List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions
- List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions
This is a chronological list of wrestlers that have been WCW World Heavyweight Champion by ring name. The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship. Its lineage began when Ted Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions, which used the National Wrestling Alliance alliance name. Turner's organization was renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and split from the NWA in 1991. [cite web|title=WCW Wrestling History|work=Wrestling Information Archive|url= http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/wcw/wcwhist.htm|accessdate=2007-10-09]
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship is the original world championship of World Championship Wrestling. It was deactivated after WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) and the title was unified with the WWF Championship. There have been a total of 22 recognized champions who have had a combined 63 official reigns.The championship has been known as:
*WCW World Heavyweight Championship (January 1, 1991 – March 26, 2001)[citeweb|title=WCW World Heavyweight Title History|work=Wrestling Information Archive|url=http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/wcw/wcwworld.htm|accessdate=2007-10-09] ]
*WCW Championship (June 25, 2001 – November 18, 2001)
*World Championship (November 19, 2001 - December 9, 2001)[cite web|title=World Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Title|work=Wrestling-Titles.com|url= http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html|accessdate=2007-10-02] ]Title history
:"† indicates reigns and title changes not recognized by WWF."Triple H
ee also
*List of NWA World Heavyweight Champions
*List of WWE Champions
*List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE)
*List of WCW World Heavyweight Championship reigns by length
References
External links
* [http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/wcwchampionship/ Official WCW World Heavyweight Championship History]
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