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| - The King of Submission is a championship that was commissioned in late 1999 for the Original-UWF, at the behest of its first (and most well-known) champion, Axl Evermore. Evermore won the belt in his UWF debut match, which was also the first (and to date, ONLY) King of Submission Match against Da Bomb, making him say "No mas" into a microphone which was retrieved (via a ladder) from a harness hung 15 feet above the center of the caged ring. The belt was decommissioned less than a month later when the UWF went on a hiatus for unknown reasons. When the UWF returned from hiatus, the belt was decommissioned, until Evermore won the International Title and traded it with the new Owner, Unforgiven, to become President of the company. Evermore's VERY FIRST act as UWF President was to reinstate the Submission Championship (now vacated, though Evermore never lost it) and crown a new UWF King Of Submission. Carlo Rosso defeated former UWF Owner Oz to become the 2nd King Of Submission, though he would lose it later on to Oz, who lost it to Billy Zeitz, who lost it back to Carlo Rosso, who held it until just before the UWF Brand Split in late 2002/early 2003, when he lost it to the very first King Of Submission, Axl Evermore. However, his celebration would be short-lived, as he was required to once again vacate his belt in order to be recognized by the reinstated UWF Owner at the time, Chris Strata, as the General Manager of one of the brands. The two brands, the NuWF and the Original-UWF, were vastly different in their philosophies, and the NuWF's General Manager refused to recognize the Submission Championship, so Evermore decided to make the King Of Submission exclusive to the Original-UWF, crowning the last King Of Submission in 2003, Crazy Train, just before Strata disappeared, shuttering the company's doors like a Fire Marshall. In April of 2007, however, Evermore, the mind behind the Submission Championship in the first place, decided to bring the belt back during his run in the ill-fated New UWF, as part of his secession effort to resurrect the Original-UWF, putting the belt on his new protege and tag partner, Crazy Train, the last King Of Submission the UWF had before the mysterious shutdown. When Evermore left the New UWF to found UWF-UNSANCTIONED, Crazy Train was unsure what to do and grudgingly decided to vacate the belt, giving it back to Evermore in order to crown a new King Of Submission.
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