Chikara Grand Championship

Chikara Grand Championship
Details
PromotionChikara
Date establishedFebruary 3, 2011[1]
Date retiredJune 24, 2020
Statistics
First champion(s)Eddie Kingston[2][3]
Final champion(s)Dasher Hatfield
Most reignsHallowicked (2 reigns)
Longest reignEddie Kingston (924 days)
Shortest reignUltraMantis Black (91–118 days)
Oldest championUltraMantis Black (41 years)
Youngest championPrincess KimberLee (25 years, 161 days)
Heaviest championEddie Kingston (228 lb (103 kg))[4]
Lightest championPrincess KimberLee (120 lb (54 kg))[5]

The Chikara Grand Championship was a professional wrestling championship owned by the Chikara promotion. The first champion was crowned on November 13, 2011, at the High Noon pay-per-view, when Eddie Kingston defeated Mike Quackenbush at the conclusion of a six-month long, twelve-person tournament.[2]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Since the founding of the promotion in 2002 and before the Chikara Grand Championship was created, Chikara promoted only the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, a tag team championship, and the Chikara Young Lions Cup, a championship for rookies, but did not have a major singles championship until an announcement regarding the creation of the Grand Championship was made in February 2011. On March 14, 2013, Chikara announced that in the future the title would be defended at every event held by the promotion.[6] This was later negated following Mike Quackenbush's takeover as Director of Fun and on August 1, 2014, he announced a three-point system to determine contendership for the title, similar to the system used for the Campeonatos de Parejas. Under the system, wrestlers need to accumulate three back-to-back wins in order to be eligible to challenge for the title.[7]

Overall, there have been nine reigns shared among eight wrestlers. One female wrestler, Princess KimberLee, has held the title. With the win, KimberLee became the first female wrestler to hold the top title in a major non-female promotion.[8]

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  3. ^ "Grand Champion of Chikara". Chikara. Archived from the original on April 25, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  4. ^ "Roster". Chikara. Archived from the original on November 20, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  5. ^ "Princess KimberLee". Chikara. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
  6. ^ "Wink Vavasseur". Chikara. March 14, 2013. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
  7. ^ "Chikara Event Center (8.1.14)". Chikara. YouTube. August 1, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  8. ^ Oster, Aaron (December 10, 2015). "Chikara Grand Champion KimberLee: 'This Is the Real Divas Revolution'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 11, 2015.