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[edit] PWI

Who gives a crap if PWI recognized it as a world title or not?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Unopeneddoor (talk • contribs).

Wikiproject Pro Wrestling does, I'm sure. And who are you again? ---SilentRAGE! 13:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WWE and ECW titles separate

On the premiere edition of ECW on Sci Fi, Paul Heyman declared RVD the ECW Champion as he promised to. However, no mention was made of the WWE Championship being renamed the ECW Championship, and while RVD was presented with the ECW belt, he also kept the WWE belt. It appears as if the WWE title won't be renamed the ECW title, and instead, RVD is a dual champion. Therefore, I've removed the disambig about the ECW title now being the WWE title and recreated the "Current champion" section with information regarding RVD's being awarded the title. Jeff Silvers 02:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change of title

I put the fact that in the ECW re-incarnation, the class-A title was know as the ECW Championship, deleting the World Heavyweight. So, I asked if the title of this article should be changed to ECW Championship. I put a link to WWE.com who confirms that. So, it should be done, or not?

  • But they're still introducing him as the "ECW World Heavyweight Champion" (on ECW at least; he's simply called "the champion" when on RAW), and it's been called that ever since One Night Stand. I have yet to hear it called the "ECW Championship" except on that title history page, and that could very well be a simple mistake. MarcK 10:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Well, given that the original ECW and the WWE brand have different pages, why not for the title? Also, I beleive it was brought up that the "world heavyweight" has been dropped from the title to avoid any possible confusion with Smackdown's top belt...I'll try to find a source on that. Tromboneguy0186 07:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
They're still calling him the ECW World Heavyweight Champion. His profile page says that. The page you linked to (the history on WWE.com) says ECW Championship, but the page that links to that page describes the title as the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
And about the new and old versions of the titles being separate... I don't know. Other than the fact that RVD hasn't been added to the title history at ECW.com (which could be blamed on mere page neglect, which WWE has been prone to in the past), there's absolutely nothing to indicate this is a new title. Jeff Silvers 06:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Tonight, ECW.com reads "Big Show pinned Rob Van Dam to become the new ECW World Heavyweight Champion." So, I guess that's that. Tromboneguy0186 03:25, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2 seperate championships

I believe this requires three completely seperate articles, as there are 3 completely seperate titles. These should be

  • NWA World Heavyweight Championship
  • ECW World Heavyweight Championship
  • WWE ECW World Heavyweight Championship

The ECW World Heavyweight Championship is still owned by Rhino, who, as part of the legal settlement during the bankrupcy in 2001, was awarded the title of 'ECW World Heavyweight Champion' permanently, thus Rhino is still techinically ECW Champion

As the new brand of WWE called ECW has very little to do with the original ECW, and has a brand new championship, this should be given its own lineage and page on the site, with the 1st champion listed as Rob Van Dam, on 11th June 2006

User:ECWWrestling

I disagree strongly with this. For one, I've never heard anything that says that Rhino was declared the "permanent ECW Champion." Second, WWE owns ECW. Even if the current incarnation is nothing like the original, it is still "officially" ECW. There has been nothing to indicate that the ECW World Heavyweight Championship currently held by The Big Show isn't the same title held by Sandman and Tazz in the past. Yes, it's a different physical belt, and yes, Rhino owns the original, but that doesn't make him the champion. Hulk Hogan still owns the WCW title from the Russo incident at Bash at the Beach 2000, but nobody claims he is the WCW Champion. Furthermore, as the parent company of ECW, WWE has the right to decide whether or not the current title is a continuation of the original, and they have done just that.
As far as the NWA thing goes, I don't understand that one at all. The only connection the ECW Championship has to the NWA Championship is that they were briefly held by the same person. Jeff Silvers 20:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


I totally agree with the guy above me.^ And for User:ECWWrestling, id like to say that just having 'the title BELT' doesnt make one a champion, you all should know that WWe's(affiliated) developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling, its OVW Hardcore Championship was NOT represnted by a BELT at all, rather the championship title was a Trash Can!--T00C00L 12:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, and I just realized this a couple a days ago that there is a difference in colouring of the ECW logo, on the original belt and the current belt, and so i put it up on the main page on 13th July 2006. --T00C00L 10:59, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank You--T00C00L 10:59, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


should't their be something about Rhino begin {being the REAL ECW champion

^what are you talking about, Fool? he isnt even in ECW !!! --T00C00L 07:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Why'd you sign your name to somebody else's message, T00C00L? (I removed it) Jeff Silvers 16:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
oh, thats because that FOOL, wrote begin where he was supposed to write being, :so he was not just making HIMSELF look like a fool, he was makin wikipedia and the whole professional wrestling industry, and professinal wrestling fans look like a fool,so,i corrected HIS spelling IN a BRACKET and signed my name beside That!!!--T00C00L 15:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

should't their be something about Rhino begin the REAL ECW champion

now how does that^ sound like, sounds as if he's trying to say that Rhino is going to be starting a New title which he (Rhino) will call the REAL ECW CHAMPIONSHIP or something like that, but thats NOT true is it !!! --T00C00L 15:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

You just can't take the truth that Rhino the real ECW champion user:supermike
just what we needed, another ^idiot!!! --T00C00L 07:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Rhino is not the real champion, he was the last champion of the old ECW. He stopped being champion when the original ECW folded in April 2001. Also, sign your posts people. TJ Spyke 00:05, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

TNA-loving losers should be banned from this site... Rhyno was the last ECW champ in the original ECW, ok??? Has he defended that title since then? NO... Because ECW went out of business... what gives Rhyno the right to claim to be the real champion anyway??? He's lost tons of matches since 2001 and is a WWE-reject... it's just like Gillberg sitting at home for two years and claiming to still be the WWF Light-Heavyweight Champion (because he still owned that belt.. h-yuck!)... Rhyno should get over the fact that in TNA he will never be as big as he was back in 2001... (TNA overall will never be big if they continue copying everything WWE did back in the 90s) Matt 4/9/06

When did Sabu win the NWA World Heavyweight Title? 9/6/06

well at least TNA is it using Eddie death as a storyline or bring back DX and NWO and Rhino is a NWA champion and is getting a way better push now then in 2001[supermike]

That might be because Guerrero never performed for TNA, and they don't own the copyrights for DX or the nWo. I'm sure if they could use DX or nWo, they would (they're arguably two of the three most important wrestling factions ever, the other being the Horsemen). Jeff Silvers 22:44, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

QUESTION!- The ECW World Heavyweight Championship page points out that Bobby Lashley is the First African American to hold the title, but since this title is concidered a continuation of the original ECW title line, Shouldn't Tazz be counted as one as well?

[edit] More WWE revisionism

WWE has changed the ECW World Heavyweight Championship history on ECW.com so that any champions who held the title prior to Douglas' throwing down the NWA World belt are no longer recognized. This is in contrast to the previous version of the page, which acknowledged all champions starting with Snuka's first reign in 1992. Jeff Silvers 01:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

The reason is probably because before that it was the NWA: ECW Championship, and the NWA is technically their competition. TJ Spyke 00:05, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
That hasn't stopped them from recognizing holders of the NWA United States Championship in their WWE United States Championship history. Jeff Silvers 08:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

they could also being only reconizing the championship of extreme championship wrestling and not eastern championship wrestling Ranul 04:27, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Ranul could be right, they didn't change their name to "Extreme Championship Wrestling" until the Shane Douglas incident. TJ Spyke 04:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is the TRASH belt/Rhyno Storyline/Logo Color even notable to the history of the entire title?

The TRASH belt is probably only and custom replica, The Rhino storyline is not really notable to the belt history since it just a storyline. This is just another critism at attacking the legitmice of WWE's ECW Brand. The promotion called ECW is dead,its assets where won by WWE.Its WWE choice if it wants to use for DVDs/Books or storylines. To get to my point, is the TRASH belt/Rhyno storyline be considered canon? Does it really mater what color the logo on the belt is. If not then it doesn't belong in a Genral Encylopedia,maybe an wrestling wiki but not on wikipedia. BionicWilliam 01:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

"Canon"? Is the purpose of Wikipedia to report "official" wrestling storylines? You can view the reference on the TRASH page if you want to learn how it ended up being the TRASH belt. Robert K S 02:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
But TRASH & the Rhyno Storyline have no connection to the actual history of the belt. The only connection ethier of them to the belt is that they claim to have the real belt and really anybody can claim a replica as the ture belt, if you read TRASH sorce article its says the have the real belt but the TRASH replacing ECW. That means that it a replica/remade not the real deal. Plus there not offical storylines since they have no connection the current belt just some old version/replica of the current belt/strap. WWE owns ECW assets so they can use it how ever they want ECW is there property not TRASH. Also do you really think that some joe shmoe off the street care what happened to the old phyisical belt of a dead promotion (ECW). To make my point clear is the TRASH belt/Rhyno Storyline/Logo Color even notable to the history of the entire title if it not it shouldn't be in this article in a GENERAL Encyclopedia.

BionicWilliam 03:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

The TRASH belt is the original ECW belt, and not a forgery, though I don't know of any way to evidence this besides the citation already given in the TRASH article, which you apparently did read but interpreted misleadingly. (If the TRASH belt ever said "TRASH" in place of "ECW" on the belt, it has not since 2005, when the picture of it was taken at TRASHionals 8 in Pittsburgh by OntarioQuizzer.) Whether the fate of the original belt is relevant to the article is for fans of ECW to decide, and I am not one. Robert K S 05:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proper Name

It seems to me that the name shortening to "ECW World Championship" is a permanent change, designed to avoid confusion with Smackdown's "World Heavyweight Championship". Subsequently, I believe that this page should be returned to that title, as it was for a short while.

This is not the same as the Rey Mysterio situation. In that case, the word "heavyweight" wasn't used on Smackdown's title because Rey is obviously not a heavyweight. Big Show, on the other hand, is very much a heavyweight. There would be no reason to drop the word based on that. The avoidence of confusion is a far more likely reason.

Which of course, leads to the question of "why not just call it the 'ECW Championship' instead?" If I may speculate, it would be to emphasize the idea that it is a world title, since it would otherwise not have it in its spelled out name (unlike the WWE Championship, where the first W means "World") oknazevad 05:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)


I agree, the name of the article should be called ECW World Championship. They refer to it that way on WWE.com/ECW.com, so it should be referred to as ECW World Championship. I mean, WWE Monday Night RAW is referred to on WWE.com as Raw, and its the same way on Wikipedia, where RAW is Raw. So I agree with oknazevad when he says the page should be moved. TJ Sparks 03:07am, Nov. 23, 2006 (UTC)
It appears this page actually was moved to ECW World Championship at one point, but was then moved back here. Any particular reason? It's pretty obvious WWE has removed the Heavyweight portion of the name. Jeff Silvers 08:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Unless somebody objects, I'm going to move this to ECW World Championship pretty soon. In addition, we probably need to change instances of "ECW World Heavyweight Championship" to "ECW World Championship" when referring to the title after RVD's reign. Jeff Silvers 03:40, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
I do object, and for the reasons i've stated before. We didn't move SD's title to "World Championship" just because they called it that while Mysterio was champion. TJ Spyke 03:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
That's because, as somebody else above said, there was a practical reason for removing the word "Heavyweight" from the title that only applied to Mysterio. Big Show is obviously a heavyweight, so there's no indication that the removal of the word from the title's name was specific to him. Jeff Silvers 05:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
We don't know if it was a permanent name change though. TJ Spyke 04:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Well, they've been excluding the "Heavyweight" from the name since about the time Big Show won it back in July, which was five months ago. They've also been referring to Lashley as the ECW World Champion (again, with "Heavyweight" excluded), so this doesn't seem to be exclusive to Big Show. Jeff Silvers 11:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Now, granted, tonight on ECW, Big Show referred to the championship as the ECW World Heavyweight Championship. But, for the title match, the graphic that comes up that states which title is being defended said ECW World Title. No heavyweight mentioned. And, last week on Smackdown, the graphic for the World Heavyweight Championship said World Heavyweight Championship. Not to mention, WWE.com calls Lashley the ECW World Champion. So, I think this hopefully clears it up on the official name, in which case I move we move this page to ECW World Championship. Anakinjmt 04:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Exactly. Since TJ Spyke seems to be the only person who objects, I'm moving this to ECW World Championship. Jeff Silvers 00:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Or maybe not. I forgot you can't move an article to a page for which there is already an article (in this case, ECW World Championship exists as a redirect to ECW World Heavyweight Championship, so I can't move it there). I have requested administrative assistance in moving this article. Jeff Silvers 00:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First African American to hold title?

This page points out that Bobby Lashley is the First African American to hold the title, But since this title is concidered a continuation of the original ECW title line, Shouldn't Tazz be counted as one as well?

Is it considered a continuation of the original title? I haven't heard that, but that might be because I just didn't catch it. Also, please sign your comments. Anakinjmt 00:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Considering that List of ECW World Heavyweight Champions begins with Snuka and continues to Lashley, I'd say that Wikipedia's policy is that the current title and the title in the original promotion are one and the same. Removing the bit about Lashley's being the first African-American champ. Jeff Silvers 01:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
And just to clarify, I put this discussion into its own section called "First African American to hold title?" so it isn't confused with the above discussion about the title's official name. Jeff Silvers 01:30, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
It appears that TJ Spyke re-added the bit about Lashley's being the first African-American to hold the title. I almost removed it, but then I realized that Tazz is Italian. Whooooops. A review of List of ECW World Heavyweight Champions reveals that no previous champion had been black. So... yeah. Lashley's the first. Jeff Silvers 02:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Tazz isn't black? Whoa. I figured he was Italian, but I thought he was black too. Wow. Learn something new every day... Anakinjmt 13:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Maybe he is, but unless I missed it, his article says nothing about it. He's in the Italian-Americans category, but not African-Americans. Jeff Silvers 17:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I think an official consensus should be made...

I think an official consensus should be made concerning the name of this article on whether or not it should be called ECW World Heavyweight Championship or ECW World Championship. --James Maxx 17:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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