# IWA Mid-South Women's Championship

The IWA Mid-South Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling title owned and promoted by the Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South professional wrestling promotion. The title was created on May 30, 2004, in a one night tournament titled "Volcano Girls" at the National Guard Armory in Hammond, Indiana co-promoted by IWA Mid-South Wrestling and NWA Midwest Wrestling. Until June 17, 2005, it was a joint championship with the NWA Midwest Women's Championship and was known as the NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship. The championship is usually won and defended by women, although two men have once won the title such as Chuck Taylor and Lukas Jacobs. There have been a total of 24 reigns held between 17 distinctive champions and one vacancy. The current champion is Thunderkitty who is in her second reign.

## Title history

On May 30, 2004, Lacey defeated Daizee Haze and Mercedes Martinez in a three-way elimination match in tournament final to become the inaugural champion.
Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship | NWA Midwest/IWA Mid-South Women's Championship |
| 1 | Lacey | May 30, 2004 | Volcano Girls | Hammond, IN | 1 | 110 | Lacey defeated Daizee Haze and Mercedes Martinez in a three-way elimination match in tournament final to become the inaugural champion. | |
| 2 | Mercedes Martinez | September 17, 2004 | 2004 Ted Petty Invitational | Highland, IN | 1 | 120 | | |
| 3 | Ariel | January 5, 2005 | New England Championship Wrestling live event | Framingham, MA | 1 | 28 | This was a three-way match, also involving Hayley Skye. | |
| 4 | Daizee Haze | February 12, 2005 | House show | Highland, IN | 1 | 84 | This was a six-way elimination match, also involving Cheerleader Melissa, Mickie Knuckles, MsChif and Sara Del Rey. | |
| 5 | MsChif | May 7, 2005 | House show | Streamwood, IL | 1 | 35 | This live event was promoted by Ed Chuman. | |
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| 6 | Mickie Knuckles | June 11, 2005 | House show | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 160 | This was a three-way match, also involving Allison Danger. On June 17, 2005, in Midlothian, Illinois, Ed Chuman, NWA Midwest promoter, declares that a supposed title change on June 11 (an IWA Mid-South event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Mickie Knuckles defeated Danger and MsChif in a three-way match to become champion in IWA's eyes) is invalid due to the match not being sanctioned by the NWA. The two titles then split into separate entities as IWA Mid-South promoter Ian Rotten recognized Knuckles as champion with her win over MsChif. Knuckles is thus the first strictly IWA Mid-South Women's Champion, and is where that portion of the title lineage begins. | |
| 7 | Hailey Hatred | November 18, 2005 | IWA Mid-South King of the Death Matches 2005 | Plainfield, IN | 1 | 82 | | |
| 8 | Mickie Knuckles | February 8, 2006 | IWA East Coast a Need to Bleed 2006 | South Charleston, WV | 2 | 528 | | |
| 9 | Chuck Taylor | July 21, 2007 | IWA Mid-South Bad Blood Rising | Joliet, IL | 1 | 14 | Taylor's IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship was also on the line. He became the first male wrestler to hold the title. | |
| 10 | Mickie Knuckles | August 4, 2007 | IWA Mid-South Extreme Heaven 2007 | Plainfield, IN | 3 | 272 | This was a no-countout falls count anywhere match. | |
| 11 | Daizee Haze | May 2, 2008 | IWA Mid-South Fan Appreciation Night | Indianapolis, IN | 2 | 218 | This was a three-way match, also involving Sara Del Rey. | |
| — | Vacated | December 6, 2008 | Candido Cup 2008 | Joliet, IL | — | — | Ian Rotten announced that all titles are being done away with in IWA except for the IWA World Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Titles. | |
| 12 | Shotzi Blackheart | April 19, 2018 | IWA Mid-South Miss Independent | Memphis, IN | 1 | 182 | Blackheart defeated Kikyo in the tournament final to win the reactivated championship. | |
| 13 | Amazing Maria | October 18, 2018 | IWA Mid-South 22nd Anniversary Show | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 65 | This was a falls count anywhere match. | |
| 14 | Lukas Jacobs | December 22, 2018 | IWA Mid-South Big Ass Christmas Bash 2018 | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 12 | Jacobs became the second male wrestler to hold the championship. | |
| 15 | Max the Impaler | January 3, 2019 | IWA Mid-South RassleKingdom | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 43 | | |
| 16 | Amazing Maria | February 15, 2019 | IWA Mid-South Heartbreak 2019 | Jeffersonville, IN | 2 | 15 | This was a three-way match, also involving Thunderkitty. | |
| 17 | Nevaeh | March 2, 2019 | IWA Mid-South in Like a Lion 2019 | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 82 | | |
| 18 | Max the Impaler | May 23, 2019 | IWA Mid-South Payback, Pain and Agony 2019 | Jeffersonville, IN | 2 | 49 | | |
| 19 | Alice Crowley | July 11, 2019 | IWA Mid-South Welcome to the Danger Zone | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 238 | | |
| 20 | Haley J | March 5, 2020 | IWA Mid-South Let The Madness Begin | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 233 | This was a tables match. | |
| 21 | Thunderkitty | October 24, 2020 | IWA Mid-South 24th Anniversary Show: We Are IWA | Indianapolis, IN | 1 | 103 | | |
| 22 | Haley J | February 4, 2021 | IWA Mid-South Opportunity Knocks | Indianapolis, IN | 2 | 94 | This was a four-way match also involving Amazing Maria and Malia Hosaka. | |
| 23 | Jessie Belle Smothers | May 9, 2021 | This One's For Donna | Jeffersonville, IN | 1 | 67 | This was a four-way match also involving Alice Crowley and Thunderkitty. | |
| 24 | Thunderkitty | July 15, 2021 | House show | Jeffersonville, IN | 2 | 1,181+ | | |

## Combined reigns

As of October 8, 2024.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Mickie Knuckles | 3 | 960 |
| 3 | Thunderkitty † | 2 | 1,284+ |
| 2 | Haley J | 2 | 327 |
| 4 | Daizee Haze | 2 | 302 |
| 5 | Alice Crowley | 1 | 238 |
| 6 | Shotzi Blackheart | 1 | 182 |
| 7 | Mercedes Martinez | 1 | 120 |
| 8 | Lacey | 1 | 110 |
| 9 | Nevaeh | 1 | 109 |
| 10 | Hailey Hatred | 1 | 82 |
| 11 | Amazing Maria | 2 | 80 |
| 12 | MsChif | 1 | 35 |
| 13 | Ariel | 1 | 28 |
| 14 | Max the Impaler | 2 | 92 |
| 15 | Jessie Belle Smothers | 1 | 67 |
| 16 | Chuck Taylor | 1 | 14 |
| 17 | Lukas Jacobs | 1 | 12 |