whose August 1992 victory of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship made history. In defeating Big Van Vader, Simmons became the first black World Champion in professional wrestling, paving a ...

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.

It got worse in the last years of WCW, with title reigns lasting days at the ... At the end of the day, making himself WCW ...

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

Throughout the history of professional wrestling ... shares a lineage with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, which in turn saw WWF/E, WCW and TNA Wrestling’s world titles break off ...

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

David Arquette's WCW World Heavyweight Championship victory. Arquette won the title during an episode of "WCW Thunder" in April of 2000, and less than one year later, the company would be sold to WWE.

This article looks to answer that, as we take a stab at ranking every WCW World Heavyweight Champion in the company’s 13-year history ... these arrived during the championship’s brief stint ...

and the title died of apathy. Some rather confusing history behind this one. Prior to 1991 the WCW Champion technically held both the NWA and WCW World Heavyweight Championships, although the ...

Lex Luger is a two-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion. His first televised World Heavyweight Title opportunity came less than a year into his career against Ric Flair at the third NWA Battle of ...