ECW World Heavyweight Championship
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The final belt design of the ECW Championship used in WWE from July 2008 to February 2010
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| Date established | April 25, 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | February 16, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Most reigns | The Sandman (5) |
| Longest reign | Shane Douglas (406 days) |
| Shortest reign | Ezekiel Jackson (>5 minutes) |
| Oldest winner | Mr. McMahon (61 years, 248 days) |
| Youngest winner | Mikey Whipwreck (22 years, 146 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Big Show (507 lb (230 kg)) |
| Lightest champion | Jerry Lynn (185 lb (84 kg)) |
The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and later, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the original world title of the Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion, spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. It was established under Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1994, but was originally introduced in 1992 by the promotion's precursor, Eastern Championship Wrestling. The inaugural champion was Jimmy Snuka.
The title was deactivated in 2001 when ECW went out of business. ECW was then purchased by WWE two years later during the summer of 2003. In 2006, WWE reactivated the championship as the world title of their newly established ECW brand. It was a third concurrently active world championship in the promotion, complementing the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship of the other two brands, Raw and SmackDown. The ECW Championship briefly appeared as the only world title featured on the Raw brand in 2008 as a result of that year's draft. When WWE disbanded the ECW brand in 2010, the championship was subsequently retired with Ezekiel Jackson as the final champion.
The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was introduced originally in 1992 as the NWA-ECW Heavyweight Championship with Jimmy Snuka becoming the inaugural champion on April 25. However, its origin is attributed to events that began in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), an organization with many member promotions. In the early 1990s, Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW) was a member of the NWA and by 1994, the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, the world title of the NWA, was vacant. Consequently, a tournament was organized to crown a new NWA World Heavyweight Champion and on August 27, NWA-ECW Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas defeated 2 Cold Scorpio in the finals to win the title. However, Douglas immediately relinquished the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and instead proclaimed himself the new ECW World Heavyweight Champion. ECW subsequently seceded from the NWA and became Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was thus established, spun off from the NWA title. It remained active until April 11, 2001 when ECW closed and World Wrestling Entertainment subsequently purchased its assets.
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