ROH World Championship/Champion history

The following champion history features the ROH World Championship.
==Champion history==
Wrestler: 	Times:	Date: 	Location: 	Notes: 	Defences:
Low Ki 	1 	July 27, 2002 	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	 	1
Xavier 	1 	September 21, 2002	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	 	4
Samoa Joe 	1 	March 22, 2003 	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	 	29
Austin Aries 	1 	December 26, 2004 	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	 	16
CM Punk 	1 	June 18, 2005 	Morristown, New Jersey 	 	16
James Gibson 	1 	August 12, 2005 	Dayton, Ohio 	 	4
Bryan Danielson 	1 	September 17, 2005	Long Island, New York 	 	38
Homicide 	1 	December 23, 2006 	Manhattan, New York 	 	3
Takeshi Morishima 	1 	February 17, 2007 	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	 	20
Nigel McGuinness 	1 	October 6, 2007 	Edison, New Jersey 	 	38
Jerry Lynn 	1 	April 3, 2009 	Houston, Texas 	 	6
Austin Aries 	2 	June 13, 2009 	Manhattan, New York 	 	13
Tyler Black 	1 	February 13, 2010 	New York City, New York 	 	7
Roderick Strong 	1 	September 11, 2010	New York City, New York 	 	5
Eddie Edwards 	1 	March 19, 2011 	New York City, New York 	 	3
Davey Richards 	1 	June 26, 2011 	New York City, New York 	 	10
Kevin Steen 	1 	May 12, 2012 	Toronto, Ontario 	 	20
Jay Briscoe 	1 	April 5, 2013 	New York City, New York 	 	6
Vacated 	- 	July 3, 2013 	- 	Title was vacated after Briscoe suffered a storyline injury. 	-
Adam Cole 	1 	September 20, 2013	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	 	13
Michael Elgin 	1 	June 22, 2014 	Nashville, Tennessee 	 	7
Jay Briscoe 	2 	September 6, 2014 	Toronto, Ontario 	 	13
Jay Lethal 	1 	June 19, 2015 	New York City, New York 	 	12
Adam Cole 	2 	August 12, 2016 	Las Vegas, Nevada 	 	3
Kyle O'Reilly 	1 	December 2, 2016 	New York,New York City 	 	1
Adam Cole 	3 	January 4, 2017 	Tokyo 	 	3
Christopher Daniels	1 	March 10, 2017 	Las Vegas, Nevada 	 	8
Cody 	1 	June 23, 2017 	Lowell, Massachusetts 	 	16
Dalton Castle 	1 	December 15, 2017 	New York City, New York 	 	7
Jay Lethal 	2 	June 30, 2018 	Fairfax, Virginia 	 	13
Matt Taven 	1 	April 6, 2019 	New York City, New York 	 	4
Rush 	1 	September 27, 2019	Las Vegas, Nevada 	 	2
PCO 	1 	December 13, 2019 	Baltimore, Maryland 	 	1
Rush 	2 	February 29, 2020 	St. Charles, Missouri 	 	3
Bandido 	1 	July 11, 2021 	Baltimore, Maryland 	 	4
Vacated 	- 	December 10, 2021 	- 	Title was vacated after Bandido could not wrestle due to Covid.	-
Jonathan Gresham 	1 	December 11, 2021 	Baltimore, Maryland 	 	18
Claudio Castagnoli 	1 	July 23, 2022 	Lowell, Massachusetts 	 	4
Chris Jericho 	1 	September 21, 2022	Queens, New York 	 	6
Claudio Castagnoli 	2 	December 10, 2022 	Arlington, Texas 	 	10
Eddie Kingston 	1 	September 20, 2023	Queens, New York 	 	
==List of reign lengths==
:As of , .
Wrestler 	Days Held	Date Won 	Date Lost
Samoa Joe 	645 	March 22, 2003 	December 26, 2004
Nigel McGuinness 	545 	October 6, 2007 	April 3, 2009
Rush (2) 	498 	February 29, 2020 	July 11, 2021
Bryan Danielson 	462 	September 17, 2005	December 23, 2006
Jay Lethal 	427 	June 19, 2015 	August 29, 2016
Kevin Steen 	328 	May 12, 2012 	April 5, 2013
Davey Richards 	321 	June 26, 2011 	May 12, 2012
Jay Briscoe (2) 	286 	September 6, 2014 	June 19, 2015
Claudio Castagnoli (2)	282 	December 10, 2022 	September 20, 2023
Jay Lethal (2) 	280 	June 30, 2018 	April 6, 2019
Adam Cole 	275 	September 20, 2013	June 22, 2014
Austin Aries (2) 	245 	June 13, 2009 	February 13, 2010
Takeshi Morishima 	231 	February 17, 2007 	October 6, 2007
Jonathan Gresham 	224 	December 11, 2021 	July 23, 2022
Tyler Black 	210 	February 13, 2010 	September 11, 2010
Dalton Castle 	197 	December 15, 2017 	June 30, 2018
Roderick Strong 	189 	September 11, 2010	March 19, 2011
Xavier 	182 	September 21, 2002	March 22, 2003
Cody 	175 	June 23, 2017 	December 15, 2017
Austin Aries 	174 	December 26, 2004 	June 18, 2005
Matt Taven 	174 	April 6, 2019 	September 27, 2019
Bandido 	152 	July 11, 2021 	December 11, 2021
Adam Cole (2) 	122 	August 12, 2016 	December 2, 2016
Christopher Daniels 	107 	March 10, 2017 	June 23, 2017
Eddie Edwards 	99 	March 19, 2011 	June 26, 2011
Jay Briscoe 	89 	April 5, 2013 	July 3, 2013
Chris Jericho 	80 	September 21, 2022	December 10, 2022
PCO 	79 	December 13, 2019 	February 29, 2020
Rush 	77 	September 27, 2019	December 13, 2019
Michael Elgin 	76 	June 22, 2014 	September 6, 2014
Jerry Lynn 	71 	April 3, 2009 	June 13, 2009
Adam Cole (3) 	65 	January 4, 2017 	March 10, 2017
Claudio Castagnoli 	60 	July 23, 2022 	September 21, 2022
Low Ki 	56 	July 27, 2002 	September 21, 2002
Homicide 	56 	December 23, 2006 	February 17, 2007
CM Punk 	55 	June 18, 2005 	August 12, 2005
James Gibson 	36 	August 12, 2005 	September 17, 2005
Kyle O'Reilly 	33 	December 2, 2016 	January 4, 2017
Eddie Kingston 	+ 	September 20, 2023	Current Champion
==Trivia==
*Takeshi Morishima is the largest ROH World Champion to date at 6 ft 3 in (190 cm) and 308 lbs (140 kg)
*Low Ki is the smallest ROH World Champion to date at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) and 180 lbs (82 kg)
*Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness have had the most title defenses to date with 39 (33 wins, 2 losses, 3 time limit draws and 1 double disqualification for Danielson and 34 wins, 4 losses and 1 time limit draw for McGuinness)
** One of Bryan Danielson's losses was a count out loss to Nigel McGuinness. Since the ROH World Title doesn't change hands on a count out, he kept the title. The other was when he lost the title to Homicide.
*McGuinness lost three times by disqualification. This makes him the champion with more disqualification losses to date. The fourth loss was when he dropped the belt to Jerry Lynn.
*Only four champions to date have gone to 60 minute time limit draws.
**Samoa Joe - 2 (both against CM Punk)
**CM Punk - 1 (against Christopher Daniels)
**Bryan Danielson - 3 (against Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuinness and Colt Cabana)
**Jay Lethal - 1 (against Matt Taven)
*Nigel McGuinness also has gone to a time limit draw that was officially announced as a 60-minutes time limit draw, against Tyler Black. By the way, ROH Wrestling later announced that that was a time keeper's mistake, as the match ended shortly after the 45 minutes mark.
*Low Ki, Xavier, Samoa Joe, Austin Aries, James Gibson, Takeshi Morishima and Jerry Lynn all won the title in under one year following their debuts (Low Ki and Xavier both won the title during the first year of Ring of Honor's existence).
*Takeshi Morishima holds the record for shortest amount of time in ROH before winning the World Title, winning the title in only his second match in the promotion.
*Bryan Danielson is the only person to ever hold the ROH World title while also holding another ROH title (as World Champion he defeated Nigel McGuinness to win, and unify, the ROH Pure Championship on August 12, 2006. On August 25 he officially retired the Pure Title before returning the physical belt back to McGuinness)
*To date, Austin Aries holds the record for defending the title in the most countries. Besides defending it in the United States on a regular basis, he also defended in these countries:
**Canada: defeating Kevin Steen in Montreal, Quebec in January 22, 2005
**Switzerland: defeating Marc Roudin in Weesen, Switzerland on March 12, 2005
**Austria: defeating Are$ and Steve Douglas in Krems, Austria on March 13, 2005.
**Mexico: defeating Super Crazy and Ricky Marvin in Tulancingo, Mexico on May 15, 2005
*Low Ki is the youngest ROH World Champion to date, as he won the title at 23 years of age.
*PCO is the oldest ROH World Champion to date, as he won the title at 51 years of age.
==External links==
*ROH World Championship at CAGEMATCH.net
Category:Champion history