Hi I don't know much about wwe but why is the belt called

>World champion
>99% of the time it's defended in the US against the same two or three other Americans
>American fake sports

also I stopped watching around 2008/2009..

I got fed up with EVERY match being either interrupted, or disqualified or some bullshit.

Do they still do that?

Literally I remember exactly why I stopped.. EVERY fucking match would get interrupted by some jackass running into the ring from backstage like... "OH NO HERE COMES EDGE!!"

>>912547
Well, only people who could be considered heavyweights held the belt until fairly recently.

>not smothering your face in that ass

CMON

>>912603
Bullshit
>>912553
Blame WCW, it used to be just WWF/E championship

>>912558
I feel like you still watch the show tbqh

>>912558
nah i would say it happens 20-30% of the time now but yea it used to happen a lot more.

It's heavyweight because it's technically the unified belt of wcw and wwe belts, heavyweight because wcw use to have light/cruiser weights, belts remember are props to tell a story. Rey mysterious was once world heavyweight champion and guy was like 163 lbs

>>912547
their use to be a minimum weight for the heavyweight title i believe it was 225-250 because they had a crusierweight title and the maximum was 225 lbs.
They got rid of the cursierweight belt and then the minimum rule went away or stopped enforcing it who knows when.

>>912547
Who cares, it's fake.

>>912706

Fun Fact: Vince insisted they not call Rey "World Heavyweight Champion" and instead call him "World's Champion." Because Vince hates money.

>why is the belt called world heavyweight belt when there are no weight classes
The "Heavyweight" moniker is a bit misleading and goes back to the days when wrestling was widely viewed as a legit competition. At times there have been Junior Heavyweight or Cruiserweight championships alongside the heavyweight belt, but there's no rules restriction against a worker "moving up" a weight class. With that said, promotions usually present their heavyweights as unassailable by the juniors/cruisers. (New Japan explicitly works this way, with their junior heavyweights competing for their own titles until they're deemed worthy of moving up the roster.)

But of course, a worker's billed weight only needs to bear a passing relationship to their actual size.

>why is there a intercontinental belt
Essentially, the intercontinental belt is a means of promoting a worker on the middle of the roster. The title was born in the seventies, first as a North American title and then transformed into an Intercontinental belt by "unification" with a fictional South American Championship. There have been a number of solo titles of a similar character, such as Television Champion, Hardcore Champion, and European Champion.

>US belt
Similar story to the Intercontinental Championship, but it originated in the NWA, then was promoted in WCW. After WCW's collapse, WWF/E bought their assets (including the titles) and this is the only belt to survive as an independent title.

>>912615
>it used to be just WWF/E championship
It started off as the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship, though I suppose you could blame the NWA for that.