Interesting note on Angle's IWGP title reign

source: 411mania.com

When Brock Lensar won the IWGP Heavyweight Title, the main championship of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Lesnar and NJPW had a contractual dispute, which resulted in his leaving the company. Brock was no longer the champion but kept [color:efda=blue! important][color:efda=blue! important]possession of the physical IWGP Title belt and "defended" it in a match against Kurt Angle in Antonio Inoki's promotion, the Inoki Genome Federation. This is the belt that Kurt Angle carried around on TNA television for quite some time with TNA billing him as the IWGP Champion. However, he was not IWGP Champion and was only carrying around the version of the belt that Lesnar kept after leaving New Japan. Ultimately, NJPW got their belt back when Angle agreed to drop it in a match to Shinsuke Nakmura.

I probably wouldn't of acknowledge brocks title reign and acknowledged Kurt Angle's for him atleast dropping the title and helping them out.

how can you not recognize Brock's win, when he won the title when he was in the company? when Angle won, so it seems in this post, the IWGP didnt recognize it but TNA did. Angle didnt help them out, because he had a belt that wasnt a official world title at the time.