Murdock defeated Conscience and The Juggulator in a. The inaugural champion was Kurt Angle, who also holds the record for the most reigns at six. [a] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. In 1996, a tournament was held to unify eight different championship belts from five different organizations, including NWA's. Founded in 1948, the NWA began as a governing body for a group of independent professional wrestling promotions, the heads of which made up the Board of Directors.The group operated Chris Candido won this tournament[13] and the title was recognized and defended in territories such as Smoky Mountain Wrestling and the United States Wrestling Association. Verne Gagne won the vacant title in November 1950, defeating Sonny Myers in the final of a tournament, after which he was presented with the title belt by McGuirk. The title was unified with the AWA World Heavyweight Championship on September 7, 1963. On May 22, 2007, the NWA announced a tournament, entitled Reclaiming the Glory, to fill the title vacancy left after the end of the NWA's relationship with TNA Wrestling. In 1998, Dan Severn became part of Jim Cornette's NWA faction in the WWF. The NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt was returned to WCW. On March 11, 2021, National Wrestling Alliance announced on their social media that Tyrus would make his NWA debut at Back For The Attack. The WCW Championship (rebranded as World Championship) and the WWF Championship were unified to create the Undisputed WWF Championship on December 9, 2001 at Vengeance when Chris Jericho defeated WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin and World Champion The Rock in the same night. In early 2017 After TNA rebranded as Impact Wrestling, the name of its flagship show, the TNA World Heavyweight Championship changed its name to the Impact Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship to reflect the name changes of the company. Cardona vacated the title due to an injury. Flair was stripped of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship by the NWA Board of Directors shortly after he signed with the WWF in September 1991; a board had to be reconstituted, as most members had gone out of business or been bought out by JCP/WCW. On October 23, 2017, the GFW name was dropped and the company name was reverted to Impact Wrestling when the company severed ties with Jeff Jarrett and he took the GFW name with him. The design was later used for the NWA United National Championship, the Japanese version of the NWA North American Tag Team Championship and the current version of the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. The NWA Board of Directors, composed mostly of territory owners, decided when the title changed hands via a vote. The longest reigning champion is Lou Thesz, who held the title from November 27, 1949 to March 15, 1956, for a total of 2,300 days (6 years, 3 months, and 16 days); Thesz also holds the record for longest combined reign at 3,749 days. Blue shading had filled the Impact logo, the owl design, and the globes and logos on the side plates, but in 2020, the belt was modified with red shading replacing the previous blue to reflect the new color of the Impact Wrestling logo introduced following the move to AXS TV. Ric Flair holds the record for most reigns with 10. [2] In March, Murdoch, once again using the name G-Rilla, formed an alliance with The Uso Brothers, Tamina, and Donny Marlow. between A.J. [55] At the Survivor Series pay-per-view, Clay took part in 10 man elimination tag team match alongside Tyson Kidd, Justin Gabriel, Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara, but he was the first man out after being eliminated by Tensai. [4][5] At that point, all pre-existing NWA affiliation agreements with other promotions were ended; most NWA-branded championships (including the National) would be vacated in the months that immediately followed. 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On the right, the logo of the television network CBS is on one plate while an image of a satellite dish is on the other. After this title win, Sting was recognized as the first, This title change was originally ignored in the United States, presenting Flair's reign as one continuous reign. [14], In early January 2007, G-Rilla feuded with Urban Assault, attacking the members during matches. [66] The match instead took place the following night on Raw, where Tons of Funk and The Funkadactyls emerged victorious. [83], On a June 28, 2016 taping of Impact Wrestling, Tyrus returned as a "fixer" for hire, siding with Grado and Mahabali Shera in a match against The Tribunal and Al Snow. [1] TNA commentator Mike Tenay announced when Angle made his way to the ring that Management Director Jim Cornette, TNA's on-screen authority figure at the time, "made the decision that due to TNA's growing worldwide exposure, the company needed to have its own TNA title belts"; thereby not acknowledging the NWA ending their agreement with TNA and giving a storyline explanation as to why the championship was created. Ace Austin vs. Mike Bailey for the X Division Title, Jay White vs. Steve Maclin vs. Chris Sabin", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impact_World_Championship&oldid=1118243811, World heavyweight wrestling championships, Pages using infobox professional wrestling championship with unknown parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Impact Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship, Unified GFW World Heavyweight Championship, This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 22:18. 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The longest reigning champion is Phil Shatter, who held the title from January 17, 2009 to February 19, 2011, for a total of 763 days. The belt was also available in red and white straps. [17] He went on to defeat both Jacob Novak and Rudy Parker, before changing his ring name to Brodus Clay, a play on Snoop Dogg's real name (Calvin Cordozar Broadus), in May 2010. In 2021, he began to work with NWA, where he won the NWA World Television Championship. McGuirk vacated the title in February 1950 after being blinded in a car accident, forcing him to retire. [35], Overall, there have been 56 reigns shared among 32 wrestlers. A match was held for the vacated WCW World Heavyweight Championship within two weeks of the departure, but no mention was made of the NWA title. [3] Gagne lost the title to Danny McShain one year later in November 1951. He was a main event star in the American Wrestling Association where he feuded with Mad Dog Vachon, Hulk ", This page was last edited on 22 September 2022, at 18:56. [4] On June 19, 2002, NWA-TNA held its first show; a weekly pay-per-view event. The WCW Championship (rebranded as World Championship) and the WWF Championship were unified to create the Undisputed WWF Championship on December 9, 2001 at Vengeance when Chris Jericho defeated WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin and World Champion The Rock in the same night. On May 1, 2017, Billy Corgan's company, Lightning One, Inc., purchased the NWA, including its name, rights, trademarks, and championships. Kahagas won an elimination match for the vacant title by last eliminating Damien Wayne. [28] The new design consisted of a purple strap with a silver center plate depicting a masked head (designed to resemble Hardy's face with face paint), the TNA logo on the forehead and blue lines along the mask. In 1960, Danny Hodge had a heated feud with Angelo Savoldi over the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. It had a prominent royal crown at its top, a globe underneath it, and the letters "NWA" horizontally across the center behind two wrestling figures. Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CWFH) is an American professional wrestling promotion and television program that airs on KDOC-TV Los Angeles and carried in first-run syndication in the United States. However, on December 10, 2019, McHenry filed a sexual harassment suit[102] against Fox News and Murdoch. Pro Wrestling Zero1 did not recognize the vacancy and recognised Classic as the real champion. Tyrus returned to Impact Wrestling and began aligning himself with Eli Drake. [29][30] On the April 25 episode of Raw, Del Rio was drafted to Raw, while Clay remained on SmackDown. 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[91] On the September 24, 2022 episode of NWA USA, Tyrus vacated the NWA World Television Championship using the "Lucky 7" rule to challenge Aldis and Matt Cardona for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship at NWA Hard Times 3. 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