Every Major Wrestling World Title - Ranked From Least To Most Prestigious

The sight of Austin Aries carrying so many belts doesn't quite carry the same visual heft as the sight of his clear inspiration, Ultimo Dragon. Where the Dragon collected his achievements across the globe as a symbol of his polymath brilliance, Aries is picking up prizes beneath his level: he is pro wrestling's equivalent of a team dominating a football league immediately following relegation.

If you weighed each of these physical belts they, together, would not add up to one ten pounds of gold.

The most prominent of those straps is the Impact Wrestling World Championship, a title that has lost its glow in direct parallel with the organisation that promotes it. Much like its top prize, the entire promotion has the air of a vanity project in 2018. Several men, great wrestling minds and rock star benefactors alike, seemed or seem interested in reviving the brand, all to little or no avail. Impact is stigmatised as a dreaded star-free skyline. That was always its sole selling point, in the halcyon days in which it was considered North America's no. 2 promotion. Despite the Reverse Battle Royals and the Feast Or Fired disasters, there was always a genuine star operating in world class form, or a dream match made real, alerting scorned fans to its lighthouse.

Not so anymore; Impact doesn't even project the significance of a cult independent, irrespective of its not inconsiderable in-ring quality. In-ring quality is the norm in this electrifying era of the art. Since Impact is much of a muchness, and no longer boasts any selling point, it's difficult to buy into even the "unified" World Championship as a World Championship.