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Promotion | One Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date established | 26 November 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date retired | 29 September 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1PW Openweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the British promotion One Pro Wrestling. The title was established in 2006 and retired upon the closure of 1PW on 29 September 2023. It was the midcard championship of the company. Title reigns were determined by professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers, involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers are portrayed as either villains or fan favorites as they follow a series of tension-building events, which culminated into a wrestling match or series of matches for the championship.
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title was won as a result of a scripted match. There were a total of ten reigns shared between ten different champions.
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
1 | Pac | 26 November 2006 | Fight Club IV | Doncaster, UK | 1 | 217 | Won a 20-man battle royal to become the inaugural champion. | [1] |
2 | James Wallace | 1 July 2007 | Know Your Enemy | Doncaster, UK | 1 | 83 | [2] | |
3 | Darren Burridge | 22 September 2007 | The Underground | Doncaster, UK | 1 | 192 | [3] | |
— | Vacated | 1 April 2008 | — | — | — | — | Burridge vacated the championship due to suffering a legitimate injury. | |
4 | Darkside | 3 May 2008 | The Underground: Graduation Day | Edlington, UK | 1 | <1 | [4] | |
5 | Martin Stone | 3 May 2008 | The Underground: Graduation Day | Edlington, UK | 1 | 168 | Defeated Lionheart and Darkside in a three-way match. | [4] |
6 | Johnny Moss | 18 October 2008 | Third Anniversary Show | Doncaster, UK | 1 | 183 | Defeated Martin Stone, Juggernaut and Dave Moralez in a four-way match. | [5] |
7 | Nigel McGuinness | 19 April 2009 | To the Extreme | Doncaster, UK | 1 | 160 | [6] | |
— | Vacated | 26 September 2009 | — | — | — | — | ||
8 | Spud | 15 November 2009 | 4th Anniversary | Doncaster, UK | 1 | 395 | Won a Ten-man gauntlet match. | [7] |
— | Vacated | 15 December 2010 | — | — | — | — | ||
9 | Noam Dar | 27 April 2011 | Road to Destiny | Ellesmere Port, UK | 1 | 31 | Defeated Joey Hayes, Kris Travis and Marty Scurll in a four-way match to win the vacant title. | [8] |
— | Deactivated | 28 May 2011 | — | — | — | — | Title was deactivated over One Pro Wrestling's closure. | |
10 | Robbie X | 22 April 2023 | All Or Nothing | Doncaster, UK | 1 | 146 | Defeated Scotty Rawk, Callum Newman, Lio Rush, Luke Jacobs and Frankie Kazarian in a Championship Scramble to win the reactivated title. | [9] |
— | Vacated | 15 September 2023 | — | — | — | — | All championships were vacated after multiple wrestlers ended their working relationships with 1PW | [10] |
— | Deactivated | 29 September 2023 | — | — | — | — | Title was deactivated over One Pro Wrestling's closure. | [11] |
As of 8March2024.
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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1 | Spud | 1 | 395 |
2 | Pac | 1 | 217 |
3 | Darren Burrdige | 1 | 192 |
4 | Johnny Moss | 1 | 183 |
5 | Martin Stone | 1 | 168 |
6 | Nigel McGuinness | 1 | 160 |
7 | Robbie X | 1 | 146 |
8 | James Wallace | 1 | 83 |
9 | Noam Dar | 1 | 31 |
10 | Darkside | 1 | <1 |
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