The smaller regular shots that are earned while holding the xtreme title (US and Tag) don't require any additional stipulations to be met but in order to receive a briefcase you must have had at least one successful defense in which you were the listed as the winner in the results. Anything we as the staff deem credible.

(12-23-2013, 10:06 AM)Theo Pryce Said: How do you define credible? That seems rather vague. By forcing there to be 6 defenses to earn a brief case it makes the title harder to obtain and makes the rewards more deserving based on the efforts you put in to obtain it.

The Xtreme title is the only one that allows you the opportunity to earn guaranteed shots at other titles, why not make it worth it?

A very good question and it's another one of those unwritten understandings just like the "must defend successfully" rule that only gets brought up when it needs to be enacted. XWF has two ways of scheduling title matches for the X-treme title: Actual scheduled defenses for the sake of defending against a worthy challenger, and defaulted 24/7 defenses that come into play during most otherwise standard matches.

In other words,

If we book Wrestler 1 against Wrestler 2 and Wrestler 2 is the X-treme champion by chance, then most likely the title will be on the line in that match. If the champ LOSES the title before this match happens, this match still happens as a non-title match because it was booked for the purpose of seeing Wrestler 1 against Wrestler 2.

Alternatively, if we book Wrestler 1 in an X-treme Title Match and Wrestler 2 happens to be the champion but LOSES the title before the match, then the NEW champion will be put in the match to defend against Wrestler 1. These are considered actual X-treme Championship matches and would fall under "credible" because these don't get booked for just any random challenger. An example of this would be when Gilmour defended the title in the Elimination Chamber, which was going to be for the X-treme title no matter who was champion when that match finally happened. Peter entered as champion and was able to win the match, which by our standards was considered a credible X-treme title defense because of the quality of opponents in the match. Also, as a side note, he almost didn't win that match with how close it came in the end so he certainly wasn't handed an easy win.

I definitely understand about one person making noise and attracting attention to something else and yes many debates about the x-treme title have been had over the years. It's definitely not a perfect system that we have in place, but then again I don't think such a system can exist in the way that all participants would view it as perfect. No setup is going to please everybody.

I will say that if we had more strict rules for the X-treme title, we might not have ever had a single person win a briefcase yet. Remember, Sid had a briefcase from winning last year's Lethal Lottery. John Austin had a briefcase from winning a special event that I believe was called "Thunderdome" if memory serves me right. The entire year is already over and the number of actual briefcases handed out for the X-treme title is staggeringly low. Does anybody know the exact number for this year? I'm not looking at actual stats right now but I'm thinking it's a grand total of: 2. I believe Luca won a briefcase through the xtreme title and Angelus earlier in the year. One of them cashed in very quickly and the other has never even cashed in. Are there any others I am forgetting from the last year? Why is it we want to cut down this number again?