WWA Heavyweight Championship (Massachusetts)

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WWA Heavyweight Championship
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Promotion World Wrestling Alliance
Date establishedJune 16, 2000
Date retiredNovember 13, 2010

The WWA Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in the World Wrestling Alliance (WWA). It remained active until November 13, 2010, when the WWA held its final show.

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The inaugural champion was "The Graduate" Timothy McNeany, who defeated Mike Steele and Kevin Kelley in a three-way ladder match on June 16, 2000, to become the first WWA Heavyweight Champion. McNeany holds the record for most reigns, with three. At 518 days, Anthony "Prime Time" Sparta's first and only reign is the longest in the title's history. Both Aaron Stevens and Damien HS Darling have the shortest reigns in the history of the title each lasting only one day. Overall, there have been 14 reigns shared between 10 wrestlers, with three vacancies, and 1 deactivation.

Title history

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

Names

NameYears
WWA Heavyweight Championship2000 — 2009
WWS Heavyweight Championship2009 — 2010
WWA Heavyweight Championship2010

Reigns

#WrestlersReignDateDays
held		LocationEventNotesRef.
1Timothy McNeany1June 16, 2000127 Whitman, Massachusetts Live event McNeany defeated Mike Steele and Kevin Kelley in a three-way ladder match to become the first WWA Heavyweight Champion. [1]
2 Big Dick Dudley 1October 21, 2000132 Brockton, Massachusetts Live event [1]
3Timothy McNeany2March 2, 20011 Quincy, Massachusetts Live event [1]
4Big Dick Dudley2March 3, 200162 Rockland, Maine Live event [1]
— Vacated —May 4, 2001—N/AN/A
5Timothy McNeany3November 23, 2001204 Leominster, Massachusetts Live event McNeaney defeated "Diamond" Dave Donovan to win the vacant title. [1]
6Fred Curry, Jr.1June 15, 2002209 Quincy, Massachusetts Live event [2]
7 Danny Davis 1January 10, 2003133 Norwood, Massachusetts Live event [3] [4]
8 Aaron Stevens 1May 23, 20031 Canton, Massachusetts Live event [5] [6]
9Jonah1May 24, 200363 Natick, Massachusetts Live event Fellow Tough Enough 3 participant Nick counted the pinfall when referee Sal Giliberto was knocked out. [5] [7]
10 Al Snow 1July 26, 2003N/A Worcester, Massachusetts Live event [8]
— Vacated —2003—N/AN/A
11Josh Daniels1February 2, 2007N/A Quincy, Massachusetts Live event Daniels defeated Nick Berk in a ladder match to win the vacant title. [9]
12Danny Davis2June 2007N/AN/A Live event
— Vacated —June 2009—N/AN/A
13Damien HS Darling1June 12, 20091 Bridgewater, Massachusetts Live event Darling defeated Danny Davis and Spike Dudley in a Triple Threat match to win the vacant title. [10]
14Anthony Sparta1June 13, 2009518 Rockland, Massachusetts Live event On September 25, 2009, the title was renamed the WWS Heavyweight Championship when the promotion changed its name to World Wrestling Stars. [11]
— Deactivated —November 13, 2010— Taunton, Massachusetts Live event WWA closed on November 13, 2010, and Sparta was the final champion in WWA as a company.

List of combined reigns

<1Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.
Rank [N 1] Wrestler# of reignsCombined days
1 Danny Davis 2775+
2Anthony Sparta1518
3Timothy McNeany3332
4 Jimmy Cicero 2310
5Fred Curry, Jr.1209
6 Big Dick Dudley 2194
7Josh Daniels1128+
8Jonah163
9 Aaron Stevens 11
10Damien HS Darling11

Footnotes

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

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