Cody (Rhodes) became the 23rd world champion in Ring of Honor history this weekend. His reign will begin the 27th in the history of the championship.
Cody defeated Christopher Daniels in the main event of BITW on Saturday to win the title. Daniels had defeated Adam Cole for the belt on March 10th earlier this year. Christopher Daniels oddly enough, was involved in the 1st ever ROH championship match as well, back in 2002.
ROH World Championship Lineage
Lineage
- Low-Ki (defeated Christopher Daniels, Brian Kendrick and Doug Williams)
Date of championship win: July 27th, 2002
Title Defences: 1
Days as Champion: 56 - Xavier
Date of championship win: September 21, 2002
Title Defences: 4
Days as Champion: 182 - Samoa Joe
Date of championship win: March 22, 2003
Title Defences: 29
Days as Champion: 645 - Austin Aries
Date of championship win: December 26, 2004
Title Defences: 16
Days as Champion: 174 - CM Punk
Date of championship win: June 18, 2005
Title Defences: 5
Days as Champion: 55 - James Gibson
Date of championship win: August 12, 2005
Title Defences: 4
Days as Champion: 36 - Bryan Danielson
Date of championship win: September 17, 2005
Title Defences: 38
Days as Champion: 462 - Homicide
Date of championship win: December 23rd, 2006
Title Defences: 3
Days as Champion: 56 - Takeshi Morishima
Date of championship win: February 17, 2007
Title Defences: 20
Days as Champion: 231 - Nigel McGuiness
Date of championship win: JOctober 6, 2007
Title Defences: 38
Days as Champion: 545 - Jerry Lynn
Date of championship win: April 3rd, 2009
Title Defences: 6
Days as Champion: 71 - Austin Aries (2nd reign)
Date of championship win: June 13, 2009
Title Defences: 13
Days as Champion: 245 - Tyler Black
Date of championship win: February 13, 2010
Title Defences: 7
Days as Champion: 210 - Roderick Strong
Date of championship win: September 11th 2010
Title Defences: 5
Days as Champion: 189 - Eddie Edwards
Date of championship win: March 19th, 2011
Title Defences: 3
Days as Champion: 99 - Davey Richards
Date of championship win: June 26th, 2011
Title Defences: 10
Days as Champion: 321 - Kevin Steen
Date of championship win: May 12th, 2012
Title Defences: 18
Days as Champion: 328 - Jay Briscoe
Date of championship win: April 5th, 2013
Title Defences: 6
Days as Champion: 89Title vacated due to Briscoe injury on June 23rd, 2013 (in storyline) - Adam Cole
Date of championship win: September 20th, 2013
Title Defences: 13
Days as Champion: 275 - Michael Elgin
Date of championship win: June 22nd, 2014
Title Defences: 7
Days as Champion: 76 - Jay Briscoe
Date of championship win: September 6th 2014
Title Defences: 12
Days as Champion: 286 - Jay Lethal
Date of championship win: June 19, 2015
Title Defences: 28
Days as Champion: 427 - Adam Cole (2nd reign)
Date of championship win: August 19, 2016
Title Defences: 6
Days as Champion: 105 - Kyle O’Reilly
Date of championship win: December 2nd, 2016
Title Defences: 0
Days as Champion: 33 - Adam Cole
Date of championship win: January 4th, 2017
Title Defences: 3
Days as Champion: 65 - Christopher Daniels
Date of championship win: March 10, 2017
Title Defences: 8
Days as Champion: 105 - Cody (Rhodes)
Date of championship win: June 23rd, 2017
Title Defences: 0+
Days as Champion: current
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