Rules Governing Titles RyanCarrWeber

1. There are four championship titles, one for each weight class, and a tag team championship.

2. Each title may be won by any active member of the weight class for which it was created, as well as any member of a lighter weight class. The tag team championship may be held by any two wrestlers, but may only change hands from a lighter to a heavier tag team if said tag team is registered as a tag team, and not as two singles competitors, with the exception of four-team tournaments to decide a vacated title.

3. The holder of any title must defend it no less than once every fifth weekend TW has competition.

--> 3a. The rule of defending one's title applies to all holders - meaning that wrestlers holding a title above their own weight class, by winning that title, must, until they lose it, accept challenges from that weight class.

--> 3b. If the titleholder fails to defend his title regularly, it shall be forfeit and another tournament held among the four next-most-successful members of the titleholder's weight class. (Note: titleholder, not title. If a lightweight loses the hwt title by forfeit, the next four lightweights vie for it.)4. Matches for the titles are to be won by submission, unless otherwise decided by the current champion and agreed to by the challenger. Matches not won by submission are to be decided by best out of three falls.5. No title may be won by disqualification or count-out, and nor may a member of any weight class heavier than that for which a given title was intended win said title.

6. To hold two titles, a wrestler must beat the defending champion of the second title he wishes to win twice, on two different dates.

7. Titleholders may be stripped of their titles at any time by the organizers of TW, for the following reasons:

-> failure to defend with enough frequency

-> improper conduct, including, but not limited to, interfering in other matches, disrupting changing room or practice session activities

-> repeated failure to show at contracted matches

-> repeated deliberate loss of a match by DQ or count-out to retain the title

-> purposeful injury of any wrestler during or outside a match

(It should be noted that these mirror closely the rules governing forced suspensions from the league.)

Verification please:

2. on the following The tag team championship may be held by any two wrestlers, but may only change hands from a lighter to heavier tag team if said tag team is registered as a tag team, and not as two singles competitors, with the exception of four-team tournaments to decide a vaccated title.

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Verification on, the changing of hands. From a lighter to heavier team. I do not understand the reasoning for this. If a lighter team is capable of whipping the current title holders, why would the title not change hands?

Just curious on the reasoning.

They can. The titles can always change hands from heavier to lighter, but a ligther tag team can only lose the title to a heavier team which is registered as a team (ie. in the teams gallery), with a margin of, say, 30 pounds combined weight. the reasoning is two-fold. first, this will, to some extent, keep the titles among the registered tag teams. And it will also temper some of the advantage iherent in weight, which comes out among tag teams, where there are no weight classes.

thanks for asking me to clarify.

yours,

Ryan