>>10130033I’ll explain:
The thing you’re calling the “original championship from which all others are descended” has no real lineage and sired none. It was a prop for a Hackenschmidt match and then it became the old timey version of Taz’s FTW belt. Something for Gotch to carry around. He retired with it, that’s really the end of it. He suggested a bout between two people but there was no promotional body country wide let alone world wide. Within a year there were half a dozen people and territories laying claim to it. If you are truly Reddit and care about the prestigious lineage of fake fighting fashion accessories then instead of trying to force there to be some lineage (there isn’t, not just with the original, but the NWA Worlds which also went defunct before it properly folded into a different belt) just do what a real sport like boxing does and trace the Lineal World Champion. It’s actually a lot more interesting (if you’re autistic)
