****It is at this point that the NWA Heavyweight Title becomes the WCW Heavyweight Title.

NOTES
¹   Luger and Windham were declared top contenders when Flair left for the WWF.
²   Jimmy Hart put a clause the in match's contract stating that The Giant could win the title by DQ.     Hart caused the DQ so the title became vacant.
³   Savage won the 60 man battle royal for the title.
⁴   Sting was stripped of the title after two controversial wins (Starcade, where he won title, and Nitro on January 8th) both against Hogan.  On 2-22-98 Sting and Hogan again fought for the title.
⁵   Nash lays down to Hogan, allowing Hogan to win the belt.
⁶   DDP defeated Flair, Hogan, and Sting in a four corners match for the title.
⁷   DDP defeated Sting, Nash and Goldberg in a four corners match for the title after loosing it earlier in the show.
⁸   Savage pinned Nash in a tag team match with a stipulation added which stated that whomever pinned Nash would become World Champ. Sting was Nash's partner and Sid Vicious was Savage's partner.
⁹   Title was vacated after a controversy regarding Goldberg's victory over Sting Halloween Havoc.  The title was vacated and Bret Hart won a 32-man tournament, defeating Chris Benoit in the final, to win the title.
¹⁰  Hart vacated his own title on 12-21-99 because of a controvesial title win over Goldberg at Starcade on 12-20-99.  Hart defeated Goldberg later in the show to win back the vacant title.
¹¹  Bret Hart was stripped of the title because he was unable to compete due to injury.  Chris Benoit defeated Sid Vicious in a number 1 contenders match for the title.
¹²  On 1-17-00, Referee Arn Anderson reversed Chris Benoit's victory the previous day because he found out afterwards that Sid had his leg under the ropes, therefore, Benoit's summission move should have ben broken.  The title is vacated.  Sid defeated Kevin Nash, as number one contenders, to win the title.
¹³  Nash stripped Sid of the title but Sid won it back later the same night.
¹⁴  On 4-10-00, Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff vacated all titles.  Jarrett defeated Diamond Dallas Page in the finals of a tournament to determine the champion.
¹⁵  DDP put the World Title on the line in a tag team match in which whomever scored the pinfall would become the champion.  Actor David Arquette was his tag team partner.  He scored a pinfall on the opposing team of Eric Bischoff and Jeff Jarrett.
¹⁶  Jarrett defeated Arquette and DDP in a triple threat triple cage match.
¹⁷  Flair was stripped of his title because of health problems.  Jarrett defeated fellow number-one contender Kevin Nash to become champion.
¹⁸  Nash defeated Jarrett and Scott Steiner in a triple threat match for the title.
¹⁹  Nash handed the title over to Ric Flair because Ric never really lost it.
²⁰  Jarrett laid down for Hogan.  Vince Russo ordered that Hogan be retired with the belt and that a new title be made because this title was worthless.