10 Biggest Wrestling Belt Controversies

4. Ric Flair Bolts With WCW's Belt

1991 was a controversial year for the WCW World Title.

First, Ric Flair dropped the belt to Tatsumi Fujinami on a WCW/New Japan Supershow on 21 March in Tokyo, but the switch was never acknowledged by WCW back in the United States. They said that Fujinami had back-dropped Flair over the top rope and was therefore disqualified. What a cop out.

Later that same year, Ric took the organisation's 'Big Gold Belt' and waltzed off to the WWF after falling out with Jim Herd. He believed he could do so because he'd never been repaid on a $25,000 deposit all NWA Champs had to lay down when they won the thing; technically, the belt Flair had was the NWA version, so he thought he was free to take it to Vince McMahon.

This caused complete chaos back in WCW offices. They knew that Flair knew he was f*cking with them, and they couldn't let him carry their top prize on McMahon's programming without recourse. After some legal battles, the WWF had to stop showing WCW's belt on TV. The whole thing was a mess.