* All Star Pro Wrestling ** NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[84] * All Japan Pro Wrestling ** NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[84] * Central States Wrestling ** NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[84] * Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling / Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling ** NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (4 times)[85] ** NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Rip Hawk (1), Greg Valentine (1) and Big John Studd (1)[86] ** NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Championship (1 time)[87] ** NWA Television Championship (1 time)[87] ** NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (5 times)1[88] ** NWA World Heavyweight Championship (7 times)2[84] ** NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (3 times) - with Greg Valentine (2) and Blackjack Mulligan (1)[89] ** WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)3[90] ** WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[88] ** WCW World Heavyweight Championship (8 times)[91] * National Wrestling Alliance ** NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2008) World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment *** World Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Batista (2) and Roddy Piper (1)[102] *** WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)[102] *** WWF Championship (2 times)[102] *** Royal Rumble (1992)[102] *** WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2008) *** Thirteenth Triple Crown Champion *** Slammy Award for Match of the Year (2008) vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania

NWA International Heavyweight Championship was created in 1957.

Nobody can really know where the first wrestling world championship appeared. Pro wrestling has always existed in many forms.

The oldest surviving world championship, however, is the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. It has gone through a lot of changes throughout history, but its lineage can be traced from the first World Heavyweight Championship, held by Georg Hackenschmidt in 1905.

The current holder of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship is former ROH star Adam Pearce.

When he was in TNA he won the NWA heavyweight championship twice, The NWA tag team titles twice and the TNA tag team titles once

WWE recognises Ric Flair as having won sixteen world heavyweight championships, including the NWA, WCW and WWE Championships. Others credit Flair as having won more titles than that. In WWE, Flair is also a three-time World Tag Team Champion; a one-time Intercontinental Champion and a five-time United States Champion (while the title was owned by WCW).