XPW World Heavyweight Championship
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| XPW World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | XPW | ||||||||||
| Date established | October 29, 1999 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | March 8, 2003 | ||||||||||
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The XPW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Xtreme Pro Wrestling promotion.
XPW's first World Champion was crowned in a Battle Royal match that saw Damien Steele and John Kronus as the last two remaining wrestlers compete in a single fall match for the title. Steele would win this match to become champion.
The Messiah, Sabu, Shane Douglas and Jake Lawless are the only former XPW World Heavyweight Champions who are still currently active, as the rest are either retired or have died.
[edit] Title history
| Wrestler: | Reigns: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
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| Damian Steele | 1 | October 29, 1999 | Reseda, CA | Won a battle royal, last eliminating John Kronus, to become the first champion. |
| Big Dick Dudley | 1 | December 18, 1999 | Hollywood, CA | |
| Stripped | January 29, 2000 | Hollywood, CA | Big Dick was stripped of the title when his parole officer refused to let him compete. | |
| Jake Lawless | 1 | January 29, 2000 | Hollywood, CA | Damien Steele used a chair on Michael Modest either accidentally or on purpose, giving Lawless the win. He immediately sold the XPW World Heavyweight Championship to Damian Steele following the match. |
| Damien Steele | 2 | January 29, 2000 | Hollywood, CA | Purchased the title from Lawless. |
| Chris Candido | 1 | February 26, 2000 | Hollywood, CA | Wins Falls Count Anywhere match. |
| Vacated | April 29, 2000 | Bakersfield, CA | Chris Candido no-shows. Stripped of the title after signing with World Championship Wrestling. | |
| Sabu | 1 | April 29, 2000 | Bakersfield, CA | Defeated Messiah in the finals of a one-night tournament to win the vacant title. Sabu would eventually become the longest reigning champion, holding the title for a year and a month, and the only champion that defended the title outside of the United States. |
| Messiah | 1 | May 26, 2001 | Los Angeles, CA | Defeated New Jack to win the title. New Jack was not the champion and was appointed by Josh Lazie to sub for Sabu, who was the champion and was not present at the event. |
| Stripped | August 25, 2001 | Los Angeles, CA | Messiah was stripped of the title after being fired from XPW. | |
| Johnny Webb | 1 | August 25, 2001 | Los Angeles, CA | Webb and Rob Black defeated Sabu and Josh Lazie in a tag team match. Webb won the title as per the stipulation of the match. |
| Shane Douglas | 1 | July 20, 2002 | Pico Rivera, CA | |
| Title retired | March 8, 2003 | Pittsburgh, PA | XPW closes. Date and location listed is XPW's final event. | |
