TNA World Heavyweight Champion
| Unified GFW World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Global Force Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | May 13, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Eli Drake | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | August 17, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | Kurt Angle |
| Most reigns | Kurt Angle (6 reigns) |
| Longest reign | Bobby Roode (256 days) |
| Shortest reign | Kurt Angle (1 day) |
| Oldest winner | Sting (52 years) |
| Youngest winner | Magnus (26 years) |
| Heaviest champion | Samoa Joe (290 Ibs) |
| Lightest champion | A.J. Styles and Chris Sabin (210 Ibs) |
The Unified GFW World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by Global Force Wrestling (GFW). It is the principle championship of GFW. It was unveiled on May 14, 2007 at the taping of then-TNA's primary television program, Impact!, which aired on May 17, 2007. The inaugural champion was Kurt Angle (who also holds the record for the most reigns at six).
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a predetermined match. Before the TNA World Heavyweight Championship was created, TNA controlled the NWA World Heavyweight Championship via an agreement with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In 2007, the agreement between TNA and the NWA ended, leading to the creation of the then-TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
When TNA changed its name and became Impact Wrestling in March 2017, the title was renamed soon after to reflect the change.
Global Force Wrestling was formed as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in May 2002. Later that same year, TNA was granted control over the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) governing body; subsequently becoming an official NWA territory as NWA-TNA. On June 19, 2002, NWA-TNA held its first show; a weekly pay-per-view event. The main event of the telecast was a twenty-man Gauntlet for the Gold match in which twenty men trying to throw each other over the top rope and down to the floor in order to eliminate them, until there were two men left who wrestle a standard match to become the first ever TNA-era NWA World Heavyweight Champion.Ken Shamrock defeated Malice to win the championship with Ricky Steamboat as the special guest referee at the event.
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