TNA World Heavyweight Championship (2020–2021)
Championship created and promoted by American professional wrestling company Impact Wrestling / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The TNA World Heavyweight Championship was a short-lived professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by Impact Wrestling. As part of a storyline in April 2020, Moose began to refer to himself as the TNA World Heavyweight Champion and carrying around the title belt that last represented the championship before it became known as the Impact World Championship. On February 23, 2021, Impact officially sanctioned Moose's TNA World Heavyweight Championship as a separate title from the Impact World Championship.
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Promotion | Impact Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date established | April 8–10, 2020 (unofficial; aired April 28) February 23, 2021 (official recognition) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date retired | March 13, 2021 (unified with the Impact World Championship) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Impact Wrestling Executive Vice President Scott D'Amore claimed that the championship carried the lineage of the title formerly known as the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, but how much of that lineage was unclear. It would be a short-lived championship, as at Sacrifice on March 13, 2021, Impact World Champion Rich Swann defeated Moose in a championship unification match, deactivating the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The Impact World Championship became briefly known as the Impact Unified World Championship, and was represented by both title belts, until reigning champion Christian Cage retired the TNA belt on the August 19, 2021, episode of Impact!, returning to a single belt.