Top 10 TNA World Heavyweight Champions

The final tna list comes at you now, crossing the line we will find out the top 10 best or my favourite TNA World Heavyweight Champions!

10) Eric Young - Eric Young’s TNA career was great with him playing just about every role in the company. Despite being known for his comedy, Young had great in-ring skills. Eric Young came out of absolutely nowhere to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in April 2014 from Magnus. EY had been with TNA since the very beginning and had proved himself a versatile and valuable performer, something that will surely continue in NXT and WWE. He deserved the win and i wish he had more of a run and more runs with the title.

9) Jeff Hardy - He has had his up's and down's but Jeff Hardy was one of the biggest stars in tna and still is a big star hell he has been since the 90s. His first two title runs were lame, so was his heel character as a whole and in the time of immortal he was not sober or clean so that adds negatives but despite all this, his third reign was great and i love Jeff Hardy he is such a great talent.

8) Lashley - His first TNA run was a flop with nothing of note coming. TNA gave him another chance and actually made the right call for once and did him better than WWE. Lashley has been TNA World Champion four times over the past few years. All of his reigns have gone well with him playing the dominant heel champion very well. Lashley changed his game to implement more of his MMA style and it worked perfectly when combined with his power moves.

7) Bully Ray - Bully Ray is one of the most talked-about TNA world champions in companies history and one of the most unlikely. For most of his 22-year career, the tag team specialist Bully Ray was a pudgy tag team wrestler. But when he felt Team 3D had run its course he split up the duo and underwent one of the most drastic transformations wrestling had ever seen. He went on to become a fully heel character the Bully who was the Calf-zilla of wrestling and he went on to loose over 100 pounds to slim down a bit to be in best shape of his life to then go on to "marry" Brooke Hogan in a story and betray the Hogans to win the TNA world title by revealing he was the man behind the Aces & Eights. He is great wrestler in ring and he is also great on the mic and so him winning the championship twice holding it for combined days of 196.

6) Austin Aries - One of TNA's better moments took place when Austin Aries faced off with Bobby Roode for the TNA World Championship at Destination X 2012. Roode was the hated heel with a dominant title reign. Aries blossomed into one of the most popular wrestlers in the company via his X-Division work. The moment of Aries upsetting Roode to win the title delivered a massive pop and a rare feel good title change in TNA. Aries did a solid job as champion but didn’t get a long reign. The few months that he did hold the title things went very well until he lost it to Jeff Hardy in another excellent match. Aries defeating Roode is a moment that will be associated with the better memories of TNA.

5) EC3 - WWE dropped the ball with him as Derrick Bateman. His signing by TNA and new name of EC3 allowed him to showcase his personality. Carter instantly became the most entertaining performer in the company. TNA didn’t mess around and pushed him to the moon as one of the new stars to build the promotion around. EC3 defeated Kurt Angle to win the TNA World Championship for the first time. This was a huge moment for him as he rebounded from never getting a chance in the WWE to being the biggest star in TNA. Carter carried himself very well as a World Champion looking the part. Matt Hardy eventually defeated him twice to end both of his title reigns.

4) Aj Styles - No one is more synonymous with the better moments in TNA than A.J. Styles. The homegrown talent grew into one of the best wrestlers in the world and was quite frankly the face of TNA. Styles only held the TNA World Championship twice in his career showing how TNA dropped the ball with him. Despite that, both of his reigns felt right. Styles being the TNA World Champion felt like John Cena being the WWE World Champion. The visual just made sense and represented the company perfectly. Styles always gave his best effort and took pride in being the World Champion. It's a shame he did not have more reigns and did not stay in TNA for longer.

3) Sting - Sting tried his best to make the company grow. The legend held the TNA World Championship on four different occasions. Maybe TNA should have tried to build new stars with the title instead of continuously going back to Sting, but he provided a safety net of a credible name to attract casual fans. Sting delivered enough good matches and took pride in his work as the champion. If the WWE ever purchases the library of TNA’s content, Sting’s underrated run there will be remembered more fondly.

2) Bobby Roode - The first TNA World Championship win for Bobby Roode came in a completely different fashion than expected. Roode faced off with Kurt Angle at Bound for Glory 2011 as the determined face looking to accomplish his dream. Hulk Hogan publicly buried Roode and changed the finish for Angle to win. Angle lost it to James Storm days later. Roode turned heel by cheating to beat his best friend Storm to finally win the title. The delay was worth it with Roode’s character change being for the best. Roode blossomed into the best heel character in TNA history as the leader of the “selfish generation. “ Fans loathed Roode, but he had quite a few great matches during his title reign. TNA put the title on him again years later and he delivered another solid reign. His NXT tenure is adding new star power to Roode’s name, but his current legacy is as an all-time great TNA World Champion and it is why he is the It factor and so GLORIOUS!

1) Kurt Angle - Kurt Angle joined TNA in 2006 and spent a decade in the company which is longer than his wwe time prior to his return in wwe. His work ethic was inspiring. As a highly paid legend, Angle could have been lazy like Booker T or Rob Van Dam. Instead, he stepped up his game and kept up with the younger stars. Angle had classic title bouts against A.J. Styles, Samoa Joe and countless others. His record breaking six TNA World Championship reigns helped bring in new fans to the program. TNA could not hook the viewers, in but Angle did his job of adding credibility. Angle was actually the first official TNA World Champion when the company ditched the NWA Championship for a title under their own name. Angle had a legendary run in TNA and served as a great World Champion.

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Top 10 TNA X Division Champions

Get ready to fly, as we enter the high flying risk taking and ground breaking x division stars and ten champions! 15 years ago the title was born and it's gone through a lot of designs and changes over the years but who are the top 10 champs?

10) Amazing Red - Once upon a time, the wrestling world was convinced that Amazing Red was going to be the new Rey Mysterio. Red won the TNA X Division Championship on three occasions, and he always carried the title with grace. His reigns weren't all that memorable, but he was unique in that he was a plucky underdog that was more than capable of getting everything done without relying solely on heart. Red's first X Division Championship run started in April 2003 when he dethroned the notoriously grumpy Kid Kash for the title, but he would hold the belt for just two weeks before dropping it to Chris Sabin. It would be a whole six years before he would hold the gold again, shocking the world in 2009 by defeating Samoa Joe, of all people, for the belt. Red's third and final reign came and went in the blink of an eye, as he picked up the strap from Jay Lethal at a live event in 2010 before losing it back to Lethal just two days later.

9) Petey Williams - Williams was the first man to give the X Division Championship something approaching a true identity in many ways. Having a finishing move as brutal as the Canadian Destroyer certainly helped and it helped both him, title and division out but sadly he only held the title two time but maybe when this list comes out he wins it again for now this list was done a month in advance so who knows.

8) Daniels - Make no mistake about it: Christopher Daniels is the most underrated professional wrestler in TNA's history and a 4 time x division champion. Heck, when all is said and done he will surely go down as one of the best never to perform in WWE. He was the glue in the rivalry which fuelled the famous unbreakable triple threat match between Joe, Aj and Daniels. 

7) Kaz - Kazarian has always been a fine hand in the ring, a credible opponent for anyone, and also an individual who works well regardless of their alignment, as comfortable as a face as they are a heel. Despite this, there always just seemed to be something missing with Kaz. He won the title five times but never had a career-defining run with the belt. Kazarian was never far away from the title picture and do not underestimate him or his reigns as champ. 

6) Low Ki/Senshi - I believe this was the guy who was champ when i first tuned into TNA all those years ago funny enough and he was the second tna x division champion. Low ki has legit been one of the best wrestlers outside wwe in the 21st century. He has won the x division championship five times and most of his title reigns were memorable. Guys like low ki and Aj styles made it a point to showcase the best wrestling on every ppv they were involved in. That concept still holds true in 2017 as his x division title match with sonjay dutt at slamiversary was the best match of the night. Personally, I like low ki cos of his adaptability. He wrestles a more mma style when wrestling against someone like Samoa Joe, a more technical style when he is wrestling someone like Austin Aries and a more highflying style when wrestling against someone like the amazing red. As good as he is, I think he is hugely underrated and deserves to be mentioned on the same plane as the AJ styles and Samoa joes of the world.

5) Samoa Joe - The X Division was long considered a division characterised by its total lack of limit and restrictions, and no champion embodied this more than the Samoan Submission Machine, Samoa Joe. Joe was undefeated for ages after arriving in TNA in 2005, and it was in this same year that the X Division reached its peak thanks to the feud over the title that involved Joe, Christopher Daniels, and AJ Styles. 91 days after one of the greatest matches in TNA history (a 3-way with Daniels and Styles at Unbreakable), Samoa Joe won the X Division Championship for the first time by defeating AJ at Turning Point. Coincidentally, he would hold the title for 91 days himself, before losing it to Christopher Daniels in an Ultimate X match involving,  AJ Styles.

4) Jay Lethal - When Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair came in to the company in 2010 it seemed as though they took a shine to Black Machismo, and Lethal found himself in a number of marquee matches against some of the biggest names in the company. Lethal was an X Division Champion a long time before 2010 however, with his first title win coming in 2007 at Slammiversary. Lethal would go on to have six total reigns as champ, although three of those came in 2010 alone. Lethal’s constant caricature of Macho Man Randy Savage helped propel him and he even got his own Miss Elizabeth in the form of SoCal Val. Whenever Lethal was on TV, you know you were going to be entertained and after he moved on from ‘Black Machismo’ he became Ric Flair! One of the best segments in TNA history features Jay Lethal mimicking Ric Flair right to his face. A six-time X Division champion, Lethal could’ve been much more for TNA, but was still a terrific champion for the Division.

3) Aj Styles - AJ was the very first X Division Champion, overcoming Jerry Lynn, Psicosis, and Low-Ki at the second weekly TNA PPV to win the championship. He would go on to win the belt six times in total (joint second highest), with his reigns covering a total of 272 days. He is phenomenal and regarded a pioneer in the x division and i hope he gets more success in wwe. 

2) Austin Aires - Austin Aries has won the TNA X Division Championship on six different occasions, holding the belt for a cumulative 362 days. This puts him second on the all-time list for days as champion. Five of his reigns only amount to 61 days however, and it his first record-breaking reign that leads to the Greatest Man That Ever Lived featuring here at number four. On 11 September 2011, Austin Aries defeated Brian Kendrick at No Surrender to win the title for the very first time. He would go on to hold the belt for an impressive 301 days, far and away the longest individual reign in the history of the belt. To put that into perspective, no other reign lasted more than 199 days. Aries didn't even lose the belt. Instead, he cashed it in when TNA introduced 'Option C' in 2012, and he went on to defeat Bobby Roode for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Destination X. Aries had a second chance with Option C in 2014, but came up short that year against Lashley. I hope since his WWE release he can return to TNA soon. 

1) Chris Sabin - No one has held the X Division more times or for longer than Chris Sabin. Sabin won the title no less than eight times, the first of which came way back in 2003 when he won a 3 way dance that also included then champion Amazing Red and Jerry Lynn. Interestingly enough, Sabin's won many titles from the 3 way dance or triple threat matches.  Sabin's perhaps finest moment with the X Division Championship came in 2013, however. After winning the title in yet another 3-way, Sabin instantly cashed it in for a shot at then-TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray. Sabin went on to win the title, thanks in part to the Main Event Mafia and Aces & Eights' hammer. After losing the world title Sabin would win the X Division belt two more times, including an Ultimate X win at Bound for Glory in 2013. Along with his eight reigns and 432 days as champion, Sabin is way ahead of the pack when it comes to Ultimate X appearances as he has a record 17 appearances. 

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