Which World Championships Count?

[JQ Legend]

Been wanting to ask this for awhile now actually

I sometimes randomly look up wrestlers’ Wiki to see the championships they held and see all kinds of “world heavyweight championship” (or just world) under companies I have not heard of

Obviously we know

WWF/E
NWA
WCW
AWA
ECW
TNA
ROH
IWGP
AEW

Those are the ones hardly anyone would disagree with

WCCW had one back in the 80s that seemed to be respected

Then you got MLW and PWG who die hard fans might recognize while others might be

AAA/LU as well

One of the reasons I asked this is because of the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship from the 90s

It was the AWA and WCCW world titles unified

That title makes world champs out of people we normally don’t think of as former world champs like

Owen Hart
Scott Hall
Papa Shango
Kamala
Koko B Ware
Junkyard Dog
Tatanka

Undertaker had it (and defended it against Steve Austin)
Macho Man even had a run with it

But yea, would you consider every person who had a title with “world heavyweight champion” in it as a former word champ? If not, which ones do you think should count?

 

[Mook]

All of them. It’s fake and I’d have whipped dr deaths ass.

 

[2CT]

none of em

 

[Jmare007]

They are all fake breh, there's no unifying criteria to make one world championship more legit than others. At the end of the day, belts are more prestigious or important depending on the level of popularity of the company that has the belt and how old said belt might be.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They are all fake breh, there's no unifying criteria to make one world championship more legit than others.

Some companies have tried to say if the title cannot be defended overseas then it's not gonna count. ROH did an overseas tour and made a big deal over it.

Any company with a national tv deal gonna claim it. So WCW/JCP/NWA and WWF/E and ECW and TNA and ROH and NJPW and AEW

 

[Jmare007]

Some companies have tried to say if the title cannot be defended overseas then it's not gonna count. ROH did an overseas tour and made a big deal over it.

I remember that, but that's just carny shyt and a smart promotional tactic. There's a bunch of small companies that have done that too and their main belt is as small as said company.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I remember that, but that's just carny shyt and a smart promotional tactic. There's a bunch of small companies that have done that too and their main belt is as small as said company.

None of it truly matters but i'd say a company should at least be on nat'l TV