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| Promotion | International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom | ||||||||||||
| Date established | 9 July 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | 29 April 2018 (Unified with the IPW:UK World Championship) | ||||||||||||
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The IPW:UK All-England Championship (formerly the FWA All-England Championship) was a professional wrestling championship which was originally contested for in Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA) and subsequently in International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK) after FWA's closure. The title was established in 2001 and existed for eight years until it was unified with the IPW:UK Championship in September 2009. The IPW:UK Championship and the All-England Championship were de-unified in 2012. The titles were unified in 2018 thus the IPW:UK World Championship was created as a result.
The genesis of the All-England title had its roots in the weekly FWA TV show on Portsmouth's MyTV channel in the summer of 2001. With the main FWA title held by Doug Williams, and Williams in a storyline dispute with the promotion's commissioner, Victoria De Montfort, a decision was made to focus on a secondary belt as a TV championship. At the time, the FWA had been using the FWA European Union Championship as a secondary title, and with the company's ownership keen on promoting a particularly English flavour to the show, the title was renamed the All-England championship, a nod to the organisation running the Wimbledon tennis championships.
Scottie Rock, the last-recognised EU Champion, had been coming to the ring wearing the belt, which at that point was not recognised on the TV show. This was explained away as being a "gypsy fighting championship" belt by the commentary team. Nevertheless, Rock and Johnny Storm were chosen to compete for the initial championship, won by Storm in Portsmouth in July 2001.
The championship was initially envisaged as being a Brits-only competition. However, Ahmed Chaer, a Turkish-German wrestler from the German Stampede Wrestling promotion, was given the title to cement a short-lived alliance between the two promotions, though he lost it on his first defence a week later, to Paul Travell. Although the belt would then revert to its homegrown roots, the American Chris Hamrick would also later hold the title.
Former champion Leroy Kincade, who defeated Hade Vansen on 19 October 2005, was stripped of the title on 19 November 2006 after siding with International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom in an inter-promotional feud with FWA. Kincade first put his title reign in jeopardy on October 7 of that year by competing in an unsanctioned All-England Title defence at an IPW:UK show. Even though FWA had a working relationship with the promotion, and Kincade in fact retained the title, FWA refused to recognise the result of the match as the FWA management team did not agree for IPW:UK to use the All-England Title name and belt on their show. This continued with Kincade repeatedly siding with IPW:UK and scheduling his own title defences before finally being stripped of the FWA All-England Championship.
Kincade continued to defend the belt even though not officially being champion. However the next official champion would be FWA loyalist Iceman who defeated Kincade at an IPW show. Prior to the match, the FWA announced it would sanction the Title match only if Iceman won.
During the Final Frontiers show, IPW:UK wrestler Sam Slam won the title from Iceman. However, this show also saw IPW:UK win the inter-promotional feud and put FWA out of business, leaving the titles status unclear. FWA would also revive itself as XWA but would sever all ties with the All-England Championship. The title would continue to operate in IPW:UK for just under two years, being part of the British National Championship tournament in 2008, until it was unified into the IPW:UK Championship. [1]
On 15 September 2012, Sha Samuels, holder of the IPW:UK Championship, un-unified the IPW:UK World and IPW:UK All-England belts, putting the All-England title back into active duty. On 29 April 2018, Mark Haskins re-unified the All-England belt with the IPW:UK Championship, thus renaming the latter to the Undisputed IPW World Championship.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| † | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Scottie Rock | 9 July 2001 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 20 | Became champion when FWA European Union Championship stopped being recognised. | [2] |
| 2 | Jonny Storm | 29 July 2001 | No Surprises | Portsmouth, Hampshire | 1 | 28 | [3] | |
| 3 | Ahmed Chaer | 26 August 2001 | Broken Rulz | Essen, Germany | 1 | 6 | Chaer defeats Storm and Crazy Sexy Mike at a Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) event in a Winner Takes All Triangle Match for the wXw Highflying Trophy, FWA All-England Championship and Athletik Club Wrestling (ACW) International Championship, respectively. | [4] |
| 4 | Paul Travell | 1 September 2001 | Trick or Treat | Harrow, London | 1 | 104 | Three way match also involving Scottie Rock. | [5] |
| 5 | Mark Sloan | 14 December 2001 | Lights, Camera, Acton | Acton, London | 1 | 203 | [6] | |
| 6 | Zebra Kid | 5 July 2002 | Vendetta | Telford, Shropshire | 1 | 290(254) | [7] | |
| † | Jack Xavier | 16 March 2003 | Crunch | Broxbourne, Hertfordshire | 1 | 1 | Masked wrestler Jack Xavier defeats Zebra Kid then reveals himself to be Jack Xavier while under suspension. | [8] |
| 6 | Zebra Kid | 17 March 2003 | Live event | N/A | 2 | 290(35) | Championship returned to Zebra Kid when it is revealed that Xavier won the title while suspended. | [2] |
| 7 | Chris Hamrick | 21 April 2003 | Live event | Morecambe, Yorkshire | 1 | 5 | [9] | |
| 8 | Jonny Storm | 26 April 2003 | Live event | Sudbury, Suffolk, Suffolk | 2 | 1 | [9] | |
| 9 | Zebra Kid | 27 April 2003 | Live event | Portsmouth, Hampshire | 2(3) | 174 | [9] | |
| — | 18 October 2003 | British Uprising 2 | Bethnal Green, London | Zebra Kid forfeits the title by no-showing a scheduled title defence against Flash Barker. | [2] | |||
| 10 | Hade Vansen | 18 October 2003 | British Uprising 2 | Bethnal Green, London | 1 | 729 | Defeats Flash Barker to win the vacant title after replacing Zebra Kid. | [2] |
| 11 | Leroy Kincaide | 16 October 2005 | Hotwired | Broxbourne, Hertfordshire | 1 | 469 | FWA stopped recognising Kincaide as champion on November 19, 2006 when he sided with IPW:UK but was re-recognised for his defence against FWA wrestler Iceman | [2] |
| 12 | Iceman | 28 January 2007 | No Escape | Orpington, Kent | 1 | 56 | Defeated Kincaide in a match which FWA would only recognise if Iceman won. | [10] |
| 13 | Sam Slam | 25 March 2007 | IPW:UK vs. FWA: Final Frontiers | Orpington, Kent | 1 | 553 | Championship renamed All-England Championship when FWA closes at this event. | [11] |
| 14 | Jonny Moss | 28 September 2008 | Fourth Anniversary Tour | Wolverhampton, West Midlands | 1 | 28 | Defeated Sam Slam in the quarter-finals of the British National Championship. | [12] |
| 15 | Terry Frazier | 26 October 2008 | British National Finale | Bromley, Kent | 1 | 252 | Defeated Jonny Moss in the British National Championship final. | [13] |
| 16 | Leroy Kincaide | 5 July 2009 | Summer Sizzler | Sittingbourne, Kent | 2 | 70 | Defeats Frazier for title and contendership for the IPW:UK Championship. | [14] |
| — | Unified | 13 September 2009 | 5th Anniversary Show | Sittingbourne, Kent | — | — | Unified with IPW:UK Championship when Kincaide defeats champion Alex Shane. Loses the RPW British Heavyweight Championship to Dave Mastiff on October 21, 2010 | [2] [15] |
| 17 | Sha Samuels | 15 September 2012 | Samuels vs. Frazier 2012 | Swanley, Kent | 1 | 245 | Sometime in 2012 or 2013, Samuels claims he never unified the belts. He de-unified them to crown himself a double champ and IPW:UK Triple-Crown Champion | [2] [16] |
| 18 | Zack Sabre, Jr | 18 May 2013 | Royale Rewards 2013 | Swanley, Kent | 1 | 155 | [17] | |
| 19 | Jonny Storm | 20 October 2013 | IPW:UK vs. The LSLL #3 | Bethnal Green, London | 3 | 217 | [18] | |
| 20 | Darrell Allen | 25 May 2014 | Royale Rewards 2014 | Tonbridge, Kent | 1 | 175 | Defeats Storm in the semi-finals of the British National Championship. | [2] [19] |
| 21 | RJ Singh | 16 November 2014 | Unfinished Business 2014 | Snodland, Kent | 1 | 55 | [20] | |
| — | 10 January 2015 | Weekend of Champions Night 1 | Tonbridge, Kent | Vacated due to RJ Singh retiring. | [2] [21] | |||
| 22 | Grado | 15 March 2015 | Battle Royale 2015 | Tonbridge, Kent | 1 | <1 | Won a 30 man battle royal for the vacant title. | [2] [22] |
| 23 | Jimmy Havoc | 15 March 2015 | Battle Royale 2015 | Tonbridge, Kent | 1 | 188 | Defeated Bad Bones on August 9, 2015 to win the IPW:UK World Championship as it was a title vs. title match. | [2] [22] |
| 24 | Sammy Smooth | 19 September 2015 | Future 8 2015 | Tonbridge, Kent | 1 | 399 | IPW:UK World Championship was not on-the-line. | [2] [23] |
| 25 | Scott Star | 22 October 2016 | Future 8 2016 | Selsdon, Surrey | 1 | 2,132 | ||
| 26 | Earl Black Jr. | 23 July 2017 | Supershow 10 | Rochester, Kent | 1 | 61 | Won an 8-man "Super Scrum" against Scott Star, Adam Maxted, El Phantasmo, Jonathan Windsor, Sammy Smooth, Sid Scala, and Spud. | [2] |
| 27 | Adam Flex Maxted | 22 September 2017 | Inception | Canterbury, Kent | 1 | 152 | ||
| 28 | Sha Samuels | 21 February 2018 | IPW Parade of Champions 2018 | Milton Keynes | 2 | 25 | Won during an open challenge for the title. | [ [24] |
| — | 18 March 2018 | IPW:UK Clapham Calling 2018 | St. John's Hill, London | Title was vacated due to Sha Samuels' inability to make the show due to travel issues. | [25] | |||
| 29 | Mark Haskins | 18 March 2018 | IPW Clapham Calling 2018 | St. John's Hill, London | 1 | 42 | Haskins was scheduled to face Samuels for the All-England title. However, Samuels was stripped of the title due to an inability to defend. TK Cooper challenged Haskins for the vacant title, which Haskins won | [25] |
| — | Unified | 29 April 2018 | IPW:UK Battle Royale 2018 | Rochester, Kent | — | — | Haskins went into his IPW:UK Championship match as reigning All-England champion. Both titles were on the line. He defeated Austin Aries, thus winning the title and unifying both championships as the Undisputed IPW World Championship | [26] |
| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hade Vansen | 1 | 729 |
| 2 | Sam Slam | 1 | 553 |
| 3 | Leroy Kincaide | 2 | 539 |
| 4 | Sammy Smooth | 2 | 462 |
| 5 | Zebra Kid | 3 | 461 |
| 6 | Sha Samuels | 2 | 270 |
| 7 | Terry Frazier | 1 | 252 |
| 8 | Jonny Storm | 1 | 245 |
| 9 | Scott Star | 2 | 211 |
| 10 | Mark Sloan | 1 | 203 |
| 11 | Jimmy Havoc | 1 | 188 |
| 12 | Darrell Allen | 1 | 175 |
| 13 | Zack Sabre Jr. | 1 | 155 |
| 14 | Adam Maxted | 1 | 152 |
| 15 | Paul Travell | 1 | 104 |
| 16 | Earl Black Jr. | 1 | 61 |
| 17 | Iceman | 1 | 56 |
| 18 | RJ Singh | 1 | 55 |
| 19 | Mark Haskins | 1 | 42 |
| 20 | Johnny Moss | 1 | 28 |
| 21 | Scottie Rock | 1 | 20 |
| 22 | Ahmed Chaer | 1 | 7 |
| 23 | Chris Hamrick | 1 | 5 |
| 24 | Jack Xavier | 1 | 3 |
| 25 | Grado | 1 | <1 |
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