You can find his early Mid-South television matches online.

On this day 25 years ago, No Merchy aired on PPV, taking place at the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio:






I remember little about this, I consider the Attitude Era to be an overrated (and often boring) era, main events aside. Some of those Attitude Era PPVs were a real slog to sit through.

This was a milestone event in many ways, though, as Chyna became the first woman to become Intercontinental Champion, defeating Jeff Jarrett. Other matches included WWF World Champion Triple H vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Women’s champion Ivory defending against The Fabulous Moolah.

If I'm not mistaken that "match" is from 1979. You can see it here:

May I suggest my YouTube channel, Titans TV

m.youtube.com/@titanstv1979/playlists

I've been curating several playlists recently. Most are in chronological order. Of course, with YT, videos can disappear at any time

And as far as Hogan v Andre goes, I believe this was their first WWF match, from July 1980, at the Spectrum

Like everyone here, I’ve seen countless championship belts, some good, some ugly. But this has to the worst:

That's not half as bad as the AEW belt, which looks like someone spraypainted some cookies with gold paint and glued them on leather.  That is Trump levels of gaudy; but, from a distance, wouldn't look as bad.  Here's the thing, why go to all that trouble for detail, when most people will see the belt from a distance and it will just blend together?  Keep it simple and to the point and then treat the title like it means something and the audience will be there.  Give me a Dave Millican or Reggie Parks belt anytime, over that mess.  Hell, even a Nikita Mulkovich belt, even though every one of them looked the same.

As a general rule, I've never cared for WWWF, WWF or WWE titles belts......they either looked cheap, looked generic, or were over-done things, like that.  There have been exceptions, like the 80s Intercontinental belt(mid-late 80s, not the one that Greg Valentine and Tito Santana traded), the later Hogan/Yoko/Bret/Shawn belt and the Attitude Era WWF title belt (not the Smoking Skull, the round one).  I always preferred the Crockett belts......much as I preferred their wrestling.  The belts look like real sports titles and the matches were treated like real sports competitions, not props in the circus.

The AWA never did get a decent looking World title belt, though.  Tag belts were good, though and the TV title was a pretty good design.  The classic NWA Domed Globe always looked good.  Liked the look of the Mid-South North American title; but, you had to be Andre to wear the thing.  You felt like Watts was over-compensating for some perceived deficiency.