ROH World Championship

Infobox championship
championshipname=ROH World Championship
image_size=
caption=
currentholder=Nigel McGuinness
won=October 6 2007
aired=
promotion=Ring of Honor
brand=
created=July 27 2002
mostreigns=N/A
firstchamp=Low Ki
longestreign= Samoa Joe
(645 days)
shortestreign=James Gibson
(36 days)
oldest=Nigel McGuinness
(31 years)
youngest=Low Ki
(22 years)
heaviest=Takeshi Morishima
(convert|320|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on)
lightest=Low Ki
(convert|180|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on)
pastnames=ROH Championship
titleretired=
pastlook

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

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. [ [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/020727.html Online World of Wrestling ] ]

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" [ [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/030517.html Online World of Wrestling ] ] . 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 [ [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/060812.html Online World of Wrestling ] ] . 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 Nigel McGuinness, who is in his first reign. He defeated Takeshi Morishima for the title at Undeniable on October 6, 2007 in Edison, New Jersey.

Title history

References

ee 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

* [http://www.rohwrestling.com/titlehistory/ Ring of Honor's official title history page]