CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship

CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship
Adam Cole holds the record for longest CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship reign.
Details
Promotion	Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW)
Date established	February 19, 1999
Statistics First champion(s) The Sensational One Final champion(s) Greg Excellent Most reigns Sabian (3 reigns); Trent Acid (3 reigns) Longest reign Adam Cole (553 days) Shortest reign Sami Callihan, The Sensational One and Sonjay Dutt (<1 day)

The CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling junior heavyweight championship owned by the Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) promotion. The championship was created and debuted on February 19, 1999 at CZW's Opening Night event. Only wrestlers under the junior heavyweight weight limit of 220 lb (100 kg) may hold the championship. Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

Overall, there have been 37 reigns shared among 26 wrestlers, with two vacancies. The inaugural champion was The Sensational One, who was recognized as champion at CZW's Opening Night event. Sabian and Trent Acid are tied for the record of most reigns, with three each. At 553 days, Adam Cole's only reign is the longest in the title's history. Cole holds the record for most days as champion as well. The Sensational One's first reign, along with Sami Callihan and Sonjay Dutt's second reigns share the record for shortest reign at less than one day. The title was retired on September 8, 2012, when reigning champion AR Fox defeated CZW Wired TV Champion Dave Crist in a ladder match to unify the two titles, but the Junior Heavyweight Championship was revived on August 23, 2014.

History

The first champion was crowned on February 19, 1999 at CZW's first show, Opening Night. The Sensational One was recognized as champion by CZW. He went on to defend the title that night against Quicksilver, who defeated him to become the new champion. As such, The Sensational One's first reign became the shortest reign in the title's history at less than one day, until September 9, 2006 when Sonjay Dutt defeated SeXXXy Eddy at CZW's Chri$ Ca$h Memorial Show – Down With The Sickness 2 event to become the new champion. Dutt then went on to lose the title to Jigsaw later that day at CZW's Expect the Unexpected show.

The title has changed hands four times outside of the United States. During Trent Acid's first reign, he was defeated by Winger in Tokyo, Japan on July 1, 2000 to mark the first instance. The second was also in Tokyo, with Men's Teioh becoming the new champion on September 15, 2000. The third was in Sapporo, Japan on May 4, 2001, while the fourth was in Yokohama, Japan on August 19, 2001. Jun Kasai won the title in Sapporo, while Acid reclaimed the title in Yokohama.

Following Acid's victory in Yokohama, the title was vacated for the first of two times. The vacancy was the result of a double pinfall in a match against Ruckus for the championship on September 29, 2001 at CZW's Enough is Enough event. Ruckus went on to win the vacant title in a Three Way match that also involved Acid and Winger on December 2, 2001. The second vacancy was the result of CZW stripping Chuck Taylor of the title on October 11, 2008. Ryan McBride became the new champion on December 13, 2008 at CZW's Cage Of Death 10: Ultraviolent Anniversary show by defeating Pinkie Sanchez, Carter Gray, Egotistico Fantastico, and Dan Paysan in a Ultraviolent Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to win the vacant championship.

On May 8, 2010 at CZW's Fist Fight event, Adam Cole defeated then-CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion Sabian to become the new champion. Cole held the title for 553 days, the longest reign on record, before losing it to Sami Callihan on November 12, 2011 at CZW's Night Of Infamy 10: Ultimatum event. However, since August 23, 2014, Alexander James defended the title at CZW's events.

Reigns

Key

No.	Order in reign history
Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the wrestler won or was crowned champion.
<1	Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.
—	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 reign is on-going

No.	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref(s).
1	The Sensational One	1	February 19, 1999	<1	Mantua, New Jersey	Opening Night	The Sensational One was recognized as the first CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion by Combat Zone Wrestling.
2	Quicksilver	1	February 19, 1999	36	Mantua, New Jersey	Opening Night
3	The Sensational One	2	March 27, 1999	7	Mantua, New Jersey	The Staple Gun
4	Justice Pain	1	April 3, 1999	107	Mantua, New Jersey	House Show
5	Ric Blade	1	July 19, 1999	264	Mantua, New Jersey	Street Fight
6	Justice Pain	2	April 8, 2000	62	Sewell, New Jersey	Winner Takes All
7	Trent Acid	1	June 9, 2000	22	Paulsboro, New Jersey	Live event
8	Winger	1	July 1, 2000	76	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
9	Men's Teioh	1	September 15, 2000	231	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
10	Jun Kasai	1	May 4, 2001	107	Sapporo, Japan	Live event
11	Trent Acid	2	August 19, 2001	41	Yokohama, Japan	Live event
—	Vacated	—	September 29, 2001	—	Sewell, New Jersey	Enough is Enough	The title was vacated due to a double pinfall in a match between Ruckus and Acid.
12	Ruckus	1	December 2, 2001	13	Yokohama, Japan	Live event	This was a Three Way match for the vacant title involving Ruckus, Trent Acid, and Winger.
13	Trent Acid	3	December 15, 2001	399	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Cage of Death III
14	Ruckus	2	January 18, 2003	329	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Live Again
15	Sonjay Dutt	1	December 13, 2003	392	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Cage of Death V: Suspended
16	Alex Shelley	1	January 8, 2005	28	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Gen Z
17	Mike Quackenbush	1	February 5, 2005	56	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Only the Strong
18	Sabian	1	April 2, 2005	70	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Trifecta Elimination III
19	Mike Quackenbush	2	June 11, 2005	91	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Violent by Design
20	Derek Frazier	1	September 10, 2005	182	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	A' Big Mutha F'n Deal
21	Niles Young	1	March 11, 2006	119	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	When 2 Worlds Collide	This was a Six Man Ladder match that involved Frazier, Young, Cheech, Cloudy, Sabian, and The Heretic.
22	SeXXXy Eddy	1	July 8, 2006	63	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	A Prelude to Violence
23	Sonjay Dutt	2	September 9, 2006	<1	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Chri$ Ca$h Memorial Show – Down With The Sickness 2
24	Jigsaw	1	September 9, 2006	210	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Expect the Unexpected
25	Scotty Vortekz	1	April 7, 2007	154	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Out with the Old, In with the New
26	Danny Havoc	1	September 8, 2007	35	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Chri$ Ca$h Memorial Show	This was a Six Man Ladder match that involved Vortekz, Havoc, DieHard, Joker, and Drake Younger.
27	Sabian	2	October 13, 2007	210	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Choosing Sides
28	Chuck Taylor	1	May 10, 2008	154	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Best of the Best 8
—	Vacated	—	October 11, 2008	—	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	N/A	Taylor was stripped of the championship due to an inability to compete after suffering a broken collarbone
29	Ryan McBride	1	December 13, 2008	147	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Cage of Death X	McBride defeated Pinkie Sanchez, Carter Gray, Egotistico Fantastico, and Dan Paysan in a Ultraviolent Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to win the vacant championship.
30	Egotistico Fantastico	1	May 9, 2009	126	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Blood Pressure: Rising
31	Drew Blood	1	September 12, 2009	91	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Chri$ Ca$h Memorial Show/Down With The Sickness Forever
32	Greg Excellent	1	December 12, 2009	63	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Cage of Death XI
33	Sabian	3	February 13, 2010	84	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	11th Anniversary: Deadly Doubleheader
34	Adam Cole	1	May 8, 2010	553	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Fist Fight
35	Sami Callihan	1	November 12, 2011	175	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Night of Infamy 10: Ultimatum
36	Drake Younger	1	May 5, 2012	70	Bloomington, Indiana	Cinco de Mayo
37	Sami Callihan	2	July 14, 2012	<1	Voorhees Township, New Jersey	New Heights	This was a 60 minute Ultraviolent Rules Iron Man match.
38	AR Fox	1	July 14, 2012	56	Voorhees Township, New Jersey	New Heights
—	Retired	—	September 8, 2012	—	Voorhees Township, New Jersey	Down with the Sickness 2012	The title was unified with the CZW Wired TV Championship and subsequently retired, when AR Fox defeated Dave Crist in a title unification ladder match.
39	Alexander James	1	August 23, 2014	203	Voorhees Township, New Jersey		Declared the Honorary CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion.
40	Greg Excellent	2	March 14, 2015	210	Voorhees Township, New Jersey	Deja Vu
—	Inactive	—	October 10, 2015	—	Voorhees Township, New Jersey		Inactive since October 10, 2015.

Combined reigns

+	Indicates the current champion

Rank[A]	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined days
1	Adam Cole	1	553
2	Trent Acid	3	462
3	Sonjay Dutt	2	392
4	Sabian	3	364
5	Ruckus	2	342
6	Greg Excellent	2	273
7	Ric Blade	1	264
8	Men's Teioh	1	231
9	Jigsaw	1	210
10	Alexander James	1	203
11	Derek Frazier	1	182
12	Sami Callihan	2	175
13	Justice Pain	1	169
14	Chuck Taylor	1	154
	Scotty Vortekz	1	154
16	Mike Quackenbush	2	147
	Ryan McBride	1	147
18	Egotistico Fantastico	1	126
19	Niles Young	1	119
20	Jun Kasai	1	107
21	Drew Blood	1	91
22	Drake Younger	1	70
23	SeXXXy Eddy	1	63
24	AR Fox	1	56
25	Quicksilver	1	36
26	Danny Havoc	1	35
27	Alex Shelley	1	28
28	The Sensational One	2	7

Notes

A. ^{^} Each wrestler's total number of days as champion are ranked highest to lowest; wrestlers with the same number are tied for that certain rank.

References

General

• "CZW Junior Heavyweight Title history". CZWrestling.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2012-04-26. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Specific

External links

• CZWrestling.com