How come WWE counts the wrestlers who won WCW titles during The Invasion Era "WCW Champions ?"

[jminter2698]

An example would be the feud between Booker T and The Rock before Summerslam 2001, now it made sense for Booker to be referred to as a 5 time WCW Champion as he came from the original WCW which went out of business when he came to the WWF/E. The Rock took the title from him at Summerslam but he's a WWF/E wrestler, he was never a WCW guy. Chris Jericho was even though he already left the original WCW two years before that, the one he took from The Rock was also won during the Invasion angle despite the fact that he was also a WWF/E wrestler at that time. Since that version of WCW was part of a WWE storyline, it shouldn't count.

 

[SWL]

because the title didn't change, only the holder did. And in this instance it didn't matter where the wrestler came from or where he performed most of his matches at, title is title. That's almost like saying only people from the US can win the US title and if someone from outside of the US won it, they'd have to acknowledge it as the -enter nationality outside of US here- title or something (I guess it's a stretch but I'd kinda relate it to that).

I mean, it's a pretty short lived era as they didn't really wanna keep going with the WCW gimmick anyways, and unified the titles as soon as they could to bring it back a year later as the World Heavyweight Championship

 

[Doxo]

That is correct. The fact that WWE owned WCW also added some more legitimacy to the reigns

There's this one title in Mexico, the UWA Heavyweight Championship I believe it's called. UWA itself went out of business 14 years ago, but the UWA Championship is still defended all around Mexico to this day, because while there is no UWA, it doesn't take away the value of the title

Edit: It's UWA, not UWF, and it closed in 2004

 

[Solid Snake]

WWE bought the rights and therefor bought the history.