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The NWA World's Heavyweight Championship is a world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), an American professional wrestling promotion. It is the promotion's premier title. NWA currently recognizes 102 individual World's Heavyweight Championship reigns. [1] [2] The inaugural champion was Orville ...
Diagram detailing the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship's ties to other world championships. With many territorial promotions appearing across the United States, the NWA was formed in 1948 as a professional wrestling governing body. The NWA World Heavyweight Championship was created that same year.
NWA Indiana Heavyweight Championship [110] NWA Iowa Heavyweight Championship [111] NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title (Iowa Version) NWA Louisiana Heavyweight Championship [112] NWA Macon Tag Team Championship; NWA Maryland Heavyweight Championship [113] NWA Massachusetts Heavyweight Championship; NWA Massachusetts Tag Team Championship
The secondary title is the NWA National Championship. The championship is currently held by Mims, who won the vacant title on August 31, 2024 at NWA 76 by defeating Paul Burchill, Bryan Idol and Carson Drake in a four-way match. The another secondary title is the NWA World Television Championship.
TNA formed in May 2002 and established a partnership with the NWA, allowing TNA control of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Tag Team Championship. On June 19, 2002, TNA crowned the first NWA World Heavyweight Champion under their banner after Ken Shamrock won a Gauntlet for the Gold match at TNA's first weekly pay-per-view. [18]
The World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship of the National Wrestling Association (NWA), an offshoot of the National Boxing Association (NBA). The title existed from 1929 through 1949, when it was unified with the National Wrestling Alliance's World Heavyweight Championship.
The only two championships not vacated were the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, and NWA World Women's Championship. Corgan transformed the NWA from a governing body, to a wrestling promotion—one seeking to proudly revive and preserve the mood, look, and feel of the 1970s/1980s, Georgia/Mid-Atlantic era of wrestling.
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