Champ's Belt

The Champ's Belt is a special item featured in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Mario received this belt after he defeated 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 the belt. Mario, however, cannot wear the belt.

When Mario first arrives at the Glitz Pit and watches Rawk Hawk defeat The Koopinator, he and his 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 cheap 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, and that he still has a big mystery to solve before he finds the real one.

In Bowser's event after Chapter 6, Bowser finds the belt in Rawk Hawk's secret training room, apparently somewhere in the Rogueport Sewers. Bowser believes that it is the real Crystal Star, but smashes the glass replica eventually.