List of early world heavyweight champions in professional wrestling
- List of early world heavyweight champions in professional wrestling
The world heavyweight wrestling championship is a professional wrestling title created to identify the best wrestler in the world. It was first resolved in a series of professional wrestling title matches dating back to 1901. The first recognized World Heavyweight Champion was Georg Hackenschmidt.
Most of the well recognized World Heavyweight Championships in professional wrestling such as the WWE Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, ECW Championship, and NWA World Heavyweight Championship are derived from this version. The NWA World Heavyweight Championship traces its history back to this World Heavyweight Championship while the top titles of the three largest promotions in North America during the 1990s (World Wrestling Entertainment, the now defunct World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling) spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship's lineage.
The new version of the World Heavyweight Championship, can also be traced back to this version as it is the successor to both the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Title history
External links
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