Championships and Accomplishments
- All Japan Pro Wrestling
- AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Steve Williams
- Champion's Carnival (1999)
- Catch Wrestling Association
- CWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- CWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- Impact Zone Wrestling
- IZW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- New Japan Pro Wrestling
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bam Bam Bigelow
- Super Grade Tag League (1991) – with Tatsumi Fujinami
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Wrestler of the Year (1993)
- PWI ranked him #27 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003
- Pro Wrestling Noah
- GHC Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Scorpio
- Universal Wrestling Association
- UWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Union of Wrestling Forces International
- UWFI World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- World Championship Wrestling
- WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- WCW World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- World Wrestling Federation
- Slammy Award for Crime of the Century (1996)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
- Best Heel (1993)
- Best Wrestling Maneuver (1993)
- Most Improved Wrestler (1999)
- Wrestler of the Year (1993)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
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