10 UGLIEST Wrestling Championships Ever

Jeff Hardy in 2010 wasn't Jeff Hardy.

WWE wouldn't persistently position the younger Hardy brother as a headline talent, his WWE and World Heavyweight title reigns both lasting a month apiece, and his outrageously stuntman-like work ethic being eclipsed in favour of Vince McMahon's reliance on the old guard. Alas, Jeff left WWE, went back to TNA, turned heel, won their World Heavyweight title, and debuted this mutation of a design.

In this instance, the issue with the title wasn't its non-black or white strap; in fact, the purple-brandished strap worked in favour of Hardy. It appeared polished, majestic, imperial almost. Instead, its silver centreplate in the shape of a masked figure's head posed a greater concern. It outwardly characterised a face-painted Jeff Hardy, but you'd be forgiven for presuming it was some exotic alien-like brute derived from the mind of Alien screenplay writer Dan O'Bannon. It's bloodcurdling, both in the sense that it's an eerily nasty design and that it depreciated the TNA World Heavyweight title that was already a laughing stock among the then-fledging Internet Wrestling Community.

At least it only lasted for a few months...

...until Jeff Hardy debuted a similar design upon becoming the champion again, this time as a babyface which only makes this story more outlandish, in 2012!