Considering I had the World Championship belts for the WWF and ECW from the late 90s into mid 2000s era, it was inevitable that I would need to get the WCW World Championship belt eventually. An opportunity arose when I saw one for sale on Ebay with an egregiously high Buy It Now price and an unknown reserve attached to it. I knew what I had wanted to spend and I honestly didn’t think it had a chance to break the reserve considering that the Buy It Now price was almost twice what I had in mind, but it turns out that my Hail Mary bid ended up nicking the reserve by three cents, making me the winner to a Big Gold Belt.
And the thing is this is actually a WCW belt and not one of the replicas from WWE after they had acquired all of the WCW assets. Nowhere on the belt is a WWE logo or emblem anywhere, and even still had a Bill Goldberg nameplate attached to it.
So with the addition of the WCW World Championship to my collection, that makes my eighth championship belt. I said I would be done after five, since my belt shelf only had five shelves on it, but then my best friend got married, and I saw an opportunity to get us tag team titles, which pushed me to six. Eventually, the retro-integration of the Intercontinental belt inspired me to track down one of those, which brought me to an ugly and uneven seven championship belts.
Although I’ve said it several times already, I think I might be done. Eight is a round number, but the truth of the matter is that I can’t really think of two more belts that I would want. I could think of one other belt I’d want, which would be the ECW Television Championship, but that would put me at an odd number of belts, and then I’d have to get a tenth belt. And the last thing I’d really want to do is force myself to get a tenth belt that I wasn’t really that involved with, not to mention that so many of the current belts aren’t that appealing to me, nor would I want a current iteration of something I already have.
Who really knows if I’ll hold to it this time, considering how many times I’ve already said that the last belt was the last belt. I’m mulling around the idea to actually instead of arduously seeking out a shelf with more shelves to put belts on, that I should considering making my own. Considering it’s essentially just wood with legs in between them, I have to wonder just how hard it would actually be to recreate it, with more shelves?
But man, I don’t know what’s going to happen if I stumble across an ECW TV title at a reasonable cost. Maybe I should make the shelf to house nine belts.
