| Champion |
Won From |
Date |
| Adam Pearce |
n/a |
9/1/07 |
Defeated Brent Albright in the finals of a tournament to win the vacant title. |
| Christian Cage [2] |
Abyss |
1/14/07 |
Defeated Abyss & Sting in a 3 Way Match to win the title. Stripped of the title on 5/13/07 when the NWA ends its relationship with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. |
| Abyss |
Sting |
11/19/06 |
Defeated Sting by DQ to win the title. |
| Sting [2] |
Jeff Jarrett |
10/22/06 |
| Jeff Jarrett [6] |
Christian Cage |
6/18/06 |
| Defeated Cage, Ron Killings,
Abyss & Sting to win the title in a "King Of The Mountain Match" to win the
title. Director of Authority Jim Cornette took the title after the
match from Jarrett after the way the match ended. The title was later
returned to Jarrett at the television tapings a few nights later. |
| Christian Cage |
Jeff Jarrett |
2/12/06 |
| Jeff Jarrett [5] |
Rhino |
10/25/05 |
| Rhino |
Jeff Jarrett |
10/23/05 |
| Jeff Jarrett [4] |
Raven |
9/15/05 |
| Raven |
AJ Styles |
6/19/05 |
| Raven defeated AJ Styles, Sean
Waltman, Monty Brown, & Abyss in a "King Of The Mountain Match" to win the
title. |
| AJ Styles [3] |
Jeff Jarrett |
5/15/05 |
| Jeff Jarrett [3] |
Ron Killings |
6/2/04 |
| Jarrett defeated Killings, AJ
Styles, Chris Harris, & Raven in a "King Of The Mountain Match" to win the
title. |
| Ron Killings [2] |
AJ Styles |
5/19/04 |
| Defeated AJ Styles, Chris
Harris, & Raven in a "Deadly Draw Match" to win the title. |
| AJ Styles [2] |
Jeff Jarrett |
4/21/04 |
| Jeff Jarrett [2] |
AJ Styles |
10/22/03 |
| AJ Styles |
Jeff Jarrett |
6/11/03 |
| Jeff Jarrett |
Ron Killings |
11/20/02 |
| Jeff Jarrett defeated Sting on
5/25/03 to unify the NWA World Heavyweight Title with the WWA Heavyweight
Title. |
| Ron Killings |
Ken Shamrock |
8/7/02 |
| Ken Shamrock |
n/a |
6/19/02 |
| Ken Shamrock defeated Malice (WCW's
The Wall) to win the title. A "Gauntlet Battle Royal" was held to determine
the two finalists, the participants were: Jeff Jarrett , Buff Bagwell, Lash LeRoux,
Norman Smiley, Gran Apollo, Ron Killings, Slash, Del Rios, Justice,
Konnan, Bruce (Alan Funk), Rick Steiner, Malice, Scott Hall, Steve Corino,
Ken Shamrock, and Brian Christopher. Rick Steamboat entered the ring to be
special referee between Shamrock and Malice. |
| Dan Severn [2] |
Shin'ya Hashimoto |
3/9/02 |
| Dan Severn was stripped of the
title in May 28, 2002 by unanimous vote of the NWA Board of Directors for
not being able to schedule a title defense on June 19th. |
| Shin'ya Hashimoto |
n/a |
12/15/01 |
| Shin’ya Hashimoto defeated Gary
Steele and Steve Corino in a Round-Robin Ironman match to win the held-up
title. |
| Steve Corino |
Mike Rapada |
4/24/01 |
| Title held-up after a match
against Shin'ya Hashimoto on October 13, 2001 in Saint Petersburg, Florida
when Corino is unable to continue due to injury. |
| Mike Rapada [2] |
Sabu |
12/22/00 |
| Sabu |
Mike Rapada |
11/14/00 |
| Mike Rapada |
n/a |
9/19/00 |
|
Mike Rapada defeated Jerry Flynn in the finals of a
tournament. |
| Naoya Ogawa [2] |
Gary Steele |
10/2/99 |
| Title was vacated on July 2,
2000. |
| Gary Steele |
Naoya Ogawa |
9/25/99 |
| Gary Steele won the title in a
"Three Way Dance" when Ogawa pinned Anthony and Steele pinned Ogawa. |
| Naoya Ogawa |
Dan Severn |
3/14/99 |
| Dan Severn |
Chris Candido |
2/24/95 |
| Chris Candido |
n/a |
11/19/94 |
| Chris Candido defeated Tracey
Smothers in another tournament final. |
| Shane Douglas |
n/a |
8/27/94 |
|
Shane Douglas defeated Too Cold Scorpio in the tournament
final. After the match, Douglas threw down the NWA World title belt, picked
up the NWA ECW Heavyweight title and claimed himself, the ECW World
Heavyweight Champion. On the same night, NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling
left the NWA and became known as Extreme Championship Wrestling. |
| Ric Flair [10] |
Barry Windham |
7/18/93 |
| In September of 1993, WCW left
the NWA and the title belt dropped the recognition as being the NWA World
Heavyweight title. The belt became known as the WCW International World
Heavyweight title with Ric Flair becoming the first champion of this bogus
championship. |
| Barry Windham |
The Great Muta |
2/21/93 |
| The Great Muta |
Masahiro Chono |
1/4/93 |
| Masahiro Chono |
n/a |
8/12/92 |
| Masahiro Chono defeated Rick
Rude in a tournament final to win the title. |
| Ric Flair [9] |
Tatsumi Fujinami |
5/19/91 |
| Ric Flair was stripped of the
NWA World Heavyweight title on September 8, 1991 when Flair signed with the
WWF. He took the recognized NWA World Heavyweight title belt with him and
called himself the "Real World's Heavyweight Champion." On the same date,
the NWA vacated the
World Heavyweight title for the first time in its history. |
| Tatsumi Fujinami |
Ric Flair |
3/21/91 |
| Ric Flair [8] |
Sting |
1/11/91 |
| Sting |
Ric Flair |
7/7/90 |
| Ric Flair [7] |
Ricky Steamboat |
5/7/89 |
| Ricky Steamboat |
Ric Flair |
2/20/89 |
| Ric Flair [6] |
Ronnie Garvin |
11/26/87 |
| Ronnie Garvin |
Ric Flair |
9/25/87 |
| Ric Flair [5] |
Dusty Rhodes |
8/7/86 |
| Dusty Rhodes [3] |
Ric Flair |
7/25/86 |
| Ric Flair [4] |
Kerry Von Erich |
5/24/84 |
| Ric Flair wrestled against AWA
World Heavyweight Champion, Rick Martel, to a double count-out on October 2,
1985 in Tokyo, Japan. |
| Kerry Von Erich |
Ric Flair |
5/6/84 |
| Ric Flair [3] |
Harley Race |
3/23/84 |
| Harley Race [8] |
Ric Flair |
3/21/84 |
| Ric Flair [2] |
Harley Race |
11/24/83 |
| Harley Race [7] |
Ric Flair |
6/10/83 |
| Ric Flair |
Victor Jovica |
2/11/83 |
| Victor Jovica |
Ric Flair |
2/8/83 |
| Ric Flair |
Carlos Colon |
1/23/83 |
| Carlos Colon |
Ric Flair |
1/6/83 |
| Ric Flair |
Jack Veneno |
9/7/82 |
| Jack Veneno |
Ric Flair |
September 1982 |
| The names and dates in italics
are Unofficial NWA World title changes in the Carribean. Info of the title
changes came from Great Hisa's Pro-Wrestling Title Histories. |
| Ric Flair |
Dusty Rhodes |
9/17/81 |
| On February 9, 1982 in Tampa,
Florida, the Midnight Rider defeated Ric Flair for the NWA World title, but
the Midnight Rider returned the title belt when NWA President, Bob Geigel,
asked the Midnight Rider to unmask and reveal who he is. The Midnight Rider
was Dusty Rhodes in disguise.
[Credit for this information goes to Great Hisa's Pro-Wrestling Title
Histories.] Ric Flair wrestled to a double count-out against WWF World
Heavyweight Champion, Bob Backlund, on July 4, 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia.
|
| Dusty Rhodes [2] |
Harley Race |
6/21/81 |
| Harley Race [6] |
Tommy Rich |
5/1/81 |
| Tommy Rich |
Harley Race |
4/27/81 |
| Harley Race [5] |
Giant Baba |
9/9/80 |
| Giant Baba [3] |
Harley Race |
9/4/80 |
| Harley Race [4] |
Giant Baba |
11/7/79 |
| Giant Baba [2] |
Harley Race |
10/31/79 |
| Harley Race [3] |
Dusty Rhodes |
8/26/79 |
| Dusty Rhodes |
Harley Race |
8/21/79 |
| Harley Race [2] |
Terry Funk |
2/6/77 |
| Terry Funk |
Jack Brisco |
12/10/75 |
| Jack Brisco [2] |
Giant Baba |
12/9/74 |
| Giant Baba |
Jack Brisco |
12/2/74 |
| Jack Brisco |
Harley Race |
7/20/73 |
| Harley Race |
Dory Funk, Jr. |
3/24/73 |
| Dory Funk, Jr. |
Gene Kiniski |
2/11/69 |
| Gene Kiniski |
Lou Thesz |
1/7/66 |
| Lou Thesz [3] |
Buddy Rogers |
1/24/63 |
| Promoters in the northeast of
the United States refuses to recognize Buddy Rogers' one-fall loss to Lou
Thesz, thus breaking away from the National Wrestling Alliance to form a new
promotion called the World Wide Wrestling Federation (now known as the WWF)
and naming Rogers as the first WWWF World Heavyweight Champion. Lou Thesz
defeated Rogers in a rematch on February 7, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. |
| Buddy Rogers |
Pat O'Conner |
6/30/61 |
| Pat O'Conner |
Dick Hutton |
1/9/59 |
| Dick Hutton |
Lou Thesz |
11/14/57 |
| Lou Thesz [2] |
Whipper Billy Watson |
11/9/56 |
| Lou Thesz loses the title to
Edouard Carpentier by disqualification on June 14, 1957 in Chicago,
Illinois, but NWA rules prohibit the title change because the NWA World
title cannot change hands due to an injury and the belt was given back to
Thesz. Lou Thesz then went on to defeat Edouard
Carpentier in a rematch by disqualification on July 24, 1957 in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. [Credit for this information goes to Great Hisa's
Pro-Wrestling Title Histories.] |
| Whipper Billy Watson |
Lou Thesz |
3/15/56 |
| Wins by Count-Out. |
| Lou Thesz |
n/a |
11/27/49 |
| Lou Thesz unifies the NWA World
Heavyweight title with the National Wrestling Assocation's World title on
July 20, 1948. He recieved the NWA World Heavyweight title on November 27,
1949 when Orville Brown was injured in a car accident and couldn't defend
the title. Lou Thesz then went to unify the titles of the American Wrestling
Assocation World title on July 27, 1950 and with the World title recognized
by Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium wrestling on May 21, 1952. [Credit for
this information goes to Great Hisa's Pro-Wrestling Title Histories.] |
| Orville Brown |
n/a |
October 1948 |
| Orville Brown was the reigning
Midwest Wrestling Association's World Heavyweight Champion and was awarded
the NWA World Heavyweight title when the MWA was absorbed into the NWA. |
