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WCW was forced to use a belt owned by Dusty Rhodes from the defunct Championship Wrestling from Florida with a gold-colored plate tacked on with the words "WCW World Heavyweight Champion", which was awarded to Lex Luger after he defeated Barry Windham in a cage match for the vacant championship. The new belt appeared shortly after the event.
Wrestle War is a video game developed and published by Sega which was released in arcades in 1989, and later ported to the Sega Mega Drive console in 1991 in Japan, Australia, and Europe. Despite being released the same year as World Championship Wrestling 's WrestleWar pay-per-view event, it is not associated with any wrestling promotion.
During this reign on June 23, 1994, Flair unified the title with the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship, Big Gold Belt. The Big Gold Belt was once again called the WCW World Title. The WCW title The Nature Boy won on April 21, 1994 was retired. [3] [4] [17] 11 Hulk Hogan: July 17, 1994: Bash at the Beach: Orlando, Florida: 1 469 ...
The belt was created in response to the growing popularity of hardcore wrestling in North America. The WCW Hardcore Title was a continuation from the WCW Hardcore Trophy that Fit Finlay won in the Junkyard Battle Royal that took place at the 1999 Bash at the Beach pay-per-view. Shortly after the PPV, the trophy was seized by Eric Bischoff and ...
Won the Junkyard Invitational to win the WCW Hardcore Championship, represented by a trophy. Unrecognized by WCW, however WWE recognizes the trophy as a reign. — Vacated: August 9, 1999: Nitro: Boise, ID — — WCW President Eric Bischoff vacated the title due to a leg injury sustained by Fit Finlay. Finlay’s reign would not be recognized ...
There were a total of 28 reigns and 3 vacancies. The first recognized World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion was George Hackenschmidt, who officially won the championship on May 4, 1905, by defeating Tom Jenkins in New York City, New York, [4] the championship remained active for the next 51 years with the last recognized reign beginning on November 9, 1956.
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) 1 Shinjiro Otani: March 20, 1996: Hyper Battle 1996 Nagoya, Japan: 1 43: 42 Otani defeated Wild Pegasus in tournament final to determine the first WCW Cruiserweight Champion. This was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling event. [2] [3] 2 Dean Malenko: May 2, 1996: WorldWide: Lake Buena Vista, FL: 1 67: 66 Aired on May 18 ...
In December 1995, Miceli signed with WCW, and as part of a storyline by booker Eric Bischoff, [6] showed up on WCW Monday Nitro on December 18, where she threw the WWF Women's belt into a trash can. [5] She later admitted that she regretted the action and would not have done it had Bischoff not coerced her. [31]