Every Major Wrestling World Title - Ranked From Least To Most Prestigious

14. NWA World Heavyweight Championship

Considered actual trash in the early 1990s, when Shane Douglas threw it to the floor to put over the renegade philosophy of his breakaway ECW promotion, what was once known as the "Real World's Championship" was accurately nicknamed.

Held only by the best of the best - those able to draw the biggest crowds across most of the United States by putting on the best matches - it was once the very pinnacle of wrestling achievement, a true notion rendered antiquated, filtered as history is through WWE's lens. Since Douglas crossed the line, the title suffered an even more drastic downturn in fortunes, its once impossible lustre only serving to magnify the minuscule credibility of those who tried, haplessly, to sell it as a prize in the pre- and post-TNA eras. Mike Rapada, Kahagas, Rob Conway: all and more were not even deemed worthy of the acclaimed reaches of an independent scene yet to explode. The title lineage became, in effect, a fiendishly difficult question in a pro wrestling quiz; a quaint footnote to a forever-changing industry.

Thought completely dead, it is in fact dormant.

In a quite unbelievable turn of events, it is coveted by Cody, who will challenge for it in front of 10,000 fans on 1 September. Cody was a great worker before his grand reinvention; he convinced many fans that the Intercontinental Title meant something again, purely because he said so and restored its original design.

He may yet do do the same with ten pounds of gold.