7 Big Questions About Impact Becoming GFW
5. What Does This Mean For The Belts?
Yes, the green and silver motif is weird, especially when you're so accustomed to variations on gold, but that's not the issue here.
For their admittedly short histories pre-Impact, the GFW titles have adorned the waists of either TNA loyalists or those truly making a name for themselves on the indies.
Nick Aldis was the only man to wear the GFW Global Championship until Alberto El Patron captured it on Impact.
PJ Black (the former Justin Gabriel) and Sonjay Dutt were GFW Nex*Gen Champions before Cody Rhodes, fresh off ditching the WWE, won the belt, the first of many he would win as a newly liberated star on the rise.
Christina Von Eerie was the sole GFW Women's Champion before Sienna captured it on Impact.
The Bollywood Boyz were the inaugural GFW Tag Team Champions, and may not have even defended the belts before jumping to WWE to compete in the CruiserWeight Classic. (And they were still listed on the GFW roster at that time.) The belts were eventually vacated, then won by a new incarnation of LAX on Impact.
On the other hand, between the NWA Heavyweight Championship and the TNA World Championship, at least half of TNA/Impact's titleholders made their names in WWE, making the promotion feel second class.
Will Jarrett's push to recognize new talent and TNA stalwarts hold, or will the GFW titles follow the old TNA formula?