ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

The 'Ring of Honor (ROH) World Championship', originally named the "ROH Title", is the top title contested for the independent professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor.

Contents

History

Current champion

Title history

References

See also

External links

History

Low Ki defeated Spanky, Christopher Daniels and Doug Williams in a 60 minute Ironman 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 and Japan.
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.

Current champion

The current champion is Takeshi Morishima, who is in his first reign. He defeated Homicide for the title at ''Fifth Year Festival: Philly'' on February 17, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[4]

Title history

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
Low Ki	1	July 27, 2002	Philadelphia, PA
Xavier	1	September 21, 2002	Philadelphia, PA
Samoa Joe	1	March 22, 2003	Philadelphia, PA
Austin Aries	1	December 26, 2004	Philadelphia, PA
CM Punk	1	June 18, 2005	Morristown, NJ
James Gibson	1	August 12, 2005	Dayton, OH
Bryan Danielson	1	September 17, 2005	Long Island, NY
Homicide	1	December 23, 2006	Manhattan, NY
Takeshi Morishima	1	February 17, 2007	Philadelphia, PA

References

1. http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/020727.html
2. http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/030517.html
3. http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/060812.html
4. http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/070217.html

See also

★ Ring of Honor

★ ROH Pure Championship

★ ROH World Tag Team Championship

★ List of ROH title reigns by length

★ Full Impact Pro

★ FIP World Heavyweight Championship

External links

★ Ring of Honor's official title history page

★ CygyWrestling.com - ROH World Heavyweight Title History