WCPW Heavyweight Championship - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The WCPW Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

heavyweight championship 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 the original top singles championship for the promotion before the creation of the WCPW League Championship

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...

in 1993 and its incorporation into the then newly created weight-class division as a legitimate heavyweight

Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...

title (over 240 lbs). It was eventually unified with the Bare Knuckles

WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship

The WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship was a professional wrestling Hardcore Championship contested for in Windy City Pro Wrestling...

and League Championships to create the "WCPW World Heavyweight Championship".

The inaugural champion was "Mr. Electric" Steve Regal

Steve Regal

Steve Regal is a former professional wrestler, better known as "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal, who competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance and the American Wrestling Association during the early 1970s and 1980s.-Professional wrestling career:Born in Ft...

, who won the title in Chicago, Illinois

Chicago

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on April 13, 1988 to become the first WCW Heavyweight Champion. Sean Mulligan holds the record for most reigns, with four. At 1,092 days, Ripper Manson's first and only reign is the longest in the title's history. He is the only wrestler in the promotion's history to retire as champion. Mulligan's second reign was the shortest in the history of the title as it was returned to him on the same night as he lost it. Overall, there have been 25 reigns shared between 17 wrestlers, with four 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
WCW Heavyweight Championship	1988 — 1996
WCPW Heavyweight Championship	1997 — 2008
WCPW World (Unified) Heavyweight Championship	2008 — 2010

Reigns

#	Wrestlers	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.

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Larry Zbyszko

Lawrence "Larry" Whistler is a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko is perhaps best known for his feud with his mentor, wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino during the early 1980s....

WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship

The WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship was a professional wrestling Hardcore Championship contested for in Windy City Pro Wrestling...

and League Championships

WCPW League Championship

Sam DeCero

Samuel "Sam" DeCero is a retired American professional wrestler, manager, trainer and promoter. He was one-half of the Maxx Brothers, also known as the Wild or World Warriors, with Mad Maxx who together competed in the American Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Association, winning the...

Kayfabe

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Psycho strips all champions of their titles.
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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

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