10 Super Rare Times WWE Promoted Rival Titles
8. Ric Flair Moves To New York
The guttural howl one imagines emerged from Vince McMahon's office the night Alundra Blayze dumped the WWE Women's Championship in a bin on Nitro makes for the sort of mind scenario that could power a private plane.
Not least because of the raging, rampant hypocrisy of it all.
Yes, Eric Bischoff was more than keen to break a few old unwritten rules as the Monday Night Wars kicked off, but very few of them were ones that hadn't been tampered with before. Especially when it came to belt stuff.
WWE tried to have their cake and eat it with the signing of Ric Flair in 1991, particularly because they could use the inanimate object he was synonymous with before they got the 'Nature Boy' himself. Bobby Heenan parading the belt around was inspired - he championed it, but nobody was seen as sleazier than 'The Brain'.
An ingenious way to bury-but-not-really-honest the other side's richest prize, Flair's incredible WWE Championship-winning promo at the Royal Rumble several months later only heaped more dirt on the iconic strap.