CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship

CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship
Adult white male wearing yellow trunks with long hair staring at the crowd during a wrestling event
Adam Cole holds the record for longest CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship reign.
Details
PromotionCombat Zone Wrestling (CZW)
Date establishedFebruary 19, 1999
Date retiredOctober 10, 2015
Statistics
First champion(s)The Sensational One
Final champion(s)Greg Excellent
Most reignsSabian (3 reigns); Trent Acid (3 reigns)
Longest reignAdam Cole (553 days)
Shortest reignSami Callihan, The Sensational One and Sonjay Dutt (<1 day)

The CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling junior heavyweight championship owned by the Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) promotion. The championship was created and debuted on February 19, 1999, at CZW's Opening Night event.[1] Only wrestlers under the junior heavyweight weight limit of 220 lb (100 kg) may hold the championship.[2] Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.[3]

Overall, there have been 37 reigns shared among 26 wrestlers, with two vacancies. The inaugural champion was The Sensational One, who was recognized as champion at CZW's Opening Night event.[1] Sabian and Trent Acid are tied for the record of most reigns, with three each. At 553 days, Adam Cole's only reign is the longest in the title's history. Cole holds the record for most days as champion as well. The Sensational One's first reign, along with Sami Callihan and Sonjay Dutt's second reigns share the record for shortest reign at less than one day. The title was retired on September 8, 2012, when reigning champion A. R. Fox defeated CZW Wired TV Champion Dave Crist in a ladder match to unify the two titles, but the Junior Heavyweight Championship was revived on August 23, 2014.[2][4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference openingnight was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "CZW Junior Heavyweight Champions". CZWrestling.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
  3. ^ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on 2013-11-29. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
  4. ^ "'Down with the Sickness 2012'". Combat Zone Wrestling. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2013.