Since 1905 the National Wrestling Alliance has existed in some shape or form, The promotion had different champions in different areas for years until 1948 when Orville Brown won the belt from George Hackenshmidt. Here in somewhat its entirety, *i couldnt find all the information on the net so some of this is not factually correct* is the history of the most prestigous and often times controversial belt in the sport of professional wrestling.

1.Orville Brown October 1948

2.Lou Thesz November 27, 1949

3.Whipper Billy Watson March 15, 1956

4.Lou Thesz (Second) November 9, 1956

5.Dick Hutton Novmber 14, 1957

6..Pat O'Connor January 9, 1959

7.Buddy Rogers June 30, 1961* Promoters in the northeast refuse to recognize Buddy Rogers' one-fall loss to Lou Thesz and succeed from the National Wrestling Alliance to form a new promotion called the World Wide Wrestling Federation (now known as the WWE) and naming Rogers as the first WWWF World Heavyweight Champion. Lou Thesz defeated Rogers in a rematch on Febrary 7, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A similar incident took place in 1965 when Mid West promotors wanted the NWA title put on Verne Gagne and refused to recognize Gagnes loss to Thesz in Minneapolis thus forming the Allstar Wrestling Association or the AWA later renamed the American Wrestling Association*

8.Lou Thesz (Third) January 24, 1963

9.Gene Kiniski January 7, 1966

10.Dory Funk Jr. February 11, 1969

11.Harley Race March 24, 1973

12.Jack Brisco July 20, 1973

13.Giant Baba December 2, 1974

14.Jack Brisco (Second) December 9, 1974

15.Terry Funk December 10, 1975

16.Harley Race (Second) February 6, 1977

17.Dusty RhodesAugust 21, 1979

18.Harley Race (Third) August 26, 1979

19.Giant Baba (Second) October 31, 1979

20.Harley Race (Fourth) November 7, 1979

21.Giant Baba (Third) September 4, 1980

22.Harley Race (Fifth) September 9, 1980

23.Tommy "Wildfire" Rich April 27, 1981

24.Harley Race (Sixth) May 1, 1981

25.Dusty Rhodes (Second) June 21, 1981

26.Ric Flair September 17, 1981

Jack Veneno 1983 Dominica

Ric Flair 1983 Dominica

Victor Jovica 1983 Trinidad

Ric Flair 1983 Trinidad *Unofficial NWA World title changes in the Carribean, they were negotiated between WWC and NWA officials but was later decided to be kept quiet in America ,this happend quite a bit as Flair lost the belt in July 1983 to both Jack Veneo and Hercules Ayala after a fan shot into the ring and Flair fearing for his life let Ayala roll him up for the pin, he regained the title the next night but it never was recognized in the states. Remember this was in the days before the Internet or the Dirt Sheets so the promotors figured if nobody knew it wouldnt hurt anything *

27.Harley Race (Seventh) February 10, 1983

28.Ric Flair (Second) The First Starrcade November 24, 1983

29.Harley Race (Eighth and Final Time as NWA Champion) March 21, 1984

30.Ric Flair (Third) March 23, 1984

31.Kerry Von Erich The David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions, May 6, 1984

32.Ric Flair (Fourth) May 24, 1984

March 1986, Fritz Von Erich decides to pull World Class Championship Wrestling out of the NWA and make his own world title.All Japan Pro Wrestling (Giant Baba) pulls out shortly thereafter and aligns with the AWA for a short time but soon comes back.

33.Dusty Rhodes (Third and Final Time as NWA Champion) July 25, 1986

34.Ric Flair (Fifth) August 7, 1986

35.Ronnie Garvin September 25, 1987

36.Ric Flair (Sixth) November 26, 1987

December 1988, Ted Turner buys out Jim Crockett Promotions saving them from bankruptcy ,but the company keeps promoting under the NWA name even though there was no NWA sanctioning body. In reality it didnt exist.

37.Ricky Steamboat February 20, 1989

38.Ric Flair (Seventh,Flair ties Harley Race) May 7, 1989

39.Sting July 7, 1990

January 1 1991, Turner Broadcasting offically changes the name of the promotion to World Championship Wrestling ,but the NWA title is still recognized as the World Heavyweight Title.

40.Ric Flair (Eighth, Flair breaks Race's Record) January 11, 1991

41..Tatsumi Fujinami March 21, 1991

42.Ric Flair (Ninth) May 19, 1991

July 1991: Ric Flair is stripped of the NWA World Heavyweight title after Flair has a dispute with WCW President Jim Herd and Ted Turner himself and signs with the WWF. He took the recognized NWA World Heavyweight title belt with him and in a attempt to kill the prestige around the belt Vince McMahon came up with the "Real World's Heavyweight Champion." gimmick and imeadiatly pushed Flair into a program with then WWF Champion Hulk Hogan On the same date, the NWA vacated the World Heavyweight title for the first time in its history, WCW disassociated itself from the NWA and crowned Lex Luger the new WCW champion in July 1991, Flair returned to WCW in February of 1993

July 1992, After being dormant for nearly one year WCW decides to realign itself with the NWA in an attempt to bring some prestige and recogniton to the company,a tournament is started in both Japan and America. Masahiro Chono and Ric Rude make it to the finals.But in true WCW fashion they keep there own title belt.

43.Masahiro Chono August 12, 1992 *Defeated Ric Rude in a Tournament final*

44..The Great Muta January 4, 1993

45.Barry Windham February 21, 1993

46.Ric Flair (Tenth) July 18, 1993

September 1993, WCW leaves the NWA once again and the title belt dropped the recognition as being the NWA World Heavyweight title. The belt became known as the WCW International World Heavyweight title with Ric Flair becoming the first champion The belt was dropped 6 months later with Sting being the last man to hold it.

1994: The NWA starts a 2 week tournament in Philidelphia to crown a new champion.

47.Shane Douglas August 27, 1994 * The era of Extreme is born. Douglas drops the belt after defeating 2 Cold Scorpio in the tournament final and proclaims that the Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavywieght Title is the new World Title. ECW disassociated itself from the NWA and became EXTREME Championship Wrestling revolutioning Wrestling as we know it. Dennis Carluzo and NWA President Howard Brody scrambled and took the NWA name and belt with them and continued promoting in New Jersey under the sanctioning body rules*

48.Chris Candido November 19, 1994* Defeated Tracy Smothers in the finals, both were apart of Smoky Mountain Wrestling at the time but promotors squabbled about whether or not Candido would defend the belt in or even be recognized as champion in SMW so Candido left Smoky Mountain Wrestling then later dropped the belt to sign with the WWF*

49.Dan Severn February 24, 1995 *Severn became the unofficial longest reigning NWA champion of all time but wasnt counted because he rarely defended the belt*

50.Naoya Ogawa March 14, 1999

51.Gary Steele September 25, 1999

52.Naoya Ogawa (Second) October 2, 1999 * Title was vacated on July 2, 2000 for the second time in its history due to a knee injury suffered to Ogawa*

53.Mike Rapada September 19, 2000 *Defeated Jerry Flynn in the finals*

54.Sabu November 14, 2000

55.Mike Rapada (Second) December 22, 2000

56.Steve Corino April 24, 2001

57.Shinya Hashimoto December 15, 2001* Title was held up in October and then later Awarded to Hashimoto at the NWA Night of Champions because Corino was too injured to continue a there title match*

March 2002, The NWA team with former Memphis promotor/Booker, Jerry Jarret to produce a weekly Pay Per View series on Wednesday nights, they also annouce that the NWA World Title will be exclusively defended on the program.

58.Dan Severn (Second) March 9, 2002 * Severn was stripped of the belt 2 months later because he went into training to compete for the UFC and was unable to fufill contractual obligations*

May 2002, The NWA annouces that the Title will be awarded to the winner of the "Gauntlet for the Gold" Battle Royal at the first NWA Total Nonstop Action PPV where the last 2 men in the match must wrestle for the belt.

59.Ken Shamrock June 19, 2002 * Won the belt by surviving the battle royal and then defeating the other man left, Malice (The Wall from WCW) .*

60.Ron "The Truth" Killings August 7, 2002 * Killings is the first Black athelete to hold the NWA Title.*

61.Jeff Jarret November 20,2002

62.AJ Styles June 11,2003.* Defeats Raven and Jeff Jarret in a 3 Way Dance.The best NWA Title match of the TNA Era so far*

63.Jeff Jarret (Second)October 23 2003 * Jarret regains the belt just one month shy of the one year year anniversary of his first NWA title victory.*

64.AJ Styles (Second) April 21,2004 * Styles replaces Wildcat Chris Harris of Americas Most Wanted in the cage match after he is attacked by Raven before the match*

65. Ron "The Truth" Killings (Second) May 19,2004

66.Jeff Jarret (Third) June 2,2004