But anyway, where I was going, there was a more regional competition, you know, especially on the East Coast, called ECW, Extreme Championship Wrestling. And the lore is that ECW got bought out by one of the major circuits or went bankrupt because they overextended trying to compete with the major circuits. And according to lore, as I say, the championship belt was put up for sale.
Now, again, not gonna let the — not going to spoil the story, but I, I think, again, having a fan with connections might have meant that maybe there was a replica version of this, as these things go. But, one way or another, the promotion belt got into the hands of one of the organizers of TRASH and it did actually become the championship trophy that was awarded each year.
And the belt was actually something that we competed for and would be awarded to the champion each year, and you would get automatically invited back to defend the belt each time. And, in 2002, I was on a team that won the belt.