List of ECW World Champions
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The ECW World Championship is a professional wrestling title. It originally served as the highest ranked championship for the Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion and remained active until April 11, 2001 when Extreme Championship Wrestling declared bankruptcy. It was reactivated on June 13, 2006 to be the highest ranked championship on the ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment.
The championship has been known as:
- NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship (1992 – 1994)
- ECW World Heavyweight Championship (1994 – 2001)
- ECW World Championship (2006 – Present)
This is a list, by ring name, of people that have been ECW World Champion.
[edit] Title history
| Wrestler: | Reigns: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship | ||||
| Jimmy Snuka | 1 | April 25, 1992 | Mount Tabor, PA | Defeated Salvatore Bellomo in a one-on-one match after they each won separate battle royals to determine finalists. |
| Johnny Hot Body | 1 | April 26, 1992 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Jimmy Snuka | 2 | July 14, 1992 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Don Muraco | 1 | September 30, 1992 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| The Sandman | 1 | November 16, 1992 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Don Muraco | 2 | April 3, 1993 | Radnor, PA | |
| Tito Santana | 1 | August 8, 1993 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Shane Douglas | 1 | September 9, 1993 | Roanoke, VA | Won the title via forfeit. |
| Sabu | 1 | October 2, 1993 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Terry Funk | 1 | December 26, 1993 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Shane Douglas | 2 | March 26, 1994 | Devon, PA | Pinned Terry Funk in an 8-man tag team match with Douglas, Mr. Hughes and The Public Enemy (Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock) vs. Funk, Road Warrior Hawk, Kevin Sullivan and the Tazmaniac. |
| Extreme Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship | ||||
| Shane Douglas | 2 | August 27, 1994 | Philadelphia, PA | Pinned 2 Cold Scorpio in a tournament final to become the NWA World Heavyweight Champion, but immediately relinquished the title. Days later, Eastern Championship Wrestling withdrew from the NWA and renamed itself Extreme Championship Wrestling, thus the title became known as the Extreme Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship. |
| The Sandman | 2 | April 15, 1995 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Mikey Whipwreck | 1 | October 28, 1995 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| The Sandman | 3 | December 9, 1995 | Philadelphia, PA | Won a three-way dance against Whipwreck and Steve Austin. |
| Raven | 1 | January 27, 1996 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| The Sandman | 4 | October 5, 1996 | Philadelphia, PA | Defeated Stevie Richards in a tag team match with Sandman and Tommy Dreamer vs. Richards and Brian Lee when Raven no-showed. |
| Raven | 2 | December 7, 1996 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Terry Funk | 2 | April 13, 1997 | Philadelphia, PA | Defeated The Sandman and Stevie Richards in a three-way dance to earn an immediate championship match against Raven. |
| Sabu | 2 | August 9, 1997 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Shane Douglas | 3 | August 17, 1997 | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Defeated Terry Funk and Sabu in a three-way dance. |
| Bam Bam Bigelow | 1 | October 16, 1997 | Queens, NY | |
| Shane Douglas | 4 | November 30, 1997 | Monaca, PA | |
| Taz | 1 | January 10, 1999 | Kissimmee, FL | |
| The championship attained World Title status per Pro Wrestling Illustrated when ECW on TNN premiered on August 27, 1999 | ||||
| Mike Awesome | 1 | September 19, 1999 | Villa Park, IL | Defeated Taz and Masato Tanaka in a three-way dance. |
| Masato Tanaka | 1 | December 17, 1999 | Nashville, TN | |
| Mike Awesome | 2 | December 23, 1999 | White Plains, NY | |
| Taz | 2 | April 13, 2000 | Indianapolis, IN | Taz had signed with the World Wrestling Federation shortly after losing the title to Mike Awesome. Awesome, however, had unexpectedly signed with WCW and had shown up on television for that promotion a few weeks before this match. Outraged, Paul Heyman asked Vince McMahon to borrow Taz for this show to win the title. This was the only time that a WWF wrestler faced a WCW wrestler in an ECW ring. |
| Tommy Dreamer | 1 | April 22, 2000 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Justin Credible | 1 | April 22, 2000 | Philadelphia, PA | |
| Jerry Lynn | 1 | October 1, 2000 | St. Paul, MN | |
| Steve Corino | 1 | November 5, 2000 | Villa Park, IL | Defeated Justin Credible, Jerry Lynn & The Sandman in a "Double Jeopardy" match. |
| The Sandman | 5 | January 7, 2001 | New York, NY | |
| Rhino | 1 | January 7, 2001 | New York, NY | Held the title until April 11, 2001 when ECW folded. Reign deemed inactive by WWE. |
| Extreme Championship Wrestling is revived by World Wrestling Entertainment as a third WWE brand on June 13th, 2006, and the title is reactivated. | ||||
| Rob Van Dam | 1 | June 13, 2006 | Trenton, NJ | Awarded the championship by Paul Heyman on the premiere broadcast of ECW on Sci Fi as result of winning the WWE Championship from John Cena at ECW One Night Stand 2006. |
| Title is re-named ECW World Championship during Big Show's reign | ||||
| The Big Show | 1 | July 4, 2006 | Philadelphia, PA | Defeated Rob Van Dam in an Extreme Rules Match with help from Paul Heyman. |
| Bobby Lashley | 1 | December 3, 2006 | Augusta, GA | Won an Extreme Elimination Chamber match that also included The Big Show, Rob Van Dam, Hardcore Holly, Test, and CM Punk. |
[edit] See also
- World Wrestling Entertainment
- ECW World Championship
- WWE Championship
- World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)
