IPWA Heavyweight Championship

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IPWA Heavyweight Championship
Details
Current
champion(s)
Sharon Palty
Date won June 9, 2007
Promotion Israeli Pro Wrestling Association
Date created July 24, 2003

The IPWA Heavyweight Championship is currently the only professional wrestling championship in the Israeli Pro Wrestling Association promotion.

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[edit] History

At the end of 2001, Israeli professional wrestler Gery Roif announced a match between himself and Joey "The Moalm" Tylec to determine the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion; Roif won the match. A tournament was held at the IPWA Netanya Havoc event to determine a new champion (with Roif participating).

  Quarterfinals
(Netanya Havoc)
Semifinals
(Netanya Havoc)
Final
(Netanya Havoc)
                           
   Joey "The Moalm" Tylec Pin  
 Oded Rosenberg 8:27  
     Joey "The Moalm" Tylec 13:18  
     Evgeny Lyder Pin  
 Evgeny Lyder Pin
   The Wonder Boy Maor Ram 7:18  
       Evgeny Lyder Stp1
     Nadav Arbel 22:28
   Gery Roif Pin  
 Sharon "The Bully" Palty 8:22  
     Gery Roif 14:36
     Nadav Arbel Sub  
 Nadav Arbel Pin
   Omri Ilan 6:28  

1The referee stopped the match after Arbel passed out while in the Lyder Lock.

[edit] Current champion

The championship is currently held by Sharon Palty, who defeated Yossi The Bull in a tournament final on 2007-06-09 to win the vacant title.

[edit] Title history

Since the IPWA Heavyweight Championship's inception in 2003, there have been eight different title holders, combining for ten championship reigns.[1]

Wrestler: Times: Date: Location: Notes:
Gery Roif 1 2003-07-24 Herzliya, Israel Defeated Joey Tylec to become the first champion.
Nadav Arbel 1 2004-02-24 Netanya, Israel Defeated Gery Roif in the semifinals of a tournament in which the title is on the line in every match that the champion is in.
Matt Lyder 1 2004-02-24 Netanya, Israel Defeated Nadav Arbel in the same tournament's final.
New York Rosenfeld 1 2004-04-13 Netanya, Israel
Gery Roif 2 2004-04-13 Netanya, Israel
Joey Tylec 1 2004-07-06 Netanya, Israel
Gery Roif 3 2005-04-28 Netanya, Israel
Omry Balely 1 2005-11-17 Tel Aviv, Israel
Hawaii Allen 1 2006-02-28 Tel Aviv, Israel
Allen was stripped of the title in 2007.
Sharon Palty 1 2007-06-09 Tel Aviv, Israel Defeated Yossi The Bull in a tournament final.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tanabe, Hisaharu. I.P.W.A. Heavyweight Title. Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.

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