EWA Heavyweight Championship
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The EWA Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling heavyweight championship in the Eastern Wrestling Alliance (EWA). It has been defended throughout the New England region since its introduction in 1998, specifically, in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
| EWA Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | Eastern Wrestling Alliance | ||||||||||
| Date established | September 1997 | ||||||||||
| Current champion | Ace Romero | ||||||||||
| Date won | July 25th, 2026 | ||||||||||
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The inaugural champion was "Big" Rick Fuller, who was awarded the championship after winning a battle royal by the promotion's executive committee to become the first EWA Heavyweight Champion. The EWA Heavyweight Championship is an intergender championship, with the first and currently only women holding the championship being Master Sandy who won it in August of 1998 and held it for close to a year. Maverick Wild holds the record for most reigns, with three. Seven people have held the championship more than once, in chronological order those being: Dave Vicious(2), Alexander Worthington III(2), Dr. Reginald Heresy(2), Maverick Wild(3), Mikaze(2), 23 Hazard(2), and Ace Romero(2). At 794 days, Alex Cypher's is the longest reign in the championship's history. Mikaze's second reign was the shortest in the history of the championship after he lost it to Sean Burke moments after winning the vacant championship. Overall, there have been 28 reigns shared between twenty wrestlers with seven vacancies.
Title history
- Key
| # | 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 |
Reigns
| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rick Fuller | 1 | September 1997 | 145 | Lewiston, Maine | Live event | Fuller won a battle royal to become the first EWA Heavyweight Champion. | [1] |
| 2 | Tony Atlas | 1 | January 24, 1998 | 196 | Lewiston, Maine | Live event | [1] | |
| 3 | Master Sandy | 1 | August 8, 1998 | 301 | Lewiston, Maine | Live event | First woman to hold the EWA Heavyweight Championship. | [1] |
| 4 | Kentaro-san | 1 | June 5, 1999 | 113 | Lewiston, Maine | Live event | Awarded title after Sandy accidentally hit EWA Vice President Dan Mason with the belt. Her opponent unmasks revealing himself as manager "The Iron Chef". | [1] |
| 5 | Dave Vicious | 1 | September 26, 1999 | 146 | Portland, Maine | Live event | [1] | |
| 6 | Alexander Worthington III | 1 | February 19, 2000 | 112 | Lewiston, Maine | Live event | [1] | |
| — | Vacated | — | June 10, 2000 | — | Wakefield, Massachusetts | Live event | The championship is vacated when Worthington suffers an injury. | [1] |
| 7 | Dave Vicious | 2 | June 10, 2000 | 230 | Wakefield, Massachusetts | Live event | Defeated Alex Arion and Don Juan DeSanto for vacant title. | [1] |
| — | Vacated | — | January 26, 2001 | — | Portland, Maine | Live event | The championship is vacated when Vicious suffers an injury. | [1] |
| 8 | Alexander Worthington III | 2 | February 19, 2001 | 131 | Lewiston, Maine | Live event | [1] | |
| 9 | Dr. Reginald Heresy | 1 | June 30, 2001 | 258 | Portland, Maine | Live event | [1] | |
| 10 | Adam Booker | 1 | March 15, 2002 | 322 | Portland, Maine | Live event | This was a three-way match including Frankie Armadillo. | [1] |
| 11 | R. J. Brewer | 1 | January 31, 2003 | 22 | Southbridge, Massachusetts | Live event | Walters was also the then reigning EWA New England Champion. | [1][2][3] |
| — | Vacated | — | February 22, 2003 | — | Portland, Maine | Live event | The championship is vacated when Walters was stripped of the title. | [1][2] |
| 12 | Steve Ramsey | 1 | March 22, 2003 | 21 | South Portland, Maine | Live event | Defeated John Walters to win the vacant title. | [1][4] |
| 13 | Dr. Reginald Heresy | 2 | April 12, 2003 | 146 | South Portland, Maine | Live event | [1][5] | |
| 14 | Maverick Wild | 1 | September 5, 2003 | 148 | Southbridge, Massachusetts | Live event | [1][6] | |
| 15 | Antonio Thomas | 1 | January 31, 2004 | 20 | Ludlow, Massachusetts | Live event | [1][7] | |
| 16 | Cueball | 1 | February 20, 2004 | 281 | Southbridge, Massachusetts | Live event | [1][8][9] | |
| 17 | Maverick Wild | 2 | November 27, 2004 | 119 | Holyoke, Massachusetts | Live event | [1][10] | |
| 18 | Mighty Mini | 1 | March 26, 2005 | 37 | Holyoke, Massachusetts | Live event | [1][11] | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 2, 2005 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated when the promotion goes on a near-year long hiatus. | |
| 19 | Maverick Wild | 3 | March 4, 2006 | 742 | Orange, Massachusetts | Live event | This was a 30-man battle royal which Maverick Wild won by last eliminating Dr. Heresy. | |
| 20 | Mikaze | 1 | March 15, 2008 | 384 | Orange, Massachusetts | Live event | ||
| — | Vacated | — | April 2009 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated when the promotion goes on a near-year long hiatus. | |
| 21 | Domenic Simone | 1 | November 27, 2010 | 160 | Feeding Hills, Massachusetts | Live event | Defeated William King in a tournament final to win the vacant title. The belt was stolen by the previous champion, Mikaze, and retained the physical belt for the next three months. Simone finally regained the title from Mikaze in a street fight match in Feeding Hills on March 19, 2011. | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 6, 2011 | — | Feeding Hills, Massachusetts | Live event | The championship is vacated when Simone suffers a wrist injury. A battle royal is held in the main event later that night to decide a new champion. When the final two entrants, Mikaze and Sebastian Reese, are both eliminated EWA Senior Official Mike Crockett orders that the title will be decided in a singles match between both men. | |
| 22 | Mikaze | 2 | June 25, 2011 | 0 | Feeding Hills, Massachusetts | Live event | Defeated Sebastian Reese to win the vacant title. | |
| 23 | Sean Burke | 1 | June 25, 2011 | 322 | Feeding Hills, Massachusetts | Live event | ||
| 24 | Alex Cypher | 1 | May 12, 2012 | 794 | Springfield, Massachusetts | Live event | ||
| — | Vacated | — | — | Springfield, Massachusetts | — | The EWA went dormant until EWA-Maine re-established the brand in November of 2023. | ||
| 25 | 23 Hazard | 1 | December 14, 2024 | 336 | Saco, Maine | Live event | Hazard entered number 22 and won a 25 person 'Nightmare for the Gold' match to become the new EWA heavyweight champion - an over-the-top rumble match where the final two go immediately into a singles match with the winner determined by pin fall or submission. | |
| 26 | Ace Romero | 1 | November 15, 2025 | 77 | Saco, Maine | Live event | Defeated 23 Hazard in a singles match | |
| 27 | 23 Hazard | 2 | January 31st, 2026 | 175 | Saco, Maine | Live event | Defeated Ace Romero in a Saco Street Fight | |
| 28 | Ace Romero | 2 | July 25th, 2026 | 48 | Saco, Maine | Live event | Defeated 23 Hazard in a Ladder Match |