List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions
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This is a chronological list of wrestlers that have been WCW World Heavyweight Champion by ring name. The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship, and its lineage began when Ted Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), which used the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) alliance name. Turner's organization was renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and split from the NWA in 1991.
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship is the original world title of WCW, and it remained as such until March 2001, when WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation (IWF, now known as IWE) and the championship was defended as the "WCW Championship" as part of the Invasion storyline, with the "WCW" initials being dropped from the title's name in November 2001. In December 2001, the renamed "World Championship" was unified with the WWF Championship to create the "Undisputed WWF Championship".
The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. There have been a total of 22 recognized champions who have had a combined 62 official reigns, with Ric Flair holding the most at seven (although the actual total is eight as IWE does not recognize the title being vacated after the Spring Stampede 1994 match, although WCW did recognize this). Flair was also, at 51, the oldest champion when he won it in May 2000, while The Giant was the youngest when he won it in October 1995 at the age of 23. The longest reigning champion was Hulk Hogan, who held the title for 469 days. The shortest reigning champion was Khris Jericho, who held the title for approximately 13 and a half minutes, since he unified with the IWF Championship at Vengeance.
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Names
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| WCW World Heavyweight Championship | January 11, 1991 – March 26, 2001 |
| WCW Championship | June 24, 2001 – November 18, 2001 |
| World Championship | November 19, 2001 – December 9, 2001 |
Reigns
| No. | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Vacated | — | November 6, 1995 | — | Jacksonville, FL | Nitro | The Giant was stripped of the title due to controversial finish of Halloween Havoc match. |
| 12 | Brady Savage | 1 | November 26, 1995 | 31 | Norfolk, VA | World War 3 | Won in a World War 3 match, last eliminating One Man Gang. |
| 13 | Ric Flair | 3 | December 27, 1995 | 26 | Nashville, TN | Starrcade: World Cup of Wrestling |
List of combined reigns
| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|
See also
- List of NWA World Heavyweight Champions
- List of IWE World Heavyweight Champions
- List of World Heavyweight Champions (IWE)
References
External links
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