LionDen
08-18-2014, 08:42 PM
New belt notes:
Tonight's Monday Night Raw will feature a segment where new WWE World Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is presented a new championship belt featuring the company's new logo.
The WWE version of the "Big Gold Belt" will be retired and the new version of the WWE title will replace the one featuring the "Scratch" logo, as WWE will retire that logo officially as of tonight's Raw as well.
Brock Lesnar popped up on TMZ.com last night noting that he intended to merge the two championship belts so he only had to carry around one. Lesnar was playing into tonight's plans.
Several weeks ago, John Cena handed the "Big Gold" belt to Ric Flair which was meant to symbolically retire that belt, but then the decision was made to keep it around until Summerslam. This will be the first time since 1985 that a version of that belt is not active in a promotion. For more on the history of that belt, check out the great Dick Bourne book The Big Gold Belt (http://www.thebiggoldbelt.com/).
Tonight's Monday Night Raw will feature a segment where new WWE World Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is presented a new championship belt featuring the company's new logo.
The WWE version of the "Big Gold Belt" will be retired and the new version of the WWE title will replace the one featuring the "Scratch" logo, as WWE will retire that logo officially as of tonight's Raw as well.
Brock Lesnar popped up on TMZ.com last night noting that he intended to merge the two championship belts so he only had to carry around one. Lesnar was playing into tonight's plans.
Several weeks ago, John Cena handed the "Big Gold" belt to Ric Flair which was meant to symbolically retire that belt, but then the decision was made to keep it around until Summerslam. This will be the first time since 1985 that a version of that belt is not active in a promotion. For more on the history of that belt, check out the great Dick Bourne book The Big Gold Belt (http://www.thebiggoldbelt.com/).