Chrome2279
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Anyone know when this happend? Who did he defeat? And why wasn’t it acknowledged?
Antonio Inoki was WWF Champion? Why wasn’t it acknowledged?
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Anyone know when this happend? Who did he defeat? And why wasn’t it acknowledged?
BlackAchilles
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There have been a few non-canon world title wins back in the day
Antonio Inoki's WWF Championship Reign WWE Refuse To Acknowledge
Antonio Inoki is one of the most important figures in Japanese Wrestling history. In fact, he is one of the most respected wrestlers in the history of the business. He founded New Japan Pro Wrestling
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There's a article covering it. To be fair, Vince treated the WWE before 84 like an afterthought. It never happened.
Amare's Right Hook
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I was all a dream.
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Moolah and Backlund lost their titles a few timed during their reigns too. Its just something Vince did. Maybe theyll acknowledge Flair's other wins too now that La Nariz is in charge
CBoz
We Are NXT!
Would this be on Vince Sr. tho?Antonio Inoki's WWF Championship Reign WWE Refuse To Acknowledge
Antonio Inoki is one of the most important figures in Japanese Wrestling history. In fact, he is one of the most respected wrestlers in the history of the business. He founded New Japan Pro Wrestling
There's a article covering it. To be fair, Vince treated the WWE before 84 like an afterthought. It never happened.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
There's been a lot of international hotshot reigns throughout wrestling that weren't counted. Flair would be like a 20 time world champion if the NWA recognized a few occassions where he lost it on tour and then won it back like 3 days later
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Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Gifting world title wins to Japanese promoters/stars so they could boast about it locally happened a couple of times. The U.S promotion would just ignore it or claim it wasn't a valid win due to fukkery/controversy/interference. It was much easier to pull it off in the 70's and early 80's, it showed goodwill between promotions and gave you political points with key people.
Not really when it was a legit business type of affair for promotions, versus it being in a story line through the eyes of Vince Jr.
Yeah Naitch is like a 21-25 time champ I dont feel like googling the shyt right now but its way more than 16
I believe one of the OG black wrestlers won the title (i'm probably thinking NWA) at like a house show before. I believe someone like Carlos Colon was an unofficial NWA champion too because of some Puerto Rico house show tours back in the day.
edit: it was Jack Veneno in the DR
edit: it was Jack Veneno in the DR
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Pretty sure Carlos Colon won all the World titles every time a champ visited Puerto Rico. Ric Flair dropped the belt for sure but they never count and Flair had the belt back on tv after the weekend. Just common to do back then.
True Blue Moon
Superstar
Taka Michinoku won the title in Japan in 98 but they put the belt back on Stone Cold by the time the next live episode of Raw is War rolled around
I almost forgot WWE existed before he bought everyone.Antonio Inoki's WWF Championship Reign WWE Refuse To Acknowledge
Antonio Inoki is one of the most important figures in Japanese Wrestling history. In fact, he is one of the most respected wrestlers in the history of the business. He founded New Japan Pro Wrestling
There's a article covering it. To be fair, Vince treated the WWE before 84 like an afterthought. It never happened.
Andre was the main man right? And he just was loaned out to different territories...from what I remember reading
Sidenote: was Gorgeous George in the WWF?
Sort of a mixture of Bruno and then Andre before Vince Jr took over.
As far as George being in the WWF. He was more NWA/territory than WWF.