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Harley Race won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Flair in 1983, but Flair regained the title at Starrcade in a steel cage match. [1] Officially, Flair won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship eight more times. Flair lost the title to Race and won it back in the span of three days in New Zealand and Singapore in March 1984.
Shane Douglas and Ray González share the record for the shortest reign as champion, with both men holding the title for less than 1 day. Ric Flair holds the record for most reigns with 9. The youngest champion is Chris Candido who won the title at the age of 22, while the oldest champion is Tim Storm, who won it at the age of 51.
This culminated in a title match at WrestleMania VIII; Savage won the match and his second (and final) WWF World Heavyweight Championship. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This was the first Royal Rumble in which stakes were involved for the winner—the stipulation in which the winner would face the WWF/WWE World Heavyweight Champion at WrestleMania first ...
WCW began recognizing Flair as WCW World Heavyweight Champion while still using the NWA belt (the "Big Gold Belt"). WWE recognizes this reign as an NWA world title reign for Flair's 16 world championships and not a WCW one. [3] [4] — Vacated: July 1, 1991 — — — — Ric Flair left for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and was stripped ...
The championship belt debuted on February 14, 1986, at a Championship Wrestling from Florida card called "Battle of the Belts II", where NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair defended the title against Barry Windham. [1] In 1988, the assets of JCP were purchased by media mogul Ted Turner, whose cable network TBS broadcast JCP programming.
Ric Flair has the shortest title reign, having won it and lost it on the same night on May 29, 2000. The Giant was youngest champion, at the age of 23. The oldest champion was Ric Flair who won at the age of 51. Flair held the title the most times with eight championship reigns, the six had been recognized by the WWE.
Starrcade was headlined by the feud between Ric Flair and Harley Race over the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. In 1981, Flair won the title from Dusty Rhodes on September 17 in Kansas City, Kansas, where Rhodes and Flair were not major names. Flair felt that the match was poorly orchestrated due to the location, and because Rhodes was ...
Ivan and Nikita Koloff would regain the NWA World Tag Team titles from Rhodes and Fernandez, then Nikita Koloff would begin a feud with Ric Flair over his NWA World Heavyweight title, culminating in a title match at the first Great American Bash in July 1985. Don Kernodle would no longer be in any title hunt, after his return from his (kayfabe ...