NWA World's Heavyweight Championship

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The NWA World's Heavyweight Championship (stylized on the physical belt and on pay-per-view posters as the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship) is a men's professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), an American professional wrestling promotion. Although formally established in 1948, its lineage has been traditionally traced back to the first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship, which traces its lineage to the title first awarded to George Hackenschmidt in 1904. The title began as a governing body's world championship and has been competed for in multiple major promotions around the world, including the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (which seceded from the NWA and became World Wide Wrestling Federation, now WWE), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and the now-defuncts American Wrestling Association (AWA), Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP, later called...

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