#Wrestling championship belt template professional

Professional wrestling championships are often split up into various different classifications, each of which designate varying levels of importance to the belts. When the WWE and WCW titles were unified to become the WWE Undisputed Championship, the new belt included a nameplate which has since been added to the design of new WWE championship belts. This is in the style of the NWA Championship of the 1980s (nicknamed the ' Big Gold Belt'), which later became the primary title belt of World Championship Wrestling, which included a nameplate. Since 2002, all major WWE titles have included a nameplate with the current titleholder on the bottom of the main faceplate. The color and designs vary with each title and promotion. They are made of elaborately designed gold plates (thus their common nickname 'gold,' for example, 'Your son has a fondness for gold,' means he's either a current or former champion), usually bearing the name of the title and the wrestling promotion, on a leather strap. Professional wrestling's championship belts are modeled after the championship belts in boxing. Generally, the wrestlers who draw the greatest fan response will be rewarded with a storyline in which they compete with the current champion for the title, and eventually the championship itself. Eugene), or from mic skills while cutting promos. The wrestler can create this crowd reaction either through in-ring skill, from a quirky gimmick (e.g. Usually, these are wrestlers who generate large fan interest and crowd reactions over a sustained period of time, whether as a Face or a Heel.

Championships are usually won/held by a wrestler whom the promotion's bookers believe will generate fan interest in terms of event attendance and TV viewership.