SCW Junior Heavyweight Championship (Steel City Wrestling)
The SCW Junior Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship in Steel City Wrestling (SCW). The title was the top junior heavyweight championship of the SCW promotion. It was the second singles championship established in SCW, having been introduced in 1994, in the finals of a four-man tournament.
SCW Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Mike Quackenbush was the final SCW Junior Heavyweight Champion | |||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | Steel City Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | October 8, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
Date retired | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
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SCW Light Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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The inaugural champion was Lord Zoltan, who defeated Scotty McKeever in a tournament final on October 8, 1994 to become the first SCW Junior Heavyweight Champion. No wrestler held the title more than once. At 1,219 days, Zoltan's first and only reign is the longest in the title's history.[1] Reckless Youth's reign was the shortest in the history of the title at 56 days. Overall, there have been 4 reigns shared between 4 wrestlers, with one vacancy, and 1 deactivation.
Title history
- Key
# | Order in reign history |
Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed |
Location | The city in which the title was won |
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 |
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No. | Champion | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref(s). |
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1 | Lord Zoltan | 1 | October 8, 1994 | 1,219 | Connellsville, Pennsylvania | Live event | Zoltan defeated Scotty McKeever in a tournament final to become the first SCW Junior Heavyweight Champion. | [1][2] |
2 | Reckless Youth | 1 | February 8, 1998 | 56 | Irwin, Pennsylvania | Live event | [1][3] | |
— | Vacated | — | April 19, 1998 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship was vacated when Reckless Youth was unable to defend the title due to injury. | |
3 | Christian York | 1 | April 19, 1998 | 103 | Latrobe, Pennsylvania | Live event | This was a four way dance also involving Lou Marconi, Joey Matthews and Mike Quackenbush. | [4] |
4 | Mike Quackenbush | 1 | July 31, 1998 | N/A | Irwin, Pennsylvania | Live event | This was a three way dance also involving Reckless Youth. | [5][6][7] |
— | Deactivated | — | 2000 | — | N/A | N/A | SCW closed during the summer of 2000, and the championship was retired. |
List of combined reigns
![A picture of wrestler Lord Zoltan in the ring.](../I/Lord_Zoltan.jpg.webp)
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
Ref(s). |
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1 | Lord Zoltan | 1 | 1,219 | |
2 | Mike Quackenbush | 1 | 159+ | |
3 | Christian York | 1 | 103 | |
4 | Reckless Youth | 1 | 56 |
References
- General
- "SCW Junior Heavyweight Championship History". Steel City Wrestling. Archived from the original on May 4, 1999. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- Westcott, Brian. "SCW Junior Heavyweight Title History". Solie's Title Histories. Solie.org.
- Gary Will and Royal Duncan (2000). "(United States: Western Pennsylvania". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- Specific
- Frazier, Carol Waterloo (April 16, 2013). "Glassport native receives humanitarian award". McKeesport Daily News.
- "The PWI 500." Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: London Publishing Company. (Holiday 1999): pg. 62.
- Schwan, Brett (2006). "2006 Hall Of Fame Inductees: Reckless Youth". WrestlingClothesline.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012.
- "Christian York Profile". Online World of Wrestling.
- "Mike Quackenbush". Online World of Wrestling.
- "The PWI 500." Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: London Publishing Company. (Holiday 1998): pg. 61.
- "The PWI 500." Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: London Publishing Company. (Holiday 1999): pg. 52.