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Promotion | NWA Shockwave | ||||||||||||
Date established | October 19, 2002 | ||||||||||||
Date retired | 2007 | ||||||||||||
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CSWF Internet Championship NWA: Cyberspace Internet Championship | |||||||||||||
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The NWA Shockwave Internet Championship was a professional wrestling Internet/television championship in NWA Shockwave (NWA-SW) and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). It was the original title of the CyberSpace Wrestling Federation promotion and was later recognized by the NWA as a regional title. It was introduced as the CSWF Internet Championship on October 19, 2002. It was established as an NWA heavyweight championship in 2005 following the promotion's admission into the NWA. The promotion became NWA: Cyberspace, and later NWA Shockwave, with the title remaining active until the promotion's close in 2007.
The inaugural champion was Billy Firehawk, who won a 15-man Rumble Royale on October 19, 2002 to become the first CSWF Heavyweight Champion. There were 8 officially recognized champions, however only two men, Josh Daniels and Papadon, held the belt more than once. Daniels also held the record as the longest reigning champion at 357 days. Many then current wrestlers from Total Non-Stop Action challenged for the title while competing in the promotion; Bobby Roode held the championship in for several months in 2006. Its last champion, Papadon, held both the Internet and Heavyweight titles during the final months of its existence. [1] [2] [3]
# | 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 |
Name | Years |
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CSWF Heavyweight Championship | 2002 — 2005 |
NWA: Cyberspace Heavyweight Championship | 2005 — 2006 |
NWA Shockwave Championship | 2006 — 2007 |
# | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
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1 | Billy Firehawk | 1 | October 19, 2002 | 266 | Flemington, New Jersey | Halloween Horror (2002) | Won 15-man Rumble Royale to become the first CSWF Internet Champion. | [1] [2] [3] |
2 | Justin Powers | 1 | July 12, 2003 | 63 | Rahway, New Jersey | SummerBash (2003) | [1] [2] [3] [4] | |
— | Vacated | — | 2003 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated when Powers in unable to compete for personal reasons. | [1] [2] [3] |
3 | Mike Tobin | 1 | April 24, 2004 | 316 | Wayne, New Jersey | Retribution (2004) | Defeated Josh Daniels to win the vacant title. On January 8, 2005, the title was renamed the NWA: Cyberspace Heavyweight Championship when the promotion joins the National Wrestling Alliance. | [1] [2] [3] [5] |
4 | Josh Daniels | 1 | March 6, 2005 | 377 | Wayne | Live event | Defeated Darkbird to win the vacant title. On January 8, 2005, the title was renamed the NWA: Cyberspace Heavyweight Championship when the promotion joins the National Wrestling Alliance. | [1] [3] [5] [6] [7] |
5 | Bobby Roode | 1 | March 18, 2006 | 64 | Deer Park, New York | CyberSpace Retribution (2005) | This was a flag match. | [1] [3] [5] [8] |
— | Vacated | — | May 21, 2006 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated when Roode wins the promotion's heavyweight title in Dover, New Jersey on March 26, 2007. The title becomes the NWA Shockwave Internet Championship when the promotion changes its name in June 2006. | [1] [3] |
10 | Papadon | 1 | January 13, 2007 | 112 | Boonton, New Jersey | Live event | This match was a four way match also involving Grim Reefer, Josh Daniels and Mike Tobin. | [1] [3] |
10 | Josh Daniels | 2 | May 5, 2007 | 28 | Clifton, New Jersey | Live event | [1] [3] | |
10 | Papadon | 2 | June 2, 2007 | N/A | Clifton | Live event | Papadon faced off against Daniels and Shockwave Heavyweight Champion Havok in a best of three falls three way dance for both belts. | [1] [3] [9] |
— | Deactivated | — | 2007 | — | N/A | N/A | NWA Shockwave ceases promoting events and closes in late 2007. | [1] [3] |
<1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day. |
Rank [N 1] | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
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1 | Josh Daniels | 2 | 357 |
2 | Mike Tobin | 1 | 337 |
3 | Justin Powers | 1 | 286 |
4 | Billy Firehawk | 1 | 266 |
5 | Papadon | 1 | 112 |
6 | Bobby Roode | 1 | 64 |
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