On January 11 of that year, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair defeated Sting to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship ... at the five longest WCW World title reigns in history.

John Cena defeated Cody Rhodes for the WWE championship, his 17th world championship. According to WWE, the previous record was held by Ric Flair.

There is no greater stamp of approval of being a top star in the pro wrestling industry quite like holding the world ...

including five World Heavyweight Titles, six WCW World Television Titles and 11 WCW World Tag Team Titles. Booker T left an ...

Sticking with that early-1990s period in WCW’s history ... of course defeated for that maiden world title win. Vader himself scored three World Heavyweight Championships during his time with ...

However, a simple miscommunication resulted in wrestling history changing ... where Hogan would put the WCW--or perhaps I should say, NWO--World Heavyweight Championship on the line.

Modern professional wrestling history can be whittled down ... Goldberg defeated Hogan to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. It would be one of the final times WCW would defeat WWF ...

Bash at the Beach did 225,000 PPV buys, the most in the history of the promotion ... reach its apex with Goldberg winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from Hulk Hogan the following ...

and it would be briefly abandoned in October when it was unified with the World Heavyweight Championship. The title would return seven months later and has been active ever since. For Part 1 of ...