WPA World Eight-ball Championship

The WPA World Eight-ball Championship is a professional eight-ball pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool Association. It was first contested from 2004 to 2012 in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. After several years without an event, the association announced that the championship would return in 2017 at the Olympic Centre in Jinan, China, but that event did not take place and the championship stayed dormant. Predator Cues later re-established the tournament as part of its Pro Billiard Series, beginning with the 2022 edition. The record is therefore one of two separate periods of play divided by a long gap, rather than an unbroken annual run.