10 MORE Strange Things WWE Champions Did With The Belt

5. Kevin Nash & Scott Hall's Belt Basketball

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An infamously horrendous bit of belt abuse made darkly amusing due to the perpetrators, this game of basketball with WCW's Television Championship made a mockery of legacy and prestige in a company rapidly destroying both.

The Outsiders seemingly arrived at the pointlessness of the belt on the spot, which would be more generous than to assume - as was actually the case - that this was planned. When talking about defending his United States gold, Hall was asked about the other around his waste.

After calling "the piece of tin" "useless" he set up a 1v1 with Nash, who dunked it in the bin as listless interviewer Chavo Guerrero (!) commentated on it as if he wasn't sick of his life too.

It's too rooted in cynicism to be one of those charmingly self-effacing Kliq tales, this one. Both were old enough to know better but rich enough to not care, and WCW was left to pick up the pieces (or in Jim Duggan's case, the belt itself, from that same bin) in the aftermath.

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