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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".
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship Tournament was a tournament to crown the new World Heavyweight Champion after Sting was stripped of the title due to attacking a referee at Halloween Havoc. The tournament finals took place at Mayhem. [1]
Youngest, four-time and final champion Randy Orton. The World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in WWE.It was established by WWE in 2002 after WWE bought out World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and split its roster into two brands, Raw and SmackDown!, in a brand extension.
World Championship Wrestling champions (9 C, 1 P) World Championship Wrestling champions lists (7 P) Pages in category "World Championship Wrestling championships"
WCW International World Heavyweight Championship: The secondary world title of WCW. It was established in 1993 under WCW International, a fictitious subsidiary of WCW, and was defended until 1994 when it was unified with the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. WCW United States Heavyweight Championship: The second highest ranked title used in WCW.
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship's origin is traced back to a match which took place on January 11, 1991, where Ric Flair defeated Sting for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. When WCW pulled out of the NWA in early 1991, Flair was recognized as the first WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
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 ...