10 Most Bizarre Wrestling Title Lineages

1. DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship

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The DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, an avant-garde parody of WWE's old Hardcore Title, is akin to pro wrrstling's version of the Aristocrats joke when on excursion; it's up to the holder to tell their own version of the title loss punchline, and it's considered very disgusting.

Well, it is by J*m C*rnette. Everybody is either mildly amused or doesn't give a sh*t.

Current AEW referee Rick Knox once defeated AEW commentator Excalibur for it. The (inspired) gag was that Excalibur was too exhausted from reading the hardly verbose Ernest Hemingway to stay awake. Perhaps Knox can draw on the memories of that in-ring career triumph whenever he's sore from a Jim Ross b*llocking, not that it lasted longer than Ross would in Kate Quigley: The Young Bucks immediately dethroned him via Superkick.

When booked by its owner, Japan's high-patter Dramatic Dream Team promotion, the lineage becomes drenched in total absurdity, the belt having been held by a pint of beer, a pork bun, a steel ladder, a painting, the title belt itself, a cat, a monkey, a dog, Vince McMahon's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, and Johnny Gargano.

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