# FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship

The FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship owned and promoted by Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), a former developmental territory of WWE. It was contested for in their heavyweight division. The championship was created and debuted on February 15, 2008, at a FCW house show.
The first champion was Jake Hager who won a 23-man battle royal by defeating Ted DiBiase Jr. to become the first champion. On March 22, 2008, Hager defeated FCW Southern Heavyweight Champion Heath Miller to unify the two championships and retire the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship. Bo Rotundo/Dallas holds the record for the most reigns with three reigns. Leo Kruger, Rick Victor and Bo Rotundo all hold the record for shortest reign, because all three have individually won and lost the title on the same day. Jake Hager holds the record for the longest reign (as an individual) with 216 days. In August 2012, the championship was retired when FCW was closed down and WWE created NXT as the new farm territory and replaced with the NXT Championship. The final champion was Richie Steamboat, who defeated Rick Victor to win the title.

## Reigns

Over the championship's four-year history, there have been 21 reigns between 17 champions. Jake Hager was the inaugural champion. Bo Dallas, formerly known as Bo Rotundo, holds the record for most reigns at three times. Hager's reign is the longest at 216 days, while Rick Victor's and Rotundo's first reigns and Leo Kruger's second reign lasted less than a day. Sheamus O'Shaunessy is the oldest champion at 30 years old, while Rotundo is the youngest at 20 years old.
Richie Steamboat was the final champion in his first reign. He won the title by defeating Victor on July 20, 2012, and held it for 25 days until FCW closed on August 14.
Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Jake Hager | February 15, 2008 | Live event | Tampa, FL | 1 | 216 | Hager defeated Ted DiBiase Jr. after both were the two remaining superstars in a 23-man battle royal. On March 22, 2008, Hager defeated FCW Southern Heavyweight Champion Heath Miller to unify the two championships and retire the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship. | |
| 2 | Sheamus O'Shaunessy | September 18, 2008 | Live event | Tampa, FL | 1 | 84 | | |
| 3 | Eric Escobar | December 11, 2008 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 77 | | |
| 4 | Joe Hennig | February 26, 2009 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 21 | | |
| — | Vacated | March 19, 2009 | — | — | — | — | Joe Hennig was forced to turn in his championship due to injury. | |
| 5 | Drew McIntyre | March 19, 2009 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 84 | Defeated Eric Escobar to win the vacant championship. | |
| 6 | Tyler Reks | June 11, 2009 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 63 | | |
| 7 | Heath Miller | August 13, 2009 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 42 | | |
| 8 | Justin Angel | September 24, 2009 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 175 | This was a two out of three falls match. | |
| 9 | Alex Riley | March 18, 2010 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 126 | This was a three–way match, also involving Wade Barrett. | |
| 10 | Mason Ryan | July 22, 2010 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 196 | This was a three–way match, also involving Johnny Curtis. | |
| 11 | Bo Rotundo | February 3, 2011 | March of Champions | Tampa, FL | 1 | <1 | Norman Smiley was the special guest referee. | |
| 12 | Lucky Cannon | February 3, 2011 | March of Champions | Tampa, FL | 1 | 105 | Brett DiBiase was the special guest referee. | |
| 13 | Bo Rotundo | May 19, 2011 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 2 | 105 | Brett DiBiase was the special guest referee. | |
| — | Vacated | September 1, 2011 | FCW | Tampa, FL | — | — | The championship was vacated after Bo Rotundo was sidelined with an injury. | |
| 14 | Leo Kruger | September 1, 2011 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 154 | This was a fatal–four-way match, also involving Damien Sandow, Dean Ambrose and Husky Harris. | |
| 15 | Mike Dalton | February 2, 2012 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 21 | | |
| 16 | Leo Kruger | February 23, 2012 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 2 | <1 | | |
| 17 | Seth Rollins | February 23, 2012 | FCW | Tampa, FL | 1 | 98 | | |
| 18 | Rick Victor | May 31, 2012 | Live event | Crystal River, FL | 1 | <1 | | |
| 19 | Bo Dallas | May 31, 2012 | Live event | Crystal River, FL | 3 | 43 | | |
| 20 | Rick Victor | July 13, 2012 | Live event | Punta Gorda, FL | 2 | 7 | | |
| 21 | Richie Steamboat | July 20, 2012 | Live event | St. Augustine, FL | 1 | 25 | | |
| — | Deactivated | August 14, 2012 | — | Tampa, FL | — | — | Title retired when FCW closed down. | |

## Combined reigns

| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Jake Hager | 1 | 216 |
| 2 | Mason Ryan | 1 | 196 |
| 3 | Justin Angel | 1 | 175 |
| 4 | Leo Kruger | 2 | 154 |
| 5 | Bo Dallas/Bo Rotundo | 3 | 149 |
| 6 | Alex Riley | 1 | 126 |
| 7 | Lucky Cannon | 1 | 105 |
| 8 | Seth Rollins | 1 | 98 |
| 9 | Sheamus O'Shaunessy | 1 | 84 |
| 9 | Drew McIntyre | 1 | 84 |
| 11 | Eric Escobar | 1 | 77 |
| 12 | Tyler Reks | 1 | 63 |
| 13 | Heath Miller | 1 | 42 |
| 14 | Richie Steamboat | 1 | 25 |
| 15 | Joe Hennig | 1 | 21 |
| 15 | Mike Dalton | 1 | 21 |
| 17 | Rick Victor | 2 | 8 |