst of all, instead of saying champion it said ‘champ’. How humiliating, and TNA once fired shots at WWE by taking a replica of the spinner belt, sticking a beer bottle to the front and giving it to James Storm as the TNA Beer Drinking Championship, savage gardens. However, the WWE Championship is not the worst spinner belt WWE created, it looked important at least, and we got used to it over time, the US title was a lot worse, it would have been laughed out of the Vanilla Ice middle-school craft fair. And then there’s this, the Rated R Spinner Belt. The Worst of a bad bunch. Look at my terrible belt said John Cena, Hold my Moosehead, says Edge. How do you make the spinner belt worse, by adding an ugly clashing middle panel that looked like a rub on tattoo that comes free with a terrible skateboard magazine. Thank god it only lasted a month.

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5. Ok Boomer

If you ask me, and I’m well aware that you haven’t, and no one should, the most beautiful belt in WWE right now is the NXT North American Championship. Rich coloured leather strap, geographical rather than corporate decoration, it’s a design with a classic feel. However, it does look very similar to one of the worst belts ever worn in the company and this one’s classic in all the wrong ways. The briefly used, first ever iteration of the then-called WWWF championship. Look at it. Oh f***. It’s lisa’s florida costume, but a belt. Where do we start – the wrestling figures that look like they’re kissing on the side plates, the wonky eagle, the fact that if you bend down, Maine will have your large intestines out. Bruno Sammartino beat Buddy Rogers in MSG in 1963 to win this. This is the first ever iteration of what we now call the WWE Championship.  They hastily replaced it with this design, which is… better, but you’ll never forget your first, no matter how much you want to.

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4. I Gotta Do Me

Personalised championships, sometimes you get a smoking skull belt, which is great. Sometimes you get the Brahma Bull belt, and nothing says badass like electric moo moos. Sometimes you get The Fiend’s look at my face belt, which looks sort of half decent in shadow but in the light of day looks mega derpy. Both of those are bad, but there are two personalised belts that stand head and s*** above the rest. The first is Jay Briscoe’s ROH Championship in Ring of Honor. A lot going on with this one. The camo strap, like he’s been a patient boy and saved up all his COD points, the bearded skull design but crap cherry on the problematic sundae are the little confederate flags. I’m sure you’re just a big fan of ‘tradition’ Jay briscoe. A real good old belt. The second terrible personalised title… Well, that deserves an entry of it’s very own.

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