10 Times Wrestlers Held Championship Belts Hostage
5. Alundra Blayze - WWE Women's Champion
It wasn't a hostage for very long.
The moment the renamed-Madusa dropped WWE's Women's Championship into a helpfully-placed waste bin live on a December 1995 edition of Nitro meant way more than the sum of its parts. A ratings war that had already turned testy suddenly started smashing supposedly sacred tenets, much in the same way Vince McMahon had when he first took on the territories in the 1980s.
It was Bischoff's a*sshole inguinity and Blayze's bravery that made the moment so, but the entire thing was far more successful in burying McMahon than it was the belt.
The Chairman had thrown in the towel on his rebooted women's division by the end of 1995, doing away with a push for Alundra Blayze that had been stop-start for most of her two full time years with the company. In a rare case of The Chairman conceding defeat on something when he was operating at his most stubborn, he wasn't a devil for the details. Blayze was leaving the company, but he'd forgotten to check that she hadn't stolen the stationery.