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[[Image:WWEhardcorebelt.JPG|thumb|300px|right|The original WWE Hardcore Championship belt]]
[[World Wrestling Entertainment]]'s '''Hardcore Championship''' was a championship defended under [[hardcore wrestling|hardcore]] rules:
*'''No Disqualifications''', meaning all weapons are legal.
*'''Falls Count Anywhere''', meaning pinfalls and submissions do not have to take place in the ring.
*'''No Holds Barred''', meaning that the referee will allow anything and will only end the match with a pinfall or submission.
*'''24/7 Rules''', meaning the belt was being defended at all times, allowing the championship to change hands anytime as long as there was a [[Referee (professional wrestling)|referee]] present.
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==History==
[[Vince McMahon]] first awarded [[Mick Foley|Mankind]] the belt on [[November 2]], [[1998]]. After losing the title to the [[Ray Traylor|Big Bossman]], he never attempted to recapture it, mainly because of his main event [[Push (professional wrestling)|push]] he received shortly after he lost the belt. At the time of the belt's conception, the idea was that the belt was to have been used in comedy segments to try to push Mankind's reputation as a famous Hardcore wrestler, but as Foley was getting over with the crowd as well as the rising popularity of [[Hardcore wrestling]] at the time (mostly made famous by the [[Extreme Championship Wrestling]] promotion), the Hardcore Championship seemed to gain a life of its own. Its growing popularity led competitor [[World Championship Wrestling]] to create their own [[WCW Hardcore Championship|Hardcore Championship]], a move followed by numerous [[independent circuit|independent]] promotions.
===24/7===
When [[Mike Lockwood|Crash Holly]] won the belt, he introduced the "'''24/7 rule'''"; which meant the belt was to be defended "at all times...as long as there was a referee present." This allowed for many [[comic relief]] moments, including the belt once changing hands at a motel while the champion was asleep, and a segment on an episode of ''[[WWE Raw|RAW]]'' where [[The Headbangers]] chased Crash Holly around ''Funtime'', an amusement park in [[Brooklyn, New York]] with Crash escaping repeated attempts to take the title from him before pinning [[Charles Warrington|Mosh]] in the ball pit.
The addition of this rule is said to have made the division both more interesting and more confusing, adding a vast array of holders and matches. Still, others believed this rule cheapened and devalued the championship for the same reasons. This rule has led to the shortest title reigns and quickest title changes in WWE history. On [[April 2]], [[2000]] at ''[[WrestleMania 2000]]'' in [[Anaheim, California]], for example, there were 10 title changes in a period of 15 minutes.
The 24/7 rule was enforced until [[August 19]], [[2002]] when ''RAW'' [[List of authority figures in professional wrestling|General Manager]] [[Eric Bischoff]] decided to suspend it following a six minute [[Battle royal (professional wrestling)#Hardcore battle royal|Hardcore Battle Royal]] won by [[Tommy Dreamer]].
===Unification and retirement===
On [[August 26]], [[2002]] [[Rob Van Dam]] "unified" the title with the [[WWE Intercontinental Championship]] when he defeated Hardcore champion Tommy Dreamer, effectively retiring the title.
On an episode of ''RAW'' in the summer of [[2003]], WWE wrestlers and [[Extreme Championship Wrestling]] [[List of Extreme Championship Wrestling alumni|alumni]]; [[Al Snow]], [[Dudley Boyz|The Dudley Family]] ([[Mark Lamonica|Bubba]], [[Devon Hughes|D-Von]], and [[Matt Hyson|Spike Dudley]]) Tommy Dreamer, and Rob Van Dam, along with [[Vince McMahon]], and [[WWE Raw|RAW]] Co-General Manager [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]], presented the original Hardcore Championship title to ''"Hardcore Legend"'', [[Mick Foley]], as a framed gift.
The belt was unofficially reactivated by Mick Foley in mid [[2006]] for a short period when he declared himself and [[Adam Copeland|Edge]] "co-holders of the Hardcore Championship" during a feud with other [[Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE)|hardcore wrestlers]] and following a hardcore match between the two of them at ''[[WrestleMania 22]]''. After the feud ended, the belt once again disappeared from television.
==Statistics==
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|Most reigns
|[[Scott Levy (wrestler)|Raven]]
|Twenty-Seven
|Raven first took this record after beating [[Mark Lamonica|Bubba Ray Dudley]] for his 15th title on the [[April 15]], [[2002]] edition of ''[[WWE Raw|RAW]]''. He was previously tied with [[Mike Lockwood|Crash Holly]] for the record, though he would re-tie Raven twice during the next month. Raven won his 27th and final championship from [[Tommy Dreamer]] on [[August 17]], [[2002]]. Many of the reigns were extremely short and took place during [[house show]]s.
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|Longest reign
|[[Ray Traylor|The Big Boss Man]]
|95 days
|The Boss Man beat [[Davey Boy Smith|The British Bulldog]] for the title on the [[October 12]], [[1999]] edition of ''[[WWE Friday Night Smackdown!|Smackdown!]]'' and held it until [[January 17]], [[2000]] when he lost it to [[Andrew Martin|Test]] on an episode of ''RAW''. His reign took place before the 24/7 rule was activated.<br /><br />The longest reign after the 24/7 rule was by [[Rob Van Dam]]. He won the belt on [[September 9]]<sup>th</sup>, [[2001]], and held it until losing it to [[The Undertaker]] on [[December 9]]<sup>th</sup> of that same year. The reign was 89 days. <ref>History of the Hardcore Championship at [http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/hard/ wwe.com]</ref>
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|Shortest reign
|[[Rob Van Dam]]
|N/A
|Van Dam beat [[Tommy Dreamer]] on the [[August 26]], 2002 episode of ''RAW'' to unify the Hardcore and [[WWE Intercontinental Championship|Intercontinental]] championships. Therefore, his reign as champion technically ended as soon as he won the match. <br /><br />If this reign is discounted, the shortest reign would be nearly impossible to determine, due to the frequent title changes caused by the 24/7 rule, most of which lasted less than a minute.
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|Oldest champion
|[[Pat Patterson]]
|59 years
|Patterson beat [[Gerald Brisco]] for the title on the [[June 19]], 2000 edition of ''RAW''. He lost the title 6 days later to Crash Holly at the 2000 [[King of the Ring#2000|King of the Ring]].
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|Youngest champion
|[[Christopher Nowinski]]
|23 years
|Nowinski beat Crash Holly for the title at house shows on [[July 6]] and [[July 7|7]], [[2002]], but lost it both nights to [[John Layfield|Bradshaw]].
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|Heaviest champion
|[[Paul Wight|The Big Show]]
|7 ft 0 in; 507 lb.
|The Big Show is a 3 time Hardcore champion, winning the title at [[WWE No Way Out#2001|No Way Out 2001]] from Raven, from [[Terry Gerin|Rhyno]] on the [[May 28]], 2001 episode of ''RAW'', and from [[Matt Hyson|Spike Dudley]] at a house show on [[July 12]], [[2002]].
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|Lightest champion
|[[Terri Runnels]]
|4ft 10 in; 100lb.
|Terri, one of 4 women to win the Hardcore title, won the title while conducting an interview with Steven Richards. She won it from and lost it back to [[Stevie Richards|Steven Richards]] on the [[May 27]], [[2002]] episode of ''RAW''.
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== Trivia ==
*The title belt used for the original WWE Hardcore Championship belt was a replica belt first used as a [[WWE Championship|WWF Championship]] belt in an [[Angle (professional wrestling)|angle]] between [[Hulk Hogan]] and [[Curt Hennig|Mr. Perfect]]. Perfect and [[Lanny Poffo|The Genius]] stole and smashed the belt with a hammer on an episode of [[WWE Saturday Night's Main Event|Saturday Night's Main Event]]. When it was decided to create the Hardcore Championship WWE officials took the smashed-up belt from the angle and applied pieces of [[duct tape]] with the words 'HARDCORE' and 'CHAMPION' written on them.
*When [[John Layfield|Bradshaw]] first won the belt on [[June 3]], [[2002]], he replaced it with a customized belt to fit his Texan Cowboy gimmick. The belt included a Texas flag, giant bull horns and the words 'Texas Hardcore Champion'. The belt was in fact [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Steve Austin's]] "Smoking Skull" championship belt with a Texas flag decal placed on the front.
*When [[Tommy Dreamer]] won the title he covered the faceplate of Bradshaw's belt with a New York license plate (Dreamer is from [[Yonkers, New York]]). This version of the belt was used until the title was retired.
* Four females have held the Hardcore Championship: [[Cynthia Lynch|Bobcat]], [[Molly Holly]], [[Terri Runnels|Terri]], [[Trish Stratus]] all won the Hardcore title, but lost it the same night.
==See also==
[[List of WWE Hardcore Champions]]
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==External links==
*[http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/hard/ WWE Hardcore Title History]
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