WLW Heavyweight Championship

WLW Heavyweight Championship
200px Go Shiozaki holding the WLW Heavyweight Championship
Details
Current champion(s)	Leland Race (4th reign)
Date won	May 27, 2013
Date established	February 1999
Promotion	World League Wrestling
Statistics First champion(s) Steve Sharp Most reigns Wade Chism and Luminous Warrior (5 reigns) Longest reign Trevor Murdoch (434-464 days) Shortest reign Wade Chism, Luminous Warrior and Rick Steiner (1 day)

The World League Wrestling (WLW) Heavyweight Championship, is the top title contested for the independent professional wrestling promotion World League Wrestling. The current champion is Leland Race, who in his fourth reign. He defeated Ace Steel on November 15, 2014 in Troy, Missouri.

Title history

#	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Notes
1	Steve Sharp	1	February 12, 1999		Springfield, Missouri	Defeated Greg Valentine in a tournament final.
2	Derek Stone	1	April 17, 1999		Quincy, Illinois
—	Vacated	—	November 13, 1999	—	Osage Beach, Missouri	The title was held up after a match against Luminous Warrior.
3	Derek Stone	2	November 14, 1999		Kansas City, Missouri	Stone was awarded the title due to an injury to Luminous Warrior.
4	Luminous Warrior	1	January 22, 2000		California, Missouri
5	Derek Stone	3	January 23, 2000		Lexington, Missouri
6	Luminous Warrior	2	February 26, 2000		Iberia, Missouri
7	Mr. Destiny	1	March 18, 2000		Mexico, Missouri
8	Luminous Warrior	3	March 31, 2000		Kahoka, Missouri	Warrior won by reverse decision after Mr. Destiny won the match by hitting Warrior with the title belt.
9	Meng	1	April 20, 2000		Grain Valley, Missouri
10	Trevor Rhodes	1	April 22, 2000		Eldon, Missouri
11	Griz	1	June 17, 2000		Osage Beach, Missouri
12	Meng	2	October 20, 2000		Springfield, Missouri
13	The Barbarian	1	November 3, 2000		Belle, Missouri
14	Griz	2	November 10, 2000		Joplin, Missouri
15	Luminous Warrior	4	January 20, 2001		Eldon, Missouri
16	Butch Reed	1	March 31, 2001		Crocker, Missouri
17	Dennis McHawes	1	January 25, 2002		Imperial, Missouri
—	Vacated	—	June 29, 2002	—	East St. Louis, Illinois
18	Wild Wade Chism	1	June 29, 2002		East St. Louis, Illinois
19	Takao Omori	1	July 13, 2002		Omaha, Nebraska
20	Superstar Steve	1	January 4, 2003		Neosho, Missouri
21	Haku	3	February 8, 2003		El Dorado Springs, Missouri
—	Vacated	—	March 22, 2003	—	—	The title was vacated after match against Trevor Rhodes.
22	Ron Powers	1	May 2, 2003		Kansas City, Missouri	Defeated Superstar Steve in a tournament final.
23	Ron Harris	1	July 19, 2003		Eldon, Missouri
24	Takeshi Morishima	1	September 12, 2003		Tokyo, Japan	Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigation Over the Date Line tour.
25	Rick Steiner	1	March 26, 2004		Chariton, Iowa
26	Takeshi Morishima	2	March 27, 2004		Bolivar, Missouri
27	Daisuke Ikeda	1	June 1, 2004		Sapporo, Japan	Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigation with Breeze tour.
28	Rick Steiner	2	August 1, 2004		Nagoya, Japan	Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Exceeding Our Dreams tour.
29	Trevor Rhodes	2	November 19, 2004		Columbus, Nebraska
30	Ty Dalton	1	June 4, 2005		Eldon, Missouri
31	Wade Chism	2	July 23, 2005		Eldon, Missouri
—	Vacated	—	January 28, 2006	—	Eldon, Missouri	The title was held up after a match against Keith Walker.
32	Wade Chism	3	February 24, 2006		St. Joseph, Missouri	Defeated Jason Bates and Keith Walker in a three-way match.
33	Jason Bates	1	February 25, 2006		El Dorado Springs, Missouri
34	Wade Chism	4	April 15, 2006		El Dorado Springs, Missouri
35	Keith Walker	1	May 13, 2006		St. Joseph, Missouri
36	Wade Chism	5	July 8, 2006		Eldon, Missouri	This was a lumberjack match.
37	Daniel Cross	1	August 26, 2006		West Plains, Missouri
38	Trevor Murdoch	3	December 9, 2006		Maryland Heights, Missouri
39	Derek McQuinn	1	July 13, 2007		Waterloo, Iowa
40	Keith Walker	2	October 27, 2007		Maryland Heights, Missouri
41	Chris Masters	1	February 9, 2008		Fordland, Missouri
42	Derek McQuinn	2	April 25, 2008		Lebanon, Missouri
—	Vacated	—	September 13, 2008	—	—	Derek McQuinn vacated the title due to his having to retire due to injury.
43	Go Shiozaki	1	October 4, 2008		West Plains, Missouri	Won a nine-man battle royal.
—	Vacated	—	January 30, 2009	—	Richmond, Missouri
44	Steve Anthony	1	January 30, 2009		Richmond, Missouri	Defeated Eugene and Superstar Steve in a three-way match.
45	Superstar Steve	2	March 21, 2009		Eldon, Missouri
46	Brian Breaker	1	October 3, 2009		Eldon, Missouri
47	Trent Stone	1	March 5, 2010		Leavenworth, Kansas
48	Trevor Murdoch	4	April 23, 2010	N/A	Richmond, Missouri	The title was vacated in July 2011.
—	Vacated	—	July, 2011	—	—
49	Brian Breaker	2	September 18, 2011		Burlington, Iowa	Defeated Jason Jones (Leland Race) to win the vacated title.
50	Jason Jones (Leland Race)	1	November 12, 2011		Richmond, Missouri
51	Britton Tucker	1	November 10, 2012		Springfield, Missouri
52	Jason Jones	2	December 8, 2012		Richmond, Missouri
–	Vacant	–	May 27, 2013	–	–	Race stops wrestling as Jones and reverts to his real name.
53	Elvis Aliaga	1	September 14, 2013		Richmond, Missouri	Defeated Leland Race in tournament final.
54	Leland Race	3	April 19, 2014		Richmond, Missouri
55	Ace Steel	1	July 26, 2014		Troy, Missouri
56	Leland Race	4	November 15, 2014		Troy, Missouri

External links

• World League Wrestling's official site