XCW World Heavyweight Championship
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| XCW World Heavyweight Championship | |
| The final belt design of the XCW Championship used in IWE from July 2008 to February 2010 | |
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| Promotion | XCW (1992–2001) IWE (2006–2010) |
| Date established | April 25, 1992 |
| Date retired | February 16, 2010 |
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The XCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in Xtreme Championship Wrestling (XCW) and later, International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE). It was the original world title of the XCW promotion, spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. It was established under XCW in 1994, but was originally introduced in 1992 by the promotion's precursor, Eastern Championship Wrestling. The inaugural champion was Jimmy Snuka.
The title was deactivated in 2001 when XCW went out of business. XCW was then purchased by IWE two years later during the summer of 2003. In 2006, IWE reactivated the championship as the world title of their newly established XCW brand. It was a third concurrently active world championship in the promotion, complementing the IWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship of the other two brands, Raw and SmackDown. The XCW Championship briefly appeared as the sole world title of the Raw brand in 2008 as a result of that year's draft. When IWE disbanded the XCW brand in 2010, the championship was subsequently retired with Ezekiel Jackson as the final titleholder.
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History
Origin
Recommission
Brand designation
Belt designs
Reigns
- Main article: List of XCW World Heavyweight Champions
Overall, there have been 49 XCW World Heavyweight Championship reigns shared among 32 individuals. The inaugural champion was Jimmy Snuka, who won the title by defeating Salvatore Bellomo in April 1992. The Sandman holds the most reigns as champion, with five. Shane Douglas, in his fourth reign, had the longest reign in the title's history which lasted 406 days, while Russell Dalton, in his first (and only, due to his defeating of Khristian on the television finale of XCW
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