PWI's list of wrestling World Heavyweight Title reigns: Difference between revisions
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|[[AWA World Heavyweight Championship]]|| [[American Wrestling Association]] || align=center|[[January 9]] [[1959]] – [[December 12]] [[1990]] |
|[[AWA World Heavyweight Championship]]|| [[American Wrestling Association]] || align=center|[[January 9]] [[1959]] – [[December 12]] [[1990]] |
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|[[ECW World Championship|ECW World Heavyweight Championship]]|| [[Extreme Championship Wrestling]] || align=center|[[August 27]] [[1999]] – [[April 11]] [[2001]] |
|[[ECW World Championship|ECW World Heavyweight Championship]]|| [[ Extreme Championship Wrestling]] and [[WWE]] || align=center|[[August 27]] [[1999]] – [[April 11]] [[2001]] and [[June 13]] [[2006]] – Present |
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|rowspan=2|[[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]] || [[World Championship Wrestling]] || align=center|[[January 11]] [[1991]] – [[March 26]] [[2001]] |
|rowspan=2|[[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]] || [[World Championship Wrestling]] || align=center|[[January 11]] [[1991]] – [[March 26]] [[2001]] |
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Revision as of 21:21, 2 July 2007
This is a list of number of professional wrestling championships that Pro Wrestling Illustrated recognizes as having "World Heavyweight Title" status. There is no ultimate source that declares which of the various wrestling promotions top championships have that status and views differ from promotion to promotion. The same happens with PWI. Hence this page is not supposed to represent the official view on which titles have world title status, it just represents PWI's point of view.
Declaration of World Title Status
Pro Wrestling Illustrated has granted world title status to the following promotions: National Wrestling Alliance, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment (and its previous names), American Wrestling Association (now defunct, and not to be confused with post-1991 versions of the AWA), Extreme Championship Wrestling (now defunct, and not to be confused with the WWE version of ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (now defunct). PWI currently recognizes two world championships in the WWE and differentiates them as the WWE Raw World Championship (currently the WWE Championship) and the WWE SmackDown! World Championship (currently the World Heavyweight Championship). Also the ECW Championship is currently only given world title status from 1999 to 2001 and the NWA Championship from 1948 to 1991 and again from 2002.
Recognized World Titles
| Championship | Promotion | Time as World Title |
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| NWA World Heavyweight Championship | National Wrestling Alliance | November 27 1948 – September 8 1991 May 13 2007 – Present |
| Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | June 19 2002 – May 13 2007 | |
| TNA World Heavyweight Championship | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | May 13 2007 – Present |
| WWE Championship | World Wrestling Entertainment | January 25 1963 – Present |
| World Heavyweight Championship | World Wrestling Entertainment | September 2 2002 – Present |
| AWA World Heavyweight Championship | American Wrestling Association | January 9 1959 – December 12 1990 |
| ECW World Heavyweight Championship | Extreme Championship Wrestling and WWE | August 27 1999 – April 11 2001 and June 13 2006 – Present |
| WCW World Heavyweight Championship | World Championship Wrestling | January 11 1991 – March 26 2001 |
| World Wrestling Entertainment | March 27 2001 – November 5 2001 |
Number of world title reigns
Footnotes
a Only recognized by WWE (and perhaps himself) as a 16-time world champion (8-time NWA Champion, 6-time WCW Champion, and 2-time WWE Champion). It should be noted that WWE recognizes Flair's 10th reign in 1993, unlike PWI, not recognizing one of his reigns from the 80's, like PWI does. His 8th NWA reign and 1st WCW reign are considered by the WWE as one single reign.