IPW Heavyweight Championship
From the eWrestling Encyclopedia.
The IPW Heavyweight Championship (formerly the IPW World Heavyweight Championship) was the highest-ranked title in the short-lived Internet Pro Wrestling promotion in July 2000. In February 2007 it was resurrected (without "world" status) by Captain Jeff Silvers to be defended in MFGG Wrestling.
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[edit] History
[edit] Internet Pro Wrestling
When Silvers created Internet Pro Wrestling in July 2000, he declared himself the first World Heavyweight Champion of the promotion. He would go on to lose the title one day later without having ever successfully defended it. Internet Pro Wrestling would prove to be an extremely short-lived promotion, closing within two weeks of its opening. With the closing of IPW, the IPW World Heavyweight Championship was abandoned. While some records of the title's history (such as the dates of all three reigns) have been found, much of it has been lost to time, and the history of the title before this point is therefore not entirely clear.
Plans were announced in March 2001 to resurrect IPW, and a tournament to declare a new IPW World Heavyweight Champion was announced. These plans never materialized--the resurrection of the e-fed never occurred, and the title remained abandoned.
[edit] MFGG Wrestling
On February 21, 2007, Silvers announced that the title would be reactivated and defended in MFGG Wrestling as an auxiliary title. The new champion, Nightwing, was crowned in an Elimination Chamber Match at MFGG Last Chance.
Though the main purpose of the title was to serve as an "auxiliary" championship with no specified rank, it has recently been treated as ranking between the MFGG Internet Championship and the Undisputed World Championship.
[edit] Stats
| Record: | Record holder: | Record number: | Notes: |
| Most reigns | Captain Jeff Silvers and Nightwing (tie) | Two | Captain Jeff Silvers awarded himself the IPW World Heavyweight Championship upon the creation of Internet Pro Wrestling on July 10, 2000. More than six and a half years later, he would hold the title again (this time as the IPW Heavyweight Championship) in MFGG Wrestling when he won it on March 25, 2007. Nightwing won his first IPW Heavyweight Championship on February 27, 2007, in an Elimination Chamber Match; he won his second six weeks later on April 8, 2007. |
| Longest reign | Captain Jeff Silvers, Dark Yoshi, and Nightwing (tie) | Fourteen days | Nightwing won the title upon its MFGG reactivation on February 27, 2007, and held it until losing to Dark Yoshi two weeks later. Dark Yoshi, in turn, held the title for two weeks until losing it to Captain Jeff Silvers. Captain Jeff Silvers then held onto the title for two weeks before losing it to Nightwing. |
| Shortest reign | Captain Jeff Silvers | One day | Silvers awarded himself the title when he started Internet Pro Wrestling on July 10, 2000. He would lose it the next day to Sargent Dare Bear. |
[edit] Triva
- Captain Jeff Silvers is the only person to have held the title during its time in IPW and its time in MFGG.
- The IPW Heavyweight Championship is the only MFGG title to have been defended at shows promoted by Internet Pro Wrestling, MFGG Wrestling, AWN Wrestling (technically an MFGG/AWN interpromotional event), and X-Degeneration.
- The IPW Heavyweight Championship is the third title officially recognized by MFGG Wrestling without featuring the MFGG initials in its name (the first two being the XD Championship and the Undisputed World Championship).
- Silvers had originally designed a brand new belt for the reactivation of the IPW Heavyweight Championship in February 2007. The belt was to be presented to the winner of the Elimination Chamber Match, with the old belt never being used. The new belt, which was fully designed before being scrapped, featured a new IPW logo. At the last minute, Silvers decided not to use the new design and instead kept the traditional belt.
- On the Internet Pro Wrestling website, the IPW World Heavyweight Championship was represented by a photograph of the "Big Gold" WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt with the IPW logo digitally pasted at the top. This image has since been lost, but was reproduced after the MFGG reactivation in the style of other MFGG title belts.
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| MFGG Wrestling championships |
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| Active |
| Undisputed World | Internet | SoVeryHardcore | IPW Heavyweight Tag Team | United States Tag Team |
| Inactive |
| World Heavyweight | XD |
| Other accomplishments |
| King of MFGG | Money in the Bank |
