The World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in World Wrestling All-Stars. It was the primary championship in the WWA. The title was sanctioned by WWA as their world championship and defended in multiple countries. It was unified with the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship on May 25, 2003.
| WWA World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 The WWA Championship belt (October 23, 2001 – May 25, 2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | World Wrestling All-Stars | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | October 23, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | May 25, 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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History
editThe WWA World Heavyweight Championship was unveiled in 2001 and first won by Road Dogg on October 23, 2001 by defeating Jeff Jarrett in Australia.[1][2][3] Shortly after, however, the title was vacated for WWA's first pay-per-view, The Inception, on October 26, 2001. There, the title was contested in a tournament won by Jeff Jarrett.[4] The title was contested in the WWA as its primary title until May 25, 2003, where the title was unified with the National Wrestling Alliance Worlds Heavyweight Championship in Auckland, New Zealand by Jeff Jarrett, the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion, who defeated Sting, the WWA World Heavyweight Champion.[5]
Title history
edit| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Road Dogg | October 23, 2001 | Live event | Perth, Australia | 1 | 3 | Defeated Jeff Jarrett to become the inaugural champion. | |
| — | Vacated | October 26, 2001 | Inception | Sydney, Australia | — | — | Title vacated by Commissioner Bret Hart to be made available for the Seven Deadly Sins tournament. | |
| 2 | Jeff Jarrett | October 26, 2001 | Inception | Sydney, Australia | 1 | 163 | ||
| 3 | Nathan Jones | April 7, 2002 | Live event | Sydney, Australia | 1 | 6 | This was a four-way match also involving Brian Christopher and Scott Steiner. | [6] |
| 4 | Scott Steiner | April 13, 2002 | Eruption | Melbourne, Australia | 1 | 190 | Sid Vicious was the special outside enforcer. | [7] |
| — | Vacated | October 20, 2002 | — | — | — | — | Steiner was stripped of the title after signing with World Wrestling Entertainment. | [1] |
| 5 | Lex Luger | December 6, 2002 | Retribution | Glasgow, Scotland | 1 | 7 | Defeated Sting to win the vacant title | [8] |
| 6 | Sting | December 13, 2002 | Live event | Zurich, Switzerland | 1 | 163 | This was a four-way match also involving Malice. | [9] |
| 7 | Jeff Jarrett | May 25, 2003 | Reckoning | Auckland, New Zealand | 2 | <1 | This was a title unification match, where Jarrett also defended his NWA World Heavyweight Championship. | [5] |
| — | Unified | May 25, 2003 | Reckoning | Auckland, New Zealand | — | — | The WWA World Heavyweight Championship was unified into the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and retired as WWA closed after the event. | [5] |
List of combined reigns
edit| Rank [1] | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Steiner | 1 | 190 |
| 2 | Jeff Jarrett | 2 | 163 |
| Sting | 1 | 163 | |
| 4 | Lex Luger | 1 | 7 |
| Road Dogg | 1 | 7 | |
| 6 | Nathan Jones | 1 | 6 |
References
edit- ^ a b "World Wrestling All-Stars World Heavyweight Title". Jump City Productions. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ World Wrestling All-Stars, October 23, 2001 - Canberra, Australia. Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
- ^ BJ James - 2001. The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
- ^ "WWA The Inception PPV Results". pwwew.com. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
- ^ a b c "NWA World Heavyweight Championship". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ "WWA Wrestling Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ "WWA Wrestling Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ "WWA Wrestling Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ "WWA Wrestling Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-09-18.