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|[[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]]
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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]]

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
NWA World Heavyweight Championship National Wrestling Alliance November 27 1948September 8 1991
May 13 2007 – Present
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling June 19 2002May 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 1959December 12 1990
ECW World Heavyweight Championship Extreme Championship Wrestling and WWE August 27 1999April 11 2001 and June 13 2006 – Present
WCW World Heavyweight Championship World Championship Wrestling January 11 1991March 26 2001
World Wrestling Entertainment March 27 2001November 5 2001

Number of world title reigns

Wrestler Total AWA ECW NWA TNA WCW WWE (WWE)
World
Ric Flair 18a 9 7 2
Hulk Hogan 14 2 6 6
Verne Gagne 10 10
Triple H 10 5 5
Jeff Jarrett 10 6 4
The Rock 9 2 7
Harley Race 8 8
Sting 8 2 6
Kurt Angle 7 1 1 4 1
Bret Hart 7 2 5
Steve Austin 6 6
Nick Bockwinkel 6 6
Booker T/King Booker 6 5 1
Diesel/Kevin Nash 6 5 1
Randy Savage 6 4 2
The Undertaker 5 4 1
Maurice Vachon 5 5
Shawn Michaels 4 3 1
The Giant/The Big Show 4 2 2
Sycho Sid/Sid Vicious 4 2 2
John Cena 3 3
The Crusher 3 3
Edge 3 2 1
Giant Baba 3 3
Chris Jericho 3 2 1
Brock Lesnar 3 3
Mankind 3 3
Diamond Dallas Page 3 3
Dusty Rhodes 3 3
A.J. Styles 3 3
Lou Thesz 3 3
Big Van Vader 3 3
Mike Awesome 2 2
Bob Backlund 2 2
Batista 2 2
Chris Benoit 2 1 1
Christian Cage 2 2
Goldberg 2 1 1
Ron Killings 2 2
Gene Kiniski 2 1 1
Lex Luger 2 2
Pat O'Connor 2 1 1
Buddy Rogers 2 1 1
Rhino 2 1 1
Bruno Sammartino 2 2
Taz 2 2
Yokozuna 2 2
Larry Zbyszko 2 2
Abyss 1 1
André the Giant 1 1
David Arquette 1 1
Jack Brisco 1 1
Orville Brown 1 1
Steve Corino 1 1
Justin Credible 1 1
Rob Van Dam 1 1
Dick The Bruiser 1 1
Tommy Dreamer 1 1
Tatsumi Fujinami 1 1
Dory Funk, Jr. 1 1
Terry Funk 1 1
Ron Garvin 1 1
Billy Graham 1 1
Eddie Guerrero 1 1
Stan Hansen 1 1
Curt Hennig 1 1
Dick Hutton 1 1
The Iron Sheik 1 1
Kane 1 1
Ivan Koloff 1 1
Jerry Lawler 1 1
John "Bradshaw" Layfield 1 1
Jerry Lynn 1 1
Vince McMahon 1 1
Rick Martel 1 1
Dr. Bill Miller 1 1
Pedro Morales 1 1
Rey Mysterio 1 1
Randy Orton 1 1
Raven 1 1
Tommy Rich 1 1
Vince Russo 1 1
Mr. Saito 1 1
The Sandman 1 1
Ken Shamrock 1 1
Ron Simmons 1 1
Sgt. Slaughter 1 1
Stan Stasiak 1 1
Ricky Steamboat 1 1
Scott Steiner 1 1
Masato Tanaka 1 1
Jumbo Tsuruta 1 1
Ultimate Warrior 1 1
Mighty Igor Vodic 1 1
Fritz Von Erich 1 1
Kerry Von Erich 1 1
Otto Wanz 1 1
Whipper Billy Watson 1 1
Dr. X 1 1

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.

See also