GTS Hardcore Championship

The current design of the Hardcore title. (2022 – Present)

The **GTS Hardcore Championship** is championship currently defended on GTS Wrestling. The title is a a hardcore wrestling championship, which was contested under "hardcore" rules (no disqualifications, no count-outs, and pinfalls or submissions count anywhere). From the beginning of the title's history until 2020, a rule was implemented allowing anyone to challenge the champion at any place or time, provided a referee was present (dubbed the "24/7 rule"). The 24/7 rule was implementing until December 3, 2020, When the title was deactivated and replace with the GTS "Into the Darkness" Hardcore Championship. At Grimamania 7 on April 11, 2021, The title was reactivated, However, The 24/7 rule was no longer in effect and is defended like a regular championship.

The number of reigns with the title is 351.

The inaugural champion was Tommy Salami.

The wrestler with the most reigns is Lance Scaper, with 19 reigns as champion.

The longest reign is Greywolf Raventhorne, with 121 days as champion.

The shortest reign is the most champions with less than one day.

The final champion was Vince Ceres.

On August 19th, 2023, Grim officially announced the titles deactivation due to Vince Ceres burning and destroying the title along with the GTS World Wide Web Heavyweight Championship.

## Belt Designs

The title was created on September 25th, 2016 after Tony Emerald destroyed Grim's YouTube Wrestling Figures Heavyweight Championship. Grim took the remains of the title and turn it into a hardcore title. The original design is similar to the WWE Championship (2013 - 2014). It features 3 plates on a black strap strap that was covered with yellow tape. The main plates is actually white paper that has black tape surrounding the metal plate (As this was a replica of the WWE Championship from 2013 -2014) It features a YouTube logo in the center with "HARDCORE" on the top and the words "HEAVYWEIGHT WRESTLING" below the YouTube logo and the word "CHAMPION" at the bottom of the plate like the WWE Championship (2013 - 2014). The side plates are also similar to the WWE Championship (2013 - 2014) with a paper GTS logo taped to the side plate This design lasted from September 25th, 2016 to December 3rd, 2020 when it was deactivated and replaced with the GTS "Into The Darkness" Hardcore Championship. On April 11th, 2021 at Grimamania 7, Grim reactivated the championship. It featured a new title design. This design was now on a full yellow strap (unlike the previous design in which the strap was covered with yellow tape) and now featured 3 new plates. Unlike the previous design, The plates are now fully metal and has no parts taped on the title. The design is a mixture of the AEW World Tag Team Championship and the WWE Intercontinental Championship (2011 - 2019). The main plate is a rectangular gold plate and has a globe with the GTS Logo in the middle. It also featured 2 black banners circling around the globe on the top and bottom. The top banner reading "HARDCORE" and the bottom banner reading "CHAMPION". The side plates are gold with the GTS Logo in front of a black rectangle. In October 2022, A new design of the title was revealed by Kleetus. The new overall design of the title is the old version of the championship belt used that was used from 2016 to 2020. However unlike the old school design used from 2016 to 2020, No tape and paper was featured on the plates. The plates are now fully metal and engraved onto the belt instead. Just like the old school design, The design of the belt was similar to the GTS Hardcore Championship from 2016 to 2020. It featured 3 plates on a yellow strap. The main plate features a silver base instead of a paper taped with black tape. It features a YouTube logo in the center with "HARDCORE" on the top and the words "HEAVYWEIGHT WRESTLING" below the YouTube logo and the word "CHAMPION" at the bottom of the plate like the WWE Championship (2013 - 2014). The side plates are also similar to the WWE Championship (2013 - 2014) with the GTS logo now engraved onto the belt instead of it being taped onto the side plates.