Israeli Pro Wrestling Association

Israeli Pro Wrestling Association
Israeli Pro Wrestling Association
Acronym IPWA
Founded 2001 (school)
2003 (first professional event)
Style Technical wrestling
Headquarters Netanya, Israel
Founder(s) Gery Roif
Owner(s) Gery Roif (2001–)
Website IPWA.co.il

Israeli Pro Wrestling Association is an independent wrestling promotion, currently operating out of Netanya, Israel. It is the only professional wrestling promotion in the country.

Contents

History

IPWA was founded in late 2001 by Gery Roif and ran a few exhibition matches on national TV before holding the initial Summer Splash event in summer 2002. The promotion did not have a title holder for about a year; Roif was crowned its first champion after defeating Texas Wrestling Academy graduate Joey "The MOALM" Tylec in a televised match.

Subsequently, the IPWA gained a fair amount of recognition world wide; toward the end of 2003 Total Wrestling magazine started publishing its rankings on monthly basis. Summer Splash 3 in 2004 featured FWA star Aviv Maayan making a one-night appearance to team up with Hawaii Allen and take on Jumping Lee and Yossi The Bull.

In 2005 almost the entire IPWA roster starred in a wrestling/social satire sitcom series "Makkat Medina" ("The Land Under Attack"), gaining further recognition in Israel. In the beginning of 2006, the IPWA Wrestlenovella event was aired on The Wrestling Channel. In June 2009, the promotion had an event that got aired on the local Ego Total channel under the title of Israeli Wrestling.

These days the promotion runs 3-4 shows a year in the Central area of Israel in front of small crowds of about 100 people; its wrestlers mostly perform in an old school/technical style.

Roster

Current Roster

  • "Mr. Israeli Pro Wrestling" Gery Roif
  • Omry Balely
  • "BlonDevil" Chris Korvin
  • Eyal Smiley
  • "The Snake" Horowitz
  • Hellboy
  • Erik Crow
  • Evgeny Lyder
  • Psycho D.
  • Guy Landau
  • Max von Punx
  • "American All-Star" Ken Kerbis
  • "Killer" Degani
  • Lior Libman
  • Leonardo De Chanell
  • Rickson Ruas

Inactive

  • Ben "Iceman" Rozin
  • "Tough" Asaf
  • Izzy Rozenfield
  • Sharon Palty
  • Da Style
  • Chief Inspector Rozenberg (formerly known as Gluteus)
  • The Black Leopard
  • Omri Ilan
  • Furious Ace
  • The Red Executioner
  • Idan Boulder
  • Gilad Daliot
  • Neo
  • Danko Ex
  • Shay Blanco
  • Yossi The Bull
  • Haus P.
  • The White Leopard
  • "Big" Saar Bukshtein
  • Neta Mashav
  • Hadar "Stormy" Nimetz
  • Noam Amit
  • Jumping Lee
  • Joey "The MOALM" Tylec
  • Hawaii Allen

Alumni

IPWA Heavyweight Championship

IPWA Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion Israeli Pro Wrestling Association
Date established July 24, 2003

The IPWA Heavyweight Championship is currently the only professional wrestling championship in the Israeli Pro Wrestling Association promotion. At the end of 2002, Israeli professional wrestler Gery Roif announced a match between himself and Joey "The Moalm" Tylec to determine the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion; Roif won the match. A tournament was held at the IPWA Netanya Havoc event to determine a new champion (with Roif participating).

  Quarterfinals
(Netanya Havoc)
Semifinals
(Netanya Havoc)
Final
(Netanya Havoc)
                           
   Joey "The Moalm" Tylec Pin  
 Oded Rosenberg 8:27  
     Joey "The Moalm" Tylec 13:18  
     Evgeny Lyder Pin  
 Evgeny Lyder Pin
   The Wonder Boy Maor Ram 7:18  
       Evgeny Lyder Stp1
     Nadav Arbel 22:28
   Gery Roif Pin  
 Sharon "The Bully" Palty 8:22  
     Gery Roif 14:36
     Nadav Arbel Sub  
 Nadav Arbel Pin
   Omri Ilan 6:28  

1The referee stopped the match after Arbel passed out while in the Lyder Lock.

Since the IPWA Heavyweight Championship's inception in 2003, there have been nine different title holders, combining for twelve championship reigns.[1] The title was retired in February 2008 when the promotion closed but in May 2009 the title was active once again with the promotion got running again.

# Wrestler Reigns Date Days held Location Notes
1 Gery Roif 1 2003-07-24 215 Herzliya, Israel Defeated Joey Tylec to become the first champion.
2 Nadav Arbel 1 2004-02-24 0 Netanya, Israel Defeated Gery Roif in the semifinals of a tournament in which the title is on the line in every match that the champion is in.
3 Evgeny Lyder 1 2004-02-24 49 Netanya, Israel Defeated Nadav Arbel in the same tournament's final.
4 New York Rosenfeld 1 2004-04-13 0 Netanya, Israel
5 Gery Roif 2 2004-04-13 84 Netanya, Israel
6 Joey Tylec 1 2004-07-06 296 Netanya, Israel
7 Gery Roif 3 2005-04-28 203 Netanya, Israel
8 Omry Balely 1 2005-11-17 103 Tel Aviv, Israel
9 Hawaii Allen 1 2006-02-08 466 Tel Aviv, Israel Allen was stripped of the title in 2007.
10 Sharon Palty 1 2007-06-09 704 Tel Aviv, Israel Defeated Yossi The Bull in a tournament final.
11 Yossi the Bull 1 2009-05-13 476 Tel Aviv, Israel Defeated Sharon Palty. Got stripped of the belt in September 2010.
12 Rabi Swissa (Gery Roif) 4 2011-07-14 129 Netanya,Israel Defeated Lior Libman in the finals of an 8 man tournament

References

  1. ^ Tanabe, Hisaharu. "I.P.W.A. Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/israel/ipwa-h.html. Retrieved 2007-07-22. 

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