TNA World Championship
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | May 13, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Moose | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | January 13, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The TNA World Championship is a professional wrestling championship in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It was originally a National Wrestling Alliance. The championship was debuted on the May 14, 2007 taping of TNA Impact!. The episode aired on May 17, 2007 because of tape delay. It is considered the highest-ranking title in TNA.
History
[change | change source]Total Nonstop Action Wrestling originally had an agreement with National Wrestling Alliance and had control over both the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships. The company became a NWA territory and was known as NWA–TNA.[2] On their first show they had a twenty-man Gauntlet for the Gold match where twenty men would try to throw each other over the top rope and onto the floor to eliminate them, until there were two men left. The two men who remained would compete in a standard match to become the first ever TNA-era NWA World Heavyweight Champion.[3] Ken Shamrock would defeat Malice to win the vacant championship with Ricky Steamboat as special guest referee[broken anchor] at the event.[3] Both the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships were competed for in TNA on May 13, 2007 when the Executive Director of NWA, Robert Trobich announced that the agreement between TNA and NWA had ended.[2] This also ended TNA's control over the championships and Trobich said that the then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage and then-NWA World Tag Team Champions Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) would be stripped of their championships.[2]
Kurt Angle defeated Christian Cage and Sting in a match to win the "World Heavyweight Championship".[4] On the May 14, 2007 taping of TNA Impact! (which aired on May 17, 2007 because of tape delay), Angle debuted the TNA World Heavyweight Championship belt and said that he was the "new TNA World Heavyweight Champion".
Current champion
[change | change source]The current champion is Moose and he is in his second reign as champion. He defeated former champion Alex Shelley at Hard To Kill on January 13, 2024.[5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Westcott, Brian; Oliver, Earl. "TNA World Heavyweight Title history". solie.org. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NWA/Trobich strips TNA/Cage/Team 3D of NWA branded Championships". National Wrestling Alliance. Archived from the original on 2009-05-24. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Full NWA-TNA pay per view results - 6/19/02". WrestleView. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ↑ "World title picture muddied after good Sacrifice". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ↑ "TNA Hard To Kill results: Powell's live review of Alex Shelley vs. Moose for the TNA Title, Trinity vs. Jordynne Grace for the Knockouts Title, Josh Alexander vs. Alex Hammerstone". ProWrestling.net. Retrieved January 18, 2024.