# HWA Heavyweight Championship

The HWA Heavyweight Championship was the heavyweight title contested in the Heartland Wrestling Association.

## Title history

Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| N/A | The information is not available or is unknown |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | D'Lo Brown | January 5, 1996 | HWA | Fort Wright, KY | 1 | 64 | Defeated Bobby Blaze in the tournament final to become inaugural champion. | |
| 2 | Bobby Blaze | March 9, 1996 | HWA | Ashland, KY | 1 | 7 | | |
| 3 | D'Lo Brown | March 16, 1996 | HWA | Lima, OH | 2 | 77-106 | | |
| Title became inactive from June 1996 to May 2000 |||||||||
| 4 | Race Steele | May 25, 2000 | 3rd Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 246 | Steele defeated Chip Fairway in the tournament final to win vacant title. | |
| 5 | Chad Collyer | January 26, 2001 | HWA | Rising Sun, IN | 1 | 32 | | |
| Chad Collyer stripped of title on February 27, 2001. |||||||||
| 6 | Shark Boy | February 27, 2001 | HWA | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 17 | This was a Battle Royal match for the vacant title. | |
| 7 | Race Steele | March 16, 2001 | HWA | Rising Sun, IN | 2 | 113 | | |
| 8 | Cody Hawk | July 7, 2001 | HWA | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 28 | | |
| 9 | Race Steele | August 4, 2001 | HWA | Batavia, OH | 3 | 5 | | |
| 10 | Nick Dinsmore | August 9, 2001 | 4th Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 9 | | |
| 11 | Race Steele | August 18, 2001 | HWA | Dayton, OH | 4 | 88 | | |
| Championship was held up on September 30, 2001 |||||||||
| 12. | E. Z. Money | November 14, 2001 | | Dayton, OH | 1 | 56 | Defeated D'Lo Brown in tournament final. | |
| 13. | Charlie Haas | January 9, 2002 | | Dayton, OH | 1 | 20 | Defeated Val Venis in tournament final; Stripped of title January 29, 2002. | |
| 14. | E. Z. Money | January 29, 2002 | | Dayton, OH | 2 | 45 | Was awarded title after Charlie Haas was stripped. | |
| 15. | Rico Constantino | March 15, 2002 | | Dayton, OH | 1 | 2 | | |
| 16. | Stevie Richards | March 17, 2002 | | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 3 | | |
| 17. | Race Steele | March 20, 2002 | | Cincinnati, OH | 5 | 49 | | |
| 18. | Johnny the Bull | May 8, 2002 | | Dayton, OH | 1 | 11 | | |
| 19. | Lance Cade | May 19, 2002 | | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 62 | | |
| 20. | Johnny the Bull | July 20, 2002 | | Batavia, OH | 2 | <1 | | |
| 21. | Lance Cade | July 20, 2002 | | Batavia, OH | 2 | 1 | | |
| 22. | Cody Hawk | July 21, 2002 | | Jeffersonville, IN | 2 | 58 | | |
| 23. | Matt Stryker | September 17, 2002 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 53 | | |
| 24. | Chet Jablonski | November 9, 2002 | | Batavia, OH | 1 | 55 | | |
| 25. | Matt Stryker | January 3, 2003 | | Batavia OH | 2 | 80 | | |
| 26. | Cody Hawk | March 24, 2003 | | Wilmington, OH | 3 | 5 | | |
| 27. | Matt Stryker | March 29, 2003 | | Wilmington, OH | 3 | 17 | | |
| 28. | Ala Hussein | April 15, 2003 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 17 | | |
| 29. | Chad Collyer | May 2, 2003 | | Aurora, IN | 2 | 127 | Won the title by winning a Royal Rumble type match. | |
| 30. | Nigel McGuinness | September 6, 2003 | | Batavia, OH | 1 | 119 | | |
| 31. | Hoss | January 3, 2004 | | Batavia, OH | 1 | 3 | | |
| 32. | Nigel McGuinness | January 6, 2004 | | Cincinnati, OH | 2 | 71 | | |
| 33. | El Temor | March 17, 2004 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 13 | | |
| 34. | Rory Fox | March 30, 2004 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 360 | | |
| 35 | Shawn Osborne | March 25, 2005 | | Dayton, OH | 1 | 84 | | |
| 36. | Matt Stryker | June 17, 2005 | | Cincinnati, OH | 4 | 98 | | |
| 37. | Cody Hawk | September 23, 2005 | | Cincinnati, OH | 4 | 39-68 | Cody Hawk was stripped of championship after testing positive for steroids in November 2005. | |
| 38. | Pepper Parks | January 1, 2006 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 128 | Defeated Jon Moxley in tournament final for vacant championship. | |
| 39. | Jon Moxley | May 9, 2006 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 126 | | |
| 40. | Chad Collyer | September 12, 2006 | | Cincinnati, OH | 3 | 56 | | |
| 41. | Pepper Parks | November 7, 2006 | | Cincinnati, OH | 2 | 28 | Pepper Parks vacated the HWA Heavyweight Championship on December 5, 2006 after being "Called Up". | |
| 42. | Jon Moxley | December 30, 2006 | | Dayton, OH | 2 | 3 | Defeated JT Stahr, "Buffalo Bad Boy" Brian Jennings, and Matt Stryker in a fatal 4 way for the vacant title. | |
| 43. | Brian Jennings | January 2, 2007 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 381 | | |
| 44 | B. J. Whitmer | January 18, 2008 | | Dayton, OH | 1 | 145 | Stripped of the title on June 11, 2008. | |
| 45. | Jake Crist | July 11, 2008 | | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | 407 | Defeated Jon Moxley in playoff match. | |
| 46. | Richard Phillips | August 22, 2009 | | Norwood, OH | 1 | 119 | | |
| 47. | Aaron Williams | December 19, 2009 | | Norwood, OH | 1 | 18 | | |
| 48. | Jon Moxley | January 6, 2010 | | Middletown, OH | 3 | 189 | Jon Moxley cashed in his Pick Your Poison title shot. | |
| 49. | Gerome Phillips | July 14, 2010 | | Middletown, OH | 2 | 248 | | |
| 50. | B. J. Whitmer | March 19, 2011 | | Norwood, OH | 2 | 161 | | |
| 51. | Jesse Emerson | August 27, 2011 | | Norwood, OH | 1 | 112 | | |
| 52. | Jake Crist | December 17, 2011 | | Hamilton, OH | 2 | 307 | Jake Crist cashed in his Pick Your Poison title shot. | |
| 53. | Ron Mathis | October 19, 2012 | | Hamilton, OH | 1 | 281 | Ron Mathis cashed in his Pick Your Poison title shot, after Crist had already defended the title against Jesse Emerson. | |
| 54. | Chance Prophet | July 27, 2013 | | Hamilton, OH | 1 | 343 | Chance Prophet won the championship against Ron Mathis at the Tournament of B.E.S.T. after Prophet was made the booker of HWA. | |
| 55. | Dustin Rayz | July 5, 2014 | | Middletown, OH | 1 | — | Dustin Rayz won the championship against Chance Prophet at Cyber Clash 7.0: Egos Rising. This was after the writing/booking duties were removed from Prophet. | |
| Retired in 2015 |||||||||