UWC Heavyweight Championship

UWC Heavyweight Championship
Details
Current champion(s) "Textbook" Philly Madison
Date won March 21, 2015
Date established March 21, 1998
Promotion United Wrestling Coalition

The United Wrestling Coalition (UWC) Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship in the American independent professional wrestling promotion United Wrestling Coalition. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won via direct competition; it is instead won via a predetermined ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a wrestling angle. It became an official title on March 21, 1998 when Derik Starr became the first champion. The current champion is "Textbook" Philly Madison and is in his first reign as champion. There have been 25 reigns by 21 wrestlers and four vacancies.

Title lineage

As of April 15, 2016

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
— 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 title change is not recognized by UWC
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Wrestlers Reign Date Days
held		 Successful title defenses Location Notes
1 Derik Starr 1 March 21, 1998 84 3 Browns Mills, NJ Won a 20-man battle royal to become the first champion.
2 Warhead 1 June 13, 1998 175 2 Pemberton, NJ
— Vacated — December 5, 1998 — N/A Pemberton, NJ Vacated when Warhead suffers an injury and cannot defend the title
3 Cannon 1 December 5, 1998 161 4 Pemberton, NJ Won a battle royal for the vacant title
4 Tommy Force 1 May 15, 1999 245 2 Yardville, NJ
5 Tundra 1 January 15, 2000 113 1 Mount Holly, NJ Defeated Rick Silver, who was defending the title for Tommy Force
6 Billy Lassiter 1 May 7, 2000 209 3 Pemberton, NJ
7 Twiggy Ramirez 1 December 2, 2000 364 2 Pemberton, NJ Won in a three way match that also included Dr. Hurtz
8 Bobby Piper 1 December 1, 2001 1099 6 Pemberton, NJ Won in a tag team match teaming with Ripper against Twiggy Ramirez and Orphan
9 Orphan 1 December 4, 2004 371 0 Pemberton, NJ Won in a three way match that also included Billy Lassiter
10 Reckless Youth 1 December 10, 2005 728 3 Pemberton, NJ
— Vacated — December 8, 2007 — N/A Pemberton, NJ Vacated when Reckless Youth cannot make a title defense
11 Joe Rules 1 December 8, 2007 0 0 Pemberton, NJ Awards self the title as UWC Commissioner after winning a six person tag team match teaming with Taylor Nicole and Della Morte against Ernie Osiris, Kory Castle, and Roxie Cotton
— Vacated — December 8, 2007 — N/A Pemberton, NJ Vacated when Joe Rules is fired as UWC Commissioner and stripped of the title
12 Don Montoya 1 December 8, 2007 728 2 Pemberton, NJ Won vacant title in a tag match, teaming with Kyle Durden against Raven and Alex Payne
13 Section 8 1 December 5, 2009 0 0 Pemberton, NJ
— Vacated — December 5, 2009 — N/A Pemberton, NJ Section 8 retires after winning the title
14 Legion 1 January 16, 2010 119 3 Browns Mills, NJ Defeats Twiggy Ramirez and Rudo the Heel in a tournament final
15 Biggie Biggs 1 May 15, 2010 42 0 Browns Mills, NJ
16 Twiggy Ramirez 2 June 26, 2010 161 3 Browns Mills, NJ
17 Biggie Biggs 2 December 4, 2010 182 6 Pemberton, NJ Won in a three way match that also included Reckless Youth
18 Geoffrey Bravo 1 June 4, 2011 182 3 Browns Mills, NJ
19 Silly Billy 1 December 3, 2011 161 2 Pemberton, NJ
20 Big Rig 1 May 12, 2012 203 3 Browns Mills, NJ
21 Geoffrey Bravo 2 December 1, 2012 287 3 Browns Mills, NJ
22 Vinny DeMarco 1 September 14, 2013 273 4 Browns Mills, NJ Won in a three way match that also included Twiggy Ramirez.
23 Ryan Haston 1 June 14, 2014 224 3 Browns Mills, NJ
24 Serious William 2 January 24, 2015 56 0 New Egypt, NJ Formerly known as Silly Billy.
25 "Textbook" Philly Madison 1 March 21, 2015 391+ 6 New Egypt, NJ

List of combined reigns

As of April 15, 2016

† Indicates the current champions
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
<1 Indicates that the combined total is less than one day.
Rank Wrestler # Of Reigns Combined Days Total Title Defenses
1 Bobby Piper 1 1099 6
2 Reckless Youth 1 728 3
Don Montoya 1 728 2
4 Twiggy Ramirez 2 525 5
5 Geoffrey Bravo 2 469 6
6 "Textbook" Philly Madison 1 391+ 6
7 Orphan 1 371 0
8 Vinny DeMarco 1 273 4
9 Tommy Force 1 245 2
10 Biggie Biggs 2 224 6
Ryan Haston 1 224 3
12 Silly Billy/Serious William 2 217 2
13 Billy Lassiter 1 209 3
14 Big Rig 1 203 3
15 Warhead 1 175 2
16 Cannon 1 161 4
17 Legion 1 119 3
18 Tundra 1 113 1
19 Derik Starr 1 84 1
20 Section 8 1 <1 0
Joe Rules 1 <1 0

See also

References

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