List of NWA World Heavyweight Champions


The NWA World's Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the National Wrestling Alliance, an American professional wrestling promotion. It is the promotion's premier title.
NWA currently recognizes 103 individual World's 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 reigns at 3,749 days. Shane Douglas has the record for the shortest reign as champion, for less than 1 day. Ric Flair holds the record for most reigns with 8. 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.
Silas Mason is the current champion in his first reign. He won the title by defeating Thom Latimer at NWA 77th Anniversary Show on August 16, 2025, in Huntington, New York.

Combined reigns

†Indicates the current champion
<1The reign is shorter than one day.