WCW was forced to use a belt owned by Dusty Rhodes from the defunct Championship Wrestling from Florida with a gold-colored plate tacked on with the words "WCW World Heavyweight Champion", which was awarded to Lex Luger after he defeated Barry Windham in a cage match for the vacant championship. A new belt was ordered, but was not ready in time for The Great American Bash on July 14. When Herd refused to return Flair's $25,000 deposit (that was left with the NWA), Flair kept the "Big Gold Belt" that had represented the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. On July 1, 1991, a creative disagreement with WCW Executive Vice President Jim Herd led to Flair leaving WCW for Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation. Separate championship The belt design used to represent the title from 1991 to 1994 Because of this, WCW regularly claimed the NWA World Heavyweight Championship lineage for its own championship. The new championship was not initially represented by its own title belt, and WCW continued to use the NWA World Heavyweight Championship title belt. On January 11, 1991, Ric Flair defeated Sting to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and was recognized as the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. 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". In November 1988, Turner Broadcasting purchased Jim Crockett Promotions, which had promoted under the name "NWA World Championship Wrestling". The title was the second of seven to be represented by the historic Big Gold Belt, first introduced in 1986. Ric Flair was the first holder of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, with Chris Jericho being the last.
The Undisputed title retained the lineage of the WWF Championship, and the World Championship was retired. It continued to complement the then- WWF Championship until the following month, when both titles were unified to create the Undisputed WWF Championship. It existed in WCW from 1991 to 2001.įollowing the acquisition of WCW by the WWF in March 2001, it became one of two world titles in the WWF, with its name being immediately abbreviated to the WCW Championship and finally, the World Championship in November. It was the original world title of the World Championship Wrestling promotion, spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
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The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). (as the official name listed on WWE's website)
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