OMEGA Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | August 2, 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Matt Hardy | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | November 21, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The OMEGA Heavyweight Championship is the top singles title in the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA) independent professional wrestling promotion. The title's original run lasted from 1997 to 2000, before being recommissioned at OMEGA's Night of a Champion on February 28, 2015, crowning Jeff Hardy as the first champion since 2000. [1]
No. | Order in reign history |
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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 |
# | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes |
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1 | Sweet Dreamz | 1 | August 2, 1997 | 125 | Southern Pines, NC | N/A | Defeated Surge in a tournament final to become the first champion. |
— | Vacated | — | December 5, 1997 | — | N/A | N/A | |
2 | Surge | 1 | December 5, 1997 | 365 | Southern Pines, NC | OMEGA Christmas Combat | Defeated Rick Michaels for the vacated title. |
— | Vacated | — | December 5, 1998 | — | N/A | N/A | |
3 | Venom | 1 | December 5, 1998 | 208 – 238 | Durham, NC | N/A | Defeated Cham-Pain for the vacated title. |
4 | Cham-Pain | 1 | July 1999 | 157 – 127 | Beulaville, NC | OMEGA | |
— | Vacated | — | December 5, 1999 | — | N/A | N/A | |
5 | Steve Corino | 1 | December 1, 2000 | 0 | Southern Pines, NC | OMEGA Reunion Show | [2] |
— | Deactivated | — | December 1, 2000 | — | N/A | N/A | Title deactivated due to OMEGA Championship Wrestling closing. |
6 | Jeff Hardy | 1 | February 28, 2015 | 63 | Durham, NC | OMEGA Night Of A Champion | Defeated Matt Hardy, C. W. Anderson, Tommy Dreamer, Trevor Lee and Caprice Coleman to reintroduce the title. |
— | Vacated | — | May 2, 2015 | — | N/A | N/A | Title vacated due to Hardy suffering a broken leg. |
7 | Trevor Lee | 1 | May 2, 2015 | 203 | Cameron, NC | OMEGA Chaos In Cameron II | Defeated C. W. Anderson and Matt Hardy to win the vacant title. |
8 | Matt Hardy | 2 | November 21, 2015 | 2,447 | Cameron, NC | OMEGA Loco In Joco 3 | |
As of August3, 2022.
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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1 | Matt Hardy/Surge † | 2 | 2812+ |
2 | Venom | 1 | 208-238 |
3 | Trevor Lee | 203 | |
4 | Cham-Pain | 127-157 | |
5 | Sweet Dreamz | 125 | |
6 | Jeff Hardy | 63 | |
7 | Steve Corino | <1 |
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