WWA Heavyweight Championship (Massachusetts)
The WWA Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in the World Wrestling Alliance (WWA). It remained active until November 13, 2010, when the WWA held its final show.
| WWA Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Alliance | ||||||||||||
| Date established | June 16, 2000 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | November 13, 2010 | ||||||||||||
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The inaugural champion was "The Graduate" Timothy McNeany, who defeated Mike Steele and Kevin Kelley in a three-way ladder match on June 16, 2000, to become the first WWA Heavyweight Champion. McNeany holds the record for most reigns, with three. At 518 days, Anthony "Prime Time" Sparta's first and only reign is the longest in the title's history. Both Aaron Stevens and Damien HS Darling have the shortest reigns in the history of the title each lasting only one day. Overall, there have been 14 reigns shared between 10 wrestlers, with three vacancies, and 1 deactivation.
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 |
Names
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| WWA Heavyweight Championship | 2000 — 2009 |
| WWS Heavyweight Championship | 2009 — 2010 |
| WWA Heavyweight Championship | 2010 |
Reigns
| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timothy McNeany | 1 | June 16, 2000 | 127 | Whitman, Massachusetts | Live event | McNeany defeated Mike Steele and Kevin Kelley in a three-way ladder match to become the first WWA Heavyweight Champion. | [1] |
| 2 | Big Dick Dudley | 1 | October 21, 2000 | 132 | Brockton, Massachusetts | Live event | [1] | |
| 3 | Timothy McNeany | 2 | March 2, 2001 | 1 | Quincy, Massachusetts | Live event | [1] | |
| 4 | Big Dick Dudley | 2 | March 3, 2001 | 62 | Rockland, Maine | Live event | [1] | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 4, 2001 | — | N/A | N/A | ||
| 5 | Timothy McNeany | 3 | November 23, 2001 | 204 | Leominster, Massachusetts | Live event | McNeaney defeated "Diamond" Dave Donovan to win the vacant title. | [1] |
| 6 | Fred Curry, Jr. | 1 | June 15, 2002 | 209 | Quincy, Massachusetts | Live event | [2] | |
| 7 | Danny Davis | 1 | January 10, 2003 | 133 | Norwood, Massachusetts | Live event | [3][4] | |
| 8 | Aaron Stevens | 1 | May 23, 2003 | 1 | Canton, Massachusetts | Live event | [5][6] | |
| 9 | Jonah | 1 | May 24, 2003 | 63 | Natick, Massachusetts | Live event | Fellow Tough Enough 3 participant Nick counted the pinfall when referee Sal Giliberto was knocked out. | [5][7] |
| 10 | Al Snow | 1 | July 26, 2003 | N/A | Worcester, Massachusetts | Live event | [8] | |
| — | Vacated | — | 2003 | — | N/A | N/A | ||
| 11 | Josh Daniels | 1 | February 2, 2007 | N/A | Quincy, Massachusetts | Live event | Daniels defeated Nick Berk in a ladder match to win the vacant title. | [9] |
| 12 | Danny Davis | 2 | June 2007 | N/A | N/A | Live event | ||
| — | Vacated | — | June 2009 | — | N/A | N/A | ||
| 13 | Damien HS Darling | 1 | June 12, 2009 | 1 | Bridgewater, Massachusetts | Live event | Darling defeated Danny Davis and Spike Dudley in a Triple Threat match to win the vacant title. | [10] |
| 14 | Anthony Sparta | 1 | June 13, 2009 | 518 | Rockland, Massachusetts | Live event | On September 25, 2009, the title was renamed the WWS Heavyweight Championship when the promotion changed its name to World Wrestling Stars. | [11] |
| — | Deactivated | — | November 13, 2010 | — | Taunton, Massachusetts | Live event | WWA closed on November 13, 2010, and Sparta was the final champion in WWA as a company. |
List of combined reigns
| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day. |
| Rank[N 1] | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danny Davis | 2 | 775+ |
| 2 | Anthony Sparta | 1 | 518 |
| 3 | Timothy McNeany | 3 | 332 |
| 4 | Jimmy Cicero | 2 | 310 |
| 5 | Fred Curry, Jr. | 1 | 209 |
| 6 | Big Dick Dudley | 2 | 194 |
| 7 | Josh Daniels | 1 | 128+ |
| 8 | Jonah | 1 | 63 |
| 9 | Aaron Stevens | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Damien HS Darling | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
- Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.
References
- General
- "Current Champions". World Wrestling Alliance. Archived from the original on November 7, 2002. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- Specific
- World Wrestling Alliance (December 17, 2001). "WWA Results". WWAnewengland.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2001. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- "Independent & Forign [sic] Wrestling - June 2002". Results. OnlineWorldofWrestling.com. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- "January 2003". Results: 2003. The New England Independent. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (10.01.2003)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- "May 2003". Results: 2003. The New England Independent. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (23.05.2003)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (24.05.2003)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- "July 2003". Results: 2003. The New England Independent. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (02.02.2007)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (12.06.2009)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (13.06.2009)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
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