Global Championship (USW)

The Global Championship is a professional wrestling championship competed for in the American professional wrestling promotion Ultimate Showcase Wrestling on the Friday Night Severity brand. The championship is the tertiary championship on the Severity brand, to which it is exclusive to. The championship, alongside the Red Belt Championship on the Wednesday Night Intensity brand, is one of the only two tertiary championship currently active in Ultimate Showcase Wrestling. The current champion is Morbid, who is in his first reign as champion.
The Global Championship (formerly the USW Cruiserweight Championship) was introduced in April of 2016, as a championship for performers under a specific weight limit. However; once the WWE recreated their brand extension and created the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, Ultimate Showcase Wrestling decided to abandon the name and recreate the championship as the USW Global Championship.
== History ==
=== USW Cruiserweight Championship ===
The USW Cruiserweight Division was a short lived weight-class in Ultimate Showcase Wrestling, whose championship was the USW Cruiserweight Championship, and was exclusive to the Severity brand. After a few months, Ultimate Showcase Wrestling decided to recreate the championship under a new name after the birth of the new cruiserweight division in the WWE.
=== USW Global Championship repackaging ===
After the USW Cruiserweight Championship was repackaged, it was renamed to the USW Global Championship, and lost the weight-class stipulation and requirement. It officially became the new tertiary championship for the Friday Night Severity brand, rivaling the USW Extreme Championship at it's inception.
== Championship Belt Designs ==
=== Current Design ===
The current design of the Global Championship features a squarish centerplate reading "Global Champion" with two long sideplates featuring the USW logo on a dark green strap.
=== Past Designs ===
When the championship was still the USW Cruiserweight Championship, the championship was on a bright white strap, with a golden diamond center plate, with the words "Cruiserweight Wrestling Champion" over the Ultimate Showcase Wrestling logo, to which many cite as one of the best USW championship belts to this date. There were four side plates, all of which were also diamond shaped, and featured Ultimate Showcase Wrestling branding on them. This championship belt was retired after the USW Cruiserweight Championship was recreated into the USW Global Championship.
The USW Global Championship kept some parts of the USW Cruiserweight Championship design, but with a little twist. The strap remained an ice-white strap, and the belt remained with the diamond shaped center plate, but it was now silver, and there were only two side plates now. The center plate reads "Ultimate Showcase Wrestling Global Champion of the World" over a name plate, with four small globes to the sides of the name plate. The side plates remained the same as the USW Cruiserweight Championship, but are now silver, and there are only two of them instead of the four that the USW Cruiserweight Championship once had.