These Are Some Of The Least Prestious Titles In Wrestling

That's right. It's time for us to talk about the TNA Beer Drinking Championship. >> What? That's a real thing? TNA Beer Drinking Championship? You've got to be Noing way, bro. What? What's good y'all? It's your boy Ross back at again with another video. So, I'm check out least prestigious titles in wrestling. We recently checked out um the the most prestigious titles in wrestling. So, it only made sense that we check out the least prestigious ones and there have been some where you really think about it. This shouldn't have even been a title. It should have been something that they kept in the creative room and never actually uh put it out there and have the the title be created and actually have people defend it or go fight for it because it literally probably didn't do much for people career outside of it just being kind of a joke. But nevertheless, we're going to check this out. Uh appreciate all love support you guys have shown on the channel and uh let's get right into it. In a recent video, we talked about some of the most prestigious titles in North American wrestling history. Things like the NWA World's title, the WWE title, and the WCW World Heavyweight title. But what about the flip side to that? What about the worst belts out there? The ones no one wanted? >> Well, that's exactly what we're going to be looking at right now. So, make sure to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and join us as we look at our first entry, the WWE Divas Championship. >> Oh my god, who remembers? Oh my goodness. The Divas belt. It literally looked like a toy. It It just I get it. There was probably some girls out there that love the Diva's belt. Maybe some guys out there that love the Divas belt, but it this is right around the time it wasn't too many wrestlers that were being taken seriously in the women's division. The women's division was a glorified restroom break uh for a lot of the matches. Like no one really cared. They didn't put emphasis for you to care about the women's division. And once they came out with the Divas belt, it was all about divas. And you know, they had the Divas reality show going on around that time. it. Oh man, it was horrendous. [laughter] >> Now, women's wrestling in North America has come a long way over the last decade or so. >> Hell, we're currently at the point where it's perfectly normal for the ladies to main event major shows and where some of the best performers in the world are names like Charlotte Flair and Eio Sky. Prior to that mid2010's renaissance, however, there weren't many opportunities out there for women in the industry unless you worked for either the indies or the very strong knockouts division in TNA. And nothing showed just how bad things were at this point more clearly than the WWE Divas title. >> Honestly, even if we forget about the design, which made the face plane look like a butterfly, this was still a belt with very little prestige, primarily because women's wrestling had very little prestige in WWE at this point. Yes, back during that late 2000s to mid2010s period, you didn't have to be a good wrestler to succeed as a female in the WWE. In fact, many of the people who were getting pushes were bikini models, most of whom couldn't wrestle very well. But then to be fair to these women, they were only doing as instructed by their boss, as Vince McMahon didn't want them to do things he thought might upstage the men. So because of that, we got a situation where for the better part of a decade, the Divas title match became the bathroom break match for anyone in attendance at shows. As we all knew that when the bell rang, it was going to be about 4 minutes worth of nothing between two women who either couldn't wrestle or who weren't being allowed to wrestle. Just look at how fast WWE got rid of it when they had their women's revolution in 2015. That tells you the sheer levels of negative prestige it had by then. So much that the company had to engage in an entire PR campaign to convince people things were different this time around. And that's not the only time the ladies of WWE have gotten a pretty weak prize to work with, as the same thing happened in 2021 when we all bore witness to the creation of the belts no one asked for, the NXT women's tag team titles. Now, this one could have worked in a parallel universe somewhere else where the NXT women's tag team division was actually a thing, but that's not the universe we live in. Now, in this universe, the women's tag team division has even less focus than the men's. So low down on the pecking order is it in fact there's not really enough teams to maintain one set of main roster belts. >> Yeah. >> So why WWE thought it would be a good idea to add a second set in 2021. A set designed to be defended specifically on NXT is anyone's guess. Come on now. We're talking about a situation where the threadbear division on Raw and Smackdown was regularly being boosted by whatever few duos were already established on the developmental brand. So, if they were helping to do this, they didn't have enough time to carry their own set of belts. And that became apparent almost as soon as they were introduced. And challengers for the inaugural champs, Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez, were few and far between. Hell, even when NXT threw together two random women to make a makeshift duo, there still wasn't enough to build an entire division as so many of >> and I kind of felt that way originally with the women's tag titles on the main roster, even though they ultimately um they ultimately ended up like creating essentially a division mainly with just the top stars, which kind of made the like the top of just the regular women's division kind kind of thin for a while and uh you could kind of see that. But originally there really wasn't much going on for the women's tag team division. It was a dope idea, but the teams that they were trying to utilize it. It was really just Sasha and Bailey that was holding that division down to be honest with you. So I never really kind of got into the women's NXT uh title division. like I never really got too much paid attention to it, but I mean they were trying to, you know, bring some extra life to NXT. I just think belts, especially something like that, you need to have a strong roster and dedicated teams that make sense for that before you do that. That way, you know, it doesn't seem like it's just, hey, we're just going to add some more belts and, you know, we're going to start putting random people together because this is all we got. you know, you want it to kind of be thought out. >> The ladies were preoccupied with singles action. Obviously, then after less than a year of activity, some fans were already waiting for these prestige free prizes to be deactivated and forgotten about forever thereafter. And while that would happen eventually, we'd have to wait all the way up until June of 2023 for it to come to fruition. prior to which we'd have to endure some of the most low stakes matches in recent memory whenever the belts were put on the line on Tuesday nights between pairings which often only seemed to exist so that a women's tag team title match could take place. Again, it didn't have to be this way. No, these could have been prizes which had value. But for that to happen, WWE would have first had to build a self-sustaining women's tag team division on the main roster before they even thought about doing one for the developmental brand. and that was something they clearly weren't interested in doing. So because of that, these stand as two of the least prestigious belts in history. But let's move away from the ladies for now and instead over to the men as it's with them we'll find our next example of one of the less prestigious pieces of hardware in wrestling, the WWE 247 title. Yes, >> man. First and foremost, the belt design I always thought was ugly. I thought that [ __ ] was ugly and then it just it was never to be taken seriously. It wasn't. It was supposed to be a rendition of the hardcore 247 title which I thought back at that in that time it worked because it was basically I think the uh I think it was the broken eagle. It was like the winged eagle belt but it was shattered to pieces or I think I think it was that it was a winged eagle belt design but it shattered into pieces and they put it on a belt which I thought that was cool and it worked in that time period but this rendition of it outside of our truth our truth is hilarious and there was some funny moments but most of this it was just get this [ __ ] off my TV bro. From minute one, when the inaugural champ was decided based on who could run out to the ring the fastest, it was clear this belt wasn't going to hold much prestige. So little did people care about the 24/7 title. In fact, what with its rule set, which stated it has to be defended at any time and place so long as a referee was there, even being a part of that division was seen as a mark of death for someone's career. Yes, if you were in those skits as part of the crowd chasing Ron killings around backstage, you didn't want to be answering your phone the next time there was a round of cuts. However, it wasn't all bad as there were a lot of fun comedy segments with our truth throughout the history as well as some very funny moments involving Jake Maverick. But even though we did get some great laughs, it's rare that you get a title with such little prestige, holding it is an active detriment to your career. Something which was the case for most that held it. So, it shouldn't come as a surprise to learn then that as soon as Triple H got control of the book in the summer of 2022, one of the first acts as head of creative was to get rid of this belt with him doing so in the most blunt fashion the final champ, Nikki Cross, literally throw it in the trash on an episode. >> And [laughter] since that point, there's been no talk of the 247 title ever coming back. No one seems to have any interest in this happening, either on the fan side or on the WWE side. But what about the belt which served as the inspiration point for the worst singles title of latestage Vince McMahon's WWE? Well, that's also one which history hasn't been too kind to. And for that reason, it's our next entry. The WWF hardcore title. Now, the WWF hardcore title is an interesting one, as it was basically the 247 title if that one had been around in the '9s. And it certainly had a lot of fun moments with it being this, which made it such a popular prize for a while. That said, even when it was at its peak, one thing the hardcore title never was was valuable. Yeah. Now, of all the belts on the show back then, it was easily the least important. And that status only got lower as the years went. >> Yeah. Basically, it's uh it's not the winged eagle, it's the big eagle uh belt, but basically just broken up. So, I always thought the design was interesting and it was fun for what it was back then. It was fun. It had a lot of fun moments. Granted, you knew not, you know, holding that belt really didn't mean too much to be honest with you. You knew it wasn't to be taken seriously, but it still had created some fun, interesting moments for that time period. >> On and the original novelty of the 24/7 gig started to wear off. Come on now. At that point, not only was it without value, it wasn't even particularly fun anymore. But then when we're talking about the post crash Holly period of the hardcore title, that's a given as he was such a big part of what made it what it was. >> Yeah. >> So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to learn then that by the time 2002 came around, right at the point the WWF was becoming WWE, the belt would be retired altogether and never brought back again on any kind of full-time basis. Yes, there was that period when Mick Foley briefly revived it during the mid200s as part of his tag team with Edge, but the hardcore title was more of a prop for that whole storyline here than it was of anything importance in its own right. And once that angle was over, it would be put back into the mothballs and never brought back out again. Could it work in the modern day? Well, if the 247 title is anything to go by, it couldn't. Now, if the prize, which gave us so many memorable moments back during the Attitude era, was reinstated in 2026, it would likely be less prestigious than ever. And considering how little prestige it day, even when it was regularly responsible for popular segments on Monday Night Raw every week, that's saying something. >> But what if we move away from comedy belts for a moment, and instead look at something different, an unsanctioned title? By their very nature, these ones have to be considered lacking in prestige. And that's certainly the case with our next entry, the FTW Championship.W Championship. >> Now, if you know what FTW stands for, then you know why we can't really say it on YouTube, the [laughter] F the World Title. Why did it have such a brash name? Well, because it was created by Taz back during his ECW days when he was unable to get a shot at the world title of that territory. That's right. When then champ Shane Douglas couldn't compete in a planned bout with the Red Hook native as a result of an injury, the challenger simply created his own belt and proclaimed himself to be the uncrowned real world champion. Obviously though, because the FTW title was never sanctioned by Extreme Championship Wrestling, it meant it never had much in the way of prestige. Sure, Taz would occasionally defend it, but those defenses were always more gentleman's agreements between the participants involved than they were something being enforced by Paul Heyaymon. And so once the strap was retired when the human suplex machine eventually won the ECW world title, it was assumed it would be gone forever. But it wasn't. Now years later, after Taz joined AEW as a commentator and manager, he'd bring the title back for Brian Cage when the machine's planned men's world title match against John Moxley had to be delayed during lockdown. What happened from here? Well, with the belt still being unsanctioned, it build around in Jacksonville for a few years, serving little purpose. No. Even when it was held by the likes of Chris Jericho or Taz's own son, Hook, it was by some distance the least important prize in >> Yeah. Because no one no one really cared. Let's be honest. It's just like, okay. [laughter] And AW has a lot of uh titles as well too that you know, people are more invested in it. No one was like, "Oh man, look at you man. You got the FTW title. Oh man, that's that's awesome. [laughter] >> All Elite Wrestling. In fact, the only memorable moment it created was during the pre-show bout between Hook and Jack Perry at All-In 2023 when in the middle of the match, Jungle Boy uttered his famous Real Glass Crime River line. Seriously, if that's the peak of a belt's lineage, that it tells you how little it means in the grand scheme of things. So, it shouldn't be surprising to learn that at Grand Slam 2024, Tony Khan would finally retire it again when he had the cold-hearted Handsome Devil win it back from Chris Jericho and from there present it to his father at the commentary desk. Will we ever see the FTW Championship return again in the future? That seems unlikely at this point as there doesn't appear to be any purpose left for it in 2026. >> No need for But when it comes to another famous unsanctioned title, well, we could easily see this one returning again before all is said and done for one last run. So, with that in mind, let's look at it next. The MillionDollar Championship. >> What was the story with the Million-Dollar Championship? Well, to tell that, we have to go all the way back to 1989. >> Beautiful design. Always point. Frustrated over his inability to win the WWF title at WrestleMania 4, Ted Debiosi eventually decided to use all of his riches to buy a new one. And so it was that after he'd paid a belt maker to come up with something for him, we'd all be introduced to one of the most garish prizes ever created, one which was encrusted with diamond, dollar signs, and a general feeling of superiority. That said, for all his money, one thing the million-dollar man couldn't buy was a sanctioning body to make this belt an officially recognized one by the WWF. [snorts] No, for the entirety of its run, it would very much remain a prop, which was never acknowledged as being real by Vince McMahon. So for that reason then there was no prestige to having it as everyone knew it was just a way for Ted Deiosi to make himself feel better after he had been unable to win the big one. >> Still clean though. >> Even if this was the case, the heel would continue to act like it was legitimate with him bringing it down to the ring with him every time he was performing and even occasionally putting it on the line in matches. Hell, at one point this even led to Virgil briefly winning it, something which was actually a highlight of SummerSlam 1991. But that would only be a fleeting moment. And once it was over, the unsanctioned title wouldn't be long for the world. Of course, it would be revived again at various points over the years, most notably for the million-dollar man's own son, Ted Deiosi Jr., and for a pre- rattlesnake, Steve Austin. But each of those times, it remained a prize which wasn't officially recognized by the WWF. And all of this is to say then, no matter what era we're talking about, the Million-Dollar Championship has always been a belt which held almost no prestige, and no amount of money being pumped into the creation of it will ever be able to change that. Now, even if it returns again for another run in the future, it'll continue to be something which there's no value in actually holding, much like the FTW title. If that is true, it still might not be the least valuable unsanctioned title in wrestling history, as there's one more which we've yet to look at. The one which was created down in the Impact Zone for truly bizarre reasons. That's right. It's time for us to talk about the TNA Beer Drinking Championship. >> What? That's a real thing? TNA Beard Drinking Championship? You've got to be No [ __ ] way, bro. What? Hold on. What? Now, wrestling at its most basic level, it's a fundamentally easy form of entertainment to understand as it's about two men or two women stepping into a ring and fighting one another often for a title belt. But in the TNA Beerrinking Championship, what we have is something which completely breaks that as it wasn't defended in wrestling matches. No, as the name suggests, it was defended in beer drinking competitions. How did such a thing come about? Well, as with so many wacky ideas in wrestling, Vince Russo is the culprit here, with it being him who decided this prize would be a great one for James Storm and Eric Young to fight over. Sure, this could have been a fun comedy gimmick. And it was fitting for James Storm to be one of the men fighting over it, as his gimmick was that he was a hard-rinking cowboy, but in action, it was all pretty tough to watch, as it amounted to two guys standing in the ring and drinking beers instead of fighting each other. Needless to say then, there was absolutely no prestige to holding the TNA beer drinking title. In fact, [laughter] of all the belts we've looked at already today, or going to be looking at, this is probably the [laughter] least prestigious of them all. Come on now. At one point, the beer drinking competitions which determined who was going to win this one involved games of Never Have I Ever taking place. So, it came as no surprise to learn then that once the James Storm Eric Young feud came to an end, the beer drinking championship would be discontinued [laughter] and would never be brought back again. Something no one was upset to hear about. But for as little prestige as this one held, there are still plenty of other titles we've not yet looked at today, which also felt completely [laughter] unimportant during the period they were active, even if they were more traditional prizes being defended in more traditional matches. Yes, as we've already [laughter] seen, you can have a more standard rule set and even be a fully sanctioned piece of gold, all while remaining of little value. That was certainly the case for our next entry, one of the most hated World Championships to ever exist, the WWE World Heavyweight Title. That's right. This Vince McMahon creation, which was destined to be held by the likes of Bobby Lashley and The Big Show, was pretty much the antithesis of everything the original Extreme Championship Wrestling stood for. Come on now. If ECW was all about rebellion and punk rock spirit, then WWE was all about bland corporate output and big musclemen with little of the original vibe of the old promotion. So, it came as no surprise then that most fans of the original ECW weren't fans of it. N >> so disliked would the WWE World Heavyweight title be. In fact, most Extreme Championship Wrestling fans don't even count it as part of the lineage of the territory these days. No. The vast majority of those people prefer to accept the end point of the gold is coming with Rhino in early 2001. And that's understandable as the only time this one even approached having any level of importance was when Rob Vanam became the inaugural holder of it in 2006. >> That in my opinion that's the last time that's the last time it it it really had some importance really. I mean importance in a sense to the fans because then once the situation with Rob went down and you know the drug uh the weed the paraphernelia that whole situation Rob RVD was cooked in the eyes of Vince McMahon and Vince really had his own vision. Yeah. Dur Vince Bobby was the champion. Yeah. Yeah. Bro, and I didn't even have a problem with Bobby Lashley being the champion, but you knew it wasn't it wasn't really the spirit of ECW. It was the spirit of WWE and what they wanted from ECW. >> Once he dropped into the big show mere weeks later, however, after getting arrested, things went downhill very fast. So much so that by the end of 2006, it was already one of the least prestigious belts in WWE's long history. Yes, you could make an argument that the WWE CW World Heavyweight title has an even lower spot in the history books than the 247 title does, as one wasn't portrayed as being the top prize of a brand. But when it comes to the one which served as the zombie version of what was once Philly's top prize, it most certainly did try to present itself as being on such a level of importance. So when the whole thing went the way of the dodo at the start of 2010, it wasn't unexpected and it certainly wasn't missed. In fact, today most people try to forget the WWE and the WWE World Heavyweight title it spawned ever happened. >> And here's the crazy thing. Iconic wrestlers held the title. They did. CM Punk, Eddie, I mean, not Eddie, uh, Chavo, you know, Mark Henry, you know, legends in the business. Kane, they've held the title, but at that point, the title, it just ECW was the third brand that people didn't really care about no more. It wasn't meant to be taken any type of serious at all. It It just wasn't. So, if you were holding that championship, you could only hope that at some point you would move up the ladder. It wasn't the goal to become ECW champion in WWE. it just wasn't. >> And the same will no doubt be said about our next entry as time goes on. Two belts which have only just been deactivated by WWE as of September 2026. What are we talking about here? By the men's and women's WWE speed titles. Of course, forgot about those. >> Yes, this is a two for one entry. But just because there's two belts to talk about, it doesn't mean that adds to any more value. Because in the men's and women's WWE speed titles, what you have are two of the least important prizes in memory. That's right. If you only watch Raw and Smackdown, then there's a good chance you've never even heard of these ones, as they were never referenced or seen on either of those shows, even when the champions were appearing. >> Why was that? Well, because at least initially they were Twitter exclusive titles with the gimmick being that the matches which were for the gold would only have a 5minute time limit and would be aired exclusively on the social media platform. Obviously then you can see why fans didn't exactly take to these ones. So little value would the men's and women's WWE speed titles have after a while. In fact, when the show was cancelled and they were moved over to NXT instead, it got little interest from the audience. And that's probably why as of the September 1st, 2026 episode of NXT, both the men's and women's versions of these unloved sets of gold have been deactivated with it not looking likely that they'll ever be returning again at any point in the future. Could anything have made them more prestigious during their relatively short existence? Well, yeah, if they were referenced or shown on the main roster, that might have helped. That way, more people would have known they existed. After all, it's hard to get excited about a belt when you don't even realize it's a thing. But let's move away from WWE for a moment and over to World Championship Wrestling instead. As it's there, we find our next example of a belt which had absolutely no prestige. In the case of this one, however, that's understandable as even if it had been advertised more, there was simply no time for it to become anything of note. Why is that? Let's find out right now by looking at the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles. >> Yeah, many fans never even heard of these belts. Yeah. >> And the reason for that is because they were around for such a short time during an era of World Championship Wrestling when no one was watching anymore. It all started in 2001. The point where after 2000 saw the worst year of creative any wrestling company has ever endured befall the Atlanta territory. They were left on life support and desperately trying to make it through to the next day. What made the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team title so irrelevant? Well, because they were never going to be treated with any degree of importance in that company. Sure, WCW had made the singles cruiserweight division a jewel in the crown of the company back in [clears throat] the mid to late 90s, but even that one was only going to be pushed so far. And come 2001, with so many of the best cruiserweights having left and gone to the WWF already, a tag team division certainly wasn't going to be able to get off the ground. But that wasn't even the biggest issue with the WCW Cruiserweight tag team titles. No, the biggest issue was the fact that even if The Division had been there, and even if the company had been more inclined to treat it like something which was main event level, it was never going to be able to go far because there was the obvious glaring problem of the company going under only 8 days after they were created. >> Damn, >> that's right. These are prizes which barely lasted a week before they were deactivated. That might be some kind of record. So, when we talk about prestige, it's hard to get less prestigious than this. But then to be fair, WCW were putting out titles with very little prestige attached to them years before this. And we say that because it was all the way back in 1991 that they introduced the also very short-lived gold, which serves as our next entry, the WCW World Six-man Tag Team Championship. >> This I didn't know about either. >> The idea of having trios titles isn't a bad idea in itself. No, the National Wrestling Alliance had such straps for a long time, and modern promotions such as AEW and Ring of Honor have all found varying degrees of success with similar prizes. But one thing they all knew that WCW apparently didn't back in 1991 was that in order to make a trio's division work, you have to actually have a division that's made up of more than thrown together teams. Something which could be done via full-time trios or just fellow stable members filling up the ranks. And in this period of the Atlanta territory, there just wasn't enough of that going around to make the whole idea work. Sure, WCW could have thrown together some mainers into super teams in order to make things feel more important, as the NWA was known to do from time to time, but evidently, this wasn't a card they wanted to play back then. And that had a disastrous effect on the importance of these six-man straps right away because if mainveners didn't want them, then they were already going to feel lesser. Still, it could have worked anyway if you had people like the fabulous Freeirds dominating things with a strong list of challengers. But alas, those strong challengers were nowhere to be seen in 1991. And so it was that in December of that year, less than 12 months after they'd been created, the WCW World Six-man Tag Team Championships would be gone. Yes, that there would be a brief attempt made to bring them back in 1992, but that idea was scrapped before it could ever make it to screen. Needless to say, then this only adds to the lack of prestige these belts have. Honestly, they have to be among the least prestigious titles World Championship Wrestling ever had on their books. As in the grand scheme of things, they meant absolutely nothing. So, little did they mean, in fact, like with the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles, many people won't even remember they ever existed at all today. Could they have been more? Maybe if they'd come along at a different point in the territo's history, then yes. But that wasn't the way things went back in 1991. Still, at least being such lowv value prizes does mean that the WCW World Sixman Tag Team Championships are in good company. And we say that because they can stand right there alongside every other example we've looked at today. As one of the things no one ever really wanted to win all that much, especially not compared to the other belts around. [laughter] >> Hey, bro. Look, there's definitely been some uh some uh titles uh that have been created that just didn't live up to the expectations of the certain promoters. The the drinking one, the beer drinking uh championship uh title, that's never knew that was a thing in TNA. That's [ __ ] hilarious. But hey, comment down below. Let me know some other wrestling related videos y'all want me to check out. I definitely will. I appreciate all love you guys have shown on channel road to 200k. Appreciate y'all keeping me. See you on the next one. Peace.