ROH World Championship

The Ring of Honor (ROH) World Championship, originally named the "ROH Title", is the top title contested for the independent professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor. The current champion is Takeshi Morishima.

Low Ki defeated Spanky, Christopher Daniels and Doug Williams in a 60 minute Ironman match to become the first ROH Champion at Crowning a Champion on July 27, 2002.

Samoa Joe had the longest title reign to date when he held the belt for 22 months. During his reign, ROH held a cross-promotional show with Frontier Wrestling Alliance in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2003 called Frontiers of Honor. At that show, Joe turned the title into the ROH World Championship when he defended it against The Zebra Kid. Since then the title has been defended in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Mexico and Japan.

On August 12, 2006, the ROH Pure Championship was unified with the ROH World Championship after ROH Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness lost to ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson in Liverpool, England in a title unification match. The match was contested under pure wrestling rules, with the stipulation that both championships could be lost by disqualification or count out.

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 has had the most title defenses to date with 39 (33 wins, 2 losses, 3 time limit draws and 1 double disqualification)
 * One of the 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.
 * Only three 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)
 * Low Ki, Xavier, Samoa Joe, Austin Aries, James Gibson and Takeshi Morishima 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 Ares and Steve Douglas in Krems, Austria on March 13, 2005.
 * Mexico: defeating Super Crazy and Ricky Marvin in Tulancingo, Mexico on May 15, 2005