100% Authentic WWF Tag Team Wrestling Championship Belt - eBay (item 360130132520 end time Feb-17-09 17:30:00 PST)

Click link above for details. In case, you know, you have an extra $10,000 lying around.

History of the UFC title belts

Courtesy BeltFanDan, AKA PawNtheSandman.

TNA replica belts on sale now

Ordering information is here. TNA has a picture of the replica belt here.

TNA replica belts on sale soon

TNA Wrestling has announced that they will soon be selling replicas of the TNA World title belt. Word from someone who knows is the replicas are going to be of high quality. More details and pictures as they become available.

Next week, TNA Wrestling will be offering incredible replicas of the TNA World Heavyweight Championship for sale at ShopTNA.com, the official online merchandise store of TNA!

TNA will take delivery of an extremely limited amount of the replica championships, which will go on sale immediately at ShopTNA.com in time for Christmas delivery.

Talk about an awesome holiday gift for your favorite TNA Wrestling fan!

The replica titles are made to the same size and specifications as the real TNA World Heavyweight Championship, fitting up to a 46 inch waist and weighing nearly 5 pounds! These limited-edition titles are an amazing reproduction of the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, currently held by "The Icon" Sting.

New ECW belt available for pre-order

The new ECW belt is available for pre-order from WrestlingSuperstore.com. It should be available in January.

The new Divas belt won't be shipping until March of next year.

New TNA Legends belt

It's an amazing work of art. I don't like the red leather, and the design seems to be derived from the IWGP title. And it has aspects of the UFC and WEC designs as well.

EDIT: TNA has pictures here, here, here, here, here, and here.

SECOND EDIT: And the pictures are up on DMB.com.

Google search string weirdness

This afternoon, someone from WWE.com (that would be, World Wrestling Entertainment) Googled "wwe divas belt replica" and landed on this humble web page.

Now, I'm just thinking ... wouldn't someone who works for WWE know how to buy a replica of their own title belts?

In case the champion forgets that wrestling is fake...

Picture courtesy DaveMillicanBelts.com

WWE Diva and ECW replica belt ordering info

As a public service because about 99.982% of my Google hits now come from search strings wondering how to order replicas of the new WWE Diva belt or the new WWE ECW belt, Wrestling Superstore has a link up that's worth bookmarking for further information as it becomes available.

More ECW belt pictures

At first glance, it looks like the old Pride Fighting Championship title belts. Pretty cool!

EDIT: The more I look at this belt, the more I think it was a Triple-H custom WWE title belt that got modified to be the new ECW belt by adding a relief plate. It has that whole Iron Cross motif going that matches Hunter's merchandising.

FURTHER EDIT: The WWE has got great photos of it up here.

First blurry picture of the new ECW belt

The WWE unveiled a new ECW title belt tonight. This is the only picture I can find right now.

UPDATE: A couple better pictures can be found here.

His belts are awl the rage

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A nice article on Reggie Parks, one of the belt makers for UFC and the former WWF belt maker.

There's a video up, too that's really good.

The WWE Divas belt generates traffic!

Here's my site stats for the last week or so in terms of Google searches leading to my page:

1. 32% wwe divas belt
2. 20% wwe diva belt
3. 11% divas belt
4. 6% new wwe divas belt
5. 5% wwe divas title belt
6. 5% wwe divas championship belt
7. 3% new wwe diva belt
8. 3% elitexc belt
9. 2% starfield abbotsford
10. 2% wwe diva's belt
11. 2% wwe new diva belt
12. 2% wwe new divas belt
13. 2% amanda falk
14. 2% wwe wrestlemania 24 aspect problems
15. 2% reign in me song starfield
16. 2% bret hart and cheating on his wife
17. 2% michael jenkinson

In short, the new WWE Divas belt is responsible for nearly 90% of my total Google search hits since it debuted on Smackdown a couple of weeks ago. I think the WWE has a winner, if the Internet traffic it's generating is any indication.

The new WWE Divas belt

The talk of the Internet Wrestling Community (tm) is the new WWE Divas title belt that debuts on Smackdown tonight.

Unsurprisingly, everyone seems to hate it.

But, look ... the WWE has discovered that replica championship belts are a big source of merchandising revenue. This design is going to sell bucketloads of toy belts to 12-year-old girls who love John Cena but don't want to buy a spinner belt because it's a "boy's" title.

And, frankly, I don't hate this design. It's strange for a championship belt, that's for sure.

But at least it doesn't spin.

Buy Hulk Hogan's destroyed title belt

An actual ring-used WWF title belt that was worn by Hulk Hogan is up for sale on eBay. It's being sold by PawNtheSandman, who I can vouch for as a real person who is a serious collector of championship belts.

Background on the belt, courtesy of the auction:

On October 31, 1989, at WWF Saturday Night's Main Event XXIV, The Genius defeated WWF Champion Hulk Hogan by count out. Hogan was counted out after Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig hit Hogan in the back with the WWF title belt. After the match, Mr. Perfect stole Hulk's WWF championship belt.

Later that night, Mr. Perfect came out with the belt, and proceeded to destroy the belt with a hammer to send a message to Hulk Hogan.

For years after that night, many people wondered what happened to that belt. Many people believed it was simply thrown away. Numerous others believed the WWF Hardcore Title was made from the same belt destroyed that night in 1989.

Now we know the truth.

After being destroyed, Hulk Hogan's WWF belt, and as many of the pieces that could be found, were collected and eventually ended up in the private collection of then WWF referee/booker Mel Phillips. Mel maintained possession of the belt until I acquired it through his estate sale.