List of ROH Pure Champions

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The ROH Pure Championship is a professional wrestling championship contested for in the American professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.

Current champion Lee Moriarty

Overall, there have been 15 championship reigns between 13 different champions. The title has been vacated once. A.J. Styles was the inaugural champion, while Jonathan Gresham was the first champion upon the title's revival. Wheeler Yuta is the only champion to have more than one reign with the title, with three reigns. Nigel McGuinness had the longest reign at 350 days with 17 title defenses. Bryan Danielson had the shortest reign at less than a day since the title was decommissioned after being unified with the ROH World Championship.

Lee Moriarty is the current champion in his first reign. He defeated Wheeler Yuta at Death Before Dishonor on July 26, 2024, in Arlington, Texas.

Reigns

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Names

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Name Years
ROH Pure Wrestling Championship 2004
ROH Pure Championship 2004 – 2006; 2020 – present
ROH World Championship 2006
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
<1 Reign lasted less than a day
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days Defenses
Ring of Honor (ROH)
1 A.J Styles February 14, 2004 Second Anniversary Show Braintree, MA 1 70 1 Defeated CM Punk in the ROH Pure Championship tournament finals to become the inaugural champion. [1][2][3][4]
— Vacated April 24, 2004 — — — — — Vacated when Styles was pulled from all ROH shows by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling following the Rob Feinstein controversy. [1][2]
2 Doug Williams July 17, 2004 Reborn: Completion Elizabeth, NJ 1 42 3 Defeated Alex Shelley in a tournament final. [5][6]
3 John Walters August 28, 2004 Scramble Cage Melee Elizabeth, NJ 1 189 6 [7]
4 Jay Lethal March 5, 2005 Trios Tournament 2005 Philadelphia, PA 1 63 2 [8][9]
5 Samoa Joe May 7, 2005 Manhattan Mayhem I New York, NY 1 112 6 [10]
6 Nigel McGuinness August 27, 2005 Dragon Gate Invasion Buffalo, NY 1 350 17 [11]
7 Bryan Danielson August 12, 2006 Unified Liverpool, England 1 <1 0 This was a title unification match with Danielson's ROH World Championship on the line. [12]
— Unified August 12, 2006 Unified Liverpool, England — — — Title was deactivated sometime after it unified with the ROH World Championship. [13][14]
8 Jonathan Gresham October 30, 2020 Ring of Honor Wrestling Baltimore, MD 1 317 7 Defeated Tracy Williams in the final of a tournament to crown a new champion for the revived title. [15]
9 Josh Woods September 12, 2021 Death Before Dishonor XVIII Philadelphia, PA 1 201 5 During this reign, Tony Khan purchased Ring of Honor. [16]
10 Wheeler Yuta April 1, 2022 Supercard of Honor XV Garland, TX 1 159 3 [17]
11 Daniel Garcia September 7, 2022 Dynamite Buffalo, NY 1 94 2 This was an All Elite Wrestling event. [18]
12 Wheeler Yuta December 10, 2022 Final Battle Arlington, TX 2 111 4 [19]
13 Katsuyori Shibata March 31, 2023 Supercard of Honor Los Angeles, CA 1 239 5 [20]
14 Wheeler Yuta November 25, 2023 Rampage Pittsburgh, PA 3 244 3 This was an All Elite Wrestling event. [21]
15 Lee Moriarty July 26, 2024 Death Before Dishonor Arlington, TX 1 655+ 10 [22]

Combined Reigns

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As of May 12, 2026.

The inaugural champion AJ Styles.
Champion with the most title defenses Nigel McGuinness.
Record-setting three-time champion Wheeler Yuta.
† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Wheeler Yuta 3 10 514
2 Lee Moriarty † 1 10 655+
3 Nigel McGuinness 1 17 350
4 Jonathan Gresham 1 7 317
5 Katsuyori Shibata 1 5 239
6 Josh Woods 1 5 201
7 John Walters 1 6 189
8 Samoa Joe 1 6 112
9 Daniel Garcia 1 2 94
10 A.J. Styles 1 1 70
11 Jay Lethal 1 2 63
12 Doug Williams 1 3 42
13 Bryan Danielson 1 0 <1

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