List of NWA World Heavyweight Champions


The NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship is a world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion National Wrestling Alliance. It is the promotion's premier title.
NWA currently recognizes 97 individual World Heavyweight Championship reigns. The inaugural champion was Orville Brown. The longest reigning champion is Lou Thesz, who held the title from November 27, 1949 to March 15, 1956, for a total of 2,300 days ; Thesz also holds the record for longest combined reign at 3,749 days. Shane Douglas is the shortest reigning champion with less than 1 day. Ric Flair holds the record for most reigns with 10. The youngest champion is Chris Candido who won the title at the age of 22, while the oldest champion is Tim Storm, who won it at the age of 51.
Nick Aldis is the current champion in his second reign. He won the title on October 21, 2018 during the NWA 70th Anniversary Show in Nashville, Tennessee by defeating Cody.

Title history

Reigns

As of ,.

Combined reigns

As of, 2020.
, record ten-time champion
†Indicates the current champion
<1The reign is shorter than one day.

Footnotes