For those of you who saw the announcement on last week's Showdown (or didn't), EAW will be introducing a new Championship to replace the Hall of Fame Championship: The Openweight Championship. The first Champion will be crowned at Pain For Pride X in the Extreme Enigma Elimination Match between Dynasty's Target Smiles, Empire's Tarah Nova, Showdown's Ryan Marx, and Voltage's Solomon Caine. It's all somewhat of an experimental thing, but we really wanted to introduce a different kind of Championship that's more about competitive matches instead of the traditional storyline-based stuff. Of course, storylines may play some part throughout the Championship's defenses, but it's ultimately just about being the best and representing your brand. I'm making this not only to introduce the Championship itself, but the Rules that will go with it. It's a bit more complicated than an ordinary Championship, though some aspects of it may be familiar.

Here are the Openweight Championship Rules:

I tried my best to make everything as clear as possible, and did my best to make every aspect of it work, so hopefully it makes sense. If anyone has any questions about it, feel free to ask here on this thread. As for the Championship design, while it's not the final product, I figure I'll post it as a sneak peak.

Openweight Championship Design (Not Final) by Jamie O'Hara:

Sounds fun! #GOVOLTAGE

Good, good. I like the concept.

Interesting. I like it. Give 'm hell, Sol!

Sounds cool.

Dat roundness tho

:oh:

Its a cool idea, also like that it is being crowned at PFP.

Didn't see the belt design.  I like some things about it.  the 4 gems up top with the brand colors is a nice touch.  I do agree about the roundness being a bit off-putting, but I do like the sort of old school look some of the designs lend to the belt.

Put a spinner on that sh!t! Just kidding, but love the idea and concept and it presents more opportunities for both the women and the men, but mainly a shot at the women's title.

*waits to see this get shot down so quickly.

A great idea (H).

I really like the concept of this title and I am really honored to be apart of deciding the first champion. Thank you to the writers for the opportunity and best of luck to everyone at For Pride

Even more reason to promo my ass off for PFP.

Wonderful! This is a great concept indeed.

Awesome concept! Cheering for Tarah, and lowkey secretly cheering for Ryan Marx.

And here we go now, wth the stakes raised even higher!

GO SHOWDOWN! GO LEGEND RYAN MARX!

Man I never get no love lol

Hawt

Ooh I like it. Especially the belt design. I know its not a popular face plate shape, but the design reminds me of Pokemon for some reason, prolly cuz of the brand emblems.

I like it. I like it a lot. 

Pls win Ryan.

I like the idea of the belt, something like that was needed in place of the HOF Championship. As for the design, I salute Jamie for pulling this off, it's no easy feat. Looks great.

Great idea, I like the rules for the belt as I think that helps set it apart from others, and I'm proud to be fighting for the chance to be the inaugural champion. Thanks to those who are offering their support to me, and good luck to my PFP opponents - I think any of the four of us would be a good first champion, and I look forward to promoing against you three.

YAAAAASSSSS