Anyone who has been visiting this site for a while knows that I’m a long term pro wrestling fan thanks to Showtime getting me hooked back while I was young and impressionable.  I rarely watch wrestling anymore but one of the things that always held the most mystique for me as a fan was the championship belts.  These fabled emblems of leather and gold were always intriguing, maybe because as a kid they never really spent alot of time focusing the camera on the belts (or selling anything that even remotely resembled them, anyone remember those horrible foam strap belts from the 80′s?).  It was always major news for me if they happened to actually change one of the belts as they did when Hogan introduced the classic Winged Eagle design of the World Championship.

Anyways, last Monday night I found myself doing a little channel surfing and I stopped on Monday Night Raw long enough to see an old Bret Hart walking down the isle with new WWE Tag Team championship belts!  I couldn’t get a very good view of them but they looked, well different is the word I would use, so off to the internet I went.  This is about a big a deal to me as a pro sports team changing uni’s.  I couldn’t find any glimpses or mentions of the new straps.  I gave up only to rekindle my search a couple of days later where I finally found what I was looking for, behold the new WWE Tag Team Championship belts…

Yeah I got nothing, seriously spartan helmets?  We came up with silver spartan hemlets?  After the spinner design of the World Championship, the Diva’s tramp stamp belt and the recent ECW Tin Foil World Championship…well lets just say maybe I don’t want them to introduce any new belts anymore…