10 Super Rare Times WWE Promoted Rival Titles
1. Taz Brings The ECW Championship To SmackDown
The story was super cool until it was slightly overblown on repeat airings, so here's the super quick version before we get to the bit where it ends as most of them do - with Vince McMahon getting what he wants.
WWE wrestler Tazz popped back to ECW belt from the departing-for-WCW Champion Mike Awesome. A week later, he returned to drop it to Tommy Dreamer, who in turn fell to Justin Credible, concluding the last genuinely buzz-worthy time in the belt's history. In the seven days between that, 'The Human Suplex Machine' wrestled WWE Champion Triple H in a cool coming together of the champions...and lost clean after botched interference on his behalf by the bumbling Dreamer.
So say the blushing accounts in DVD retrospectives, it's all a bit of a miss. McMahon admits he probably shouldn't have booked it. Tazz hadn't been there long enough to question it. Triple "am I f*cking going over?!" H regrets f*cking going over in it.
And this is the real story of what WWE actually thinks of all wrestling that isn't WWE.