IPWA was founded on October 17, 2001 by Gery Roif and ran a few exhibition matches on national TV before holding the initial Summer Splash event in summer 2002.[1] Roif was crowned its first champion after defeating Texas Wrestling Academy graduate Joey "The MOALM" Tylec in a televised match in the summer of 2003.[2]
Subsequently, the IPWA gained a fair amount of recognition worldwide;[where?] toward the end of 2003 Total Wrestling magazine[who?] started publishing its rankings on a monthly basis. Summer Splash 3 in 2004 featured FWA star Aviv Maayan making a one-night appearance to team up with Hawaii Allen and take on Jumping Lee and Yossi The Bull with Joey Tylec finally defeating Gery Roif to win the IPWA title.
In 2005 almost the entire IPWA roster starred in a wrestling/social satire sitcom series "Makkat Medina" ("The Land Under Attack"), gaining further recognition in Israel. Both Kevin Von Erich and Bret Hart visited the crew during taping. In the beginning of 2006, the IPWA Wrestlenovella event was aired on The Wrestling Channel. In June 2009, the promotion had an event that got aired on the local Ego Total channel under the title of Israeli Wrestling. In the summer of 2011 Rabbi Swissa defeated Israel's Survivor reality show winner, Nathan Bashevkin.
In 2011 the promotion ran a series of monthly events, from "Makat Shemesh" at June to "Makot Besukut" at November.
On August 16, 2012 Tatanka main evented the Wrestling Super Show as he defeated Rabbi Swissa to win the IPWA Heavyweight Championship. Two months later the match was shown on Israeli sport channel ONE.
On 26 August 2019, IPWA put on their second return event, IPWA Wrestling Party. It was held at Berale in Lehavot Haviva and drew approximately 80 people.
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Hadar Horovitz and Guy Landau defeated The Leopards (The Black Leopard and The White Leopard)
On 15 December 2019, IPWA put on their third return event, IPWA Cinema City Wrestling. It was held at Cinema City in Ramat Hasharon and drew over 300 people.
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Tal Bar On defeated Shay Blanco, Black Leopard, Ori Gold, Amit Magnezi
On 13 June 2022, IPWA put on their fourth return event, IPWA WrestleMitzvah. Just like the last event, It was also held at Cinema City in Ramat Hasharon and drew over 300 people.[9]
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Oscar Vice & Tye Clodd defeated White Leopard and Guy Landau
On 26 November 2025, IPWA held an event called IPWA Wrestling in the Kibbutz. It was also held at the dining room of Kibbutz Shefayim and drew 370 people. The event was produced by Yuval Goldshmit, who was born in the kibbutz. He was scheduled to compete for the IPWA championship, but suffered a legitimate injury.
The IPWA Heavyweight Championship is the only professional wrestlingchampionship in the Israeli Pro Wrestling Association promotion. At the end of 2002, Israeli professional wrestler Gery Roif announced a match between himself and Joey "The Moalm" Tylec to determine the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion. The current champion is Avizov, who is in his first reign.
From the IPWA Heavyweight Championship's inception in 2003,[10] there have been thirteen different title holders, combining for eighteen championship reigns.[11]
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