Championship unification

Championship unification or championship consolidation is the act of combining two or more separate championships into a single title.

Definition
In professional wrestling and e-wrestling, championships may be unified to consolidate the number of championships in a given promotion, or to add legitimacy and prestige to a certain title's lineage. In a title-for-title match, one of three things will happen:


 * The lesser championship will be dropped.
 * A brand new championship will be created.
 * Both championships retain their identity and may be defended and lost individually.

Examples
In Lords of Pain Wrestling (LPW), two prominent unifications of titles have occured, both taking place in 2008.


 * After The Rik won the LPW United States Championship, he unified it with his UKWF Championship, thus creating the LPW Transatlantic Championship. The title maintains the lineage of the LPW United States Championship.


 * At Altered Reality IV, the LPW World Tag Team Championship was unified with the LPW United States Tag Team Championship when World Tag Team Champions MWA (Tromboner Man and RaTo) defeated U.S. Tag Team Champions Dark Brotherhood (Eric Scorpio and Ash Strife) on September 6, 2008, thus creating the new LPW Undisputed World Tag Team Championship.