News of Pro-Wrestling History: General

Just trying to organize something.

Since there are multiple threads for the relationship between NWA, WCW, and RAW world heavyweight titles, let's just discuss about it on this thread rather than posting on more than one threads.

These are the related threads. Some of them will be closed, and the replies should be posted on this thread.
NWA and WCW
Most Important title today
RAW's championship, a new championship!

Let me also repeat posting ...

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Please limit to the pre-1990s topics only. The topics specific to Japan should be posted under "<a href='http://www.puroresu.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=2' target='_blank'>Puroresu Discussion Boards</a>".

i only want to know if you know this great wrestler and wath you think about him.

Many posters have made good points in relation to the below previous discussion on World Title status, but I just thought I'd through in my 2 cents about what is out there that may be called a World Heavyweight Title. For this I'll examine the WWE, WCW, NWA, ECW, AWA, IWGP, and the Triple Crown.

First, the defunct ones

AWA - I'll admit my knowledge of how the AWA title claimed world championship status is ...

After Eric Bichoff intorduced Raw's "World Heavyweight Title", I took up the task of attempting to trace the lineage of the title, actual and fictional. I looked through the title histories on this site and others to see if I can come up with something that resembles a true lineage of the title since the 18th century, through to modern times. I came up with an extensive written article, and a rough diagram, (<a href='http://idmt13.mailru.com/diagram.gif' ...

There have been many polls on "best champs" recently. Those polls usually have not much to do with championship lineages but rather about the wrestlers. Besides, most of those polls don't even include the significant champs from the pre-Hulkamania era. I moved those polls to "Everything else" for now, but please also remember that polls are not allowed in "Everything else".

This means that there wouldn't be many polls that would fit this "Pro-Wrestling Title ...

Found something interesting.

This is the first encouter between wrestling historian Gary Will and myself on USENET's rec.sport.pro-wrestling.

Click <a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=1992Oct8.135945.5590%40csd.uwe.ac.uk&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dgroup:rec.sport.pro-wrestling.*%2BEbeneezer%2BGoode%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D12%26as_minm%3D5%26as_miny%3D1981%26as_maxd%3D1%26as_maxm%3D11%26as_maxy%3D1992%26selm%3D1992Oct8.135945.5590%2540csd.uwe.ac.uk%26rnum%3D2' target='_blank'>here</a>.

Two ways to look at this question, which you think is either the top title in wrestling today or which is your personal prefernce

This debate has popped up from time to time, so I figured I'll just see what everyone here thinks. When it comes to maybe two World titles being unified, then yes, I
say either carry both belts out or create a new belt representing the
Unified championship. However, when it comes to the unification of
secondary titles, I agree with the current practice in North American
wrestling: the lesser title gets "absorbed" into the more ...