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Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship: July 9: Bash at the Beach: Ocean Center: Daytona Beach, Florida: Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Booker T for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship: August 13: New Blood Rising: Pacific Coliseum: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Booker T (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett for the WCW World ...
The list of WCW World Heavyweight Champions is a chronological list of wrestlers that have held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship by ring name. The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship and its lineage began when Ted Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), which used the ...
In November 1988, Turner Broadcasting purchased Jim Crockett Promotions, which had promoted under the name "NWA World Championship Wrestling".While the promotion remained a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the use of the NWA name was gradually reduced on televised programming, in favor of the name "World Championship Wrestling", or "WCW".
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).
At the top of WWE's championship hierarchy for male wrestlers are the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw and the Undisputed WWE Championship on SmackDown—regarded as world heavyweight championships. The World Heavyweight Championship is held by first-time champion Gunther. He defeated Damian Priest at SummerSlam on August 3, 2024. [2]
The WCW International World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship that was contested in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) between 1993 and 1994. Although it was owned and controlled by WCW, the championship was presented as the highest accolade of "WCW International", a fictitious subsidiary.
During Luger's reign in 1991, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) split from the NWA and the title was renamed as the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship. [33] World Championship Wrestling (WCW) — Vacated: July 14, 1991: The Great American Bash: Baltimore, MD — — — Vacated when Lex Luger won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship ...
Bill Goldberg (c) vs. Bam Bam Bigelow for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [10] WCW: WCW Monday Nitro (Ep. 171) December 21, 1998: St. Louis, Missouri: Trans World Dome: 29,000 Bill Goldberg (c) vs. Scott Hall for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [10] JCP: Great American Bash July 6, 1985: Charlotte, North Carolina: American Legion ...