WWA Heavyweight Championship (Massachusetts)

The WWA Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in the World Wrestling Alliance (WWA). It remained active until November 13, 2010, when the WWA held its final show.

WWA Heavyweight Championship
Details
PromotionWorld Wrestling Alliance
Date establishedJune 16, 2000
Date retiredNovember 13, 2010

The inaugural champion was "The Graduate" Timothy McNeany, who defeated Mike Steele and Kevin Kelley in a three-way ladder match on June 16, 2000, to become the first WWA Heavyweight Champion. McNeany holds the record for most reigns, with three. At 518 days, Anthony "Prime Time" Sparta's first and only reign is the longest in the title's history. Both Aaron Stevens and Damien HS Darling have the shortest reigns in the history of the title each lasting only one day. Overall, there have been 14 reigns shared between 10 wrestlers, with three vacancies, and 1 deactivation.

Title history
Key
# 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
WWA Heavyweight Championship 2000 — 2009
WWS Heavyweight Championship 2009 — 2010
WWA Heavyweight Championship 2010

Reigns
# Wrestlers Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes Ref.
1 Timothy McNeany 1 June 16, 2000 127 Whitman, Massachusetts Live event McNeany defeated Mike Steele and Kevin Kelley in a three-way ladder match to become the first WWA Heavyweight Champion. [1]
2 Big Dick Dudley 1 October 21, 2000 132 Brockton, Massachusetts Live event [1]
3 Timothy McNeany 2 March 2, 2001 1 Quincy, Massachusetts Live event [1]
4 Big Dick Dudley 2 March 3, 2001 62 Rockland, Maine Live event [1]
— Vacated — May 4, 2001 — N/A N/A
5 Timothy McNeany 3 November 23, 2001 204 Leominster, Massachusetts Live event McNeaney defeated "Diamond" Dave Donovan to win the vacant title. [1]
6 Fred Curry, Jr. 1 June 15, 2002 209 Quincy, Massachusetts Live event [2]
7 Danny Davis 1 January 10, 2003 133 Norwood, Massachusetts Live event [3][4]
8 Aaron Stevens 1 May 23, 2003 1 Canton, Massachusetts Live event [5][6]
9 Jonah 1 May 24, 2003 63 Natick, Massachusetts Live event Fellow Tough Enough 3 participant Nick counted the pinfall when referee Sal Giliberto was knocked out. [5][7]
10 Al Snow 1 July 26, 2003 N/A Worcester, Massachusetts Live event [8]
— Vacated — 2003 — N/A N/A
11 Josh Daniels 1 February 2, 2007 N/A Quincy, Massachusetts Live event Daniels defeated Nick Berk in a ladder match to win the vacant title. [9]
12 Danny Davis 2 June 2007 N/A N/A Live event
— Vacated — June 2009 — N/A N/A
13 Damien HS Darling 1 June 12, 2009 1 Bridgewater, Massachusetts Live event Darling defeated Danny Davis and Spike Dudley in a Triple Threat match to win the vacant title. [10]
14 Anthony Sparta 1 June 13, 2009 518 Rockland, Massachusetts Live event On September 25, 2009, the title was renamed the WWS Heavyweight Championship when the promotion changed its name to World Wrestling Stars. [11]
— Deactivated — November 13, 2010 — Taunton, Massachusetts Live event WWA closed on November 13, 2010, and Sparta was the final champion in WWA as a company.

List of combined reigns
<1 Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.
Rank[N 1] Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Danny Davis 2 775+
2 Anthony Sparta 1 518
3 Timothy McNeany 3 332
4 Jimmy Cicero 2 310
5 Fred Curry, Jr. 1 209
6 Big Dick Dudley 2 194
7 Josh Daniels 1 128+
8 Jonah 1 63
9 Aaron Stevens 1 1
10 Damien HS Darling 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
General
  • "Current Champions". World Wrestling Alliance. Archived from the original on November 7, 2002. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
Specific
  1. World Wrestling Alliance (December 17, 2001). "WWA Results". WWAnewengland.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2001. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  2. "Independent & Forign [sic] Wrestling - June 2002". Results. OnlineWorldofWrestling.com. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  3. "January 2003". Results: 2003. The New England Independent. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  4. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (10.01.2003)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  5. "May 2003". Results: 2003. The New England Independent. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  6. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (23.05.2003)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  7. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (24.05.2003)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  8. "July 2003". Results: 2003. The New England Independent. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  9. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (02.02.2007)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  10. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (12.06.2009)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  11. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "WWA (13.06.2009)". Events Database. Cagematch.net. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
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