WWA World Heavyweight Championship

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WWA World Heavyweight Championship
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The WWA Championship belt
(October 23, 2001 – May 25, 2003)
Details
Promotion World Wrestling All-Stars
Date establishedOctober 23, 2001
Date retired May 25, 2003
Statistics
First champion(s) Road Dogg
Final champion(s) Jeff Jarrett
Most reigns Jeff Jarrett (2 reigns)
Longest reign Scott Steiner (190 days)
Shortest reign Jeff Jarrett (<1 day)
Oldest champion Lex Luger (44 years, 188 days)
Youngest champion Nathan Jones (31 years, 220 days)
Heaviest champion Nathan Jones 350 lb (159 kg/25.0 st)
Lightest champion Jeff Jarrett 230 lb (100 kg/16 st)

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.

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History

The 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

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
 1 Road Dogg  October 23, 2001 Live event Perth, Australia  1 3Defeated 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 6This 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 7Defeated Sting to win the vacant title [8]
 6 Sting  December 13, 2002 Live event Zurich, Switzerland  1 163This was a four-way match also involving Malice. [9]
 7 Jeff Jarrett  May 25, 2003 Reckoning Auckland, New Zealand  2 <1This 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

Rank WrestlerNo. of reignsCombined days
1 Scott Steiner 1190
2 Jeff Jarrett 2163
Sting 1163
4 Lex Luger 17
Road Dogg 17
6 Nathan Jones 16

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