CZW World Heavyweight Championship

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CZW World Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion Combat Zone Wrestling
Date establishedMarch 27, 1999 [1] [2]
Current champion(s)Eran Ashe
Date wonMay 5, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s) Nick Gage [1] [2]
Most reigns John Zandig (6 reigns) [1]
Longest reign Joe Gacy (718 days)
Shortest reign John Zandig, Nick Berk, Yoshihiro Tajiri, David Starr, Anthony Greene and Joe Gacy (<1 day) [1]
Oldest champion BLK Jeez (35 years, 233 days)
Youngest champion Nick Gage (18 years, 186 days)
Heaviest champion John Zandig (256 lb (116 kg))
Lightest champion Lio Rush (161 lb (73 kg))

The CZW World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the professional wrestling promotion Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). It debuted on March 27, 1999 at CZW's The Staple Gun event. [1]

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The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, often with hardcore (or "ultraviolent", as CZW generally terms it) stipulations. There have been a total of 58 reigns among 36 different wrestlers. [1] The current champion is Eran Ashe who is in his first reign.

History

Background

The championship was created and debuted on March 27, 1999 at CZW's The Staple Gun event, where Nick Gage defeated 20 other men in a battle royal to become the first champion. [1] [2] The championship has been defended and lost in countries other than the United States multiple times. The first time it changed hands on foreign soil was on April 15, 2001, when Wifebeater defeated John Zandig for the championship in Birmingham, England at a live event. [1] Even though the CZW World Heavyweight Championship is supposed to only be eligible to "heavyweights" (wrestlers who weigh more than 220 lb (100 kg)), multiple lower-class wrestlers have held the championship. Wrestlers such as John Silver, Drake Younger, Nick Gage, Nick Berk, and Yoshihiro Tajiri are a few who have been storyline exceptions. [1]

Belt design

Super Dragon as CZW World Heavyweight Champion Super Dragon 4.jpg
Super Dragon as CZW World Heavyweight Champion

The championship's current design involves five metal plates positioned on a leather strap. The central plate has the word "World" at the top, while the word "Champion" at the bottom. There are two light tubes that are placed at each end of the plate. The CZW logo is engraved at the very center of the plate.

Reigns

The inaugural champion was Gage, who won the championship by defeating 20 other men in a battle royal on March 27, 1999 at CZW's The Staple Gun event. [1] [2] Joey Gacy's third reign is the longest in the title's history. John Zandig, Nick Berk, Yoshihiro Tajiri, Gacy and David Starr are tied for shortest in the title's history at less than 1 day. [1] Zandig holds the record for most reigns, with six. [1]

Footnotes

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "CZW World Heavyweight Championship reign history". CZWrestling.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Combat Zone Wrestling show archives (1999)". CZWrestling.com. Archived from the original on 2016-01-10. Retrieved 2009-05-27.

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