ECW World Heavyweight Championship

ECW World Heavyweight Championship
The final belt design of the ECW Championship used in WWE from July 2008 to February 2010
Details
Promotion	Extreme Championship Wrestling (1992–2001) World Wrestling Entertainment (2006–2010)
Date established	April 25, 1992
Date retired	February 16, 2010
Other name(s)
ECW Heavyweight Championship (1992–1993) NWA-ECW Heavyweight Championship (1993–1994) ECW World Heavyweight Championship (1994–2001, 2006) ECW World Championship (2006–2007) ECW Championship (2007–2010)
Statistics First champion(s) Jimmy Snuka Final champion(s) Ezekiel Jackson Most reigns The Sandman (5) Longest reign Shane Douglas (4th reign) (406 days) Shortest reign Ezekiel Jackson (2 minutes, 25 seconds) Oldest champion Mr. McMahon (61 years, 248 days) Youngest champion Mikey Whipwreck (22 years, 146 days) Heaviest champion Big Show (567 lb (257 kg)) Lightest champion Jerry Lynn (185 lb (84 kg))

The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and later, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the original world title of the ECW promotion, spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. It was established under ECW in 1994 but was originally introduced in 1992 by the promotion's precursor, Eastern Championship Wrestling. The inaugural champion was Jimmy Snuka, however, WWE considers the inaugural world heavyweight champion to be Shane Douglas, with his reign beginning on August 27, 1994.

The title was deactivated in 2001 when ECW went out of business. ECW was then purchased by WWE two years later during the summer of 2003. In 2006, WWE reactivated the championship as the world title of their newly established ECW brand. It was the third concurrently active world championship in the promotion, complementing the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship of the other two brands, Raw and SmackDown. The ECW Championship briefly appeared as the sole world title of the Raw brand in 2008 as a result of that year's draft. When WWE disbanded the ECW brand in 2010, the championship was subsequently retired following the final episode of WWE ECW with Ezekiel Jackson as the final titleholder, who also had the shortest reign with the belt at 2 minutes 25 seconds as he won it during the episode.