PWA Heavyweight Championship (Minnesota)

PWA Heavyweight Championship
Details
Current champion(s) Udo
Date won September 10, 2011
Date established January 15, 1985
Promotion Pro Wrestling America

The PWA Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in Pro Wrestling America (PWA). It is the only remaining championship after PWA began running occasional events in the mid-1990s.

The inaugural champion was Mad Dog Vachon, who defeated "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal in Anoka, Minnesota on January 15, 1985 to become the first PWA Heavyweight Champion. Charlie Norris holds the record for most reigns, with five. At 554 days, Ricky Rice's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Charlie Norris's second reign was the shortest in the history of the title lasting only 4 days. Overall, there have been 23 reigns shared between 14 wrestlers with two vacancies.

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

Reigns

# Wrestlers Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes Ref.
1 Mad Dog Vachon 1 January 15, 1985 426 Anoka, Minnesota Live event Vachon defeated Steve Regal to become the first PWA Heavyweight Champion. [1]
2 Ricky Rice 1 March 17, 1986 544 Omaha, Nebraska Live event
3 Larry Cameron 1 September 12, 1987 N/A Fridley, Minnesota Live event [2]
— Vacated — 1989 — N/A N/A Title is vacated when Cameron leaves the territory.
4 Ricky Rice 2 July 8, 1989 88 Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Live event
5 Charlie Norris 1 October 4, 1989 222 Fridley, Minnesota Live event [3]
6 Ricky Rice 3 May 14, 1990 90 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
7 Jerry Lynn 1 August 12, 1990 41 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
8 Ricky Rice 4 September 22, 1990 114 St. Charles, Illinois Live event
9 Terminator Riggs 1 January 14, 1991 24 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
10 Charlie Norris 2 February 7, 1991 4 Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event
11 Terminator Riggs 2 February 11, 1991 120 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
12 Charlie Norris 3 May 11, 1991 156 Shakopee, Minnesota Live event Defeated The Golden Idol when Riggs failed to appear.
13 Teijo Khan 1 October 14, 1991 69 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
14 Charlie Norris 4 December 22, 1991 57 N/A Live event
15 Punisher Sledge 1 February 17, 1992 69 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
16 Charlie Norris 5 April 26, 1992 177 Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event
17 The Hater 1 October 20, 1992 202 Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event
18 Tommy Ferrera 1 May 10, 1993 33 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
19 The Hater 2 June 12, 1993 74 Albertville, Minnesota Live event
20 Wellington Wilkens, Jr. 1 August 25, 1996 N/A Sendai, Japan Live event Title change occurred at a Michinoku Pro event. [4]
— Vacated — N/A — N/A N/A
21 Mitch Paradise 1 2003 N/A N/A N/A [5]
22 Asylum 1 June 28, 2008 N/A St. Paul, Minnesota Kaposia Days Festival (2008) [5][6]
21 Mitch Paradise 2 N/A N/A N/A N/A
23 Udo 1 September 10, 2011 1308+ Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota Inver Grove Heights Days Festival (2011) [7][8]

List of combined reigns

<1 Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.
Rank[N 1] Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Rice, RickyRicky Rice 4 836
2 Norris, CharlieCharlie Norris 5 616
3 Vachon, Mad DogMad Dog Vachon 1 426
4 The Hater 2 276
5 Terminator Riggs 2 144
6 Khan, TeijoTeijo Khan 1 69
7 Punisher Sledge 1 69
8 Jerry Lynn 1 41
9 Tommy Ferrera 1 33

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.

References

General
Specific
  1. ↑ "SLAM! Wrestling Results Archive: Mad Dog Vachon". SLAM! Wrestling. SLAM! Sports. April 30, 2008. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Wrestler Profiles". Online World of Wrestling.
  3. ↑ "Wrestler Profiles". Online World of Wrestling.
  4. ↑ Larson, Tim (November 4, 1999). "Who's Who in the Upper Midwest". Upper Midwest Wrestling Newsletter. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 McCarty, Wayne (June 29, 2008). "PWA South St. Paul, MN 6/28/2008". MidwestIndyWrestling.com. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
  6. ↑ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "PWA (28.06.2008)". Events Database. Cagematch.de. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ McCarty, Wayne (September 29, 2011). "PWA Inver Grove Heights, MN 9/10/2011". MidwestIndyWrestling.com. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
  8. ↑ "PWA Results 6/23/12". MinnesotaProWrestling.com. Retrieved November 22, 2011.