10 MORE Strange Things WWE Champions Did With The Belt
3. Wrestlers Take Them To The Opposition
Bundling this into one entry because the two most prominent cases on the 1990s are so famous that they've been laboured upon to the point of exhaustion, even if the moments still play out as dramatic decades later.
When Ric Flair and Alundra Blayze took their top titles to the other side in 1991 and 1995 respectively, they were shots fired in wrestling wars, such was the theoretical prestige of both straps.
'The Nature Boy' didn't lob the Big Gold Belt in a bin of course, but he may as well have done the way news of its placement on Federation television went down back in Atlanta. The subsequent carnage has convinced others to bring another company's gold to their current home.
From Team 3D wearing all the belts in their career during a half-decent TNA run and Rhyno also bringing his original ECW Championship to Impact Zone, to Austin Aries and Kenny Omega having runs as wrestling belt collectors, there's a certain tension to seeing things in wrestling that are where they shouldn't be.
Which is perhaps why a famously affable chap got himself in an awful lot of bother when he inadvertently disgraced the gold...