In the world of sports, awards, trophies, medals, and plaques are known incentives, but belts are restricted up to the limited sports genre, such as boxing, martial arts, and wrestling. 

As its name suggests, sports championship belts are given who wins the championship as per designated rules of the game. Usually, championship belts are of large size and extravagantly designed. The glory and beauty of the belts render them a matter of pride for the winner.

At present, four kinds of sports are offering championship belts, and those are:

  • Boxing
  • Professional Wrestling
  • Mixed Martial Arts
  • Motorsports

Apart from these sports categories, championship belts distribution also recorded in some golf tournaments and rodeo tournaments. Let’s see the top ten (10) best sports championship belts used to given to the winners in 2020.

Boxing Championship Belts

Unlike other sports, boxing is suffering from acute fragmentation due to its four different governing bodies to decide titles/belts and management aspects of the sports. Those major four bodies are:

  1. World Boxing Council (WBC)
  2. World Boxing Association (WBA)
  3. International Boxing Federation (IBF)
  4. World Boxing Organization (WBO)

Let’s know a little bit more about the four major boxing championship belts and organizations.

#1 - WBC (World Boxing Council) Championship Belt

 

 WBC (World Boxing Council) Championship Belt

The green championship belt of WBC depicts the flags of 160+ member countries. However, its categories based on the weight parameter. WBC has nine regional bodies such as 

  • NABF (North American Boxing Federation)
  • OPBF (Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation)
  • EBU (European Boxing Union)
  • ABC (African Boxing Council).

They altogether offer different championships, and hence, belts accordingly. For instance,

  • WBC Silver Championship
  • Diamond Championship
  • Eternal Championship

#2 - "Man of Triumph" Belts by WBA (World Boxing Association)

Man of Triumph Belts by WBA (World Boxing Association)

NBA (National Boxing Association) was founded in the USA in 1921. Later on, in 1963, it turned into the World Boxing Association (WBA) and became an international entity. WBA offers different belts, but its “Man of Triumph” is a highly customized version of its Super Championship belts. Regular champion and interim champion are other titles for WBA championship belts.

#3 - IBF (International Boxing Federation) World Championship Belts

 

IBF (International Boxing Federation) World Championship Belts

International Boxing Federation (IBF) is one of the recognized boxing championship bouts arranging federation. USBA like regional championship organization preceded it.

#4 - WBO (World Boxing Organization) Championship Belts

 

WBO (World Boxing Organization) Championship Belts

World Boxing Organization (WBO) offers boxing championship bouts like other IBHOF partner organizations. It was formed in 1988 due to the breakage of WBA based on the rules applied. 

However, WBO has earned a big prestige by bringing famous champions forth in the game. WBO offers an honorary title of “Super Champion” in any weight class by applying to distinguish criteria. It is a kind of lifetime achievement award. 

Professional Wrestling Championship Belts

Professional wrestling is a form of entertainment rather than a mimic of combat sports. It is a mingling of athletics and theatrical performance. Championship belts for wrestling are in a line of boxing and martial arts. Championship belts designed on plates of precious metals and engraved with the name of title, event, promotion body, and essential info, all on a leather strap. 

With each title, color and designs are varying subtly for the sake of recognition and differentiation. Wrestling championships are often classified into the following.

  • World Championships - WWE Universal Championship Belt
  • Location-specific championships - White WWE Intercontinental Title Belt
  • Weight class championships
  • Gender championships - WWE Raw Women's Championship Belts
  • Gimmick or style championships
  • Tag team championships - 
  • Unsanctioned championships 

#5 - WWE Universal Championship Belt

 

WWE Universal Championship Belt

The design of the WWE universal championship belt went under several changes. Today, it has a heptagonal plate with a large cut of the WWE logo embedded with diamonds. It has gold divider bars to separate side plates from the central plate. 

However, the colors of the leather strap are changing from red to black and now blue based on its classifications.  

#6 - White WWE Intercontinental Title Belt

 

White WWE Intercontinental Title Belt

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is an American integrated media and entertainment company primarily promoting professional wrestling championships and entitle various belts. Out of all, heavyweight wrestling championship belts are highly famous in wrestling sports.

Originally, intercontinental championships were fought between north and south American continents. Later on, the merger of different organizations or federations like WWF and others from different regions of the world established it as an international championship or world championship.

The belt went through various changes time-to-time. Today, it has a white-colored leather strap and gold plates with logo and title engraving. 

#7 - WWE Raw Women's Championship Belts

 

WWE Raw Women's Championship Belts

WWE Raw Women’s championship belts for wrestling is almost akin to WWE Championship belts in design except strap is white and smaller than men’s wrestling championship belts. 

Another apparent change in Raw belt is the central logo sits on the red background instead of black found in men’s belts. 

#8 - World Tag Team Championship (WWE) Belts

 

World Tag Team Championship (WWE) Belts

It is a unique title belt in wrestling thanks to its ability to include multiple players on teams, which are competing for multiple belts. It is found in different formats like 

  • 2-on-2
  • 3-on-3
  • 4-on-4

Out of these, 2-on-2 are highly famous format. Tag team championship has regional modifiers to distinguish further, including

  1. Gimmick modifiers
  2. Gender modifiers
  3. Weight class modifiers

Mixed Martial Arts Championship Belts

MMA or mixed martial arts championship is a combat sport that consists of two categories techniques as a fighting strategy:

  • Striking techniques include kicks, knees, punches, and elbows
  • Grappling techniques, such as clinch holds, pinning holds, submission holds, sweeps, takedowns, and throws.

The popular disciplines of each type include:

  • Stand-up Striking: Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Capoeira, Combat Sambo, Savate, and Wushu Sanshou.
  • Clinch Striking: Judo, Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, Luta Livre, Sambo, and Wushu Sanshou.
  • Ground Control: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sambo, Catch wrestling and Luta Livre. 

#9 - UFC Legacy Championship Belt

 

UFC Legacy Championship Belt

At the center of the UFC belt, a logo was engraved out of highly polished gold. Underneath the logo octagonal or square pattern designed with gold lines. Nearly, 25 stones are embedded in a circular pattern, which is representing 25 years of UFC. Side plates offer space for custom engraving like details of championships, countries, and victories in different championship bouts. 

#10 - King of the Cage (KOTC) Championship Belt

 

KOTC features upcoming and amateur MMA stars and promotes the sports in new generation combat fighters. The belt possesses a heavyweight plate engraved with logo, title, and texts. A leather strap of high quality used to fix the central plate and two side plates. 

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