WWE Hardcore Championship - Definition and Overview

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 2nd, 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.

Trivia

• Raven won the WWE Hardcore Championship twenty-seven times.

• RAW GM Eric Bischoff retired the belt on August 26th, 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.

See also

List of WWE Hardcore Champions