10 MORE Strange Things WWE Champions Did With The Belt

4. The Giant Wears Both Belts

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There aren't enough hours in the day to stare at this picture of The Giant, barely three years into his career as a professional wrestler and visually operating at something of a prime physical peak.

Paul Wight's gym selfies over the last years have revealed the super-sized abs typically obscured by his gear (or, since jumping to AEW, his suit and the AEW Dark: Elevation commentary table), but there's a bizarre practicality at the heart of this specific flex.

As lovingly noted and shared by @DeepCutsWCW, the company juggled two pairs of tag team title belts between 1998 and 1999, and while Wight's partner Scott Hall sported one of each for the craic, The Giant kept it slicker by arriving for this particular WCW Saturday Night bout fronting both.

It's the sort of thing WWE could and should do again, though relatively recent precedent suggests they won't - Braun Strowman easily battered The Bar at WrestleMania 34, but had to pull Nicholas Cone from the crowd to be his partner from the night. 'The Monster Among Men' could probably do a better job pulling off two belts than he ever did the single Universal strap in 2020.

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