{"id":35041,"date":"2013-01-24T21:12:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35041"},"modified":"2020-07-04T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T01:12:40","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=35041","title":{"rendered":"#9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yeah, that lasted what, two weeks?\u00a0 Despite my declaration that I wouldn\u2019t get any more belts, I\u00a0actually did<\/em>\u00a0happen to stumble upon the last belt that I\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0remotely interested in.\u00a0 And much like the Big Gold Belt, it was priced for more than I would be normally willing to pay for it, but it had the option for a Best Offer, and floated a lowball offer that required very little negotiating over ten bucks to come to a selling price.\u00a0 And here we stand: championship belt number nine.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the ECW Television Championship belt, which was made famous when Rob Van Dam won it from Bam Bam Bigelow, and held it for just under two straight years.\u00a0 He never actually lost the belt, and it was stripped from him when he suffered a legitimate broken ankle, and it was apparent that the company couldn\u2019t afford to keep the title off of television when there were storylines to be moved along.\u00a0 But it was 23 months of mostly excellent Rob Van Dam matches of him in his prime, having classic bouts with guys like Jerry Lynn, Lance Storm, Sabu and each of the Dudley Boyz, giving some good legitimacy to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But for reals, this is the last one.\u00a0 Despite my initial protests that I didn\u2019t want to end with an odd number, I honestly for the life of me can\u2019t really think of any other belts that I\u2019d want.\u00a0 I\u2019m not remotely interested in any of the belts in current WWE circulation, nor do I want any current, or previous generation of any particular belt that I currently have.\u00a0 The only belts out there that I would even consider are limited to titles such as WCW Cruiserweight, WWF Light-Heavyweight, ECW Tag, WCW Television or WWF\/WCW Hardcore, and for a variety of reasons, I don\u2019t want any of those.\u00a0 I also have zero interest in any TNA replica belts, or any boxing or MMA championship belts.\u00a0 The ONLY belt I would really be enthusiastic about getting my hands on would be\u00a0this classic OVW World Championship Belt<\/a>, but considering they were like the double-A low-budget minor league affiliates of the WWF for a spell, it\u2019s hard to imagine any actual replicas of their belts were ever made.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve pretty much finished off my collection whether I like the number nine or not.\u00a0 But honestly at this point and with however many hundreds of dollars I\u2019ve blown on expensive and useless replica wrestling belts, I can say that I\u2019m okay with that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, that lasted what, two weeks?\u00a0 Despite my declaration that I wouldn\u2019t get any more belts, I\u00a0actually did\u00a0happen to stumble upon the last belt that I\u00a0was\u00a0remotely interested in.\u00a0 And much like the Big Gold Belt, it was priced for more than I would be normally willing to pay for it, but it had the option … Continue reading #9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,15,54],"class_list":["post-35041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-og","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35043,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35041\/revisions\/35043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}