As a professional wrestling championship, it was won via a planned ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

[1] The title was introduced during a storyline that pitted The TNA Front Line against The Main Event Mafia.

On the October 23, 2008, episode of Impact!, Booker T removed the belt from the briefcase, introducing it as the "TNA Legends Championship", and declaring himself the first champion.

[2] On March 15, 2009, at TNA's Destination X pay-per-view (PPV) event, AJ Styles defeated Booker T to win the championship.

[5] On the October 29, 2009, episode of Impact!, then-champion Eric Young renamed the title the "TNA Global Championship".

TNA announced that a new champion would be determined in a King of the Mountain match at their Slammiversary PPV event on June 28.

[14][15] Jeff Jarrett defeated Matt Hardy, Eric Young, Drew Galloway, and Bobby Roode to win the championship.

[16] The title ended up appearing in GFW at a July 9 live event where Young attacked Jarrett and stole the championship belt.