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INFORMATION ABOUT TITLES

Between 1948-1991 in the United States many of the titles are NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE titles (NWA) The NWA had many different visions of many titles such as the world tag team titles, united states title and such. The promotion is marked which vision it came from.

WORLD TITLES IN UNITED STATES

For the National Wrestling Alliance World title I have it marked NWA/WCW so it doesn't get mixed up with the first NWA NATIONAL WRESTLING ASSOCIATION I have done this for the years 1948-1991. 1991 the main promotion WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING (WCW) started to use their own world championships. The WCW titles uses the lineage of the NWA titles up till 1991.

Between 1928 and 1964 in the United States there were many versions of world titles. The main world titles in the United States at the time were

1.AMERICAN WRESTLING ASSOCIATION (BOSTON) 1928-1950 UNIFIED WITH THE NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE WORLD TITLE IN 1950

2.NATIONAL WRESTLING ASSOCIATION 1929-1949 UNIFIED WITH THE NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE WORLD TITLE 1949

3.THE LOS ANGLES VERSION 1930-1952 UNIFIED WITH THE NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE WORLD TITLE IN 1952

.4.THE OMAHA VERSION 1956-1963 UNIFIED WITH THE AMERICAN WRESTLING ASSOCIATION WORLD TITLE 1963

5.AMERICAN WRESTLING ASSOCIATION (OHIO) 1950-1964 UNIFIED WITH THE NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE WORLD TITLE 1964

After 1964 to present there have been nine major promotions recognized with world titles in the United States.

1.NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - 1948- PRESENT

2. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP- 1991-2001 UNIFIED WITH THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION WORLD TITLE 2001

3. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING INTERNATIONAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 1993-1994 UNFIED WITH THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

3.WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION/WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 1963-PRESENT

4. WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 2002-2013 UNIFIED WITH THE WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2013

5.AMERICAN WRESTLING ASSOCIATION WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 1960-1991, 2005-2007

6.EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 1995-2001 2006-2010

7.TOTAL NON-STOP ACTION WRESTLING/IMPACT WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 2007-PRESENT

8.RING OF HONOR WRESTLING WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP 2002-PRESENT

9.WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2016-PRESENT

WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION (WWF) CHANGED ITS NAME TO WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT (WWE) ON MAY 6 2002

IN 2002 WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT SPLIT THE ROSTER OF WRESTLERS INTO THE SMACKDOWN BRAND AND THE RAW BRAND. ON SEPT 2 2002 THE WWE MAKES THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP THAT USES THE THE TITLE LINEAGE OF THE WCW WORLD TITLE (1991-2001)WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP IS UNIFIED WITH THE WWE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ON 12-15-13

JULY 2016 WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT ONCE AGAIN SPLIT THE ROSTER OF WRESTLERS INTO THE SMACKDOWN BRAND AND THE RAW BRAND. THE WWE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WENT TO SMACKDOWN. ON AUGUST 21 2016 THE RAW BRAND DEBUT AND NEW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CALLED THE UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

I HAVE MARKED THE CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER SEPT 2002

WWE/WORLD=WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

WWE= WWE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

WWE/UNIVERSAL= WWE UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP

IN JUNE 2006 WWE BROUGHT BACK THE ECW BRAND AND ENDED THE ECW BRAND IN 2010

IN 2005 A NEW AMERICAN WRESTLING ASSOCIATION BEGINS RUNNING THE PROMOTION USES THE SAME AWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP LINEAGE AS THE OLD AWA.

IN MAY 2007 TOTAL NON-STOP ACTION WRESTLING STOPPED USING THE WORLD TITLES OF THE NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE THE TNA WORLD TITLE USES THE NWA WORLD TITLE LINEAGE FROM JUNE 2002 TO MAY 2007

March 2017 TOTAL NON-STOP ACTION WRESTLING CHANGED ITS NAME TO IMPACT WRESTLING.

WORLD TITLES IN JAPAN

NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING WORLD TITLE IS CALLED THE INTERNATIONAL WRESTLING GRAND PRIX CHAMPIONSHIP (IWGP) 1987-PRESENT