PWA Heavyweight Championship (Minnesota)

PWA Heavyweight Championship

Details

Promotion

Pro Wrestling America

Date established

January 15, 1985

Current champion(s)

Udo

Date won

September 10, 2011

Statistics
First champion(s)	Mad Dog Vachon
Most reigns	Charlie Norris (5)
Longest reign	Ricky Rice (554 days)
Shortest reign	Charlie Norris (4 days)

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.
01 !1	Vachon !Mad Dog Vachon	01 !1	000000001985-01-15-0000January 15, 1985	7002426000000000000♠426	Anoka !Anoka, Minnesota	Live event !Live event	Vachon defeated Steve Regal to become the first PWA Heavyweight Champion.	^[1]
02 !2	Rice !Ricky Rice	01 !1	000000001986-03-17-0000March 17, 1986	7002544000000000000♠544	Omaha !Omaha, Nebraska	Live event !Live event
03 !3	Cameron !Larry Cameron	01 !1	000000001987-09-12-0000September 12, 1987	zz !N/A	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event		^[2]
3.5 !—	Vacated !Vacated	zz !—	000000001989-01-01-00001989	zz !—	zz !N/A	zz !N/A	Title is vacated when Cameron leaves the territory.
04 !4	Rice !Ricky Rice	02 !2	000000001989-07-08-0000July 8, 1989	7001880000000000000♠88	Yellowknife !Yellowknife, Northwest Territories	Live event !Live event
05 !5	Norris !Charlie Norris	01 !1	000000001989-10-04-0000October 4, 1989	7002222000000000000♠222	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event		^[3]
06 !6	Rice !Ricky Rice	03 !3	000000001990-05-14-0000May 14, 1990	7001900000000000000♠90	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
07 !7	Lynn !Jerry Lynn	01 !1	000000001990-08-12-0000August 12, 1990	7001410000000000000♠41	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
08 !8	Rice !Ricky Rice	04 !4	000000001990-09-22-0000September 22, 1990	7002114000000000000♠114	St. Charles !St. Charles, Illinois	Live event !Live event
09 !9	Riggs !Terminator Riggs	01 !1	000000001991-01-14-0000January 14, 1991	7001240000000000000♠24	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
10 !10	Norris !Charlie Norris	02 !2	000000001991-02-07-0000February 7, 1991	7000400000000000000♠4	Minneapolis !Minneapolis, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
11 !11	Riggs !Terminator Riggs	02 !2	000000001991-02-11-0000February 11, 1991	7002120000000000000♠120	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
12 !12	Norris !Charlie Norris	03 !3	000000001991-05-11-0000May 11, 1991	7002156000000000000♠156	Shakopee !Shakopee, Minnesota	Live event !Live event	Defeated The Golden Idol when Riggs failed to appear.
13 !13	Khan !Teijo Khan	01 !1	000000001991-10-14-0000October 14, 1991	7001690000000000000♠69	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
14 !14	Norris !Charlie Norris	04 !4	000000001991-12-22-0000December 22, 1991	7001570000000000000♠57	zz !N/A	Live event !Live event
15 !15	Sledge !Punisher Sledge	01 !1	000000001992-02-17-0000February 17, 1992	7001690000000000000♠69	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
16 !16	Norris !Charlie Norris	05 !5	000000001992-04-26-0000April 26, 1992	7002177000000000000♠177	Minneapolis !Minneapolis, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
17 !17	Hater !The Hater	01 !1	000000001992-10-20-0000October 20, 1992	7002202000000000000♠202	Minneapolis !Minneapolis, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
18 !18	Ferrera !Tommy Ferrera	01 !1	000000001993-05-10-0000May 10, 1993	7001330000000000000♠33	Fridley !Fridley, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
19 !19	Hater !The Hater	02 !2	000000001993-06-12-0000June 12, 1993	7001740000000000000♠74	Albertville !Albertville, Minnesota	Live event !Live event
20 !20	Wilkens !Wellington Wilkens, Jr.	01 !1	000000001996-08-25-0000August 25, 1996	zz !N/A	Sendai !Sendai, Japan	Live event !Live event	Title change occurred at a Michinoku Pro event.	^[4]
25.5 !—	Vacated !Vacated	zz !—	zz !N/A	zz !—	zz !N/A	zz !N/A
21 !21	Paradise !Mitch Paradise	01 !1	000000002003-01-01-00002003	zz !N/A	zz !N/A	zz !N/A		^[5]
22 !22	Asylum !Asylum	01 !1	000000002008-06-28-0000June 28, 2008	zz !N/A	St. Paul !St. Paul, Minnesota	Kaposia Days !Kaposia Days Festival (2008)		^[5]^[6]
21 !21	Paradise !Mitch Paradise	02 !2	zz !N/A	zz !N/A	zz !N/A	zz !N/A
23 !23	Udo !Udo	01 !1	000000002011-09-10-0000September 10, 2011	1924+	Inver Grove Heights !Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota	Inver Grove Heights Days !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
01 !1	Rice, RickyRicky Rice	04 !4	836 !836
02 !2	Norris, CharlieCharlie Norris	05 !5	616 !616
03 !3	Vachon, Mad DogMad Dog Vachon	01 !1	426 !426
04 !4	The Hater !The Hater	02 !2	276 !276
05 !5	Riggs !Terminator Riggs	02 !2	144 !144
06 !6	Khan, TeijoTeijo Khan	01 !1	069 !69
07 !7	Sledge !Punisher Sledge	01 !1	069 !69
08 !8	Lynn !Jerry Lynn	01 !1	041 !41
09 !9	Ferrera !Tommy Ferrera	01 !1	033 !33

Footnotes

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

References

General

"P.W.A. Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Puroresu Dojo. 2003. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
Palma, Richard. "PWA Heavyweight Title History". Wrestling Title Histories by Gary Will and Royal Duncan. Solie.org. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
Gary Will and Royal Duncan (2000). "(Minnesota) PWA Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.

Specific

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

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