WLW Heavyweight Championship
| WLW Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | World League Wrestling | ||||||||||
| Date established | February 1999 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Leland Race | ||||||||||
| Date won | October 19, 2019 | ||||||||||
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The World League Wrestling (WLW) Heavyweight Championship, is the top title contested for the independent professional wrestling promotion World League Wrestling. The current champion is Derek Stone, who is in his fourth reign.
Title history
| No. | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve Sharp | 1 | February 12, 1999 | 64 | Springfield, Missouri | Defeated Greg Valentine in a tournament final.[1] |
| 2 | Derek Stone | 1 | April 17, 1999 | 210 | Quincy, Illinois | |
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Vacated
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November 13, 1999
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The title was held up after a match against Luminous Warrior. | |
| 3 | Derek Stone | 2 | November 14, 1999 | 69 | Kansas City, Missouri | Stone was awarded the title due to an injury to Luminous Warrior. |
| 4 | Luminous Warrior | 1 | January 22, 2000 | 1 | California, Missouri | |
| 5 | Derek Stone | 3 | January 23, 2000 | 34 | Lexington, Missouri | |
| 6 | Luminous Warrior | 2 | February 26, 2000 | 21 | Iberia, Missouri | |
| 7 | Mr. Destiny | 1 | March 18, 2000 | 13 | Mexico, Missouri | |
| 8 | Luminous Warrior | 3 | March 31, 2000 | 20 | Kahoka, Missouri | Warrior won by reverse decision after Mr. Destiny won the match by hitting Warrior with the title belt. |
| 9 | Meng | 1 | April 20, 2000 | 2 | Grain Valley, Missouri | |
| 10 | Trevor Rhodes | 1 | April 22, 2000 | 181 | Eldon, Missouri | |
| 11 | Griz | 1 | June 17, 2000 | 125 | Osage Beach, Missouri | |
| 12 | Meng | 2 | October 20, 2000 | 14 | Springfield, Missouri | |
| 13 | The Barbarian | 1 | November 3, 2000 | 7 | Belle, Missouri | |
| 14 | Griz | 2 | November 10, 2000 | 71 | Joplin, Missouri | |
| 15 | Luminous Warrior | 4 | January 20, 2001 | 70 | Eldon, Missouri | |
| 16 | Butch Reed | 1 | March 31, 2001 | 300 | Crocker, Missouri | |
| 17 | Dennis McHawes | 1 | January 25, 2002 | 155 | Imperial, Missouri | |
| — | Vacated | — | June 29, 2002 | — | East St. Louis, Illinois | |
| 18 | Wade Chism | 1 | June 29, 2002 | 4 | East St. Louis, Illinois | |
| 19 | Takao Omori | 1 | July 13, 2002 | 175 | Omaha, Nebraska | |
| 20 | Superstar Steve | 1 | January 4, 2003 | 35 | Neosho, Missouri | |
| 21 | Haku | 3 | February 8, 2003 | 42 | El Dorado Springs, Missouri | |
| — | Vacated | — | March 22, 2003 | — | — | The title was vacated after match against Trevor Rhodes. |
| 22 | Ron Powers | 1 | May 2, 2003 | 78 | Kansas City, Missouri | Defeated Superstar Steve in a tournament final. |
| 23 | Ron Harris | 1 | July 19, 2003 | 55 | Eldon, Missouri | |
| 24 | Takeshi Morishima | 1 | September 12, 2003 | 196 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigation Over the Date Line tour. |
| 25 | Rick Steiner | 1 | March 26, 2004 | 1 | Chariton, Iowa | |
| 26 | Takeshi Morishima | 2 | March 27, 2004 | 66 | Bolivar, Missouri | |
| 27 | Daisuke Ikeda | 1 | June 1, 2004 | 61 | Sapporo, Japan | Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigation with Breeze tour. |
| 28 | Rick Steiner | 2 | August 1, 2004 | 110 | Nagoya, Japan | Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Exceeding Our Dreams tour. |
| 29 | Trevor Rhodes | 2 | November 19, 2004 | 197 | Columbus, Nebraska | |
| 30 | Ty Dalton | 1 | June 4, 2005 | 49 | Eldon, Missouri | Dalton won the WLW Heavyweight Championship in his debut match with WLW |
| 31 | Wade Chism | 2 | July 23, 2005 | 189 | Eldon, Missouri | |
| — | Vacated | — | January 28, 2006 | — | Eldon, Missouri | The title was held up after a match against Keith Walker. |
| 32 | Wade Chism | 3 | February 24, 2006 | 1 | St. Joseph, Missouri | Defeated Jason Bates and Keith Walker in a three-way match. |
| 33 | Jason Bates | 1 | February 25, 2006 | 49 | El Dorado Springs, Missouri | |
| 34 | Wade Chism | 4 | April 15, 2006 | 28 | El Dorado Springs, Missouri | |
| 35 | Keith Walker | 1 | May 13, 2006 | 56 | St. Joseph, Missouri | |
| 36 | Wade Chism | 5 | July 8, 2006 | 49 | Eldon, Missouri | This was a lumberjack match. Chism became the first 5 time WLW Heavyweight Champion |
| 37 | Daniel Cross | 1 | August 26, 2006 | 105 | West Plains, Missouri | Daniel Cross became the youngest WLW heavyweight Champion at 20 years old. |
| 38 | Trevor Murdoch (Trevor Rhodes) | 3 | December 9, 2006 | 216 | Maryland Heights, Missouri | Murdoch defeated Cross and Ted Dibiase Jr in a 3 way match with Dave Hebner as special referee. Murdoch was under contract with WWE during his reign as Champion. |
| 39 | Derek McQuinn | 1 | July 13, 2007 | 106 | Waterloo, Iowa | McQuinn won at "Night of Legends"event. |
| 40 | Keith Walker | 2 | October 27, 2007 | 105 | Maryland Heights, Missouri | Walker won the Championship on his first match back from his WWE release. |
| 41 | Chris Masters | 1 | February 9, 2008 | 76 | Fordland, Missouri | |
| 42 | Derek McQuinn | 2 | April 25, 2008 | 141 | Lebanon, Missouri | |
| — | Vacated | — | September 13, 2008 | — | — | Derek McQuinn vacated the title due to his having to retire due to injury. |
| 43 | Go Shiozaki | 1 | October 4, 2008 | 119 | West Plains, Missouri | Won a nine-man battle royal. |
| — | Vacated | — | January 30, 2009 | — | Richmond, Missouri | |
| 44 | Steve Anthony | 1 | January 30, 2009 | 50 | Richmond, Missouri | Defeated Eugene and Superstar Steve in a three-way match. |
| 45 | Superstar Steve | 2 | March 21, 2009 | 196 | Eldon, Missouri | |
| 46 | Brian Breaker | 1 | October 3, 2009 | 153 | Eldon, Missouri | |
| 47 | Trent Stone | 1 | March 5, 2010 | 49 | Leavenworth, Kansas | |
| 48 | Trevor Murdoch | 4 | April 23, 2010 | [Note 1] | Richmond, Missouri | The title was vacated in July 2011. |
| — | Vacated | — | July, 2011 | — | — | |
| 49 | Brian Breaker | 2 | September 18, 2011 | 55 | Burlington, Iowa | Defeated Jason Jones (Leland Race) to win the vacated title. |
| 50 | Jason Jones | 1 | November 12, 2011 | 364 | Richmond, Missouri | |
| 51 | Britton Tucker | 1 | November 10, 2012 | 28 | Springfield, Missouri | |
| 52 | Jason Jones | 2 | December 8, 2012 | 170 | Richmond, Missouri | |
| – | Vacated | May 27, 2013 | Race stops wrestling as Jones and reverts to his real name. | |||
| 53 | Elvis Aliaga | 1 | September 14, 2013 | 217 | Richmond, Missouri | Defeated Leland Race in tournament final. |
| 54 | Leland Race | 3 | April 19, 2014 | 98 | Richmond, Missouri | Previously known as Jason Jones |
| 55 | Ace Steel | 1 | July 26, 2014 | 112 | Troy, Missouri | |
| 56 | Leland Race | 4 | November 15, 2014 | 364 | Troy, Missouri | |
| 57 | Trevor Murdoch | 5 | November 14, 2015 | 448 | Troy, Missouri | |
| – | Vacated | 2016 | ||||
| 58 | Karim Brigante | 1 | February 4, 2017 | 77 | Troy, Missouri | Defeated Leland Race and Steve Fender in tournament final.[2] |
| 59 | Leland Race | 5 | April 22, 2017 | 322 | Richmond, Missouri | |
| 60 | Jon Webb | 1 | March 10, 2018 | 420 | Moscow Mills, Missouri | |
| 61 | Derek Stone | 4 | May 4, 2019 | 168 | Troy, Missouri | |
| 62 | Leland Race | 6 | October 19, 2019 | 1850+
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Burlington Junction, Missouri | WLW The Harley Race Memorial Show |
Combined reigns
As of November 11, 2024.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leland Race † | 6 | 3,168+ |
| 2 | Derek Stone | 4 | 481 |
| 3 | Trevor Murdoch | 5 | 469- |
| 4 | Dangerous Derek | 2 | 428 |
| 5 | Jon Webb | 1 | 420 |
| 6 | Butch Reed | 1 | 300 |
| 7 | Wade Chism | 5 | 281 |
| 8 | Takeshi Morishima | 2 | 262 |
| 9 | Superstar Steve | 2 | 231 |
| 10 | Elvis Aliaga | 1 | 217 |
| 11 | Brian Breaker | 2 | 208 |
| 12 | Griz | 2 | 196 |
| 13 | Takao Omori | 1 | 175 |
| 14 | Keith Walker | 2 | 161 |
| 15 | Dennis McHawes | 1 | 155 |
| 16 | Go Shiozaki | 1 | 118 |
| 17 | Luminous Warrior | 4 | 112 |
| Ace Steel | 1 | 112 | |
| 19 | Rick Steiner | 2 | 111 |
| 20 | Daniel Cross | 1 | 105 |
| 21 | Ron Powers | 1 | 78 |
| 22 | Karim Brigante | 1 | 77 |
| 23 | Chris Masters | 1 | 76 |
| 24 | Steve Sharp | 1 | 64 |
| 25 | Daisuke Ikeda | 1 | 61 |
| 26 | King Haku | 3 | 58 |
| 27 | Ron Harris | 1 | 55 |
| 28 | Steve Anthony | 1 | 50 |
| 29 | Trent Stone | 1 | 49 |
| Jason Bates | 1 | 49 | |
| Ty Dalton | 1 | 49 | |
| 32 | Britton Tucker | 1 | 28 |
| 33 | Mr. Destiny | 1 | 13 |
| 34 | The Barbarian | 1 | 7 |
Footnotes
- ^ The title was vacated on an unspecified day in July 2011, putting his reign between 434 and 464 days.
References
- ^ Hoops, Brian (February 12, 2017). "On this day in pro wrestling history (Feb 12): Christian Cage wins gold in TNA". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ http://www.pwinsiderxtra.com/ViewArticle.php?id=32923&p=1