WCW Hardcore Championship

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WCW Hardcore Championship
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owner World Championship Wrestling
Introduced July 11, 1999
Discontinued January 21, 2001

The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Hardcore Championship was a wrestling title of the Promotion World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Like all titles in wrestling, the title was awarded as part of a storyline .

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Norman Smiley was the first and longest title holder.

It is a title that was awarded as part of a hardcore match , which means that only a few rules restricted the flow of the match. Weapons, for example, are allowed, neither counting nor the opponent can be disqualified. Grips also do not have to be interrupted when the opponent is on the rope. However, there were a few extra rules during the term. So the fights started for a while in the backstage area, but had to end in the ring.

Emergence

At the 1999 Pay-Per-View Bash at the Beach , a so-called Junkyard Battle Royal took place, at which the winner received a WCW Hardcore trophy. Fit Finlay won this battle royal . However, shortly after the PPV, the trophy was removed from shows. Even this Battle Royal was an accommodation to the hardcore style that was very popular at the time, such as the Extreme Championship Wrestling represented. Even World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) had on November 2, 1998 WWE Hardcore Championship introduced. So the WCW then followed suit. The title was introduced to the shows after hosting some hardcore matches. According to the storyline, the trigger was the rivalry between the two wrestlers Norman Smiley and Brian Knobbs . A tournament was held in which the first hardcore champion was chosen. At the Pay-Per-View Mayhem 1999 Norman Smiley was able to secure the title.

After WCW was in a crisis due to falling audience numbers, the title was rescheduled again in 2000. Terry Funk became the first champion . In 2001, the threatened demise of the WCW could no longer be prevented. After Tonga Fifita (as Meng) was able to secure the title on January 14, 2001 , but surprisingly only one week later when Haku took part in the 2001 Royal Rumble of direct competition WWE, the title was unceremoniously deactivated.

After the WWE had acquired the rights to the promotion, they started an angle with an "invasion" of the enemy wrestlers of the WCW. However, only the two main titles WCW World Heavyweight Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship were used.

List of title holders

# champion No. Days Date of title win place event comment
1 Norman Smiley 1 51 November 21, 1999 Toronto , ON Mayhem Defeated Brian Knobbs in a tournament final.
2 Brian Knobbs 1 27 January 12, 2000 Erie , PA WCW Thunder
3 Bam Bam Bigelow 1 13 February 7, 2000 Tulsa , OK Nitro
4th Brian Knobbs 2 8th February 20, 2000 San Francisco , CA SuperBrawl
5 Shane Helms , Evan Karagias & Shannon Moore 1 20th February 28, 2000 Minneapolis , MN Nitro The three wrestlers, known as 3 Count , defeated Knobs in a match and were then allowed to defend the title according to the Freebird Rule .
6th Brian Knobs 3 22nd March 19, 2000 Miami , FL Uncensored
- Title vacant - - April 10, 2000 Denver , CL N / A When the WCW was rebooted, all titles of Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff were declared vacant.
7th Terry Funk 1 36 April 16, 2000 Chicago , IL Spring stampede Defeated Norman Smiley to win the title.
8th Shane Douglas 1 1 May 22, 2000 Grand Rapids , MI Nitro
9 Terry Funk 2 13 May 23, 2000 Saginaw , MI Thunder
10 Eric Bischoff 1 1 June 5, 2000 Atlanta , GA Nitro
11 Big Vito and Johnny the Bull 1 13 June 6, 2000 Knoxville , TN Thunder Eric Bischoff declared the two to be title winners and had them defend the title according to the freebird rule.
12 Big Vito 2 35 June 19, 2000 Billings , MT Nitro defeated Johnny The Bull to become sole champion.
13 Lance Storm 1 21st July 24, 2000 Cleveland , OH Nitro Renamed the title the Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title .
14th Carl Ouellet 1 <1 August 14, 2000 Kelowna , British Columbia Nitro Title was presented to him by Storm.
15th Norman Smiley 2 42 August 14, 2000 Kelowna , British Columbia Nitro
- Title vacant - - September 25, 2000 Uniondale , NY Nito Commissioner Mike Sanders declared the title vacant.
16 Reno 1 37 October 2, 2000 San Francisco , CA Nitro Although Sgt. AWOL actually defeated Reno in a tournament final, this decision was reversed by Sanders.
17th Crowbar 1 39 November 8, 2000 Chicago , IL Thunder
18th Terry Funk 3 28 December 17, 2000 Washington, DC Starcade
19th Quantity 1 7th January 14, 2001 Indianapolis , IN Sin
- Title set - - January 21, 2001 Denver , CO N / A Meng surprisingly left WCW and the title was discontinued.

statistics

Title Statistics

record Record holder unit
Most title wins Terry Funk and Brian Knobbs 3 times each
Longest reign (in a row) Norman Smiley 51 days
Longest reign (overall) Norman Smiley 93 days
Shortest reign Carl Ouellet <1 day
Oldest title holder Terry Funk 56
Youngest title holder Shannon Moore 20th
Heaviest title holder Bam Bam Bigelow 180 kg
Easiest title holder Eric Bischoff 84 kg
Biggest title holder Bam Bam Bigelow 1.93 m
Smallest title holder Evan Karagias 1.70 m

Single list

rank Wrestlers number Days
1 Norman Smiley 2 93
2 Terry Funk 3 78
3 Brian Knobbs 3 57
4th Big Vito 2 48
5 Reno 1 35
6th Crowbar 1 31
7th Lance Storm 1 21st
8th Evan Karagias 1 20th
Shane helms 1 20th
Shannon Moore 1 20th
11 Bam Bam Bigelow 1 13
Johnny the Bull 1 13
13 Quantity 1 7th
14th Eric Bischoff 1 1
Shane Douglas 1 1
16 Carl Ouellet 1 <1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WCW Hardcore Championship History . In: Wrestling Title Histories by Royal Duncan and Gary Will . Solie.org. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
  2. ^ WWE Entertainment, Inc. acquires WCW from Turner Broadcasting . World Wrestling Entertainment Corporate. March 23, 2001. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.