<page_title> List of Impact World Champions </page_title> <section_title> Reigns </section_title> <table> <cell> Kurt Angle <col_header> Champion </col_header> <col_header> Event </col_header> <row_header> 1 </row_header> </cell> <cell> Angle defeated then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage and Sting in a three-way match to become the inaugural champion after National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Executive Director Robert Trobich stripped Christian Cage of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and ended NWA's business relations with TNA earlier that day. <col_header> Notes </col_header> <row_header> 1 </row_header> </cell> </table>
Angle was the inaugural TNA World Heavyweight Champion.