# WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship

The WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship (sometimes called the WCPW Brass Knuckles Championship) was a professional wrestling Hardcore Championship contested for in Windy City Pro Wrestling (WCPW). It was defended in the promotion from 1999 until 2008 when it was merged with the WCPW Heavyweight and League Championships to create a unified "WCPW World Heavyweight Championship".
The inaugural champion was Turbo, who won the title at the 11th annual Battle of the Belts supercard in Chicago, Illinois on May 22, 1999, to become the first WCPW Bare Knuckles Champion. Vito Fontaine, DOC, and Mike Anthony are tied for the record for most reigns, with two each. At 736 days, Fontaine's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Austin Roberts's only reign was the shortest in the history of the title. He defeated the last champion, Acid Jaz, on May 17, 2008, at Battle of the Belts 20 to unify the Bare Knuckles, Heavyweight and League titles. Overall, there have been 11 reigns shared between 14 wrestlers, with three vacancies, and 1 deactivation.

## 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 |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |

### Names

| Name | Years |
| WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship | 1999 – 2010 |

### Reigns

| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes |
| 1 | Turbo | 1 | May 22, 1999 | 48 | Chicago, Illinois | Battle of the Belts 11 (1999) | |
| — | Vacated | — | July 9, 1999 | — | N/A | Live event | The championship is vacated when Turbo fails to appear for a scheduled title defense and is stripped as champion. A championship tournament is subsequently held over the next three months concluding at the 2-day "War at the World" supercard. |
| 2 | X-treme | 1 | October 10, 1999 | 208 | Tinley Park, Illinois | War at the World, Day 2 (1999) | |
| 3 | Vito Fontaine | 1 | May 20, 2000 | 736 | Hammond, Indiana | Battle of the Belts 12 (2000) | |
| 4 | Julian the Warlock | 1 | May 26, 2002 | 125 | Crete, Illinois | A Day at the Races (2002) | |
| 5 | Vito Fontaine | 2 | September 28, 2002 | 147 | Chicago, Illinois | Live event | |
| 6 | DOC | 1 | February 22, 2003 | 169 | Chicago, Illinois | Live event | |
| 7 | Mike Anthony | 1 | August 10, 2003 | 125 | Chicago, Illinois | Hot Summers Nights (2003) | |
| 8 | DOC | 2 | December 13, 2003 | 154 | Chicago, Illinois | Seasons Beatings (2003) | |
| 9 | Ivan Manson | 1 | May 15, 2004 | 735 | Cicero, Illinois | Battle of the Belts 16 (2004) | |
| 10 | Frankie Valiant | 1 | May 20, 2006 | N/A | Cicero, Illinois | Battle of the Belts 18 (2006) | |
| — | Vacant | — | 2007 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated when Frankie Valiant leaves the promotion. |
| 11 | Mitch Blake | 1 | May 12, 2007 | N/A | Cicero, Illinois | Battle of the Belts 19 (2007) | This was an 8-man elimination match involving D.O.C., Rick Walsh, and Don Greed. |
| 12 | Mike Anthony | 2 | 2007 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 13 | Acid Jaz | 1 | March 8, 2008 | 70 | Chicago, Illinois | Lee Sanders Memorial Tournament (2008) | Jaz won the title in the opening rounds of the Lee Sanders Memorial Tournament. |
| 14 | Austin Roberts | 1 | May 17, 2008 | 0 | Cicero, Illinois | Battle of the Belts 20 (2008) | This was a unification match also involving Sean Mulligan to unify the WCPW Bare Knuckles, Heavyweight, and League Championships into a unified WCPW World Heavyweight Championship. |
| — | Deactivated | — | May 17, 2008 | — | Cicero, Illinois | Battle of the Belts 20 (2008) | Unified with Austin Roberts' WCPW World Heavyweight Championship. |

## Combined reigns

| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Vito Fontaine | 2 | 883 |
| 2 | Ivan Manson | 1 | 735 |
| 3 | DOC | 2 | 323 |
| 4 | X-treme | 1 | 208 |
| 5 | Mike Anthony | 2 | 125 |
| 6 | Julian the Warlock | 1 | 125 |
| 7 | Acid Jaz | 1 | 70 |
| 8 | Turbo | 1 | 48 |
| 9 | Austin Roberts | 1 | <1 |