Title vacation scenario

[James Casey]

I have two workers under contract who've been promised midcard title runs. I plan to have Worker A win the necessary title, and lose the belt to Worker B in his first defence. Worker B will then reject the title, claiming never to have wanted it in the first place. In this scenario, I have two questions. If I vacate the belt after Worker B wins it, and then hand it back to Worker A, with the 'substitute' rather than 'new reign' option, will it count as the required title reign for Worker B? I know that awarding a title in this fashion doesn't count towards the required title reign... Also, if I go through with the above vacation/awarding, will Worker A be considered to have two reigns or one reign?

[Sensai of Mattitude]

Couldn't answer your first question, but Worker A would be considered to have 2 reigns, I think. Considering that his first reign ends when he loses the title, replacing the new champion just makes the new reign belong to a different person.

[EricAdams]

I imagine the ideal scenario for a title vacation would be a tropical location. I can't see titles being into, say, skiing.

[W3LSHY]

Haha lol, just got it ;)

[D-Lyrium]

[QUOTE=James Casey;451556]I have two workers under contract who've been promised midcard title runs. I plan to have Worker A win the necessary title, and lose the belt to Worker B in his first defence. Worker B will then reject the title, claiming never to have wanted it in the first place. In this scenario, I have two questions. If I vacate the belt after Worker B wins it, and then hand it back to Worker A, with the 'substitute' rather than 'new reign' option, will it count as the required title reign for Worker B? I know that awarding a title in this fashion doesn't count towards the required title reign... Also, if I go through with the above vacation/awarding, will Worker A be considered to have two reigns or one reign?[/QUOTE] If you have Antonio 'replace' Erik Strong as MAW champion (for example ¬_¬), and choose 'yes' for 'continue the reign', then Strong won't be recorded as a previous champion in the title history at all, it will be as if Antonio won the title instead of Strong and Strong never held it. If you select 'no', for 'new reign', it will act exactly as if Antonio beat Strong in a title match. So, in your scenario, if A wins the title (one reign for A), then loses it to B (one reign for B). If B then hands it back to A via 'continued reign', B would be considered to never have won it, so won't be considered a previous champion and thus won't be satisfied as far as his contract is concerned. A would, in this case, be considered a two-time champion, although it'll look in the title history as if he lost it to himself ¬_¬