| Championshipname: | WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship |
| Promotion: | Windy City Pro Wrestling |
| Created: | May 22, 1999 |
| Mostreigns: | Vito Fontaine (2) DOC (2) Mike Anthony (2) |
| Firstchamp: | Turbo |
| Finalchamp: | Austin Roberts (won May 17, 2008) |
| Longestreign: | Vito Fontaine (736 days) |
| Shortestreign: | Austin Roberts (<1 day) |
| Titleretired: | May 17, 2008 |
The WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship (sometimes called the WCPW Brass Knuckles Championship) was a professional wrestling Hardcore Championship contested for in Windy City Pro Wrestling (WCPW).[1] It was defended in the promotion from 1999 until 2008 when it was merged with the WCPW Heavyweight and League Championships to create a unified "WCPW World Heavyweight Championship".
The inaugural champion was Turbo, who won the title at the 11th annual Battle of the Belts supercard in Chicago, Illinois on May 22, 1999, to become the first WCPW Bare Knuckles Champion. Vito Fontaine, DOC, and Mike Anthony are tied for the record for most reigns, with two each. At 736 days, Fontaine's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Austin Roberts's only reign was the shortest in the history of the title. He defeated the last champion, Acid Jaz, on May 17, 2008, at Battle of the Belts 20 to unify the Bare Knuckles, Heavyweight and League titles. Overall, there have been 11 reigns shared between 14 wrestlers, with three vacancies, and 1 deactivation.
| Order in reign history | ||
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed | |
| Event | The event in which the title was won | |
| - | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign | |
| N/A | The information is not available or is unknown | |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
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| The championship is vacated when Turbo fails to appear for a scheduled title defense and is stripped as champion. A championship tournament is subsequently held over the next three months concluding at the 2-day "War at the World" supercard. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The championship is vacated when Frankie Valiant leaves the promotion. | |||||||||||||||||
| This was an 8-man elimination match involving D.O.C., Rick Walsh, and Don Greed. | [9] [10] | ||||||||||||||||
| Jaz won the title in the opening rounds of the Lee Sanders Memorial Tournament. | [11] | ||||||||||||||||
| This was a unification match also involving Sean Mulligan to unify the WCPW Bare Knuckles, Heavyweight, and League Championships into a unified WCPW World Heavyweight Championship. | [12] | ||||||||||||||||
| Unified with Austin Roberts' WCPW World Heavyweight Championship. |
| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day. |
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