MLB-Inspired WWE® Championship Title Belts Coming to Stores In 2022
August 19 2021 - 12:42PM
Business Wire
New Multi-Year Agreement Marks First Official
Licensing Deal for WWE Championship Title Belts with a U.S. Sports
League
Major League Baseball and WWE (NYSE: WWE) announced today a
multi-year partnership to create MLB-inspired WWE Championship
title belts and accessories featuring the logos of all 30 MLB Clubs
from around North America. The new line of merchandise launches in
2022, marking the first time these items have been available for
fans. This is the first official licensing agreement for WWE
Championship title belts between WWE and one of the major U.S.
sports leagues.
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As part of the agreement, MLB and WWE will collaborate to design
and manufacture team-branded title belts as well as belts that
celebrate some of the league’s Jewel Events such as the World
Series, All-Star Game and Home Run Derby. Additionally, the two
sides will create custom side plates and unique Lucha Libre
masks.
“At MLB we are constantly looking to serve our fans with the
most unique products possible so that they can support their
favorite Clubs and players in the ways they want,” said Denis
Nolan, MLB Senior Vice President, Global Consumer Products. “We
often see baseball fans and players bringing their MLB and WWE
fandom together at games and online, so this is a natural
development for us to work together and offer the highest quality,
official co-branded items for fans around the world.”
“We’ve been continually amazed by the reaction to custom WWE
Championship title belts and we’re excited this partnership will
allow us to make them widely available to fans,” said Kevin Moore,
WWE Senior Vice President, Direct-to-Consumer Products.
WWE has a long-standing tradition of creating custom WWE
Championship title belts as gifts for many of the top athletes and
championship-winning franchises around the world. Most recently,
WWE created a Los Angeles Dodgers-inspired title belt to
commemorate their 2020 World Series victory.
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