ICW Heavyweight Championship

ICW World Heavyweight Championship

Details

Promotion

Date established

May 10, 1978

Date retired

1984

Statistics
First champion(s)	Lanny Poffo
Most reigns	Lanny Poffo (4 reigns)
Longest reign	Uncertain^{[Note 1]}
Shortest reign	Uncertain^{[Note 1]}
Oldest winner	Paul Christy (7009140909760000000♠44 years, 238 days)
Youngest winner	Lanny Poffo (7008737316000000000♠23 years, 133 days)
Heaviest champion	Randy Savage (237 lb (108 kg))
Lightest champion	Lanny Poffo (221 lb (100 kg))

The ICW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship of International Championship Wrestling. Many title defenses featured matches between Randy Savage and his real-life brother Lanny Poffo. After the original ICW shut down in 1984, Paul Christy started his own ICW promotion. The title history in 1979 is not clear. It is possible that Randy Savage won the title in July rather than on March 13.^[1] In addition, one source does not recognize the title changes between Savage and Poffo between this reign and 1982, as it claims that Savage won the title in 1979 and held it for over four years before dropping it to Christy.^[1] Because the championship is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The championship is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.^[2]

Title history

Key

Symbol	Meaning
#	The overall championship reign
Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
—	Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign

#	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
1	Poffo, LannyLanny Poffo	1	000000001978-05-10-0000May 10, 1978	7002307000000000000♠307	San Francisco, California	ICW Live event	Defeated Joe Banek to become the first champion.^[1]
2	Savage, RandyRandy Savage	1	000000001979-03-13-0000March 13, 1979	7002130000000000000♠130	Halifax, Nova Scotia	ICW Live event	May be for AGPW International Title; Savage may win the title in July 1979.^[1]
3	Poffo, LannyLanny Poffo	2	000000001979-07-21-0000July 21, 1979	0 !^{[Note 2]}	Lexington, Kentucky	ICW Live event	^[1]
4	Garvin, RonRon Garvin	2	000000001980-01-12-0000January 12, 1980	0 !^{[Note 2]}	0 !^{[Note 3]}	ICW Live event	^[1]
5	Savage, RandyRandy Savage	2	000000001980-04-05-0000April 5, 1980	0 !^{[Note 2]}	0 !^{[Note 3]}	ICW Live event	Sometime after March 8, 1980. ^[1]
6	Poffo, LannyLanny Poffo	3	1981	0 !^{[Note 2]}	0 !^{[Note 3]}	ICW Live event	Sometime after August 8, 1980. ^[1]
7	Savage, RandyRandy Savage	3	1982	0 !^{[Note 2]}	0 !^{[Note 3]}	ICW Live event	^[1]
8	Christy, PaulPaul Christy	1	000000001983-11-13-0000November 13, 1983	7001490000000000000♠49	Springfield, Illinois	ICW Live event	^[1]
9	Poffo, LannyLanny Poffo	4	000000001984-01-01-0000January 1, 1984	0 !^{[Note 2]}	Springfield, Illinois	ICW Live event	^[1]
10	Christy, PaulPaul Christy	2	000000001984-01-01-00001984	0 !^{[Note 2]}	0 !^{[Note 3]}	ICW Live event	^[1]
10.5 !—	Abandoned	0 !N/A	000000001984-01-01-00001984	0 !N/A	0 !N/A	0 !N/A	Championship abandoned when ICW closed in 1984.

Footnotes

1 2 Due to gaps in the championship history it is impossible to determine this.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Neither the date the title was won or lost has been documented, making it too uncertain to determine any length for this reign.
1 2 3 4 5 The location of the match was not captured as part of the championship documentation.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "ICW World Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles. Retrieved 2008-02-15.
↑ Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works. Retrieved April 5, 2009.

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