Editing Champ's Belt

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYD Champ's Belt Sprite.png]] [[File:Champ's Belt PMTTYDNS icon.png|50px]]
|description="''The champ's belt you earned when you beat Rawk Hawk.''"
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
}}
{{quote|Well, [[Mario|you]] finally did it, son! Today's yer first day as the new champ! Here's yer belt!|Grubba|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}

The '''Champ's Belt''' is a special item featured in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. [[Mario]] receives this belt after he defeats [[Rawk Hawk]] in the [[Glitz Pit]], becoming the arena's new champion. The Champ's Belt has a fake [[Gold Star]] implanted in the middle of it. In the original game, Mario cannot wear the belt, though in the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|remake]] he wears it during the cutscene where he becomes the champion.

When Mario first arrives at the Glitz Pit and watches Rawk Hawk defeat [[The Koopinator]], he and his [[party member|partner]] see Rawk Hawk showing off the belt. When they arrive back at the lobby, they are astonished to see the Gold Star attached to a belt. Mario vows to make it up to the champion and fight for the star (or to steal it, but it all comes out to the same conclusion). Mario then finds out that it is not the Gold Star on the belt at all after meeting Rawk Hawk in person, and that he still has a big mystery to solve before he finds the real one. Unfortunately, when Mario and [[Yoshi Kid|Yoshi]] discovers this, Rawk Hawk misinterprets the fake mention as referring to his belt, which in turn hints that he is not a good fighter. Mario is given the belt after defeating Rawk Hawk. However, after finding the real Gold Star, he returns the belt.

In [[Bowser]]'s event after [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Chapter 6: 3 Days of Excess|Chapter 6]], Bowser and [[Kammy Koopa]] find the belt in Rawk Hawk's secret training room, apparently somewhere in [[Rogueport Underground]]. Bowser believes that it is the real [[Crystal Stars|Crystal Star]], but it is smashed after Rawk Hawk attempts to attack Bowser and Kammy.

Much like real-world {{wp|championship belt}}s, not only can Mario lose the Champ's Belt by either being defeated by or forfeiting to Rawk Hawk, but he can subsequently reclaim it by defeating The Koopinator to re-establish his number one rank and then defeating Rawk Hawk. This trait is further accentuated by the fans attending the fights, who will respond to Mario with dialogue acknowledging his status as either the current champion or as a former champion.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
PMTTYD Champ's Belt Screenshot.png|Rawk Hawk and the Champ's Belt
TTYDNS Mario Champion.jpg|Mario wearing the Champ’s Belt
PMTTYD Bowser Champs Belt.png
PMTTYD Bowser Rawks Rawk Hawk.png|[[Kammy Koopa]] breaks the Champ's Belt
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=チャンピオンベルト
|JapR=Chanpion Beruto
|JapM=Champion Belt
|ChiS=冠军腰带
|ChiSR=Guànjūn Yāodài
|ChiSM=Champion Belt
|ChiT=冠軍腰帶
|ChiTR=Guànjūn Yāodài
|ChiTM=Champion Belt
|Dut=Kampioensriem
|DutM=Championship belt
|Fre=Ceinture du champion
|FreM=Champion's belt
|Ger=Meistergurt
|GerM=Master belt
|Ita=Cintura Oolong
|ItaM=[[Glitzville#Names in other languages|Glitzville]] Belt
|Kor=챔피언벨트
|KorR=Chaempieon Belteu
|KorM=Champion Belt
|Spa=Cinturón de Campeón
|SpaM=Champion's Belt
}}
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