The ECW World Heavyweight Championship belt

The ECW World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship title. It was the highest ranked title in the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion from its start in 1992 up until the promotion's bankruptcy in 2001. It was revived in 2006 and is now the only title in the new ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment. Image File history File links ECWbrandchampbelt. ... Image File history File links ECWbrandchampbelt. ... Professional wrestling is generally any form of performance art in which pro-wrestlers receive payment for participating. ... WWE Champion John Cena with his customized WWE Championship belt. ... Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon, and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) is a professional wrestling brand of World Wrestling Entertainment, based on the independent promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling that lasted from 1992 to 2001. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...

History

The belt was known as the NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship from 1992 to 1994. On August 27, 1994, after severing ties with the NWA and claiming world status on their heavyweight championship, the belt became known as Extreme Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship. The National Wrestling Alliance NWA is a group of independent professional wrestling promotions, in operation since 1948. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ...

The ECW World Heavyweight Championship belt 1999-2001

In the ensuing years, the title became widely recognized as a true world title and was defended internationally and against challengers from around the world. Image File history File linksMetadata ClassicECWchampbelt. ... Image File history File linksMetadata ClassicECWchampbelt. ...

Mike Awesome was still into his second reign as the ECW World Heavyweight Champion when he unexpectedly showed up in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It was due to this fiasco that Paul Heyman was forced to sign a match with Awesome and Tazz (who at the time was signed to the World Wrestling Federation) to defend his title, which Tazz eventually won. This was the only time that a WWF contracted wrestler faced a WCW contracted wrestler in an ECW ring. The Gladiator redirects here. ... // Although World Championship Wrestling was a brand name used by promoter Jim Barnett for his Australian promotion, the first promotion in the United States to use the World Championship Wrestling brand name (though it was never referred to as WCW) on a wide scale was Georgia Championship Wrestling (although Vincent... Paul Buster Heyman (born September 11, 1965) is a professional wrestling manager, on-air talent, and former promoter. ... Pete Senerca, also known as Taz or Tazz (born Peter Senerchia on October 11, 1967 in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York), is an American former professional wrestler who is now working as the color commentator for World Wrestling Entertainments WWE Friday Night SmackDown! brand alongside play... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...

ECW declared bankruptcy on April 11, 2001, with the then-champion, Rhino, joining the WWF. During his WWF tenure, Rhino was recognized as the final ECW World Heavyweight Champion, and notably at the 2005 ECW One Night Stand event he was heralded as the final champion as well; however, he did not appear with the title at the event, and was not referred to as the "current" champion. April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Terry Gerin (born October 7, 1975) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring names Rhino and Rhyno. ...

The title was reactivated on June 13, 2006 when Paul Heyman presented it to Rob Van Dam, by virtue of his holding of the WWE Championship. Van Dam was originally awarded with an ECW replica title belt on June 13, 2006, but eventually got a brand new (leather and plates) ECW World Championship title belt. Since then, the title has usually been referred to by the shorter ECW World Title, most likely to avoid confusion with Smackdown's World Heavyweight Championship Robert Alexander Szatkowski (born December 18, 1970), is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Rob Van Dam (abbreviated to RVD). ... Italic text:This article is about the original WWWF/WWF/WWE World Heavyweight Championship a. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WWE SmackDown! is a professional wrestling show that airs in the USA on UPN and in Canada on The Score Network. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Statistics

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Trivia

• 8 former ECW Champions, Raven, The Big Show, Taz, Mike Awesome, Tommy Dreamer, Justin Credible, Rhino, and Rob Van Dam, have won the WWE Hardcore Championship.
• 3 former ECW Champions, Bam Bam Bigelow, Terry Funk, and Shane Douglas have won the WCW Hardcore Championship.
• As of 2006, only two ECW Champions have ever won the WWE Championship: Rob Van Dam and Big Show. Van Dam defeated John Cena for the WWE Championship at ECW One Night Stand 2006 on June 11, 2006, and was awarded the ECW World Heavyweight Championship by Paul Heyman on June 13, 2006, while still the WWE Champion (making him the first person to have held both titles, and obviously the first to hold them simultaneously). On July 4, 2006, Big Show defeated him for the title, making Show the first person to ever win the WCW, ECW, and WWF/E Championships.
• 4 former ECW Champions have become NWA World Champions after they had first won the ECW title, they are Sabu, Steve Corino, Raven and Rhino. Also, 2 wrestlers had won the NWA World Championship before winning the ECW Championship, they are Shane Douglas and Terry Funk.
• Bobby Lashley is the first and only man of African American descent to win the ECW Championship.

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Current champion

Current champion Bobby Lashley

Bobby Lashley is the current champion, defeating champion The Big Show, Hardcore Holly, Test, CM Punk and Rob Van Dam in an Extreme Elimination Chamber match on December 3, 2006, in Augusta, Georgia at December to Dismember 2006. This is Lashley's first reign as ECW Heavyweight Champion, as well as his first World Title. Image File history File links Lashley_champion. ... Image File history File links Lashley_champion. ... Franklin Roberto Lashley , born September 16, 1976 in Kansas is a professional wrestler preforming for World Wrestling Entertainment on the Smackdown! brand. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Paul Randall Wight Jr. ... Robert William Bob Howard (born January 29, 1963) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Bob Hardcore Holly. ... Andrew Test Martin (born Andrew J. Martin on March 17, 1975 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently performing for the ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), under the ring name Test. ... Phillip (Phil) Brooks[1] (born October 26, 1978), known professionally by his ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler who currently works for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in its Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) brand. ... Robert Alexander Szatkowski (born December 18, 1970), is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Rob Van Dam (abbreviated to RVD). ... The Elimination Chamber match at Survivor Series 2002. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: The Garden City (of the South), Masters City, The AUG Motto: We feel Good Location of the consolidated areas of Augusta and Richmond County in the state of Georgia. ... ECW December to Dismember is an event first held by the original Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 1995 as a regular event. ... The World Heavyweight Championship is the name given to a number of unrelated titles, meant to emphasize the top championship of boxing, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other similar sports and performance arts. ...

See also

• List of ECW World Heavyweight Champions
• List of ECW World Heavyweight Championship reigns by length
• Extreme Championship Wrestling
• List of Number of World Title Reigns

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External links

• The ECW Championship at WWE.com
• Wrestling Information Archive