Canadian International Heavyweight Championship
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The International Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship that was most recently promoted by the American wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
It was originally the top singles title in the Montreal-based wrestling promotion Lutte Internationale (International Wrestling). It was the successor to the Montreal Athletic Commission's MAC World Heavyweight Championship (later renamed the International Heavyweight Championship), which was retired after the Commission's promotion, the International Wrestling Association, closed in 1975. The title was promoted from 1976 until Lutte Internationale closed in 1987, upon which the title was retired.
In 2024, the title was revived by TNA by A. J. Francis, with the explanation that Francis purchased the rights to the title and declared himself champion. This occurred on June 15, 2024 in Cicero, Illinois during the Impact! tapings which aired on June 27. At The People vs. GCW show, PCO cut a promo in which he legitimately aired his grievances with TNA management, before attempting to destroy the TNA Digital Media Championship belt with a sledgehammer. After that, Digital Media Championship was vacated and the Canadian International Heavyweight Championship was subsequently dropped.
In 2025, it was announced that PCO would defend the title against Dan Maff in a House of Pain match at the Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling event Resurrection, with Billy Gunn as special guest referee.
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| Lutte Internationale | ||||||||
| 1 | Serge Dumont | March 29, 1976 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 127 | Defeated Johnny Rougeau. | |
| 2 | Billy Two Rivers | August 3, 1976 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 160 | ||
| 3 | Serge Dumont | September 1976 | IW show | N/A | 2 | N/A | ||
| 4 | Johnny Rougeau | September 1976 | IW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | ||
| Championship history is unrecorded from September 1976 to February 1980. | ||||||||
| 5 | Edouard Carpentier | 1980 | IW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | Unknown who Carpentier defeated for the title. | |
| 6 | Java Ruuk | February 11, 1980 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 189 | ||
| 7 | Edouard Carpentier | August 18, 1980 | IW show | N/A | 2 | 40 | ||
| 8 | Pierre Lefebvre | September 27, 1980 | IW show | N/A | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9 | Dino Bravo | September 30, 1980 | IW show | N/A | 1 | 107 | Unknown who Bravo defeated for the title. | |
| 10 | Michel Dubois | January 12, 1981 | IW show | N/A | 1 | 159 | ||
| 11 | Dino Bravo | June 20, 1981 | IW show | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | 2 | N/A | ||
| 12 | Sailor White | January 1982 | IW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | ||
| 13 | Dino Bravo | July 1982 | IW show | N/A | 3 | N/A | ||
| — | Vacated | July 1982 | — | N/A | — | — | ||
| 14 | Billy Robinson | August 16, 1982 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 147 | Defeated Rick Martel in tournament final. | |
| 15 | The Destroyer | January 10, 1983 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 2 | ||
| 16 | Billy Robinson | January 12, 1983 | IW show | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | 2 | 54 | ||
| 17 | Dino Bravo | March 7, 1983 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 4 | N/A | ||
| 18 | Rick Martel | June 1983 | IW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | ||
| 19 | Dino Bravo | September 21, 1983 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 5 | 384 | ||
| 20 | King Tonga | October 9, 1984 | IW show | Hull, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 125 | ||
| 21 | Dino Bravo | February 11, 1985 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 6 | 91 | Special referee—Verne Gagne. | |
| — | Vacated | May 13, 1985 | — | N/A | — | — | ||
| 22 | Dino Bravo | May 28, 1985 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 7 | 398 | Defeated King Tonga; recognized by the WWF during their takeover of the Montreal office. | |
| 23 | The Great Samu | June 30, 1986 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 126 | ||
| 24 | David Schultz | November 3, 1986 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 77 | ||
| 25 | Hercules Ayala | January 19, 1987 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 27 | ||
| 26 | Abdullah the Butcher | February 15, 1987 | IW show | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 197 | ||
| — | Deactivated | August 31, 1987 | — | N/A | — | — | Title retired upon the closing of Lutte Internationale. | |
| Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) | ||||||||
| 27 | A. J. Francis | June 15, 2024 | Impact! | Cicero, Illinois, United States | 1 | 35 | Title revived by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) with the explanation that Francis bought the rights to the title and declared himself as champion. This episode aired on tape delay on June 27, 2024. | |
| 28 | PCO | July 20, 2024 | Slammiversary | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1 | 346+ | This was a Montreal Street Fight. This was also for Francis' TNA Digital Media Championship. Title dropped by TNA after PCO's appearance at Game Changer Wrestling; PCO retained possession of title. | |
| Independent |