WWE Hardcore Championship
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World Wrestling Entertainment's Hardcore Championship, was a championship defended under 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.
When Vince McMahon first awarded Mankind the belt on November 2, 1998 these were the only rules, but when Crash Holly won the belt he introduced a new rule:
- 24/7 meaning the belt was being defended at all times, allowing the championship to change hands anytime as long as there was a referee present. This allowed for many comic relief moments, inclueding once where the belt changed hands at a motel while the champion was asleep.
Trivia
- Raven won the WWE Hardcore Championship twenty-seven times.
- RAW GM Eric Bischoff retired the belt on August 26, 2002 during an episode of RAW after a unification match. The final Hardcore Champion was Tommy Dreamer; then WWE Intercontinental Champion Rob Van Dam defeated him to unify the two titles.
- On a later episode of RAW, McMahon, Bischoff, and past WWE Hardcore Champions gave the title as a gift to the orignal Hardcore Champion Mick Foley (Mankind) to commemorate his success in the WWE.