The NWA World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world championship at the National Wrestling Alliance. Although officially established in 1948, his lineage has traditionally been traced back to the first Heavyweight World Championship, which traces the lineage to the first title given to Georg Hackenschmidt in 1905, which he subsequently lost to Frank Gotch in 1908. This effectively making it the oldest ever wrestling championship in the world. This title has been contested in famous promotions such as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, now WWE), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Wrestling World Championships (WCW), Wrestling/Extreme Championships (ECW), Ring of Honor (ROH) , and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now Impact Wrestling).
With many territorial promotions emerging throughout the United States, the NWA was formed in 1948 as the overall governing wrestling body. Like franchises, this region has NWA membership options. Promotional owners must recognize the NWA heavyweight champion, junior heavyweight and light heavyweight as world champions while retaining their own holdings and top champions. Ric Flair holds the record for reigning at most with nine.
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Each year, the NWA World Heavyweight Champion will travel to each region and defend the title against a competitor or top regional champion. The goal of the world champions is to make the top contenders look good and still hold the title. The NWA board of directors, composed mostly of territorial owners, decides when titles change hands through voting. However, towards the end of the 1950s, the system began to break down. As Lou Thesz continues to hold the title, other popular wrestlers like Verne Gagne become frustrated by the lack of change. There is also a dispute over the number of appearances that will be champions in various regions.
On June 14, 1957 in Chicago, Lou Thesz defended his world title against Canadian wrestler ÃÆ' â € ° douard Carpentier in two of three falling matches. Thesz and Carpentier split the first two falls. In the fall of the third, Thesz was disqualified by referee Ed Whalen who raised Carpentier's hand in victory. The NWA then cancels the title change based on the disqualification. Thesz beat Carpentier with a disqualification in a Montreal rematch on July 24. It has been planned that the NWA will present Thesz and Carpentier as competing rivals in different cities following a similar pattern to a successful title match dispute between Thesz and Leo Nomellini. Carpentier will also be able to make an appearance in the US as a champion while Thesz is on an overseas tour. However, as a result of various disputes within the NWA, Carpentier's manager, wrestler Eddie Quinn, left the organization in August making Carpentier unavailable to the NWA. The organization faced the situation by announcing 71 days after Carpentier won in Chicago that did not recognize Carpentier's victory and never recognized him. Quinn began promoting Carpentier as a true NWA world champion based on the match with Thesz. In 1958, Quinn began shopping around for Carpentier promoters who were interested in leaving the NWA. The victory over Carpentier could give the locals a credible claim to the world championship of wrestling.
Verne Gagne, who has been trying to become NWA World Heavyweight Champion for some time, defeated Carpentier in Omaha, Nebraska on August 9, 1958. It was recognized as a title change by NWA affiliate promotions that would later evolve into the American Wrestling Association. (AWA) in 1960. The disputed version of the NWA World Heavyweight Title was later known as the World Heavyweight Championship (Omaha version). This title was united with the AWA World Heavyweight Championship on September 7, 1963. The AWA title continued until AWA ceased operations in 1991.
The Boston NWA affiliate known as the Atlantic Athletic Commission arranged a match between Killer Kowalski and Carpentier in 1958. Kowalski's victory created what after becoming known as the ACC World Heavyweight Title and then the current Big Time Wrestling (Boston) title until 1975, was later reformed at the start 2000s.
The NAWA/WWA in Los Angeles recognized Carpentier as the NWA champion in July 1959 as part of a gradual split from the NWA. On June 12, 1961, Carpentier lost the match against Freddie Blassie who created the basis for the WWA World Heavyweight Championship (Los Angeles version). The title no longer exists when WWA returns to NWA on October 1, 1968.
World Wide Wrestling Federation (1960s - 1963)
The World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), which later evolved into World Wrestling Entertainment, was a major wrestling campaign in the northeastern United States in the early 1960s. Vincent J. McMahon's Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a precursor to the WWWF, broke away from the National Wrestling Alliance for various reasons including the World Heavyweight Champion NWA election and the number of dates championed in the promotion. As if the dispute was over "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers lost the NWA World Heavyweight Championship to Lou Thesz in an autumn instead of the best-of-three - a format in which the NWA World Heavyweight Championship game was traditionally decided at the time. The Executive Capitol Wrestling Corporation held majority control over the NWA while on the NWA board of directors at the time. Following the victory of World Throne Lou Thesz, Capitol Wrestling Corporation broke away from the National Wrestling Alliance and became the World Wide Wrestling Federation. "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers was later recognized as the first WWWF World Wide Weight Champion.
Jim Crockett/World promotion Championship Wrestling (1981 - 1993)
When Ric Flair won the NWA World title in 1981, he traveled to other NWA areas and defended the belt. He will drop the belt and return it, as the NWA board of directors set. On more than one occasion, Flair lost and regained the belt without official sanction from the NWA. In most cases (like the case of Jack Veneno), this "switch" is ignored. However, in 1998, the NWA recognized the Flair-Race switch that occurred in March 1984 in New Zealand and Singapore.
When the 1980s came to an end, Promotion Jim Crockett (the main NWA area) made a failed bid to become national and nearly filed for bankruptcy in an effort to compete with WWF. Turner Broadcasting buys the company, as it is a highly rated program at WTBS cable station. Completed the deal in November 1988, Turner began to transform the company into World Championship Wrestling (WCW). WCW remains at the NWA, but Turner is slowly removing the NWA name. The NWA organization is only on paper at this point; on television it was portrayed that the NWA World Heavyweight Championship only became WCW World Heavyweight Championship in the late 1990s.
Due to a quarrel with WCW Executive Vice President, Jim Herd, Flair was fired from WCW on July 1, 1991 while still being recognized as a World Heavyweight NWA Champion. Flair took the NWA belt with him, because WCW and Herd had not returned the $ 25,000 bonds that Flair had paid in the belt. A match is held for WCW World Heavyweight Championship within two weeks of departure, but no mention of NWA title. Flair was stripped of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship by the NWA board of directors shortly after he signed a contract with WWF in September 1991; boards must be rebuilt, as most members have either been out of business or purchased by JCP/WCW. Flair features "Big Gold Belt" on WWF television, calling itself "The Real World Weight Champion". After winning the WWF Championship, "Real World Heavyweight Champion" was dropped. WCW, who later filed a lawsuit against WWF to prevent them from using the Big Gold Belt on television, eventually dropped the action. Belt is returned to WCW.
During Flair's move from WCW, the company has created a new WCW World title belt. After a hiatus year, the NWA board authorizes WCW and New Japan Pro Wrestling to hold a tournament to decide the new NWA World Champion using the Big Gold Belt, which is now owned by WCW. The Turner Company still maintains its WCW World Championship, so it has two World Heavyweight titles in the same promotion. The tournament was won by Japanese wrestler Masahiro Chono. From 1992 to 1993, the NWA belt was maintained in Japan and on WCW television. Flair returned to WCW and regained the belt from Barry Windham in July 1993; in the same year, WCW acknowledged the title change of NUR Flair-Tatsumi Fujinami NWA in 1991. The dispute between WCW management and NWA Board reached its peak in the summer of 1993 on various issues, not least that is the storyline by WCW to have the title switch to Rick Rude.
On September 1, 1993, WCW withdrew their membership from the NWA but retained their belt title. The court battle ruled that WCW could not continue to use the letters of the NWA to describe or promote the belt, but it had the rights to the physical title belt and historical lineage with the approval of goodwill between the previous board of directors and WCW (and previous incarnation of Jim Crockett Promotion). As per this verdict, the title belt drops recognition as a NWA World Heavyweight title but continues to be billed as a World Heavyweight Championship by WCW. Soon after, the Great Golden Belt was maintained without corporate affiliation, even referred to as the Big Golden Belt for a short time, until it became known as the WCW World Weight World Championship. The title is recognized as a fictitious entity championship known as "WCW International", which serves as a substitute for the NWA Council, until the title is united with the main WCW title.
Despite the loss of WCW as its flagship program, the NWA takes on new members and remains as a legal entity. After almost a year, the organization scheduled the tournament to crown the new champion, and brought back the "Domed Globe" belt from the '70s to early 80s to represent the new champion.
Eastern/Extreme Wrestling Championships (1993 - 1994)
After the WCW withdrew from the NWA, their Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW) territory became the most watched wrestling show on television still in the NWA. Thus, the NWA decided to hold a tournament for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship which was emptied through ECW. The tournament was held at ECW Arena in August 1994 and was won by ECW Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas. (At that time, the ECW title was considered a regional title). Douglas seemed proud to be NWA World Heavyweight Champion, until he turned and threw his belt down and started slandering the NWA, then took the ECW Heavyweight title belt and proclaimed himself the World Weight Champion ECW. Almost immediately after ECW withdrew from the NWA and became an Extreme Wrestling Championship. In 2005, the documentary ECW Forward Hardcore Douglas claimed that part of the reason he decided to throw out the NWA belt was because of the insulting and slanderous comments that NWA-Dennis Coralluzzo's head allegedly made about his professionalism.
Smoky Mountain Wrestling and the United States Wrestling Association (1994 - Smoky_Mountain_Wrestling_and_United_States_Wrestling_Association_ (1994 _-_ 1995) "> Smoky Mountain Wrestling and United States Wrestling Association (1994 - 1995)
Despite this blow to the organization, the NWA held another tournament in November 1994; in Cherry Hill, New Jersey hosted by promoters Dennis Coralluzzo and Smoky Mountain Wrestling. The tournament was won by Chris Candido and the title was immediately recognized and defended in independent promotions such as Smoky Mountain Wrestling and the United States Wrestling Association. Holding the belt for several months, he dropped his belt into Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Severn in February 1995. Severn held the belt continuously for four years, but only made sporadic defenses because of his UFC commitment. Although Severn has attempted to go to the "trip champion" route done by former Thesz champions Dory Funk, Jr., Harley Race, and Terry Funk, the competition level is relatively small due to the lack of strong territory.
World Wrestling Federation (1998)
In 1998, AFC of famer Dan Severn became part of the NWA faction of Jim Cornette at WWF. Trying to get back in the national spotlight, the NWA made a deal with Vincent K. McMahon to appear on WWF television. Part of the NWA Stable Cornette is NWA North American Champion Jeff Jarrett, winning the vacant title by beating Barry Windham on Monday Night Raw. The NWA deal with WWF never reached its intended destination and McMahon ended it. The NWA belt is again retained on the independent circuit and the remaining NWA territory.
Independent circuit (1999 - 2002)
In 1999, Severn lost the title to former Olympic judoka Naoya Ogawa, and the title image became a bit more competitive. The champions remain independent wrestlers, regardless of whether they are from North America (Severn, Mike Rapada, Sabu), Asia (Ogawa, Shinya Hashimoto), or Europe (Gary Steele). This situation continued until early 2002, when Severn was able to retake the title from Hashimoto in Japan, albeit with controversy.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002 - 2007)
In 2002, Jeff and Jerry Jarrett formed the NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA: TNA). The Jarretts drafted a licensing deal with the NWA and affiliated their promotions under the title of NWA World Heavyweight and Tag Team. While working on a cable deal, Jarretts puts the NWA: TNA on a weekly pay-per-view. The NWA World Heavyweight Champion at the time, Dan Severn, could not appear on the first TNA card, and he was stripped of the NWA title. Ken Shamrock was later declared the new NWA World Heavyweight Champion after winning Gauntlet for the Gold battle royal. In 2004, the NWA: TNA withdrew from the NWA, but retained the right to use the NWA World Heavyweight and Tag Team titles on their show while required to comply with the NWA board's decision. This agreement ended on May 13, 2007 with TNA creating its own championship.
"Reclaiming the Glory" (2007)
On May 22, 2007, the NWA announced via a statement on their official website, and via a video posted on YouTube, a tournament, entitled Reclaiming the Glory, to fill the vacant title remaining after the end of the NWA relationship with TNA Wrestling. Sixteen people compete for the championship, with Adam Pearce finally winning the belt by beating Brent Albright on September 1, 2007 at BayamÃÆ'³n, Puerto Rico. Pearce is active in defending championships, but suffers from the same problems that have plagued the "new" NWA in the past. The lack of a stable promotion within the NWA makes it difficult to have a travel champion, so most Pearce defenses occur in NWA Pro promotions owned by David Marquez and John Rivera. Pearce's main enemy in the early defense was Sean "X-Pac" Waltman, and two grapple many times over the title. Later, Pearce resumed her feud with Albright, with the two men exchanging Number One.
Ring_of_Honor_ (2008) "> Ring of Honor (2008)
On June 7, 2008 at the Pay-per-view (ROH) pay-per-view, Pearce revealed the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at the end of the game, making it officially recognized in the Ring of Honor. After the event was announced that on June 27, the Ring of Honor World Champion, Nigel McGuinness will take the NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Pearce's title for the title in "Battle For Supremacy" in Dayton, Ohio. The match ends with disqualification when the NWA rules throw an opponent over the top ropes upheld, therefore both men defend their respective titles, causing the crowd at Dayton to sing "Dusty Finish".
Brent Albright beat Adam Pearce in New York, New York on the event of the Death Before Dishonor VI ROH on August 2, 2008 to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. This is the first time that the title changed hands in New York City. Then on September 20, 2008, Pearce started his second reign as champion by beating Albright at the "Glory By Honor VII" Ring of Honor event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will lose the title one month later to Blue Demon, Jr. in Mexico City.
On March 14, 2010, Pearce ended the 505-day rule of Blue Demon Jr. as champion by winning it and Phill Shatter in a match in Charlotte, North Carolina. Pearce held the title for almost a full year before Colt Cabana defeated him on the recording of the Hollywood Wrestling Championships on March 6, 2011. Cabana held the title for forty-eight days on his own until The Sheik defeated him in Jacksonville, Florida on NWA Pro Wrestling Fusion event.
On July 11, 2011, the NWA announced that it was stripping The Sheik from the world championship for refusing to make a title defense against Pearce. The defender, whom Sheik claims he had never been told about, will take place during the Ohio State Fair on July 31. Instead, a four-way game was signed that put Pearce, the # 1 contender, against the NWA National Heavyweight Champion Chance Prophet, NWA Champion Shaun of North America, and Jimmy Rave for an empty title. Pearce won and became champion for the fourth time. Once again, he lost his belt to the Cabana, who defeated him in another Hollywood Wrestling record on April 8, 2012.
Soon Cabana and Pearce started facing each other in a series of matches dubbed the best "Seven Levels of Hate" from seven series. The fourth game of the series is a two-of-three fall contest held on July 21, 2012, in Kansas City, Missouri. The NWA approved the match as a world championship game and Pearce emerged as the winner to become a five-time world champion.
With both wrestlers even on three wins, the final match of the series is scheduled for October 27, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia at the Warzone NWA Wrestling show. Pearce wants the NWA to approve the match as a world title, as they did before. The NWA, however, refused to do this and did not want Pearce and Cabana to advance with the match. They did it anyway, with Cabana winning the game. Pearce and Cabana both broke kayfabe after the game, with Pearce saying that Cabana is the rightful champion and Cabana says that he does not want a title like that about the past and he's about the future. Pearce stated he did not want the title and left it in the ring when both of them came out of the arena.
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Design belt
There are four belt designs used to represent the NWA World Class Championships, along with a specially designed belt, used by Dan Severn. The current belt that represents the NWA World Class Championship was first used from 1973 to 1986, and has been used since 1994. The belt is commonly referred to as the "10 Pound of Gold" or "Domed Globe" which refers to a prominent bulge. globe in the middle plate.
This belt was originally made by unknown jewelry in Mexico in 1973. The belt was introduced at the NWA event on July 20, 1973, first presented to Harley Race by then NWA President, Sam Muchnick. Race will lose the title later that night to Jack Briscoe. The belt initially has a red suede/velvet strap along with a nameplate (first world championship belt to combine this). The signboard is only used once, by Jack Briscoe, before it is removed from the design. The red leather strap was replaced with a laced black leather strap that soon became Briscoe's government because of less material durability. The second side plate on the left side of the belt has a modified version of the Canadian Redignign that is older than the official Canadian flag, Maple Leaf, which was adopted in 1965.
The original Domed Globe belt was retired in 1986 and supported the Crumrine designed "Large Gold Belt". When the WCW withdrew from the NWA in 1993, the World Dome was brought back to represent the NWA World Heavyweight title in 1994 with WCW retaining the Big Golden Belt that will be used for the newly created WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Ric Flair retains ownership of the original Domed Globe belt. Currently located at WWE headquarters in Connecticut and on display at WWE WrestleMania 28 Axxess and WrestleMania 33 Axxess.
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Reigns
The NWA currently recognizes 92 World Class Weight Class Championships respectively. Ric Flair holds the record with 9 championships. Lou Thesz holds the record for most of the cumulative days as champions, with three governments totaling 3,749 days. Thesz's first government was the longest in the history of the title, as he held the title for 1,941 days. The shortest government is owned by Shane Douglas, who won the title at a tournament on August 27, 1994 at the NWA East Wrestling Championships; soon after winning the tournament, Douglas, who is the heavyweight wrestling champion of eastern wrestling, rejected the NWA world heavyweight championship and threw the belt down, declared his ECW title to be a world championship in action that divided the WWA Championship of the NWA and brought the existence what became the original Extreme Wrestling Championship.
Nick Aldis is the current champion in his first government. He defeated former Storm Tim winner on December 9, 2017, at CZW Cage of Death 19 in Sewell, New Jersey.
See also
- List of National Alliance Wrestling Championships
- NWA World Tag Team Championship
- NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
- NWA North American Heavyweight Championship
References
External links
- Official World Class NWA History
- Wrestling-Titles.com - History of the World NWA Heavy Title of the World
- NWA official video announcement about tournaments and spouses
- Wrestling Vintage Solie - Title History- NWA World Heavyweight Title
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