WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship
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The WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship (sometimes called the WCPW Brass Knuckles Championship) was a professional wrestling
Hardcore
Championship
contested for in Windy City Pro Wrestling
(WCPW). It was defended in the promotion from 1999 until 2008 when it was merged with the WCPW Heavyweight
and League Championships
to create a unified "WCPW World Heavyweight Championship".
The inaugural champion was Turbo, who won the title at the 11th annual Battle of the Belts supercard
in Chicago, Illinois
on May 22, 1999 to become the first WCPW Bare Knuckles Champion. Vito Fontaine, DOC, and Mike Anthony are tied for the record for most reigns, with two each. At 736 days, Fontaine's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Austin Roberts's only reign was the shortest in the history of the title. He defeated the last champion, Acid Jaz, on May 17, 2008 at Battle of the Belts 20 to unify the Bare Knuckles, Heavyweight and League titles. Overall, there have been 11 reigns shared between 14 wrestlers, with three vacancies, and 1 deactivation.
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Hardcore
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Championship
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contested for in Windy City Pro Wrestling
Windy City Pro Wrestling
Windy City Pro Wrestling was an American regional professional wrestling promotion based in Chicago, Illinois. Established by retired wrestler Sam DeCero in 1988, the promotion was one of several major regional territories in the Midwest during the late 1980s, along with Dick the Bruiser's World...
(WCPW). It was defended in the promotion from 1999 until 2008 when it was merged with the WCPW Heavyweight
WCPW Heavyweight Championship
The WCPW Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in Windy City Pro Wrestling . It was the original top singles championship for the promotion before the creation of the WCPW League Championship in 1993 and its incorporation into the then newly created...
and League Championships
WCPW League Championship
The WCPW League Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in Windy City Pro Wrestling . It replaced the WCPW Heavyweight Championship as the promotion's main singles title in 1993, following the creation of its weight-class division, and continued to be defended until 2008...
to create a unified "WCPW World Heavyweight Championship".
The inaugural champion was Turbo, who won the title at the 11th annual Battle of the Belts supercard
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in Chicago, Illinois
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on May 22, 1999 to become the first WCPW Bare Knuckles Champion. Vito Fontaine, DOC, and Mike Anthony are tied for the record for most reigns, with two each. At 736 days, Fontaine's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Austin Roberts's only reign was the shortest in the history of the title. He defeated the last champion, Acid Jaz, on May 17, 2008 at Battle of the Belts 20 to unify the Bare Knuckles, Heavyweight and League titles. Overall, there have been 11 reigns shared between 14 wrestlers, with three vacancies, and 1 deactivation.
Title history
Key| # | 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 |
|---|---|
| WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship | 1999 — 2010 |
Reigns
| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The championship is vacated when Turbo fails to appear for a scheduled title defense and is stripped as champion. A championship tournament is subsequently held over the next three months concluding at the 2-day "War at the World" supercard. | ||||||||
| The championship is vacated when Frankie Valiant leaves the promotion. | ||||||||
| This was an 8-man elimination match involving D.O.C., Rick Walsh, and Don Greed. | ||||||||
| Jaz won the title in the opening rounds of the Lee Sanders Memorial Tournament. | ||||||||
| This was a unification match also involving Sean Mulligan to unify the WCPW Bare Knuckles, Heavyweight, and League Championships into a unified WCPW World Heavyweight Championship. | ||||||||
| Unified with Austin Roberts' WCPW World Heavyweight Championship. |
List of combined reigns
| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day. |
| RankEach reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank. | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|