Reigns
The NWA currently recognizes 87 individual World Heavyweight Championship reigns. Ric Flair holds the record with ten championships. Lou Thesz holds the record for most cumulative days as champion, with his three reigns totaling 3,749 days. Thesz's first reign is the longest in the history of the title, as he held the title for 1,941 days. Shane Douglas holds the record for shortest reign. Douglas vacated the championship immediately after winning it in favor of the newly-created ECW World Heavyweight Championship in 1994; Douglas was the reigning NWA-Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Champion and the action split ECW from the NWA.
The reigning champion is "the Tokyo Monster" Kahagas, who won the vacant title in a nine-man elimination match in Clayton, NJ on 02012-11-02November 2, 2012. The title had been vacated by Adam Pearce a week earlier after the NWA refused to sanction the final match in his "Seven Levels of Hate" series with Colt Cabana as a title match.
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