ROH World Championship/Champion history

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 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