THE HISTORY OF THE

PWO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

10/29/2000 - 7/31/2006

Pro Wrestling Online was founded in October of 2000 by Vince McMahon (Mike Gian). It survived in various incarnations until January of 2002. It remains the only promotion in history to be directly responsible for Solid Gold Wrestling suffering financial difficulty, leading to the closing of the promotion on at least one occasion. What WCW was to WWF, PWO was to SGW.

We include the history of the PWO World Championship complete and uncut out of respect for the owner, the championship, and the people who worked so hard to make the championship what it was.

 

1st CHAMPION

HANDLER
Joey D.

DATE
 10 / 29 / 2000

REIGN
 22 days

Scott Hall defeated Taz (Matt Emerson), Shawn Michaels (Devon Rightsell), and Chris Benoit (Mikey G) in a Fatal Four Way to become the first PWO World Heavyweight Champion.

 2nd CHAMPION

HANDLER
 Andy Brown

DATE
11 / 20 / 2000

REIGN
 74 days

Triple H defeated Scott Hall to become the new PWO World Heavyweight Champion.

 3rd CHAMPION

REIGN #2

HANDLER
 Joey D.

DATE
03 / 05 / 2001

REIGN
 42 days

Scott Hall defeated Triple H in a Ladder Match to become the two-time PWO World Heavyweight Champion.

 

4th CHAMPION

HANDLER
Mike Atin

DATE
 11 / 18 / 2001

REIGN
 21 days

Steve Austin defeated Scott Hall to become the new PWO World Heavyweight Champion.

5th CHAMPION

HANDLER
 Dan Nichols

DATE
12 / 09 / 2001

REIGN
 28 days

In a Six-Pack Challenge, The Rock defeated Steve Austin, Triple H (Gaz), Kevin Nash (Ben), Shawn Michaels (Unknown), and Steve Corino (Unknown) to become the new PWO World Heavyweight Champion.

VACATED
01 / 06 / 2002

PWO ceases operations and the PWO World Heavyweight Championship is declared vacant indefinitely.

 

6th CHAMPION

HANDLER
Mike Gian

DATE
 07 / 30 / 2006

REIGN
 28 days

Former SGW owner Ted Dibiase revealed that he purchased Pro Wrestling Online and awarded the PWO World Heavyweight Championship to Bill Goldberg. Dibiase challenged the winner of the SGW World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleBrawl 2 to a unification match.

7th CHAMPION

HANDLER
 Scott Smith

DATE
07 / 31 / 2006

REIGN
 Final

The reigning SGW World Heavyweight Champion Edge defeated Bill Goldberg in an undisclosed location with only SGW and PWO owners Jeff Jarrett and Ted Dibiase in attendance.

The PWO World Championship was absorbed into the SGW World Championship lineage and ceases to exist.

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