I forget what the 80's NWA title looked like, so it might've been identical to the Big Gold Belt, but the whole BGB thing didn't start until Flair jumped to the WWF in 1991 and wreaked havoc with the NWA/WCW title lineages.
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But they used the Big Gold Belt as the NWA title before that.
After that, the NWA reverted back to the look of the belt that they use now in TNA.
Someone help me out to explain better please?