World Heavyweight Championship
Current champion(s):
Date won:
Promotion:	N/A
Brand:
Date created:	1905
Date retired:	1956
Other name(s):
Most reigns:	Ed Lewis (4 times)
First champion(s):	Georg Hackenschmidt

This is the original World Heavyweight Championship.

HistoryEdit

The original World Heavyweight Championship was created in 1905 when European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Champion Georg Hackenschmidt defeated American Heavyweight Champion Tom Jenkins. From that point Hackenschmidt was declared World Champion. Eventually disputes between promoters splintered the World Championship into numerous titles. Occasionally some these titles would be unified, most notably by Lou Thesz in the late 1940s. The NWA World Heavyweight Championship, one of Thesz's unified titles, claims its lineage stems from the original World Title. Since the AWA, WWWF/WWF/WWE, WCW, ECW and TNA World Titles all resulted from breaking ties with the NWA, every major promotion can trace its lineage back to the original championship.

See alsoEdit

• NWA World Heavyweight Championship
• AWA World Heavyweight Championship
• WWE Championship
• WCW World Heavyweight Championship
• ECW World Heavyweight Championship
• World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)
• TNA World Heavyweight Championship
• Champion history - History of the wrestlers who have held the belt.
• Title matches - Matches in which the title was defended.

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