Chaotic Wrestling Light Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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Promotion | Chaotic Wrestling | ||||||||||
Date established | April 21, 2001 | ||||||||||
Date retired | February 16, 2002 | ||||||||||
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The Chaotic Wrestling (CW) Light Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling title in American independent promotion Chaotic Wrestling. The title was first won by Short Sleeve Sampson in Andover, Massachusetts on April 21, 2001. There have been a total of 4 recognized individual champions, who have had a combined 4 official reigns. [1] [2] On February 16, 2002, after being unified with the CW Television Championship, Dukes Dalton retires both titles after winning the New England Championship.
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 | Short Sleeve Sampson | April 21, 2001 | N/A | Andover, Massachusetts | 1 | 34 | Awarded the title. | |
2 | Skunk O'Mally | May 25, 2001 | N/A | Lawrence, Massachusetts | 1 | <1 | ||
3 | Arch Kincaid | May 25, 2001 | N/A | Lawrence, Massachusetts | 1 | 203 | ||
4 | Dukes Dalton | December 14, 2001 | N/A | Lawrence, Massachusetts | 1 | 64 | [3] | |
— | Unified | February 16, 2002 | — | Lawrence, Massachusetts | — | — | Defeated R. J. Brewer to unify the title with the Television Championship and immediately both titles are retired after Dalton wins the New England Championship. |
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