| Championshipname: | WCPW Middleweight Championship |
| Promotion: | Windy City Pro Wrestling |
| Created: | April 13, 1991 |
| Mostreigns: | Mike Anthony (2) Chris Collins (2) |
| Firstchamp: | K.C. Knight |
| Finalchamp: | Buddy Roberts, Jr. (won September 18, 2010) |
| Longestreign: | Ripper Manson (455 days) |
| Shortestreign: | Mike Londos (<1 day) |
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| Titleretired: | December 16, 2010 |
The WCPW Middleweight Championship was a professional wrestling middleweight championship in Windy City Pro Wrestling (WCPW). It was the original secondary title for the promotion before the creation of the WCPW League Championship in 1993 and its incorporation into the then newly created weight-class division as a legitimate middleweight title (211 to 240 lbs).
The inaugural champion was K.C. Knight, who defeated Mike Samson in Hebron, Indiana on April 13, 1991 to become the first WCW Middleweight Champion. Mike Anthony and Chris "Curse" Collins are tied for the record for most reigns, with two each. At 455 days, Ripper Manson's reign is the longest in the title's history. "The Golden Greek" Mike Londos's reign was the shortest in the history of the title as he lost it to Stone Manson less than 10 minutes after having won the belt. Overall, there have been 27 reigns shared between 25 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 |
| Name | Years | |
|---|---|---|
| WCW Middleweight Championship | 1991 - 1996 | |
| WCPW Middleweight Championship | 1997 - 2010 |
| No. | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref. | |
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| Knight defeated Mike Samson to become the first WCW Middleweight Champion. | [1] [2] [3] < | -- Gary Will's "Wrestling Title Histories" claims the match took place on March 30. --> | |||||||
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| < | -- Cagematch claims the match took place on May 18. --> | ||||||||
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| This was a tournament final. | |||||||||
| This was a Triple Threat match. | [8] | ||||||||
| Dunn voluntarily relinquished the championship to wrestle Curse in a "career vs. career" match at Battle of the Belts 20. | |||||||||
| Defeated Sean Mulligan in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. | |||||||||
| Psycho won all of WCPW's singles titles, with exception to the lightweight championship, in a "Pot of Gold" battle royal. On August 15, 2009, due to his controversial victory, he was ordered by WCPW promoter Sam DeCero to defend his titles in a second battle royal during "Hot Summer Nights". He failed to win and the titles were returned to the previous champions. | |||||||||
| Ryte was awarded the vacant championship. The previous champion, Chris Collins, was stripped as champion due to undergoing back surjury. | |||||||||
| The championship is vacated when WCPW "general manager" Psycho strips all champions of their titles. | |||||||||
| WCPW merged with Chicago Pro Wrestling Academy on December 16, 2010, to form Dynasty Sports Entertainment and Roberts was the final champion in WCPW as a company. |