IPWA Heavyweight Championship (United States)

This article is about the heavyweight championship for the Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance. For the title used by the Israeli Pro Wrestling Association, see here.

IPWA Heavyweight Championship
Tom Brandi was the final IPWA Heavyweight Champion.
Details
Promotion	Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance
Date established	October 9, 1995
Date retired	2001
Statistics First champion(s) Cueball Carmichael Final champion(s) Tom Brandi (won August 21, 1999) Most reigns Cueball Carmichael (4) Tom Brandi (4) Longest reign Big Slam Vader (255 days) Shortest reign Lance Diamond (<1 day)

The IPWA Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in the Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance (IPWA). The inaugural champion was Cueball Carmichael, who defeated Justin St. John following a battle royal on October 9, 1995 to become the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion.

There were 10 officially recognized champions with both Carmichael and Tom Brandi winning the title a record 4-times. At 255 days, Big Slam Vader was the longest reigning champion in the title's history. A number of top independent stars held the title during its near 6-year history including Lance Diamond, "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero, and "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel.

Title history

#	Order in reign history
Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event	The event in which the title was won
—	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A	The information is not available or is unknown
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

Names

Name	Years
IPWA Heavyweight Championship	1995–2001

Reigns

#	Wrestlers	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Cueball Carmichael	1	October 9, 1995	186	Manassas, Virginia	IPWA Debut Show (1995)	Carmichael defeated Justin St. John in a singles match, after both were declared co-winners of a battle royal, to become the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2	Johnny Gunn	1	April 12, 1996	108	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event		[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
3	Cueball Carmichael	2	July 27, 1996	116	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event	This was a steel cage match.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
—	Vacated	—	November 22, 1996	—	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event	The championship is vacated when Cueball Carmichael suffers a serious injury.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
4	Big Slam Vader	1	January 19, 1997	255	Pikeville, North Carolina	Live event	Vader defeated Guido Falcone, following a battle royal, to win the vacant title.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
—	Vacated	—	October 1, 1997	—	N/A	N/A	The championship is vacated when Big Slam fails to appear for a scheduled title defense.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
5	Salvatore Sincere	2	November 6, 1997	70	N/A	Live event	Sincere defeated Jimmy Cicero in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [7]
—	Vacated	—	January 15, 1998	—	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event	The championship is vacated when Salvatore Sincere leaves the promotion to join the World Wrestling Federation.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
6	Cueball Carmichael	3	January 15, 1998	35	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event	Carmichael defeated Christian York in a singles match, after both were declared co-winners of a 12-man battle royal, to win the vacant title.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
7	Lance Diamond	1	February 19, 1998	<1	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event	This was a 6-man tag team elimination match with Christian York and Steve Corino against Cueball Carmichael, Jimmy Cicero, and Julio Sanchez.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [8]
8	Jimmy Cicero	1	February 19, 1998	114	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event	Cicero pinned Lance Diamond in the final fall winning both the 6-man tag team match and the IPWA Heavyweight Championship.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [8]
9	Buddy Landel	1	June 13, 1998	210	Alexandria, Virginia	Live event		[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [9] [10]
—	Vacated	—	January 9, 1999	—	Chincoteague, Virginia	Live event	The championship is vacated when Buddy Landel fails to appear for a scheduled title defence against Tom Brandi and is stripped of the title.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
10	Tom Brandi	3	January 9, 1999	205	Chincoteague, Virginia	Live event	Brandi defeated Corporal Punishment to win the vacant championship.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [11]
10	Cueball Carmichael	4	August 2, 1999	19	Clifton, New Jersey	Live event		[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
10	Tom Brandi	4	August 21, 1999	N/A	Chincoteague, Virginia	Live event		[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
—	Deactivated	—	2001	—	N/A	N/A	The IPWA ceases promoting events and closes in the spring of 2001.

List of combined reigns

Cueball Carmichael, who was the longest-reigning IPWA Heavyweight Champion

<1	Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.

Rank [N 1]	Wrestler	# of reigns	Combined days
1	Tom Brandi	4	255
2	Cueball Carmichael	4	356
3	Big Slam Vader	1	255
4	Buddy Landel	1	210
5	Jimmy Cicero	1	114
6	Lance Diamond	1	<1

Explanatory footnotes

1. Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.

References

1. Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance (1997). "History of the IPWA Heavyweight Title". Title History. ITSCwrestling.com. Archived from the original on February 11, 2001. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
2. Westcott, Brian (1998). "IPWA Heavyweight Title History". Solie's Title Histories. Solie.org . Retrieved November 8, 2011.
3. Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN   0-9698161-5-4.
4. "IPWA Heavyweight Title". Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance. WrestlingData.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
5. "IPWA Heavyweight Championship". Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance. Cagematch.de. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
6. DiMuzio, Michael J. "Arena Reports: North Carolina - IPWA at the Charles B. Aycock High School." Pro Wrestling Illustrated . June 1997: 65+.
7. Russel, Paul. "Arena Reports: Virginia - IPWA at Secret Cove Restaurant." Pro Wrestling Illustrated . April 1998: 51+.
8. Walker, Timothy A. "Arena Reports: Virginia - IPWA at Secret Cove." Pro Wrestling Illustrated . August 1998: 73+.
9. Landel, Buddy (1998-06-13). "The Night I Won The IPWA World Heavyweight Title - 6/13/98". Buddy Landel's Picture Gallery. DDTdigest.com. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
10. Walker, Timothy A. and Jeff Amdur. "Arena Reports: Virginia - IPWA at Secret Cove." Pro Wrestling Illustrated . December 1998: 51+.
11. Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance (1999). "IPWA Results - 9 January, 1999". Results. ITSCwrestling.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2000. Retrieved November 10, 2011.

External links

• Official website