ROH World Championship
From Pro Wrestling
| ROH World Championship | |
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| Current champion(s): | Austin Aries |
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| Date won: | June 13, 2009 |
| Promotion: | Ring of Honor |
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| Other name(s): | ROH Championship |
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| First champion(s): | Low Ki |
The Ring of Honor (ROH) World Championship, originally named the "ROH Championship", is the top title contested in Ring of Honor.
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History
Low Ki defeated Spanky, Christopher Daniels and Doug Williams in a 60 minute Iron Man Match to become the first ROH Champion at Crowning a Champion on July 27, 2002.
Samoa Joe had the longest title reign to date when he held the belt for 22 months. During his reign, ROH held a cross-promotional show with Frontier Wrestling Alliance in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2003 called Frontiers of Honor. At that show, Joe turned the title into the ROH World Championship when he defended it against The Zebra Kid. Since then the title has been defended in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Mexico and Japan.
On August 12, 2006, the ROH Pure Championship was unified with the ROH World Championship after ROH Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness lost to ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson in Liverpool, England in a title unification match. The match was contested under pure wrestling rules, with the stipulation that both championships could be lost by disqualification or count out.
Current champion
Austin Aries is the current champion, in his record second reign, after defeating Jerry Lynn and Tyler Black in a three-way elimination match on June 13, 2009 at ROH's Manhattan Mayhem III event.
See also
- Ring of Honor
- Champion history - History of the wrestlers who have held the belt.
- Title matches - Matches in which the title was defended.
