10 Weirdest Ways To Create A Wrestling Championship
Sometimes it’s a long, strange road to the top.
In legitimate sporting competition, a championship is the ultimate symbol of true achievement in your field. Given that professional wrestling is a work, creating and bestowing a championship upon someone is the ultimate expression of that work: giving meaning to a meaningless hunk of leather and tin. Traditionally, a storyline need for a particular professional wrestling championship is identified, a title is created and a tournament decides the first winner. Thats how the vast majority of pro wrestling titles begin their lives, anyway. But this is professional wrestling - the whole thing is a fiction, so theres no particular reason that an organisation should feel the need to stick to that single way of doing things. And, of course - since this is professional wrestling - sometimes they choose an utterly bizarre way of doing things. This is a business that specialises in delivering bang for your buck, after all. Why would the story of the creation of the championships that drive that entertainment be any different? This article is dedicated to the oddest, most peculiar stories told to bring about a brand new championship in this oddest, and most peculiar industry there is.