GFW X Division Championship
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| Promotion | Global Force Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | June 19, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Trevor Lee | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | August 19, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | A.J. Styles |
| Most reigns | Chris Sabin (8 reigns) |
| Longest reign | Austin Aries (301 days) |
| Shortest reign | Eric Young, Chris Sabin & Rockstar Spud (<1 day) |
| Oldest winner | Rob Van Dam (41 years) |
| Youngest winner | Amazing Red (21 years) |
| Heaviest champion | Abyss (350 lbs) |
| Lightest champion | Rockstar Spud (140 lbs) |
The GFW X Division Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by Global Force Wrestling (GFW), formerly Total Non-stop Action Wresting (TNA). It debuted on June 19, 2002, at the taping of then-TNA's second weekly pay-per-view (PPV) event.
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been 68 reigns among 30 wrestlers. The title has previously been known as the TNA X Division Championship, the NWA X Championship, the NWA–TNA X Championship, NWA–TNA X Division Championship and the Impact Wrestling X Division Championship.
The TNA X Division was established on June 19, 2002 at Total Nonstop Action's first weekly PPV event with a Six Man Tag Team match resulting in Jimmy Yang, Jorge Estrada, and Sonny Siaki—collectively known as The Flying Elvises—defeating A.J. Styles, Jerry Lynn, and Low Ki. Later that day at the taping of the next weekly PPV event, TNA introduced the X Division Championship—then known as the X Championship—to showcase the division more prominently. The division is described as wrestling reinvented, as it takes traditional wrestling and mixes it with the fast paced, high–risk style of wrestling incorporated in cruiserweight divisions and lucha libre. The division was until 2011 promoted under the motto "It is not about weight limits, it is about no limits" by commentator Mike Tenay. On the August 11, 2011, edition of TNA's primary television program, Impact Wrestling, TNA authority figure Eric Bischoff announced that from that point onwards the X Division would have a weight limit of 225 lb (102 kg). Following Hulk Hogan becoming the new on-screen General Manager in March 2012, the weight limit was ignored on June 10, 2012, at Slammiversary when the 280 lb (130 kg) Samoa Joe was allowed to challenge for the belt. In October 2012, the weight limit was officially repealed when 237 lb (108 kg) Rob Van Dam challenged for, and eventually won, the title at Bound for Glory. In March 2013, the X Division was given a new set of rules, which meant all matches were wrestled in Triple Threat format, and a new weight limit of 230 lbs. This proved to be extremely unpopular with fans, and the rules and weight limit were repealed once again in August of that year.
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