HWA Heavyweight Championship
Details
Current champion(s)	"King Vu" Richard Phillips
Date won	August 22, 2009
Promotion	Heartland Wrestling Association.
Date established	January 05, 1996
Statistics Most reigns Race Steele(5 reigns) First champion(s) D'Lo Brown Longest reign "Buffalo Bad Boy" Brian Jennings (381 days) Shortest reign Johnny The Bull (1 hour)

The HWA Heavyweight Championship is the heavyweight title contested for in the Heartland Wrestling Association. The current champion is King Vu who won it on August 22, 2009 by defeating Jake Crist.

[edit] Title history

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
D'Lo Brown	1	January 05, 1996	Fort Wright, KY	Defeated Bobby Blaze in tournament Final
Bobby Blaze	1	March 09, 1996	Ashland, KY
D'Lo Brown	2	March 16, 1996	Lima, OH	Title Became Inactive from June 1996 to May 2000
Race Steele	1	May 25, 2000	Cincinnati, OH	Won tournament final over Chip Fairway to win vacant Championship
Chad Collyer	1	January 26, 2001	Rising Sun, IN	Was stripped of title
Shark Boy	1	February 27, 2001	Cincinnati, OH	Defeated Dean Jablonski and Matty Stryker in tournament for vacant Championship
Race Steele	2	March 16, 2001	Rising Sun, IN
Cody Hawk	1	July 7, 2001	Cincinnati, OH
Race Steele	3	August 4, 2001	Batavia, OH
Nick Dinsmore	1	August 9, 2001	Cincinnati, OH
Race Steele	4	August 18, 2001	Dayton, OH	Championship was held up on September 30, 2001
EZ Money	1	November 14, 2001	Dayton, OH	Defeated D'Lo Brown in tournament Final
Charlie Haas	1	January 9, 2002	Dayton, OH	Defeated Val Venis in tournament final; Stripped of title January 29, 2002
EZ Money	2	January 29, 2002	Dayton, OH	Was awarded title after Charlie Haas was stripped
Rico Constantino	1	March 15, 2002	Dayton, OH
Stevie Richards	1	March 17, 2002	Jeffersonville, IN
Race Steele	5	March 20, 2002	Cincinnati, OH
Johnny The Bull	1	May 8, 2002	Dayton, OH
Lance Cade	1	May 19, 2002	Jeffersonville, IN
Johnny The Bull	2	July 20, 2002	Batavia, OH
Lance Cade	2	July 20, 2002	Batavia, OH
Cody Hawk	2	July 21, 2002	Jeffersonville, IN
Matt Stryker	1	September 17, 2002	Cincinnati, OH
Chet Jablonski	1	November 9, 2002	Batavia, OH
Matt Stryker	2	January 3, 2003	Batavia OH
Cody Hawk	3	March 24, 2003	Wilmington, OH
Matt Stryker	3	March 29, 2003	Wilmington, OH
Ala Hussein	1	April 15, 2003	Cincinnati, OH
Chad Collyer	2	May 2, 2003	Aurora, IN	Won the title by winning a Royal Rumble type match
Nigel McGuinness	1	September 6, 2003	Batavia, OH
Hoss	1	January 3, 2004	Batavia, OH
Nigel McGuiness	2	January 6, 2004	Cincinnati, OH
El Temor	1	March 17, 2004	Cincinnati, OH
Rory Fox	1	March 30, 2004	Cincinnati, OH
Shawn Osborne	1	March 25, 2005	Dayton, OH
Matt Stryker	4	June 17, 2005	Cincinnati, OH
Cody Hawk	4	September 23, 2005	Cincinnati, OH	Cody Hawk was stripped of championship after testing positive for steroids in November 2005
Pepper Parks	1	January 1, 2006	Cincinnati, OH	Defeated Jon Moxley in tournament final for vacant championship
Jon Moxley	1	May 9, 2006	Cincinnati, OH
Chad Collyer	3	September 12, 2006	Cincinnati, OH
Pepper Parks	2	November 7, 2006	Cincinnati, OH	Pepper Parks vacated the HWA Heavyweight Championship on December 5, 2006 after being "Called Up"
Jon Moxley	2	December 30, 2006	Dayton, OH	Defeated JT Stahr, "Buffalo Bad Boy" Brian Jennings, and Matt Stryker in a fatal 4 way for the vacant title
"Buffalo Bad Boy" Brian Jennings	1	January 2, 2007	Cincinnati, OH
BJ Whitmer	1	January 18, 2008	Dayton, OH	Stripped of the title on June 11, 2008
Jake Crist	1	July 11, 2008	Cincinnati, OH	Defeated Jon Moxley in playoff match
"King Vu" Richard Phillips	1	August 22, 2009	Norwood, OH

[edit] External links

• Official HWA website