JAPW Heavyweight Championship

Infobox championship


caption=
championshipname=JAPW Heavyweight Championship
currentholder=Kenny Omega
won=January 7, 2008
promotion=Jersey All Pro Wrestling
created=October 31, 1997
mostreigns=Homicide (Seven reigns)
firstchamp=Joe Rules
longestreign=Dan Maff (459 days)
shortestreign=Joe Rules, Homicide (0 days)
oldest=Jerry Lawler (52 years, 344 days)
youngest=Jay Lethal (20 years, 29 days)
heaviest=911 (310 lbs, 141 kg)
lightest=Low Ki (185 lbs, 82 kg)|

The Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW) Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship in the American independent professional wrestling promotion Jersey All Pro Wrestling.

Title history

The first JAPW Heavyweight Champion was Joe Rules and he won the title on October 31, 1997. He would eliminate Pitbull #2 in a 20 man battle royal to become the champion. But later in the evening Pitbull #2 would defeat Joe Rules for the title after dupping him into a match. [cite web|url=http://www.japw.net/lockerroom/hvychamp.htm|title=JAPW World Heavyweight Championship History|publisher=Jersey All Pro Wrestling|accessdate=2007-10-16]

After unsuccessfully challenging for the title on a number of occasions, Rhino would finally win it. He would finally win it on January 7, 2006. Rhino would defeat all-comers including Teddy Hart who would start a quest for the for the JAPW Heavyweight Championship. He would unsuccessfully challenge for the title by losing to Rhino. But due to Rhino no-showing an event, he was subsequently stripped of the title. This left the door open for a new champion to be crowned. Then on November 28, 2006, Hart's quest would come to an end when he defeated Low Ki and Necro Butcher in a triple threat match to win the vacant JAPW Heavyweight Championship. Teddy Hart's title reign would come to an end just under three months later when he would be stripped of the title upon release from the company.

Hart's release from the company would again leave the title vacant. The title would remain vacant from January 23, 2007 - March 17, 2007 when Low Ki would win his second JAPW Heavyweight Championship when he defeated Rhino in an eight man gauntlet match to win the vacant title. Other participants in the match were Chris Hero, Ruckus, Delirous, Davey Richards, EC Negro, Human Tornado.

Title lineage

ee also

*Jersey All Pro Wrestling
*List of JAPW title reigns by length

References

External links

* [http://www.japw.net/lockerroom/hvychamp.htm JAPW Heavyweight Championship Title History]