ICW United States Heavyweight Championship |
Details |
Date established |
1981 |
Date retired |
1983 |
Promotion |
International Championship Wrestling |
Statistics |
First champion(s) |
The Sheik |
Most reigns |
The Sheik, Pez Whatley and Paul Christy (2 reigns) |
Longest reign |
Uncertain[Note 1] |
Shortest reign |
Uncertain[Note 1] |
Oldest winner |
The Sheik (Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. approximately) |
Youngest winner |
Pez Whatley (Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. approximately) |
Heaviest champion |
[Note 2] |
Lightest champion |
[Note 2] |
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The ICW United States Heavyweight Championship was a secondary singles championship in International Championship Wrestling. The title was created when The Sheik brought the now-defunct Detroit version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship to the promotion, making the Sheik the first ICW United States Heavyweight Champion.[1] Because the championship is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The championship is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.[2]
Title history
- Key
Symbol |
Meaning |
# |
The overall championship reign |
Reign |
The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed. |
Event |
The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
— |
Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
|
Indicates periods of unknown lineage |
(NLT) |
Indicates that the championship changed hands "No Later Than" a certain date. |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Due to gaps in the championship history it is impossible to determine this.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Documentation of the billed weight of 60% of the champions has not been found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Neither the date the title was won or lost has been documented, making it too uncertain to determine any length for this reign.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 The location of the match was not captured as part of the championship documentation.
References
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