ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship

ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship

Infobox championship
championshipname=ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship



image_size=150px
caption=Chris Chetti with the first version of the ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship
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promotion=ECW
NWA Mid-West
Maryland Championship Wrestling
brand=
created=May 14, 1998
mostreigns=Taz
firstchamp=Taz
longestreign=Chris Chetti (236 days)
shortestreign=Danny Doring (1 day)
oldest=
youngest=
heaviest=
lightest=
pastnames=Brooklyn World Championship
titleretired=1. March 21, 1999
2. July 16, 2003
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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.

History

Taz announced the creation of the FTW Heavyweight Championship on May 14, 1998. Frustrated by his inability to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship from Shane Douglas, who was at the time absent and refusing to face him, Taz created and defended his own World title, billing himself as the "real" World champion.

Taz lost the title only once, intentionally pulling 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 Heavyweight Championship title belt.

The FTW title was resurrected by Chris Chetti, who introduced the title to NWA Midwest on November 23, 2002 after losing the promotion's BMF Championship (essentially a hardcore championship). Chetti defended it in Maryland Championship Wrestling in 2003 and lost it to Danny Doring on the final MCW show on July 16, 2003 when Doring defeated MEWF Champion Romeo Valentino and Chetti in a three-way match to unify their titles with his MCW Heavyweight Championship. The FTW title was subsequently abandoned.

Notes

When the title was first created, the FTW belt was a duplicate ECW Television Championship belt, with its strap spray-painted orange, and "FTW" stickers placed over the ECW logos. A few months later, that belt design was abandoned and a new, original FTW belt was introduced, with a "TAZ" logo engraved in the belt's centerplate.

According to Taz on the "Rise and Fall of ECW" DVD, when he lost the new belt in a match against Sabu, Sabu was legitimately upset backstage over Taz's name being permanently displayed on the belt. From then on, whenever Sabu had the belt with him, he would cover the Taz logo with athletic tape and write "SABU" on it in magic marker.

Title history

References

* [http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ftwecw.html Solie's title histories]

External links

* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/titles/ecw/ftw.html ECW FTW Championship at Online World of Wrestling]


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