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==== Forfeit ====
Although extremely rare, some fictional storylines involve a match ending in a forfeit if the opponent is depicted as either does not show up for the match, or shows up but refuses to compete. Although the plot premise is that championship usually cannot change hands except by pinfall or submission, a forfeit victory is enough to crown a new champion. A famous example of this happened on the December 8, 1997, episode of ''[[WWE Raw|Raw is War]]'', when [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] handed the [[WWE Intercontinental Championship]] to [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] after refusing to defend the title.

When a pay-per-view match is booked and one wrestler is unable to make it for one reason or another, the [[genre convention]] is to insert a last-minute replacement rather than award a wrestler a victory by forfeit. Forfeit victories are almost always reserved for when the story the promotion is telling specifically requires such an ending.

Despite being, statistically, an extremely rare occurrence, [[The Godfather (wrestler)#The Godfather (1998–2000)|Charles Wright]] is one wrestler who is famous performances in which forfeit victories were turned into his own gimmick. During the late 1990s, Wright called himself "The Godfather" and portrayed the gimmick of a pimp. He often brought multiple women, whom he referred to as "hos", to the ring with him, and offered them to his opponents in exchange for their forfeit.