Championship belt

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A Championship Belt is used primarily in combat sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling to signify the champions of the promotion or company,much like the Vince Lombardi Trophy or The Stanley Cup

Boxing

In boxing, the individual organizations such as The World Boxing Council, The World Boxing Associaion, the Internatonal Boxing Federation and The World Boxing Organization each have their own unique championship belt that are awarded to the champions of each weight class. Boxers, especially the World Champions, strive to win the belt of all 4 organizations to unify their weight divisons.

Professional Wrestling

Unlike Professional Boxing, Professional Wrestling has numerous World Champions and even more regionalized and specialized Championship Belts. The generally universally recognized World Championship Belts are those of World Wrestling Entertainment, The National Wrestling Alliance, and to a lesser extent Ring Of Honor.The National Wrestling Alliance recognizes numerous regional Championship Belts such as The NWA North American Championship and The NWA British Commonwealth Championship. World Wrestling Entertainment currently has 2 Champions. The WWE Championship is the main championship belt of it's RAW brand and The World Heavyweight Championship is the main championship belt of the Smackdown brand. Both brands also have their own seperate tag team Championship Belts and each has a lesser belt. The RAW brand has The Intercontinental Championshipand Smackdown hasThe United States Championship

Specialized Championship Belts

Professional Wrestling also has numerous specialty championship belts. The most well known ones are the now defunctWWE Hardcore Championship, The NWA World Television Championship and the Ring Of Honor Pure Championship. These belts particular championship would be contested under different rules and stipulations to make that championship more unique.

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