ROH Pure Championship
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| Promotion | Ring of Honor | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | February 14, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | August 12, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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ROH Pure Wrestling Championship
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| First champion(s) | A.J. Styles |
| Final champion(s) | Bryan Danielson |
| Most reigns | N/A |
| Longest reign | Nigel McGuiness (350 days) |
| Shortest reign | Bryan Danielson (<1 day) |
| Oldest winner |
Doug Williams (31 years) |
| Youngest winner |
Jay Lethal (19 years) |
| Heaviest champion | Samoa Joe (290 lb (130 kg)) |
| Lightest champion | Bryan Danielson (185 lb (84 kg)) |
The ROH Pure Championship was a professional wrestling championship contested for in the American professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.
Matches for the ROH Pure Championship were conducted under "Pure Wrestling Rules". The three Pure Wrestling Rules were:
Unlike other championships, the ROH Pure Championship could change hands on a disqualification or countout.
The title was originally named the ROH Pure Wrestling Championship and A.J. Styles defeated CM Punk in the finals of an eight-man, one night tournament to crown the first champion. The tournament took place at the Second Anniversary Show and also featured John Walters, Chris Sabin, Doug Williams, Matt Stryker, Josh Daniels and Jimmy Rave.
Styles was forced to vacate the Pure Wrestling title in the wake of the Rob Feinstein controversy that resulted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) abruptly ending its talent-sharing agreement with ROH (pulling all of its contracted performers, including Styles, from all ROH shows). However, for almost ten years ROH considered the Pure Wrestling Championship and the Pure Championship two distinct titles—not a single title that was merely renamed/re-branded. There was not mention of Styles on ROH's website as having held the Pure Championship, and it was seldom, if ever, acknowledged in commentary that Styles held the previous version of the title or that it even existed until on January 2014, when ROH released a DVD about Styles, describing him as the first ROH Pure Champion.Doug Williams would win the vacant title after he defeated Alex Shelley in the finals of a one night mini-tournament at Reborn: Completion on July 17, 2004.
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