David's Take: WrestleMania III Intercontinental Belt Sells for $716,750

David’s Take · October 27, 2026 · 8 min

In David’s Take, David Ortiz speaks as himself, in his real voice. The short opening is voiced by King Credion, an AI character.

King Credion is an AI character. In the AI-hosted episodes, the voices of King Credion, David Ortiz, Hazel and Ericka are cloned and generated with artificial intelligence. In David's Take, David appears as himself, in his real voice and on video.

Conrad Thompson's WrestleMania III "Red Letter" Intercontinental Championship belt sold for $716,750 at Heritage Auctions: a $587,500 final bid plus the 22% buyer's premium. Ricky Steamboat beat Randy Savage for the title with this belt on March 29, 1987, and it beat Hulk Hogan's WrestleMania 2 belt ($414,800) by roughly $300,000. I go through how Thompson got the belt in a trade with WWE, why belt provenance comes down to ownership history, photo matching and letters, and how Credabilia's credibility score adds up your evidence.

More episodes and the marketplace: https://credabilia.com/podcast

Music: "Inspired" and "Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Sources

• https://www.sescoops.com/article/conrad-thompson-intercontinental-belt-sells-716750
• https://nodq.com/news/wwe-intercontinental-title-from-wrestlemania-iii-sells-for-a-record-716750/

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