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Promotion | Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date established | December 12, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date retired | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The CZW Wired Championship was a professional wrestling world television championship in the Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) promotion.
Throughout the championship's history, there were 28 reigns between 20 champions. The inaugural champion was Tyler Veritas. The oldest champion was Blackwater, winning the title at 33 years old, while the youngest champion was Jordan Oliver when he won it at 19. A. R. Fox, Joe Gacy and Joey Janela were tied for the most reigns at three. Drew Gulak's sole reign was the longest reign at 429 days, while Ace Austin' reign was the shortest at 1 day.
First Round September 12 | Semifinals November 14 [3] | Finals December 12 [4] | ||||||||||||
Drew Gulak | Pin | |||||||||||||
Ryan Slater | [1] | |||||||||||||
Drew Gulak | [3] | |||||||||||||
Tyler Veritas | Pin | |||||||||||||
LJ Cruz | [1] | |||||||||||||
Tyler Veritas | Pin | |||||||||||||
Tyler Veritas | Pin | |||||||||||||
Adam Cole | [4] | |||||||||||||
Adam Cole | Pin | |||||||||||||
Alex Colon | [2] | |||||||||||||
Adam Cole | Pin | |||||||||||||
Rich Swann | [3] | |||||||||||||
Joe Gacy | [2] | |||||||||||||
Rich Swann | Pin |
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
1 | Tyler Veritas | December 12, 2009 | Cage Of Death XI | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 119 | Defeated Adam Cole in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. | [4] |
2 | Drew Gulak | April 10, 2010 | Swingin For The Fences | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 429 | [5] | |
3 | A. R. Fox | June 13, 2011 | Prelude To Violence 2 | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 26 | [6] | |
4 | Jake Crist | July 9, 2011 | New Heights | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 280 | [7] | |
5 | Dave Crist | April 14, 2012 | CZW Best of the Best 11 | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 147 | [8] | |
6 | A. R. Fox | September 8, 2012 | Down with the Sickness | Voorhees, NJ | 2 | 371 | This was a Chri$ Ca$h Memorial title unification ladder match, in which Fox also defended his CZW Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [9] |
7 | Alex Colon | September 14, 2013 | Down With The Sickness | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 119 | This was a Chri$ Ca$h Memorial four way ladder match, also involving Andrew Everett and Shane Strickland. | [10] |
8 | Devon Moore | January 11, 2014 | Answering The Challenge | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 56 | [11] | |
9 | Shane Strickland | March 8, 2014 | High Stakes 5 | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 144 | [12] | |
10 | Joe Gacy | July 30, 2014 | Dojo Wars | Blackwood, NJ | 1 | 14 | [13] | |
11 | Shane Strickland | August 13, 2014 | Dojo Wars 7 | Blackwood, NJ | 2 | 122 | [14] | |
12 | Joe Gacy | December 13, 2014 | Cage of Death XVI | Voorhees, NJ | 2 | 200 | [15] | |
13 | Frankie Pickard | July 1, 2015 | Dojo Wars 34 | Blackwood, NJ | 1 | 7 | [16] | |
14 | Joe Gacy | July 8, 2015 | Dojo Wars 35 | Blackwood, NJ | 3 | 3 | [17] | |
15 | Tim Donst | July 11, 2015 | New Heights | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 91 | [18] | |
16 | Joey Janela | October 10, 2015 | Tangled Web 8 | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 63 | [19] | |
17 | Lio Rush | December 12, 2015 | Cage of Death XVII | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 63 | [20] | |
18 | Joey Janela | February 13, 2016 | Seventeen | Voorhees, NJ | 2 | 42 | Defeated Rush in a two out of three falls match. | [21] |
19 | Lio Rush | March 26, 2016 | Proving Grounds 2016 | Voorhees, NJ | 2 | 168 | Won title in a four-way match also involving Dave Crist and David Starr. | [22] |
20 | Joey Janela | September 10, 2016 | Down With The Sickness | Voorhees, NJ | 3 | 197 | This was a ladder match. | [23] |
21 | YUMA | March 26, 2017 | Championship Wrestling From Hollywood | Port Hueneme, CA | 1 | 48 | Won title at Championship Wrestling From Hollywood taping. | [24] |
22 | Maxwell Jacob Friedman | May 13, 2017 | Sacrifices | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 336 | Joey Janela defeated MJF at CZW The Wolf of Wrestling 2018 on October 14th. MJF defeats Joey Janela at CZW Cage of Death 19 on December 9th, 2018. By virtue of the victory, Janela's victory and Wired Title win were voided leaving MJF still undefeated. | [25] |
— | Vacated | April 14, 2018 | Best of The Best 17 | Sewell, NJ | — | — | Stripped of the title by D.J. Hyde due to throwing the belt to the ground. | [26] |
23 | Zachary Wentz | May 12, 2018 | Prelude To Violence | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 118 | Defeated Alex Reynolds, John Silver and Wheeler Yuta in a four-way elimination match to win the vacant title. | [27] |
24 | Ace Austin | September 7, 2018 | Rockstar Pro Weekend At Murray's | Dayton, OH | 1 | 1 | This was a three-way match also contested for Austin's PWR Scramble Title and Alex Colon's DTU Alto Impacto Title. | [28] |
25 | Blackwater | September 8, 2018 | Down With The Sickness | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 35 | This was a four-way match also involving Jordan Oliver and KC Navarro. | [29] |
26 | Jordan Oliver | October 13, 2018 | Better Than Our Best | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | 427 | [30] | |
27 | A. R. Fox | December 14, 2019 | Cage Of Death XXI | Voorhees, NJ | 3 | 56 | [31] | |
28 | KC Navarro | February 8, 2020 | 21st Anniversary | Voorhees, NJ | 1 | [32] | ||
— | 2021 | — | — |
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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1 | A. R. Fox | 3 | 453 |
2 | Drew Gulak | 1 | 429 |
3 | Jordan Oliver | 1 | 427 |
4 | Maxwell Jacob Friedman | 1 | 336 |
5 | Joey Janela | 3 | 302 |
6 | Jake Crist | 1 | 280 |
7 | Shane Strickland | 2 | 266 |
8 | Lio Rush | 2 | 231 |
9 | Joe Gacy | 3 | 217 |
10 | Dave Crist | 1 | 147 |
11 | Alex Colon | 1 | 119 |
Tyler Veritas | 1 | 119 | |
13 | Zachary Wentz | 1 | 118 |
14 | Tim Donst | 1 | 91 |
15 | Devon Moore | 1 | 56 |
16 | YUMA | 1 | 48 |
17 | Blackwater | 1 | 35 |
18 | Frankie Pickard | 1 | 7 |
19 | Ace Austin | 1 | 1 |
20 | KC Navarro | 1 | – |
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