ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship
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The Extreme Championship Wrestling FTW (Fuck the World) Heavyweight Championship (also referred to as the Brooklyn
World Championship) was an alternate World Heavyweight Championship in the professional wrestling promotion
Extreme Championship Wrestling
. This was similar to the Million Dollar Championship
in the World Wrestling Federation
in that it was not an officially sanctioned championship.
announced the creation of the FTW Heavyweight Championship on May 14, 1998. Frustrated by his inability to challenge for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship
due to Champion Shane Douglas
' injury and refusal to face him, Taz created and defended his own World title, billing himself as the "real" World champion.
Taz lost the title only once. This was an intentional loss, when he pulled an unconscious Sabu over himself on December 19, 1998 (he was confident that he would defeat Shane Douglas in an upcoming title bout, and thus no longer needed the FTW Heavyweight Championship). Taz regained the title at Living Dangerously on March 21, 1999, where he unified the FTW Heavyweight Championship with the ECW World Heavyweight Championship (which he then held) by defeating Sabu in a title versus title match. Taz then began using only the ECW World Heavyweight Championship belt, being the sole World Heavyweight Champion in the promotion.
Brooklyn
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World Championship) was an alternate World Heavyweight Championship in the professional wrestling promotion
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Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001...
. This was similar to the Million Dollar Championship
Million Dollar Championship
The Million Dollar Championship was a professional championship in WWE created by The "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. The Million Dollar Belt was designed by Terry Betteridge of Betteridge Jewelers in Stamford, Connecticut. The belt is gold plated, made with cubic zirconia, and has three tiny...
in the World Wrestling Federation
World Wrestling Entertainment
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in that it was not an officially sanctioned championship.
History
TazTazz
Peter Senerchia is a retired American professional wrestler and current color commentator best known by his ring name Tazz, originally Tazmaniac and later shortened to simply Taz...
announced the creation of the FTW Heavyweight Championship on May 14, 1998. Frustrated by his inability to challenge for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship
ECW World Heavyweight Championship
The Extreme Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment...
due to Champion Shane Douglas
Shane Douglas
Troy Alan Martin is an American professional wrestler and promoter, better known by his ring name "The Franchise" Shane Douglas. In the course of his career, which has spanned nearly three decades, Douglas has wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling and briefly...
' injury and refusal to face him, Taz created and defended his own World title, billing himself as the "real" World champion.
Taz lost the title only once. This was an intentional loss, when he pulled an unconscious Sabu over himself on December 19, 1998 (he was confident that he would defeat Shane Douglas in an upcoming title bout, and thus no longer needed the FTW Heavyweight Championship). Taz regained the title at Living Dangerously on March 21, 1999, where he unified the FTW Heavyweight Championship with the ECW World Heavyweight Championship (which he then held) by defeating Sabu in a title versus title match. Taz then began using only the ECW World Heavyweight Championship belt, being the sole World Heavyweight Champion in the promotion.
Reigns
| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taz introduced the championship during a storyline. | |||||||
| The championship was unified Championship unification Championship unification is the act of combining two or more separate professional wrestling championships into a single title.-History:In professional wrestling, championships may be unified to consolidate the number of championships in a given promotion, or to add legitimacy and prestige to a... with the ECW World Heavyweight Championship ECW World Heavyweight Championship The Extreme Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment... . |
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