WCW United States Heavyweight Championship



In the Classic Era, the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship was a title in the Heavyweight class of World Championship Wrestling.

History
In 1988, JCP was sold to Turner Broadcasting and would eventually become known as World Championship Wrestling. In 1991, the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship was rebranded as the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship. At the time of this rebrand, Lex Luger was Champion.

The final champion of the Classic Era was Booker T who would also be WCW Heavyweight Champion as the promotion was sold to the World Wrestling Federation and specifically, Shane McMahon.

List of Champions

 * Lex Luger (1991)(1998)
 * Sting (1991)(1995)
 * Rick Rude (1991-92)
 * Dustin Rhodes (1993)
 * Steve Austin (1993-94)(1994)
 * Ricky Steamboat (1994)
 * Jim Duggan (1994)
 * Vader (1994)
 * Kensuke Sasaki (1995)
 * The One Man Gang (1995-96)
 * Konnan (1996)
 * Ric Flair (1996)
 * Eddie Guerrero (1996-97)
 * Dean Malenko (1997)
 * Jeff Jarrett (1997)(1999-2000)
 * Steve McMichael (1997)
 * Curt Hennig (1997)
 * Diamond Dallas Page (1997-98)(1998)
 * Raven (1998)
 * Bill Goldberg (1998)(1999)
 * Bret Hart (1998)(1998)(1998-99)(1999)
 * Roddy Piper (1999)
 * Scott Hall (1999)(1999)
 * Scott Steiner (1999)(2000)
 * David Flair (1999)
 * Chris Benoit (1999)(1999)
 * Sid Vicious (1999)
 * Lance Storm (2000)(2000)(2000)
 * Terry Funk (2000)
 * General Rection/Hugh Morrus (2000)(2000-01)
 * Shane Douglas (2001)
 * Rick Steiner (2001)
 * Booker T (2001)