26 Times Wrestling Titles Have Been Disrespected

Forget the "Invasion" angle, for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship had been on WWF television a decade prior to WWF's purchase of WCW.

After a dispute with WCW, Ric Flair, who was at that point the WCW Champion, signed with the WWF, instantly aligning himself with Bobby Heenan and being referred to as "The Real World's Champion".

Flair's issue with WCW was that new the new President, Jim Herd, wanted Flair to take a pay cut, removed him as head booker, and then wanted to change up the Nature Boy's gimmick. Flair wasn't happy with this and would end up getting fired by Herd, even though he was still in possession of the NWA/WCW World Championship.

At that point in time, the World Champion had to put down a reported $25,000 deposit when they won the belt. As Flair had not received this money back, he felt he was perfectly entitled to turn up on WWF TV with the "Big Gold Belt".

In fairness, back when this was happening, the WWF would always pixilate the NWA/WCW World Championship when Flair appeared with it on TV, but everybody knew what title it was... and everyone knew it was a massive FU from both Flair and the WWF to WCW.