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It was the guys from “American Chopper” who really made it happen. Without Paul Teutul Sr. and his team over at Orange County Choppers, there’s a chance the WWE creative department’s concept for the new WWE Title would never have worked.
But maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Let’s start at the beginning. Some 18 months ago on the second floor of WWE’s corporate offices in Stamford, Conn., WWE’s Senior Vice President of Creative Services Stan Stanski received a request. WWE was ditching the “spinner” version of the WWE Title that had polarized WWE fans since John Cena introduced it back in April 2005. In its place? Well, something new. What that meant was up to Stanski and company to figure out, but where do you start when you’re about to remake sports-entertainment’s most vital piece of hardware? (PHOTOS | WATCH THE TITLE'S UNVEILING)
“The first thing we do is exhale,” Stanski told WWE.com. “Then we think: What are we really up against and what are we looking to do?”
During our conversation, a prototype version of the new WWE Championship was splayed out on the desk in front of Stanski like a cherished newborn. But a year and a half ago, the Senior Vice President and his creative team only had opinions. There was talk of a red leather strap and even a title affixed with door hinges on both sides, but one thing was certain — they were going to turn wrestling tradition on its cauliflower ear. (PHOTOS OF THE WWE TITLE'S EVOLUTION)
“Our idea was never to take a step back or do something predictable or expected,” Stanski said. “We wanted to evolve the brand and create something that’s never been done before.”
The group wasn’t necessarily looking to reinvent the wheel — the championship would look like a championship — but the globes, eagles and whatever else WWE fans had grown accustomed to seeing in bronze on a title would be replaced by new ideas.
“You don’t always know what a traditional title might represent,” Stanski pointed out. “We wanted you to know immediately that this was the WWE Championship.”
(http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2013/02/new_wwe_title_bull.jpg)
Stanski’s plan to make the title instantly recognizable led the team to take the iconic WWE “W” — which was barely legible on older variations of the championship, but front and center on the “spinner” version — and make it so big and jewel-encrusted that it wouldn’t look out of place on the end of an MC’s gold chain. (WATCH THE HISTORY OF THE "SPINNER")
But there was also an urge to use the traditional aspects of the title — namely the metal plates and the leather strap — in a unique way. Most championships have their logos and symbols etched into the face of the plates themselves. It was creative director John Jones who thought of cutting the WWE logo out of metal so that the black strap underneath would show through. How to go about doing that was another question entirely.
“As an artist or a designer who creates things, you get into the engineering of what’s really doable?” Stanski said. “What we found really quickly was most of the title manufacturers were afraid to touch it. They said it couldn’t be done.”
Where others saw an obstacle, Dave Millican saw an opportunity. An unsung hero of the sports-entertainment set, the self-proclaimed “Ace of Belts” was a master at taking a strip of animal hide and a few precious metals and molding them into something men were willing to fight for. Millican was up for the challenge, but his early prototypes had issues — mainly with impractical weight stemming from the zinc that was used.
That’s when Jones thought of Orange County Choppers. Back in 2008, the creative director had collaborated on a custom WrestleMania XXIV bike with the motorcycle manufacturers from the hit reality show “American Chopper.” Years later, Jones recalled seeing a state-of-the-art 3D printer in their facilities. The type of baffling technology that makes it apparent that we are indeed living in the future, the printer allowed the guys at OCC to create custom motorcycle parts by cutting their three-dimensional designs out of a hunk of aluminum.
“Orange County Choppers’ involvement brought this whole process into the 21st century,” Jones explained. “We gave them our designs and they were able to feed it into their machines and produce these plates for us that are much stronger than the brass plates that we would have gotten from a title builder.”
(http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2013/02/new_wwe_title_champion.jpg)
The bike shop created a metal “W” that was both lightweight and durable, but it still needed to be turned into a championship. So OCC sent their finished product to Dave Millican, who set about intricately etching WWE logos into the title’s leather strap and carefully affixing 228 gems to its plates. When he was finished with this painstaking process, The Rock had a new WWE Championship — which makes this all sound a lot easier than it was.
More than $50,000 went into the preparation and production of this title as the creative team struggled with Internet leaks, impractical ideas and a proposed WrestleMania XXVIII unveiling that didn’t come true. The renders of far-out ideas and rejected concepts that Stanski revealed to us — which WWE.com will post on the site in the coming weeks — spoke to both the staggering creativity and unthinkable man hours that went into all this. At one point, the championship was meant to feature a massive, three-dimensional eagle grasping onto the central WWE logo with its talons. And those two symmetrical gold bars on the sides of the finished title? Those are inspired by an earlier mockup that was offset by miniature rings — a perfect example of how designs evolve in the most unexpected ways.
Still, the most telling part of this WWE Championship can be found in the only word inscribed upon it. While older versions of the title were curiously labeled with inexact terminology like “World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion” or — in the case of the “spinner” — the verboten “Champ,” the new WWE Title spells things out clearly with the word “Champion” in all caps across the bottom like a declarative, final statement.
And that’s exactly how WWE’s creative department views their finished work. As they see it, this is the definitive version of sports-entertainment’s most revered prize and the last one they will need to produce.
“From an iconic standpoint, we want this to stick around for a while,” production director Liz Montgomery told us. “The people will know this is the WWE Championship.”
Bodybuilding Related, ,,,, Almost all Previous Championship bets were made by Reggie Parks before him and Vince stopped doing business because Reggie was selling belts to the public
(http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n506/zom1965/1960ReggieParks.jpg)
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uh, "Reggie Parks" is not quite bodybuilding related.
that ain't Reg Park.........by a long shot.
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Link to all the previous belts
http://www.wrestling101.com/home/2007/09/wwe-title-belts-a-guide-to-the-gold/ (http://www.wrestling101.com/home/2007/09/wwe-title-belts-a-guide-to-the-gold/)
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Cool
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Didnt think it was all that for being a totally new belt. The old NWA/WCW belt that Flair always had was the shit
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Who cares its ugly. Nothing compares to the wcw big gold belt. Nothing
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Personally Looks like more Dog shit put out by Jason the Dork and Paul Sr at Occ
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Didnt think it was all that for being a totally new belt. The old NWA/WCW belt that Flair always had was the shit
That's the World Heavyweight title that Alberto Del Rio has.
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...oh wow lots of hardwork
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Like everything they do it looks like cheap tackey nonsense.
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Who cares its ugly. Nothing compares to the wcw big gold belt. Nothing
Agree
(http://topropebelts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/90sBG-4-916x704.jpg)
the other BIG EAGLE belt by WWF is cool too
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stylin' and profilin' wooooo!
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(http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4984336169894239&pid=15.1)
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That's the World Heavyweight title that Alberto Del Rio has.
Cool, thought it was still around. Now that's a belt and allot of history behind it too
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These new Personalized CHAMPIONSHIP Belts by Vince Mcmahon for his "Active SUPERSTAR Hall of Fame" Wrestlers is wack, they need to stick to Classic belts
Rattle Snake Skull belt for STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
(http://images.wikia.com/prowrestling/images/3/3b/Wwe-stone-cold-smoking-skull-replica-title-belt-mint_390287385291.jpg)
Spinning BLING BLING belt for John Cena
(http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/002/450/525/WWE-Spinner-BeltCommons_display_image.jpg?1344097214)
Brama Bull belt for THE ROCK
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Yes, but can he ride it?
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Cool, thought it was still around. Now that's a belt and allot of history behind it too
It's been around, since WWE bought WCW. They got rid of it for a few months when Triple H became undisputed champion. Ric Flair gave him one belt. But, after Brock Lesnar won the undisputed title, he became exclusive property of Smackdown (the rule was that the undisputed champion competed on both Raw and Smackdown).
Eric Bischoff proclaimed that, since Lesnar wouldn't appear on Raw anymore, he couldn't call himself the undisputed WWE champion and that Raw deserves its own World champion. Therefore, he brought back the big gold belt and awared it to Triple H, calling him the World Heavyweight champion.
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uh, "Reggie Parks" is not quite bodybuilding related.
that ain't Reg Park.........by a long shot.
Reg Parks was a wrestler...
http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/bios/r/reggie-parks/
Heywood Jablowme
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The spinner belt was fucking gay
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Reg Parks was a wrestler...
http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/bios/r/reggie-parks/
Heywood Jablowme
I was attempting to make a joke about that photo being "bodybuilding related." I'm well aware of Reg Parks. Evidently that was his real name, i.e. not borrowed from Mr. Universe.
I'll call him to clean my carpet if I ever live in Tuson, okay?
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OCC is too stupid to make that belt. I'm sure it was subcontracted out.
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i wonder why paul sr. got off the juice
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Real question, who still watches rasslin?
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I see "The Rock" all the time, works out at the same gym as I do. Guy lifts light. Also, he comes in with what i'd call an average girl, his girlfriend??
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paul sr isnt as funny now hes dried up and off the juice
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i wonder why paul sr. got off the juice
Probably because his supplier got busted and he got outed.
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man i tell you his son mike could be one big fucker if he got juiced up and hit the weights and cardio, i dont think his supplier got busted, i think he might of had a health scare, he use to be pretty big for an old fucker, and even paul jr. was bigger, im sure he was juicin too
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deadz i never knew paul sr got outed, man what a bad deal to lose your script for gh and test at his age, i just read up on it
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I hate the new belt...it looks like shit. Why would they put the logo for a guy who has wrestled in 3 singles matches and one tag match in the last 8 years on the belt? Such horse shit!
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i wonder why paul sr. got off the juice
He's looked sickly for awhile now.
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Too bad they don't build belts for real sports. ::)
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Like everything they do it looks like cheap tackey nonsense.
Because wrestling is such a classy "sport" right?
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They had this belt for a while in the headquarters, didn't know how to use it. Now they added the Brahma Bull logo to it and it didn't help. Looks like shit. Make a classic belt, like a combination of the winged eagle and the undisputed championship, the one they had before giving the old WCW title on RAW as the World Championship and made the slit into two brands. OCC build a crap you can't even drive :D
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OCC is really on epic fail mode.
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OCC is really on epic fail mode.
They jumped the shark years ago.
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http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Choppers-founder-on-steroids-list-999453.php
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They jumped the shark years ago.
yeah, the had to sell parts of the company. Father against brother, brother against brother. It got really nasty.
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paul sr isnt as funny now hes dried up and off the juice
(http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/12/08/tv/web_photos/08.1t777.chopper1C--300x200.jpg)
dude is 63 yo tho.
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Reg Parks was a wrestler...
http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/bios/r/reggie-parks/
Heywood Jablowme
(http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/r/reggieparks/03.jpg)
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(http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/r/reggieparks/03.jpg)
not bad legs for such a weak upper body. (no homo)