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Just updating a Titles spreadsheet thing I've been working on, and wanted to be clear on a few things

 

One is, how many different wrestlers have won the title under different "gimmicks" not a different name change ala Hunter Hearst Helmsley/Triple H or Rocky Miavia/The Rock (yes I know neither won a tag title under the original moniker, but they did win IC belts) where only the official name of the character changed but not the entire gimmick.

 

So far I can only think of is Mankind/Dude Love/Cactus Jack (Foley really did make all three unique and different characters) and Mike Rotoundo/IRS

 

Anyone think of others?

 

Thanks

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Does it count that Edge and Christians wore the Conquistador gear and won them?

 

So did the Hardys, no I'm not counting either because they were revealed rather quickly

 

Also despite Billy Gunn using a different gimmick, he still used the "Billy Gunn" name in the three different Tag Title winning gimmicks actually

 

Smoking Gunns

DX/New Age Outlaws (granted he was an NAO before DX)

Half of the Ambigously Gay "Oh we really aren't gay its all an act" Duo with Chuck Palumbo

 

He also won the KOR as the Assman Billy Gunn (King Ass) and the IC as "The One" Billy Gunn (What the HELL was that anyway? A rip on Luger's "The Total Package" or something?)

 

Re-tooling a character is one thing (Ringmaster/Stone Cold, Rocky/Rock, Helmsley/Triple H), changing how you look and act is another (Sting, JBL), but what Billy Gunn went through is downright crazy.

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Mind if I ask what the story on this spreadsheet is?

 

Fun hobby I was constructing while in college, picked it up here and there, just realized that I hadn't updated the tag team titles since 2001.

 

Basically just seeing who has been the most honored wrestlers in the WWF/WWE and such. Hence the gimmicks questions since generally the title history sites I cross reference just list the gimmick name, not the wrestler's given name or common name if it is the same guy, i.e. Mick Foley is listed as his various character names, not "Mick Foley"

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There's Sean Waltman as 1-2-3 Kid and X-Pac.

 

EDIT: Oh, and one of his partners- Hardcore Holly/Sparky Plugg.

 

Right forgot about X-Pac because, well X-Pac sucks! :lol:

 

Ehem... FWIW Sparky Plugg actually is listed in the aforementioned site as "Bob Holly" interestingly enough

wrestling-titles.com

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Okay, my count is as of 7/2/07 there are 212 different persons to hold at least one of the recongized tag belts on WWWF/WWF/WWE programing

 

WWWF US Tag from 1957-1967 which was abandoned due to then champ Bruno Sammartino winning the Heavyweight belt

 

WWWF International Tag from 1969-1971 except for a run by Tatsymi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura in 1985 who beat Dick Murdoch and Adrian Adonis for the title as part of New Japan's partnership with the WWF

 

WWWF/WWF/WWE World Title that we all know and love since 1971

 

The Smackdown! Tag belts

 

The WCW tag belts starting with Natural Born Thrillerz (Chuck Palumbo/Sean O'Haire) reign untill the Unification match at Survivor Series

 

The NWA World Tag that changed hands twice on WWF TV as part of Jim Cornette's NWA angle which featured The Rock & Roll Express losing it to the Headbangers who then dropped it to Bob Holly and Bart Gunn as the "New Rock & Roll Express" Title was abandoned when the angle was dropped.

 

Okay, here is the list

 

123 Kid/X-Pac

Adrian Adonis

Afa

Al Costello

Al Snow

Andre The Giant

Animal

Antonio Rocca

Arn Anderson

Arnold Skoaland

Ax

Baron Mikel Scicluna

Barry Windham

Bart Gunn

Batista

Bepo

Big Bossman

Big John Studd

Big Show

Bill Miller

Bill Watts

Billy Gunn

Billy Kidman

Billy White Wolf

Bob Backlund

Bob Ellis

Bob Holly

Booker T

Bradshaw

Bret Hart

Brian Kendrick

Brian Knobbs

Bruno Sammartino

Brute Bernard

Brutus Beefcake

Bubba Ray Dudley

Buddy Austin

Buddy Rogers

Bull Buchanan

Charlie Hass

Chavo Guerrero Jr.

Chief Jay Strongbow

Chief Morley

Chip

Chris Benoit

Chris Jericho

Chris Kaynon

Chris Tolos

Christian

Chuck Palumbo

Crash Holly

Dan Basham

Dan Miller

Davey Boy Smith

Dean Ho

Deuce

Diamond Dallas Page

Dick Murdoch

Diesel

Dino Bravo

Dominic Denucci

Domino

Don Curtis

Don McClarity

Doug Basham

Mankind/Dude Love/Cactus Jack

D-Von Dudley

Earthquake

Eddie Guerreo

Edge

Eugene

Faarooq

Geeto

Gene Kiniski

Goldust

Gorilla Monsoon

Grand Master Sexay

Great Scott

Greg Valentine

Haku

Hawk

Haystacks Calhoun

Henry O. Godwinn

Hulk Hogan

Hurricane

Iron Sheik

Ivan Putski

Jack Lanza

Jacques Rougeau

Jeff Hardy

Jeff Jarrett

Jerry Graham

Jerry Saggs

Jerry Valiant

Jim Neidhart

Jimmy Valiant

Joey Mercury

John Cena

John Heidenreich

John Tolos

Johnny Barend

Johnny Jeter

Johnny Nitro

Johnny Valentine

Johnny Valiant

Jules Strongbow

Kane

Karl Gotch

Karl Pierre Oulette

Ken Shamrock

Kengo Kimura

Kenny Dykstra

Kenzo Suzuki

Killer Kowalski

Moondog King

King Curtis Iaukea

Kurt Angle

Lance Cade

Lance Storm

Larry Zybsko

Lou Albano

Lou Bastien

Louis Cerdan

Luke Graham

Mabel

Mark Lewin

Marty Jannetty

Matt Hardy

Mich Mitchell

Miguel Perez

Mike Rotundo/Irwin R. Schyster

Mikey Mondo

Mitsu Arakawa

Mo

Mosh

Mr. Fuji

Mr. Saito

Nickey Nemeth

Nikolai Volkoff

Owen Hart

Pat Barrett

Paul London

Pedro Morales

Phinneus I. Godwinn

Randy Orton

Red Bastien

Rene Goulet

Renee Dupree

Moondog Rex

Rey Mysterio Jr

Ric Flair

Rick Martel

Rick Steiner

Ricky Morton

Rico

Rikishi Fatu

Road Dogg Jesse Jammes

Rob Conway

Rob Van Dam

Robert "Mulligan" Windham

Robert Gibson

Rocky Johnson

Roddy Piper

Rosey

Roy Heffernan

Samu

Scott Steiner

Scotty 2 Hotty

Sean O'Haire

Shawn Michaels

Shelton Benjamin

Sika

Skip

Skull Murphy

Smash

Smasher Sloan

Sonny King

Spike Dudley

Spiros Arion

Moondog Spot

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Sylvian Grenier

Tajiri

Tarzan Tyler

Tatsymi Fujinami

Tazz

Ted DiBiase

Terry Funk

Test

The Dynamite Kid

The Goodfather

The Rock

Thrasher

Tito Santana

Tony Altimore

Tony Atlas

Tony Garea

Tony Marino

Tony Parsi

Toru Tanaka

Trevor Murdoch

Triple H

Tully Blanchard

Typhoon

Undertaker

Victor Rivera

Vittorio Argentina Apollo

Waldo Von Erich

William Regal

Yokozuna

Yukon Eric

Yukon Pierre

 

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BTW, the leader with most times holding a specific belt is Raven with 26 Hardcore titles. The leader for non-joke singles titles is Moolah with 8 Womens titles (one as Slave Girl and another as Spider Lady) and Chris Jericho with 8 IC Title reigns (includes his sharing with Chyna)

 

I believe Edge leads the tag race with 12 but I'm working on that list right now.

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Yup, its Edge, followed by Billy Gunn, Kane, Bubba and D-Von all with 10.

 

Christian has 10 too, doesn't he?

 

9;

7 with Edge (all WWF belts (currently on Raw of course) both are 2nd all time to the Dudley's 10 different tag titles and 8 WWF tag titles)

1 each with Lance Storm and Chris Jericho

 

And yes this includes their Los Conquistador "run"

 

Edge also has titles with Chris Benoit (2) Rey Mysterio Jr, Hulk Hogan and Randy Orton

Billy Gunn won with Road Dogg (5), Bart (3), and Chuck Palumbo (2)

Kane won with Undertaker (3), Mankind (2), X-Pac (2), Hurricane, RVD, and The Big Show

Neither Dudley won a tag title without each other

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BTW, The Dudleys/Team 3D have 8 more titles from ECW and, I guess you have to say two more in TNA since they have new belts now since the split. With Animal winning a title sans Hawk I wonder if that total of 20 is the most of any tag team champions without one of its members winning a championship belt with a different partner.

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Another inneresting tidbit, 111 (I also counted El Gran Hamada/Perro Aguayo's UWA reign when it was part of the WWF as well, neither men are listed in that 200+ list I posted above) men have held a tag belt just once.

 

 

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BTW, the leader with most times holding a specific belt is Raven with 26 Hardcore titles. The leader for non-joke singles titles is Moolah with 8 Womens titles (one as Slave Girl and another as Spider Lady) and Chris Jericho with 8 IC Title reigns (includes his sharing with Chyna)

I only count 7 IC reigns for Jericho:

 

Won it from Chyna (1)

Co-reign with Chyna (2)

Won it from Benoit (3)

Won it from Benoit (4)

Won it from RVD (5)

Won it from RVD(6)

Won it from Christian (Title was held up)(7)

 

Any other I'm missing?

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Whats the count on Booker T and if possible how many won without Stevie Ray?

 

4 on WWF TV, won the "WCW" belts with Test in September of 01 and then the two won the WWF belts about a month later. He also won with Goldust and RVD

 

Harlem Heat was a 10 time WCW World Tag champions, the aforementioned 4 would be the only titles Booker has won without Stevie Ray

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Getting back to the original thread here...

 

Jeff/Matt Hardy, as themselves and before that as the New Freebirds.

 

I don't think they ever officially called themselves "The New Freebirds" on official WWF merchandise and TV graphics. Oh sure Michael P. Hayes was their manager and all but I think they were still just Matt & Jeff Hardy

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