I remember watching snippets of Bret Hart's WWF 1992 timeline shoot interview. And when he was talking about groupies that he would encounter on the road, he made some remark about he didn't understand why an athlete on Tiger Woods' would hook up with so many in Bret's words "skanks". I can't stress how hilarious that clip is. Bret Hart, the actual person (and not the "Hitman" persona) can be very dry and soft spoken (I don't know if he was always like that or it was side-effect of his stroke). When he disses Tiger Woods, Bret doesn't really sound like he was joking or being a smart ass, the way that Bret talked about it, he was being genuinely bewildered that Tiger would involve himself with the types of women that he involved himself with (if he had to step outside of his marriage of course).
Absolutely. The only changes that would have been acceptable would have been a replica belt with the current champions name on it, as a gift to the champ.
@@AlphaDynamics22not until Brock The Pisslover Incarnate is officially gone from the company and is not allowed to come back ever again. He should not be allowed to touch any of the belts nor should be allowed to look at any of the belts. He should not even be allowed to have a photo of any of the belts. He should not even be allowed to wear the same material as any of the belts.
I used to really like the world heavyweight title belt from 2002 I kinda became uninterested in wrestling around 2010 so I don’t really know what happened to it but I know they don’t use it anymore
@@spider-ham7140look up all his interviews he’s so whiny and annoying. He has nothing good to say about anyone. If that’s not the definition of toxic idk what is. Quit defending people who don’t deserve it; not to mention the fact Bret Hart is extremely overrated. Shawn was way better.
@@dombak0531 he's not toxic,the entire Industry he's in is. WWE and pro wrestling industry in general is the definition of "dystopian nightmare". People get away with murder,rape,racism and other shit in here constantly. Bret being toxic to them just makes him non toxic if anything. Also,shawn Michaels is a pos egomaniac who actively ruined careers. Brets living healthy my guy, while Shawn Michaels is going for Saudi Arabia blood money
He's absolutely correct. I met Bret yesterday; he's such a nice guy. The winged eagle belt was classy. It had the globe on it, symbolizing the "world" title. The eagle was gorgeous and represented America and freedom. The belt design itself was pristine and classy. The new belt has the company's logo on it. So, in other words, if Sony owned wrestling, the world's title would have a big S on it, and we'd all think the champ was Superman. The new belt looks like it was designed by a child, not a group of adults.
Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, Andre the Giant, Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels, Bob Backlund, Sgt Slaughter, Undertaker, Yokozuna, Sid Vicious, and Steve Austin all had that belt. That is the truly the legends belt.
Bret is going to be a real treat to have at the old folks home. “This breakfast is crap!” “This bed isn’t in my list of top 10 beds to sleep on” “This nurse is too dangerous to work with and hurts people”
Hell yeah! Bret is the example of what this world is missing. Instead we have a voice that exists just because theres an # next to it. They call it a movement? Well guess what? So is the digestive system and we all know the next stage. Bret signifies freedom of speech. The true essence of freedom of speech. And people diss that? If people were more like Bret? With their own opinions, and no trepidation to speak them? Instead of jumping on an existing one cos its popular, this world would have everything that equality stands for.
Lets be honest his era sucked only era that really stood out was attitude era and ruthless agression era other then that everything else thats not in thoses era are terrible
@@Adams_DenAt least yu reluctantly agree that todays belt has had too many undeserving holders...Bek to Brets era - Its the push his era gave to the top tier, that made it all worthwhile. You had to be the best at wat yu did to sniff that belt. Bret, Shawn,Taker ,Austin ,Sid, Hogan, dude them guys were great champs
"I awlays thought this is the most beautiful belt ever made, ever. In wrestling." *Pulls out 24/7 title* Edit: Geez, I didn't realize so many people don't understand the concept of jokes these days. Edit 2: Evidently, it was only a couple people who missed the joke. The first edit may have been an overreaction.
The Big gold belt has history going back to 1904. The title "world heavyweight champion" was used back then. The big gold belt was just a reformation of that historical belt.
I met him several times in Calgary. Backstage at a Calgary house show in '94, he put his world title belt on my shoulder when I got my photo taken with him.
@bing chilling Replace the spinner with the white strap early/mid 90s IC belt and you're correct. The spinner looks nice but it looks more like a decoration than a legitimate title belt.
@@declangaming24 i think its safe to say he hates them all cuz 85% of their belts look exactly the same with that massive "W" in the center of their belts.
@@GeoGuy388you old wrestling marks, when will you ever be able to move on from the past. The spinner was beautiful and fit perfect with the time frame and next to big gold
The harts are one of the biggest wrestling dynasties ever. He ate slept and breathed wrestling and you can tell hes still passionate af even in his 60s
If Cody wins this time they should go back to the winged eagle. Would make for a cool moment like when Kofi beat Bryan and they went back to the old belt
Bret Hart wore that belt with such Pride & honor as WWF Heavyweight Champion, how could we forget how he kissed the belt before every title defense # Always the Best there is, the Best there was & the best there ever will be.
It is a good looking belt, however most of the time WWE/AEW is staged and not real wrestling. No offense, it's just not on the level of UFC or even the Olympics wrestling competitions. One day I would like to see wrestling become less of a showboat and actually more technical/genuine. Again, I am not trying to hate or disrespect the flashy /high diving antics of WWE/AEW, etc . I am just giving my opinion on how the "sport" is to grow if it wants to remain relevant.
@@unknownaura Oh no way man; shots fired. You better take it easy man... this dude/guy took more hits than a crack addict on a Friday night; show some respect (even though the wrestling still seemed staged in my opinion the guys did get hurt or injured during the matches). 🤷🏼♂️😬
I love how Brets a grumpy old man now, and u can just tell he gives no fux about any stupid shit these days. My favorite. He's not like the others. He's not some colorful personality and doesn't have an interesting voice like a machoman. He's just cool because you know how legit he was and that respect still carries
@@omarsuarez694 Do you speak entirely in clichés? It's like you've never communicated with a human outside of an online setting...feel bad for you kid we used to get laid at your age innit.
I disagree. I love that we have so many older statesmen (and women) in pro wrestling. It's a shame that so many drugs (recreational, prescription, and steroidal) have greatly reduced that number.
Happy to see that some of them are still around to enjoy! RIP to ultimate warrior,Andre the giant, junkyard dog, earthquake,bobby Heenan,Owen Hart,bad news brown,British bulldogs and so many other WWF( Now WWE) Wrestlers 🙏
Totally agree,but great to see how the are doing aftertiringand theirn thoughts on what they think of WWE,which I find garbage and the one thing I noticed is that the storylineand promo filled WCW elements that WWF surpasses so much andoften won the Monday night warwWWE has to many belts and remind me of the pointless belts WCW had, the championship belt was the best you a could get ,now ,it second to the universal championship belt!the US Championship was a WCWbelt as much as I can remember and now there's also a 24/7 belt that the low profile wrestlers run around like a game reverse game of tag!?all the amount of promos and storylines here overwhelming to me and I feel take too much time away from the actual wrestling WWFhad! I guess that's why it was referred as wrestling instead of wrestling and makes sense to me as I thought it was mostly jack assesvwrestling! The old really was,much Bette looking than each and every belt today!!SMH I've been disgusted by WWE so much,that I've been losing interest and just catch on demand barely and justsubsvribes to get WWEclips on you itbEILL occasionally just Check what the current situations areits mostly interference a talk,wit he same old things going on,I SO disappointed with the how much of WCW presence there is,we'd didnt waste too much time on hype andstoryl ines!we all know it's all scripted,but WWFseemed more realistic than WCW ever did!! I guess mcmaho didn't want to keep up with completion as much and wasted his money on WCW(whatever,the circumstances were and the clauses in the contract,but I reallydont care much becaus the we side has been disrespected and pushed over out of sit so much)I'm thinking ECE was promised royalties as long as so much was incorporated and mechandise,WCW looked obviously fake,the only wrestles I really remember are St in and the NWOfaction,but even that wasn't very interesting to me!SMH🤷
@@ben1589 yes razor,diesel(now hmHall andNash and ,fed the late and really great Warrior) I'm tired of the whole "bloodline " gimmick and how everybody uses the superkickMicheales coined( and now the whole NXTand personal Giantsgimmick is overdone. The only thing I like now is the woeye cannon the Women's division. The whole brand thing had me confused for a while and how wrestlers are only typically designed the one of the 2 brands making more belts available! I was a War fan and antiWCW for the reasons in have been losing interest!SMH just my thoughts!
There's no such thing as a legitimate Pro Wrestling champion. It's staged.... Bret Hart was a selfish prick who thought he was better than everybody else yet he had as much charisma as a wet fart.
@@bbiscuit3000 Spoiler alert, he was the best there ever was. He literally had it in his contract that he could end his last match how he wanted dude. He never lost it.
@@SwooopieShark He had reasonable creative control. Not full blown creative control. It's not reasonable to win on your very last match with the title. He's an ungrateful, miserable, old hag. At work you can't tell your boss no I'm not gonna do my job. He's no different.
@@bbiscuit3000 He still signed a contract stating he can choose how he has his last match. He got screwed in a legal sense, regardless what you or me think of him.
Yeah the Universal title looks like a Fruit Roll-Up with gold plates on it.The WWE title has gone down the shitter. That needs a new design and bad. The Universal title just needs to be gone in general. How do you get rid of one of the most recognizable belts in Pro Wrestling history by replacing the World Heavyweight title with the Universal Title. A belt that's not gotten over at all.
You got it.. very honest but holding back on Cena and his garbage and not speaking up about bimbos in wrestling today ruining wrestling and not speaking up about promoters getting into a ring being a joke etc etc etc..
@@a.j.hellraiser8993 right on. I used to watch wwe alot in the 80s when I was a kid. I didn't get back into wwe until mid 2000. I think I tuned in around the time that Jericho had a feud with triple h
Bret "The Hitman" Hart is just like me: The kind of person who will speak his mind because he doesn't give a fuck. When you just do not give a fuck, that is absolute power, in my opinion & I love it--I really, really do...
Winged Eagle belt is probably the best, WCW belt was sweet. The Cena spinner, undisputed and Stone Cold belts were garbage. I would put the current belt at 3rd best, I think it looks good.
Another belt that I miss is the Yellow Intercontinental belt that Ultimate Warrior had when he beat Hulk Hogan in Wrestlemania 6 and title and the Hardcore title from the Attitude Era.
Honestly I think the last good belt they had was the Undisputed title. Everything since then you can tell are just made for marketing purposes because they've all looked like toys.
@@jongib369 Okay yeah, that one I'll definitely agree on. I actually like the general shield shape of the most recent titles, but with them just being the company branding as the main central design makes them look unimaginative and boring. The NXT UK belt actually does a great job drawing your eye and looking classy without going overboard like the Cena spinner belt.
@Jose Aquino That's the thing though, to me updating the belts for "modernity" completely got rid of any prestigiousness. Now to me it doesn't look like a CHAMPIONSHIP belt with HISTORY. It became a logo belt for the company. Versus something like the Big Gold that came from another company, and worked it's way to WWE. To me at least as a kid it gave the belt the feeling that another company could earn/win it, but WWEs guys were the best and they had it. But being 30 now I very well could just be stroking my nostalgia. But there is something to be said when a newer viewer is shown the past of the ocmpany and the same belt is there. To me it just adds weight because it has visible history other than carrying the name of being a companies championship
You can tell Bret never truly forgave WWE, i think his working with them was more about keeping his legacy intact as he knows how vindictive they are to those who don't play ball. That DVD from 2005 was originally going to be a hatchet job until he agreed to participate..
@Jose Aquino Like I said, it's about preserving his legacy first and foremost. His comments are honest, but they also display an undercurrent of disdain for the company and how it's run. Most wrestlers of his era are happy to toe the company line, but you can tell Bret is still bitter and likes to dig his heels in now and again. He even buried hhh a few times too..
Everyone knows the WWE belt is shit. its just a big logo. Looks ugly. When indie promotions have better looking belts than a billionaire dollar company
WWF Winged Eagle Championship Beĺt is by far the greatest WWF(E((belt ever made..greats like Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage,Andre( for a couple of minutes,":,ndertaker,Ric Flair, Bret Hart ,Shawn Michaels and finally Stone Cold Steve Austin..the biggest wrestling stars ever held this belt from 1988 to 1998.Along with the NWA Big Gold belt are the wo two best ever.
Yeah that was The original belt if I remember correctly. It traveled through the NWA and WCCW and whatshisname refused to let it go to the new wwf company and instead sent it through WCW
Yeah I agree. The old NWA Heavyweight championship belt was the best belt. Ric Flair wouldn't relinquish it when it all fell apart and he went to WCW. Even UFC knew what a good belt looked like as their belts resembled that belt
The winged eagle is a beautiful belt. My favorite. Love all the late 80s/early 90s WWF belts. The Intercontinental ( Warrior, Rude, Perfect, etc.) World Tag Team (Demolition, Hart Foundation, LOD).
There have been many variations of the WWE Championship.But the Winged Eagle is the most iconic. Would love the WWE tobring it back. No variations or ridiculous tweaks. But as is.
My favorites were the attitude era belt, the winged eagle one, the undisputed title (worn by Eddie Guerrero) and the World heavyweight title (the big gold one). I liked the first WWE logo belt but now they're all the same, just different colors and it sucks.
Yea for your era ..google "before hogan" Google "Iron Sheik".good selection but you guys need to go back in time and respect people before hogan and actually look into all of WWE's history..i respect you didnt make it factual..i get its your opinion.. no disrespect..
@@EXPLISITemcee Thanks, but I know exactly what the championship belt looked like back in the days before Hogan. And I still maintain that stylistically, I was always more attracted to the the Eagle winged championship belt and the Attitude belt.
The Winged Eagle was always my favorite belt also. It looked marvelous no matter who wore it or how they wore it (over the shoulder, waist, carried in hand). This brings memories of Chyna looking badass coming down the aisle with this and the European championship belt over her shoulder and another time of undertaker going on one knee in the ring and rising the title in the air….belts nowadays look clunky asf like boxing championship belts lol.
They ruined the WWE championship, The IC Championship, U.S, Tag Team championships. They took away the World Heavyweight Championship, which was the best belt they had,(and it wasn’t even their design).
@@Exodus-sb8so He should be celebrated but AEW just another publicity stunt to get themselves over with marks who don't realise companies can be POS too the way they pander to every whim over the same fanbase that will turn on then the second something happens.
I loved that belt along with The Big Gold, the winged eagle, the World Tag Team Belts from the ruthless Aggression era and the IC title also from the ruthless Aggression era
It was cool but overall I prefer the winged eagle. I'd still take the undisputed belt over the ones they've had over the past 16 years, in a heartbeat.
I'd go the other direction, chronologically and land on what's called the Hogan 84. Large eagle on the main plate and the side plates included the names of the past champions.
As soon as he started to take it out of the bag I was like "It better be that eagle belt, Bret. It better not be anything else." I was not disappointed.
I honestly hate the whole “It’s not wrestling it’s’Sports Entertainment’.” BS Vince has going on now. And the “Belts” are supposed to look like “Championship(Ring)s” now. Let wrestling be wrestling
I would never understand the mindset of Vince for not calling wrestling as wrestling. He despise the very name of the industry which he is dominating and love all the money he makes.
@@mistert.o7643 but it's actual professional wrestling, that's literally what it is called, you can argue all you want about it being fake but their job title is the job title
its not the talents fault. They can not go out and delivery masterful performances when they are so heavily scripted and having every single one of their spots getting weakened by the 15 camera changes they do to simulate 'impact'.
C'mon Lashley and Reigns are not jokes... imagine Lashley with the Winged Eagle and Reigns with the Big Gold Belt? I hope WWE do this for shock reasons and just change their belts
Kinda thought it'd at least be a special version made specifically for him, but it's just the same replica everybody can buy on WWEShop(barcode sticker on back, WWE logo instead of WWF). Don't get me wrong, it's still a beautiful belt, I just thought he'd have a more special version is all.
to you .. you know some Cena Stans are claiming a spinner belt is best belt ever? Its a generation opinion issue man..not fact.. You need to google Iron Sheik.
This belt is the BEST belt ever made. The k ly problem is that is was smaller than the IC title, which was dumb. Make the main face plate bigger.....duh!
For me, personally, I love the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. I loved when Raw and SmackDown had the World Heavyweight title (WCW belt) on one show and the WWE title (Undisputed title belt) on the other. Love those two. The old IWGP title is also a beauty. Today I think the AEW title might be the most beautiful one. A bit bulky but very beautiful.
Agreed. Sure hope the WWE fixes these problems soon. I'm tired of this era where the WWE, Universal, Smackdown Women's, and Raw Women's championships are exactly the same except for the color strap. I also don't like the Raw and Smackdown Tag Team Championships looking the same either. Heck, the only title belt that looks cool right now is the US Championship.
