| ICW World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | Insane Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||
| Date established | 15 October 2006[1] | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Jack Jester | ||||||||||
| Date won | 10 December 2023 | ||||||||||
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The ICW World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by Scotland's Insane Championship Wrestling promotion. The title was first established as the ICW National Heavyweight Championship at ICW's debut show on October 15, 2006, with Drew Galloway becoming the inaugural champion.[2] On February 7, 2015, the title was officially renamed the ICW World Heavyweight Championship after Galloway successfully defended the title in a match against Matt Hardy for the Family Wrestling Entertainment promotion in New York.[3][4][5] The championship has been defended in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Australia, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Canada. In addition to these international title matches, defenses televised in 38 countries via Fight Network as well as an international presence on iPPV.[6][7]
Overall, there have been twenty-seven reigns shared among twenty wrestlers, with three vacancies. The championship was vacant for 74 days as ICW had to strip Noam Dar of the title on 7 September 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions.[8]
The championship was featured prominently in both the Insane Fight Club documentaries produced by the BBC.[9][10]
- ^ a b Philip Kreikenbohm. "ICW Fear & Loathing - Debut Show". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "BBC One - Insane Fight Club, Insane Fight Club - Drew Galloway". BBC.
- ^ "FWE Wrestling". Twitter. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "Mark Dallas". Twitter. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ ICW has a World Heavyweight Champion!. 7 February 2015 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Fight Network Signs Global TV Deal with U.K.-Based Insane Championship Wrestling | Fight Network". Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ "ICW: ICW Fight Club Comes To Nuvolari!". Archived from the original on 3 April 2016.
- ^ "ICW strip NXT UK superstar of World Championship". 7 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ "BBC One - Insane Fight Club, Insane Fight Club". BBC.
- ^ "BBC One - Insane Fight Club, Episode 2". BBC. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 29 February 2016.