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Revision as of 03:26, 25 April 2006
The Pure Championship is a title contested for in the North Americian independent professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor.
Matches for the Pure Championship are conducted under three simple Pure Rules:
- Each wrestler has three rope breaks to stop submission holds and pinfalls during the match. After a wrestler exhausts his rope breaks, sumbission and pin attempts under the ropes are considered legal.
- There are no closed-fist punches to the face allowed in a Pure match, only open-handed slaps or chops to the face are allowed. Punches to other parts of the body (save for low-blows) are permitted. However, if you use a closed fist you will lose a rope break and if you have no rope breaks left you will get disqauilifed.
- A wrestler is subject to a twenty count by the referee if the wrestler goes to the floor.
The current champion is Nigel McGuinness.
Title history
| Wrestler: | Defeated: | Location: | Date: | Defenses: |
| A.J. Styles | CM Punk | Boston, MA | February 14, 2004 |
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| Doug Williams | Alex Shelley | Elizabeth, NJ | July 17, 2004 |
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| John Walters | Doug Williams | Braintree, MA | August 28, 2004 |
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| Jay Lethal | John Walters | Philadelphia, PA | March 5, 2005 |
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| Samoa Joe | Jay Lethal | New York, NY | May 7, 2005 |
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| Nigel McGuinness | Samoa Joe | Buffalo, NY | August 27, 2005 |
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The title was vacated on April 23, 2004, when Styles committed himself to wrestle exclusively for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Trivia
- Originally named the ROH Pure Wrestling Championship
- A.J. Styles defeated CM Punk in the finals of an 8 man, one night tournament to crown the first champion.
- Renamed the ROH Pure Championship after Styles was stripped of the Pure Wrestling Title due to being unable to wrestle for ROH as he became a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling exclusive wrestler.
- On April 29, 2006, the Cleveland event (Weekend of Champions Night 2) could see the first ever title vs. title match in Ring of Honor as ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson takes on ROH Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness. The match will be contested under Pure Title rules, but both the World and Pure Titles will be on the line.