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I think the new belt is sick. I like how its big like the Heavyweight Title.   whoever holds it will have their logos as the side pieces on it too which I think is cool.  
 
Not really too big on the new belt. certainly rather have it then the spinner

would have rathered them bring back winged eagle, attitude era or the undisputed belt but im still happy with the change
 
New belt isn't much better than the previous IMO. But I didnt think the old one was so bad to begin with. It's whatever...
 
4wrestling said:
Non-Raw report from Lafayette

By Joel O'Brien

Just got back from tonight's RAW show in Lafayette, Louisiana and thought id drop you a live report.

The crowd was a pro-family crowd tonight. Lots of kids and a ton of "old" fans who loved wrestling back in the 90s and are here for their children. The crowd was also slow to warm up to the nights festivities which made the Sat Morning Slam matches hard to transcribe well on TV. However, by the end of the night, Lafayette LOVED WWE programing and were into almost everything in the last hour and a half.

Sat Morning Slam Results:

Natalya def AJ w/ Ziggler on commentary: both girls worked hard, especially Natalya but this was a BAD match to get the crowd ready for the night. No reaction what so ever. Without any interference by Dolph, Natalya reversed a AJ pin attempt to win.

Daniel Bryan def Barret w/ Kane on commentary: Completely on the other side of the spectrum, these two put on one of the best matches that will air on Sat Morning Slam. Great back and forth action for 6 minutes that had the fans standing at the end of it. Barret succumed to the No Lock, Bryan celebrated by climbing the announce table and comedically getting into Kane's face. Good action and worth catching this Sat morning.

Random observations:

- Opening segment ZAPPED the energy from the crowd. The minute they heard they wernt getting Punk vs Cena, most fans sat there emotionless for a good hour. The only things that got any reaction at all was (shockingly) Miz getting the tap out victory with the Figure 4 and the Finish to the Ziggler/Del Rio match (which was a carbon copy of the Main Event Match these two had last Weds). This was a shame because there was some good to great wrestling on this show.

- The worst segment to suffer under this crowd was the Jack Swagger video package and in-ring segment. The fans were indifferent about Zeb Coulter and could care less about what he was talking about. It also didnt help that his promo seem to go for close to 3hrs! I don't have high hopes for this angle connecting with todays teenage fanbase.

- The Shield's victory over Jericho/Sheamus/Ryback was the turning point. Fans LOVED Y2J and loved chanting "Feed Me More" even more! Each time the babyfaces made their hot tags, the building came unglued. Great action capped off with an angle people care about.

- Rock was the most over person in the building by far and his segment was eaten up live. While the unvealing of the new WWE Championship belt got a mixed reaction, Rock had no problem getting the fans back into the show. The man has an uncanny ability to make the audience do what he wants them to.

After RAW went off the Air:

- Cody Rhodes came out and tried to get a look at the new championship belt, but got shut down by Rock. Rock proceded to ask a bunch of fans, Servicemen, Michael Cole AND a kid with a fake moustache if he should Rock Bottom Rhodes. Everyone answered 'Yes'. He teased it forever, but sent the crowd home happy with a Rock Bottom and The People's Elbow. A nice end to a fun night of WWE programing.
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I understand it was a pro family crowd, but they were awful.

You have to wonder if the WWE looks at how people react during live events and make decisions as to whether or not they go back there in the immediate future.
 
since we talking about belts..i want the "big gold" belt..but paying 320 for a replica is alot, you guys think it is worth getting the commemorative belt for 160? or is it cheap
 
ROBPZEE612 said:
6 rings MJ said:
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How come the blue strap AE belt didn't last long? :nerd:
For some reason, I was never a fan of the winged eagle belt. :\
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They debuted the Smoking Skull belt, but Vince didnt like it so they used it soley as Austins belt, but Rock & Foley also held it. Then when Rock won the title, they reconstructed a new belt with the new non block WWF logo.
 
Article WWE.com has on how they made the new belt.
http://www.wwe.com/inside/the-making-of-the-new-wwe-title-26092146

It was the guys from “American Choppers” who really made it happen. Without Paul Teutul Sr. and his team over at Orange County Choppers, there’s a chance the WWE creative department’s concept for the new WWE Title would never have worked.

But maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Let’s start at the beginning. Some 18 months ago on the second floor of WWE’s corporate offices in Stamford, Conn., WWE’s Senior Vice President of Creative Services Stan Stanski received a request. WWE was ditching the “spinner” version of the WWE Title that had polarized WWE fans since John Cena introduced it back in April 2005. In its place? Well, something new. What that meant was up to Stanski and company to figure out, but where do you start when you’re about to remake sports-entertainment’s most vital piece of hardware?

“The first thing we do is exhale,” Stanski told WWE.com. “Then we think: What are we really up against and what are we looking to do?”

During our conversation, a prototype version of the new WWE Championship was splayed out on the desk in front of Stanski like a cherished newborn. But a year and a half ago, the Senior Vice President and his creative team only had opinions. There was talk of a red leather strap and even a title affixed with door hinges on both sides, but one thing was certain — they were going to turn wrestling tradition on its cauliflower ear.

“Our idea was never to take a step back or do something predictable or expected,” Stanski said. “We wanted to evolve the brand and create something that’s never been done before.”

The group wasn’t necessarily looking to reinvent the wheel — the championship would look like a championship — but the globes, eagles and whatever else WWE fans had grown accustomed to seeing in bronze on a title would be replaced by new ideas.

“You don’t always know what a traditional title might represent,” Stanski pointed out. “We wanted you to know immediately that this was the WWE Championship.”

Stanski’s plan to make the title instantly recognizable led the team to take the iconic WWE “W” — which was barely legible on older variations of the championship, but front and center on the “spinner” version — and make it so big and jewel-encrusted that it wouldn’t look out of place on the end of an MC’s gold chain.

But there was also an urge to use the traditional aspects of the title — namely the metal plates and the leather strap — in a unique way. Most championships have their logos and symbols etched into the face of the plates themselves. It was creative director John Jones who thought of cutting the WWE logo out of metal so that the black strap underneath would show through. How to go about doing that was another question entirely.

“As an artist or a designer who creates things, you get into the engineering of what’s really doable?” Stanski said. “What we found really quickly was most of the title manufacturers were afraid to touch it. They said it couldn’t be done.”

Where others saw an obstacle, Dave Millican saw an opportunity. An unsung hero of the sports-entertainment set, the self-proclaimed “Ace of Belts” was a master at taking a strip of animal hide and a few precious metals and molding them into something men were willing to fight for. Millican was up for the challenge, but his early prototypes had issues — mainly with impractical weight stemming from the zinc that was used.

That’s when Jones thought of Orange County Choppers. Back in 2008, the creative director had collaborated on a custom WrestleMania XXIV bike with the motorcycle manufacturers from the hit reality show “American Choppers.” Years later, Jones recalled seeing a state-of-the-art 3D printer in their facilities. The type of baffling technology that makes it apparent that we are indeed living in the future, the printer allowed the guys at OCC to create custom motorcycle parts by cutting their three-dimensional designs out of a hunk of aluminum.

“Orange County Choppers’ involvement brought this whole process into the 21st century,” Jones explained. “We gave them our designs and they were able to feed it into their machines and produce these plates for us that are much stronger than the brass plates that we would have gotten from a title builder.”

The bike shop created a metal “W” that was both lightweight and durable, but it still needed to be turned into a championship. So OCC sent their finished product to Dave Millican, who set about intricately etching WWE logos into the title’s leather strap and carefully affixing 228 gems to its plates. When he was finished with this painstaking process, The Rock had a new WWE Championship — which makes this all sound a lot easier than it was.

More than $50,000 went into the preparation and production of this title as the creative team struggled with Internet leaks, impractical ideas and a proposed WrestleMania XXVIII unveiling that didn’t come true. The renders of far-out ideas and rejected concepts that Stanski revealed to us — which WWE.com will post on the site in the coming weeks — spoke to both the staggering creativity and unthinkable man hours that went into all this. At one point, the championship was meant to feature a massive, three-dimensional eagle grasping onto the central WWE logo with its talons. And those two symmetrical gold bars on the sides of the finished title? Those are inspired by an earlier mockup that was offset by miniature rings — a perfect example of how designs evolve in the most unexpected ways.

Still, the most telling part of this WWE Championship can be found in the only word inscribed upon it. While older versions of the title were curiously labeled with inexact terminology like “World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion” or — in the case of the “spinner” — the verboten “Champ,” the new WWE Title spells things out clearly with the word “Champion” in all caps across the bottom like a declarative, final statement.

And that’s exactly how WWE’s creative department views their finished work. As they see it, this is the definitive version of sports-entertainment’s most revered prize and the last one they will need to produce.

“From an iconic standpoint, we want this to stick around for a while,” production director Liz Montgomery told us. “The people will know this is the WWE Championship.”
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I would like to see the bolded part even though it seems over the top :lol:

Photoshoot of the new belt
http://www.wwe.com/inside/new-wwe-championship-photos

I have to admit, the belt is growing on me already.
 
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AirThompson said:
ROBPZEE612 said:
6 rings MJ said:
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How come the blue strap AE belt didn't last long? 8o
For some reason, I was never a fan of the winged eagle belt. :\[/quote]

They debuted the Smoking Skull belt, but Vince didnt like it so they used it soley as Austins belt, but Rock & Foley also held it. Then when Rock won the title, they reconstructed a new belt with the new non block WWF logo.[/quote]
The smoking skull belt occurred during Austin's 2nd title run though.The strap was change to black sometime
during Austin's 1st title run.
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Mcflyy said:
Article WWE.com has on how they made the new belt.
http://www.wwe.com/inside/the-making-of-the-new-wwe-title-26092146
It was the guys from “American Choppers” who really made it happen. Without Paul Teutul Sr. and his team over at Orange County Choppers, there’s a chance the WWE creative department’s concept for the new WWE Title would never have worked.

But maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Let’s start at the beginning. Some 18 months ago on the second floor of WWE’s corporate offices in Stamford, Conn., WWE’s Senior Vice President of Creative Services Stan Stanski received a request. WWE was ditching the “spinner” version of the WWE Title that had polarized WWE fans since John Cena introduced it back in April 2005. In its place? Well, something new. What that meant was up to Stanski and company to figure out, but where do you start when you’re about to remake sports-entertainment’s most vital piece of hardware?

 
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Dude thought he was slick with the subtle name change.

I see you.
 
Guys, remember when The Miz teased a title change during his WWE Championship run? But then all he did was turn the WWE logo upside down to resemble a "M" for Miz? Oh man. What a rib!
 
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