ROH World Championship
Details
Current champion(s)	Austin Aries
Date won	June 13, 2009
Promotion	Ring of Honor
Date established	July 27, 2002
Other name(s)	ROH Championship
Statistics Most reigns Austin Aries (2) First champion(s) Low Ki Longest reign Samoa Joe (645 days) Shortest reign James Gibson (36 days) Oldest champion Jerry Lynn (45 years) Youngest champion Low Ki (22 years) Heaviest champion Takeshi Morishima (320 lb (150 kg; 23 st)) Lightest champion Low Ki (180 lb (82 kg; 13 st))

The Ring of Honor (ROH) World Championship is a professional wrestling world championship in Ring of Honor. The championship has also been through other companies in cooperation with ROH through the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (GPWA), the governing body of many independent wrestling promotions throughout the United States and Japan. ROH World Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives create feuds between the various competitors, which cast them as villains and heroes.

Contents 1 History 2 Reigns 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] History

Low Ki defeated Spanky, Christopher Daniels, and Doug Williams in a 60 Minute Iron Man match to become the first ROH Champion at Crowning a Champion on July 27, 2002.^[1]

Samoa Joe had the longest title reign to date when he held the belt for 21 months and four days. During his reign, ROH held a cross-promotional show with Frontier Wrestling Alliance in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2003 called Frontiers of Honor^[2]. At that show, Joe turned the title into the ROH World Championship when he defended it against The Zebra Kid. Since then the title has been defended in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Mexico, Japan, Ireland and Italy.

On August 12, 2006, the ROH Pure Championship was unified with the ROH World Championship after ROH Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness lost to ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson in Liverpool, England in a title unification match^[3]. The match was contested under pure wrestling rules, with the stipulation that both championships could be lost by disqualification or count out.

[edit] Reigns

The inaugural champion was Low Ki, who defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams in a Four Way 60-minute Iron Man match on July 27, 2002 to become champion. Samoa Joe has the longest reign as champion with his only reign, from March 22, 2003 to December 26, 2004, lasting 645 days and gave the title World status when he defended it in the UK. James Gibson currently has the shortest reign at 36 days.^[4][5] Austin Aries is the current champion, in his record second reign, after defeating Jerry Lynn and Tyler Black in a three-way elimination match on June 13, 2009 at ROH's Manhattan Mayhem III event. Overall, there have been 12 ROH World Championship reigns and 11 total Champions.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Ring of Honor
• ROH Pure Championship
• ROH World Tag Team Championship
• Full Impact Pro
• FIP World Heavyweight Championship

[edit] External links

• Ring of Honor's official title history page

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