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The World Wrestling Championships are the Greco-Roman Wrestling (men's, since 1904) and Freestyle Wrestling (men's since 1951 and women's since 1987) World Championships organized by United World Wrestling (UWW).
The World Championships for men's freestyle wrestling began in 1951. The World Championships takes place during non-Olympic years. At the World Championships team scoring is kept, while no official team statistics are kept at the Olympics.
Jeffrey Gann is an American retired professional wrestler, best known for his time with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), under the ring name The Gambler. He appeared with the company as a jobber to the stars between 1990 and 1999. He initially competed as Jeff Gamble during the early years of his career before developing his Gambler character.
WWE's inaugural world champion, Buddy Rogers, who became the WWWF World Heavyweight Champion in 1963, a title that is now known as the WWE Championship.. The American professional wrestling promotion WWE has maintained several men's world championships since Capitol Wrestling Corporation seceded from the National Wrestling Alliance in 1963 to become the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF ...
An Jae-won (KOR) Yancho Patrikov (BUL) 1971 Sofia Hideaki Yanagida (JPN) Donald Behm (USA) Megdiin Khoilogdorj (MGL) 1973 Tehran Mohsen Farahvashi (IRI) Megdiin Khoilogdorj (MGL) Vladimir Yumin (URS) 1974 Istanbul Vladimir Yumin (URS) Ramezan Kheder (IRI) Hans-Dieter Brüchert (GDR) 1975 Minsk Masao Arai (JPN)
The wrestler holding a championship with this name is most commonly referred to as the "world heavyweight champion" or "world champion" (though some promotions may use synonymous/alternate terms, such as the AAA Mega Championship of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide or the Undisputed WWE Championship, the premier title of WWE).
The 2021 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from 2 to 10 October 2021 in Oslo, Norway. [ 1 ] The event was subsequent to the 2019 World Championships due to the cancelation of the 2020 edition during the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 2 ]
The NWA United States Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to crown the new United States Tag Team Champions after the titles were vacated when The Midnight Express won the NWA World Tag Team Championship on September 10, 1988.