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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 disqualifed.
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	defeated CM Punk in Elizabeth, NJ on March 13, 2004
Doug Williams	Alex Shelley	Elizabeth, NJ	July 17, 2004	defeated Alex Shelley in Wauwatosa, WI on July 23, 2004 defeated Austin Aries in Chicago Ridge, IL on July 24, 2004
John Walters	Doug Williams	Braintree, MA	August 28, 2004	defeated Nigel McGuinness in Elizabeth, NJ on September 11, 2004 defeated Alex Shelley in Philadelphia, PA on October 2, 2004 defeated Homicide in Elizabeth, NJ on November 6, 2004 defeated Jimmy Rave in Elizabeth, NJ on December 6, 2004 defeated Jimmy Rave in Philadelphia, PA on December 26, 2004 defeated Jay Lethal in Elizabeth, NJ on February 19, 2005
Jay Lethal	John Walters	Philadelphia, PA	March 5, 2005	defeated Kevin Dunn in Webster, NY on April 9, 2005 defeated Spanky in Dorchester, MA on April 16, 2005
Samoa Joe	Jay Lethal	New York, NY	May 7, 2005	defeated James Gibson in Buffalo, NY on June 4, 2005 defeated Nigel McGuinness in New York, NY on June 12, 2005 defeated Colt Cabana in Morristown, NJ on June 18, 2005 defeated Austin Aries in New York, NY on July 9, 2005 defeated Jimmy Rave in Woodbridge, CT on July 16, 2005 defeated Christopher Daniels in Morristown, NJ on August 20, 2005
Nigel McGuinness	Samoa Joe	Buffalo, NY	August 27, 2005	defeated Roderick Strong in Lake Grove, NY on September 17, 2005 defeated B.J. Whitmer in Dorchester, MA on September 24, 2005 defeated Jay Lethal in New York, NY on October 1, 2005 defeated Samoa Joe in Amherst, NY on October 15, 2005 defeated Claudio Castagnoli in Detroit, MI on November 4, 2005 defeated Claudio Castagnoli in Edison, NJ on December 17, 2005 defeated Tony Mamaluke in Philadelphia, PA on January 14, 2006 defeated Austin Aries in Lake Grove, NY on February 11, 2006 defeated Claudio Castagnoli in New York, NY on March 25, 2006 defeated Christopher Daniels in Dayton, OH on April 28, 2006 defeated ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson in Cleveland, OH on April 29, 2006

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) saw 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 was contested under Pure Title rules, but both the World and Pure Titles were on the line. Pure champion Nigel McGuinness won the bout by countout.

Title history

Trivia

See also