#2 Taz wins the ECW World title while being in the WWE – 13th April 2000
When ECW Champion Mike Awesome signed a contract with WCW, Paul Heyman’s company was in a fix. Heyman did not want to risk Awesome taking the ECW title to WCW and convinced him to lose the title the same week.
Heyman picked ECW legend Taz to win the belt. Only one problem – Taz was a WWE wrestler at the time. But the WWE granted Taz permission to wrestle in ECW, hoping to further weaken their main rivals WCW.
So on the 13th March 2000 episode of ECW, a WWE wrestler beat a WCW wrestler in an ECW ring to claim the ECW Championship.
Taz would wear the belt on a number of WWE house shows including a SmackDown match against Triple H, before dropping it to ECW’s Tommy Dreamer ten days later.
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