IPWA Heavyweight Championship (United States)

The IPWA Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in the Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance (IPWA). The inaugural champion was Cueball Carmichael, who defeated Justin St. John following a battle royal on October 9, 1995 to become the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion.

This article is about the heavyweight championship for the Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance. For the title used by the Israeli Pro Wrestling Association, see here.
IPWA Heavyweight Championship
Tom Brandi was the final IPWA Heavyweight Champion.
Details
PromotionIndependent Professional Wrestling Alliance
Date establishedOctober 9, 1995
Date retired2001

There were 10 officially recognized champions with both Carmichael and Tom Brandi winning the title a record 4-times. At 255 days, Big Slam Vader was the longest reigning champion in the title's history. A number of top independent stars held the title during its near 6-year history including Lance Diamond, "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero, and "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel.

Title history
# 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

Names
Name Years
IPWA Heavyweight Championship 1995 — 2001

Reigns
# Wrestlers Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes Ref.
1 Cueball Carmichael 1 October 9, 1995 186 Manassas, Virginia IPWA Debut Show (1995) Carmichael defeated Justin St. John in a singles match, after both were declared co-winners of a battle royal, to become the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion. [1][2][3][4][5]
2 Johnny Gunn 1 April 12, 1996 108 Alexandria, Virginia Live event [1][2][3][4][5]
3 Cueball Carmichael 2 July 27, 1996 116 Alexandria, Virginia Live event This was a steel cage match. [1][2][3][4][5]
— Vacated — November 22, 1996 — Alexandria, Virginia Live event The championship is vacated when Cueball Carmichael suffers a serious injury. [1][2][3][4][5]
4 Big Slam Vader 1 January 19, 1997 255 Pikeville, North Carolina Live event Vader defeated Guido Falcone, following a battle royal, to win the vacant title. [1][2][3][4][5][6]
— Vacated — October 1, 1997 — N/A N/A The championship is vacated when Big Slam fails to appear for a scheduled title defense. [1][2][3][4][5]
5 Salvatore Sincere 2 November 6, 1997 70 N/A Live event Sincere defeated Jimmy Cicero in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. [1][2][3][4][5][7]
— Vacated — January 15, 1998 — Alexandria, Virginia Live event The championship is vacated when Salvatore Sincere leaves the promotion to join the World Wrestling Federation. [1][2][3][4][5]
6 Cueball Carmichael 3 January 15, 1998 35 Alexandria, Virginia Live event Carmichael defeated Christian York in a singles match, after both were declared co-winners of a 12-man battle royal, to win the vacant title. [1][2][3][4][5]
7 Lance Diamond 1 February 19, 1998 <1 Alexandria, Virginia Live event This was a 6-man tag team elimination match with Christian York and Steve Corino against Cueball Carmichael, Jimmy Cicero, and Julio Sanchez. [1][2][3][4][5][8]
8 Jimmy Cicero 1 February 19, 1998 114 Alexandria, Virginia Live event Cicero pinned Lance Diamond in the final fall winning both the 6-man tag team match and the IPWA Heavyweight Championship. [1][2][3][4][5][8]
9 Buddy Landel 1 June 13, 1998 210 Alexandria, Virginia Live event [1][2][3][4][5][9][10]
— Vacated — January 9, 1999 — Chincoteague, Virginia Live event The championship is vacated when Buddy Landel fails to appear for a scheduled title defence against Tom Brandi and is stripped of the title. [1][2][3][4][5]
10 Tom Brandi 3 January 9, 1999 205 Chincoteague, Virginia Live event Brandi defeated Corporal Punishment to win the vacant championship. [1][2][3][4][5][11]
10 Cueball Carmichael 4 August 2, 1999 19 Clifton, New Jersey Live event [1][2][3][4][5]
10 Tom Brandi 4 August 21, 1999 N/A Chincoteague, Virginia Live event [1][2][3][4][5]
— Deactivated — 2001 — N/A N/A The IPWA ceases promoting events and closes in the spring of 2001.

List of combined reigns
Cueball Carmichael, who was the longest-reigning IPWA Heavyweight Champion
<1 Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.
Rank[N 1] Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Tom Brandi 4 255
2 Cueball Carmichael 4 356
3 Big Slam Vader 1 255
4 Buddy Landel 1 210
5 Jimmy Cicero 1 114
6 Lance Diamond 1 <1

Footnotes
  1. Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.
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References
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  3. Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
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  6. DiMuzio, Michael J. "Arena Reports: North Carolina - IPWA at the Charles B. Aycock High School." Pro Wrestling Illustrated. June 1997: 65+.
  7. Russel, Paul. "Arena Reports: Virginia - IPWA at Secret Cove Restaurant." Pro Wrestling Illustrated. April 1998: 51+.
  8. Walker, Timothy A. "Arena Reports: Virginia - IPWA at Secret Cove." Pro Wrestling Illustrated. August 1998: 73+.
  9. Landel, Buddy (1998-06-13). "The Night I Won The IPWA World Heavyweight Title - 6/13/98". Buddy Landel's Picture Gallery. DDTdigest.com. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
  10. Walker, Timothy A. and Jeff Amdur. "Arena Reports: Virginia - IPWA at Secret Cove." Pro Wrestling Illustrated. December 1998: 51+.
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