WLW Heavyweight Championship

Statistics
First champion(s)	Steve Sharp
Most reigns	Wade Chism, Trevor Murdoch and Leland Race (5 reigns)
Longest reign	Trevor Murdoch (434-464 days)
Shortest reign	Wade Chism, Luminous Warrior and Rick Steiner (1 day)

WLW Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion	World League Wrestling
Date established	February 1999
Current champion(s)	Leland Race (5th reign)
Date won	October 19, 2019
Statistics
First champion(s)	Steve Sharp
Most reigns	Wade Chism, Trevor Murdoch and Leland Race (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 Derek Stone, who is in his fourth reign.

Title history

#	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Notes
1	Steve Sharp	1	February 12, 1999	64	Springfield, Missouri	Defeated Greg Valentine in a tournament final.[1]
2	Derek Stone	1	April 17, 1999	210	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	69	Kansas City, Missouri	Stone was awarded the title due to an injury to Luminous Warrior.
4	Luminous Warrior	1	January 22, 2000	1	California, Missouri
5	Derek Stone	3	January 23, 2000	34	Lexington, Missouri
6	Luminous Warrior	2	February 26, 2000	21	Iberia, Missouri
7	Mr. Destiny	1	March 18, 2000	13	Mexico, Missouri
8	Luminous Warrior	3	March 31, 2000	20	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	2	Grain Valley, Missouri
10	Trevor Rhodes	1	April 22, 2000	181	Eldon, Missouri
11	Griz	1	June 17, 2000	125	Osage Beach, Missouri
12	Meng	2	October 20, 2000	14	Springfield, Missouri
13	The Barbarian	1	November 3, 2000	7	Belle, Missouri
14	Griz	2	November 10, 2000	71	Joplin, Missouri
15	Luminous Warrior	4	January 20, 2001	70	Eldon, Missouri
16	Butch Reed	1	March 31, 2001	300	Crocker, Missouri
17	Dennis McHawes	1	January 25, 2002	155	Imperial, Missouri
—	Vacated	—	June 29, 2002	—	East St. Louis, Illinois
18	Wade Chism	1	June 29, 2002	4	East St. Louis, Illinois
19	Takao Omori	1	July 13, 2002	175	Omaha, Nebraska
20	Superstar Steve	1	January 4, 2003	35	Neosho, Missouri
21	Haku	3	February 8, 2003	42	El Dorado Springs, Missouri
—	Vacated	—	March 22, 2003	—	—	The title was vacated after match against Trevor Rhodes.
22	Ron Powers	1	May 2, 2003	78	Kansas City, Missouri	Defeated Superstar Steve in a tournament final.
23	Ron Harris	1	July 19, 2003	55	Eldon, Missouri
24	Takeshi Morishima	1	September 12, 2003	196	Tokyo, Japan	Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigation Over the Date Line tour.
25	Rick Steiner	1	March 26, 2004	1	Chariton, Iowa
26	Takeshi Morishima	2	March 27, 2004	66	Bolivar, Missouri
27	Daisuke Ikeda	1	June 1, 2004	61	Sapporo, Japan	Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigation with Breeze tour.
28	Rick Steiner	2	August 1, 2004	110	Nagoya, Japan	Won the title on Pro Wrestling NOAH's Exceeding Our Dreams tour.
29	Trevor Rhodes	2	November 19, 2004	197	Columbus, Nebraska
30	Ty Dalton	1	June 4, 2005	49	Eldon, Missouri	Dalton won the WLW Heavyweight Championship in his debut match with WLW
31	Wade Chism	2	July 23, 2005	189	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	1	St. Joseph, Missouri	Defeated Jason Bates and Keith Walker in a three-way match.
33	Jason Bates	1	February 25, 2006	49	El Dorado Springs, Missouri
34	Wade Chism	4	April 15, 2006	28	El Dorado Springs, Missouri
35	Keith Walker	1	May 13, 2006	56	St. Joseph, Missouri
36	Wade Chism	5	July 8, 2006	49	Eldon, Missouri	This was a lumberjack match. Chism became the first 5 time WLW Heavyweight Champion
37	Daniel Cross	1	August 26, 2006	105	West Plains, Missouri	Daniel Cross became the youngest WLW heavyweight Champion at 20 years old.
38	Trevor Murdoch (Trevor Rhodes)	3	December 9, 2006	216	Maryland Heights, Missouri	Murdoch defeated Cross and Ted Dibiase Jr in a 3 way match with Dave Hebner as special referee. Murdoch was under contract with WWE during his reign as Champion.
39	Derek McQuinn	1	July 13, 2007	106	Waterloo, Iowa	McQuinn won at "Night of Legends"event.
40	Keith Walker	2	October 27, 2007	105	Maryland Heights, Missouri	Walker won the Championship on his first match back from his WWE release.
41	Chris Masters	1	February 9, 2008	76	Fordland, Missouri
42	Derek McQuinn	2	April 25, 2008	141	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	119	West Plains, Missouri	Won a nine-man battle royal.
—	Vacated	—	January 30, 2009	—	Richmond, Missouri
44	Steve Anthony	1	January 30, 2009	50	Richmond, Missouri	Defeated Eugene and Superstar Steve in a three-way match.
45	Superstar Steve	2	March 21, 2009	196	Eldon, Missouri
46	Brian Breaker	1	October 3, 2009	153	Eldon, Missouri
47	Trent Stone	1	March 5, 2010	49	Leavenworth, Kansas
48	Trevor Murdoch	4	April 23, 2010	N/A [Note 1]	Richmond, Missouri	The title was vacated in July 2011.
—	Vacated	—	July, 2011	—	—
49	Brian Breaker	2	September 18, 2011	55	Burlington, Iowa	Defeated Jason Jones (Leland Race) to win the vacated title.
50	Jason Jones	1	November 12, 2011	364	Richmond, Missouri
51	Britton Tucker	1	November 10, 2012	28	Springfield, Missouri
52	Jason Jones	2	December 8, 2012	170	Richmond, Missouri
–	Vacated	–	May 27, 2013	–	–	Race stops wrestling as Jones and reverts to his real name.
53	Elvis Aliaga	1	September 14, 2013	217	Richmond, Missouri	Defeated Leland Race in tournament final.
54	Leland Race	3	April 19, 2014	98	Richmond, Missouri	Previously known as Jason Jones
55	Ace Steel	1	July 26, 2014	112	Troy, Missouri
56	Leland Race	4	November 15, 2014	364	Troy, Missouri
57	Trevor Murdoch	5	November 14, 2015	448	Troy, Missouri
–	Vacated	–	2016	–	–
58	Karim Brigante	1	February 4, 2017	77	Troy, Missouri	Defeated Leland Race and Steve Fender in tournament final.[2]
59	Leland Race	5	April 22, 2017	322	Richmond, Missouri
60	Jon Webb	1	March 10, 2018	420	Moscow Mills, Missouri
61	Derek Stone	4	May 4, 2019	168	Troy, Missouri
62	Leland Race	5	October 19, 2019	221+	Burlington Junction, Missouri	WLW The Harley Race Memorial Show

Footnotes

The title was vacated on an unspecified day in July 2011, putting his reign between 434 and 464 days.

References

Hoops, Brian (February 12, 2017). "On this day in pro wrestling history (Feb 12): Christian Cage wins gold in TNA". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
http://www.pwinsiderxtra.com/ViewArticle.php?id=32923&p=1

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[2] The title was vacated on an unspecified day in July 2011, putting his reign between 434 and 464 days.

[F4W0212-1] Hoops, Brian (February 12, 2017). "On this day in pro wrestling history (Feb 12): Christian Cage wins gold in TNA". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

[3] ttp://www.pwinsiderxtra.com/ViewArticle.php?id=32923&p=1