Different Designs To The ECW World Championship TItle Belt
This video gives a history of the ECW heavyweight championship, from the 1992 "Eastern" era all the way to the final original "Extreme" era (January 2001). It then goes into the WWE-ECW era's belt designs.
It is interesting to see the history of the belt and how it changed looks over the years. This resource also covers other ECW championship belt designs such as the FTW, tag team, TV championship and other belt designs:
Additionally, this resource discusses why the early NWA Eastern heavyweight championship belt looks so different in the various photos during ECW's early years:
The first title known as the National Wrestling Alliance Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight title began use when Jimmy Snuka defeated Sal Bellomo after the two were finalists from separate battle royals. Jimmy Snuka won the title on April 25, 1992 and received a five plate title belt made by Mike Vartanian. The belt is pretty much an exact copy of NWA-ECW's forerunner Tri-State Wrestling Alliance's Heavyweight title. The only differences being that the NWA-ECW's main plate featured the promotions name and had areas painted blue. During this belt's period of use, it was treated badly and was grinded, repainted, had jewels placed on the main plate, which would explain why it appears different in almost every photo of it. By the time the title was replaced, it was in a very bad state and two of the side plates were broken off/missing. -- https://prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/ECW_Championship
It was interesting to see how the ECW World Championship belt changed over the years. The details about each design and how they evolved during different eras were really cool. It brought back a lot of wrestling memories.
The company's first design for the belt, won first by Jimmy Snuka and then won the next day by Johnny Hot Body, was a near copy of the old Tri-State Wrestling Alliance (TWA) title belt. This likely is because of the short notice from the time TWA folded (early January 1992) and ECW's first show (February 25, 1992). Tod Gordon, ECW's founder, had been a minority owner (or at least financial backer) of TWA at the time the promotion closed.