WSC World Hardcore Championship

## Other Name(s)

**The Championship** 2019-present (informal)

**WSC Hardcore Championship** 2019-present, was the official name from 2019-2023

**World Hardcore Championship** 2023-present (informal)

## Statistics

### Shortest Reign

The Stage Creator (1st Reign, 1 minute 21 seconds)

### Oldest Champion

Shawn Michaels (55 years, 7 months, 6 days)

### Youngest Champion

The Stage Creator (18 years, 6 months, 22 days)

### Lightest Champion

The Stage Creator and Finn Bálor (both 190lbs)

The **WSC World Hardcore Championship**, also refereed to as the **WSC Hardcore Championship** and simply as the **World Hardcore Championship**, is the world championship for WSC. Revealed on June 27, 2019, the title has 19 different wrestlers holding the title as of March 2023. The current champion is Cody Rhodes, the longest reigning champion is Roman Reigns, first champion was Jon Moxley, and the shortest reign was The Stage Creator's 1st reign.

### History

#### Origin (2019-2020)

It all started when The Stage Creator started revealing three new custom championships. one was the WWE 24/7 Championship, the NXT North American Championship, and the one covered in the white jacket was the WSC Hardcore Championship. Nathan says as followed:

"Now what is this championship for? Well, every week, the championship will be defended in hardcore rule stipulations, which means no count-outs, no disqualifications, pinfalls count everywhere, which is going to bring about the most epic and crazy action figure matches you have ever seen."

He then revealed that the five men competing for the title will be Shane McMahon, Jeff Hardy, Cactus Jack, Edge, and Jon Moxley (FKA Dean Ambrose) in a 5-Man Gauntlet Match under hardcore rules. The Match then started the following day, where Moxley would win.

Moxley then became the first ever 2 time champion AND 3 time champion beating "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Roman Reigns (who beat Mox to become a 2 time champ himself) respectively.

#### Introduction of the Tag Team Championships and the Winners Take All Matches (2020-2021)

During mid 2020, The Stage Creator revealed the new WSC Hardcore Tag Team Championship, which finally made the Hardcore title no longer a stand-alone championship.

Following The Shield's Tag Title win and Kevin Owens's Hardcore Title win and joining The Undisputed Era, this starts off the chain of "Winners Take All" Matches; where whatever team wins gets all the titles. The Shield had all the titles following the first WTA Match seeing Shield retain and Seth Rollins winning his first championship and dominated for a while defeating the likes of The Undisputed Era, The Elite, and The Hurt Business until dropping the titles to The Wyatt Family (Wyatt having the Hardcore one). Although Shield would get the titles back, they would drop the tag titles to The Usos later on and Shield disbanding, leaving Rollins back to singles competition.

#### Bloodline Era (2021-present)

At the 2021 Royal Rumble, Seth Rollins would drop the title to CM Punk, leading to the 3rd longest Hardcore Title reign in WSC History, though Punk lost the title to Roman Reigns, leaving The Bloodline with all the titles (except the Multiversal which was revealed later on).

On March 19, Reigns lost to Cody Rhodes, losing the title after 351 days! in June of 2023, the title was referred to as the **WSC World Hardcore Championship**, and was made official in August of 2023.

### Championship Belt Designs

Design from 2019-2020. First held by Jon Moxley.Design from 2020-2024. First held by Edge.Design from 2024-present. First held by Cody Rhodes.
### Reigns

*Main Article: List of WSC World Hardcore Champions*

The WSC World Hardcore Championship was the first world championship introduced into the promotion in 2019. The inaugural champion was Jon Moxley, and there have been 19 different wrestlers holding the title as of March 2023. Roman Reigns is the longest reigning champion, with 351 days in his third reign and The Stage Creator is the shortest reigning champion, holding it for 1 minute 21 seconds. The youngest champion is also The Stage Creator, who won the title at age 18, while the oldest champion is Shawn Michaels, who won the title at age 55. Jon Moxley and The Fiend both holds the record for most reigns with 4. The Heaviest champion is Braun Strowman at 385lbs and the lightest is tied between The Stage Creator and Finn Bálor, both at 190lbs.

Cody Rhodes is the current champion in his 1st reign. He won the title In the Fifth Deadly Games Match at WrestleMania Hollywood.