UNION Wrestling Brawl Championship (RLS Championship)

The UNION Wrestling Brawl Championship was a lower-card, hardcore wrestling specific championship fought for in UNION Wrestling, and is not currently recognised by the RLSverse as "the Brawl Championship was introduced without consultation and beyond the boundaries of the acceptable RLSverse promotion format". It was debuted in February 2017 and was held by three superstars before falling victim to cost cutting measures and streamlining in October 2017.
Due to it's nature as an unrecognised belt, it's reigns were originally measured in defences instead of a number of weeks- contrary to the sanctioned ones. This was universally adopted by UNION Wrestling in August 2017, with # of Defences becoming the only measured stat of championships in the promotion.
== History: ==
The championship was announced following the success of Grayson Gage and Tyrone Riske's appearances in more hardcore styles of wrestling before and during Hardcore Brawl 2016.
Eddie Hamer confirmed that the title would be the Brawl Championship, and announced a tourney to crown it's first holder. 
Big WWE names The Rock and Christian were brought in to give the tournament some more mainstream wrestling attention, but it was Gage and Riske who deservedly contested the Ladder Match at PWU Capitol Punishment 2017. Riske would win, to the surprise of many.
Riske would defend the belt twice (both against British Samurai) before dropping the belt to Gage at PWU Money In The Bank 2017. Gage would then defend the title three times (once against Sinyster and twice against British Samurai).
Matsuda challenged Gage at Open Challenge 2017, winning his first Brawl Championship as well as his first championship overall in the promotion.
Matsuda defended the title on Union Unleashed for the first time in October 2017, defeating Zodiak in the main event. He later defended it at Heavy Metal 2017's live fan event, in the traditional dark match against Skorch.
Following the full rebrand in October 2017, the belt was deactivated, with the decision to recall it at some point "a firm possibility" according to Eddie Hamer. 
== Reigns: ==
#	Champion 	Won 	Defences (#)
1	Tyrone Riske	Won at PWU Capitol Punishment 2017 in a Ladder Match against Grayson Gage 	2
2	Grayson Gage	Won at PWU Money In The Bank 2017 in a Hardcore Brawl against Tyrone Riske	3
3	Matsuda 	Won at Open Challenge 2017 in a Hardcore Brawl against Grayson Gage 	2*
*= Second defence during dark match.
== Trivia: ==
# Despite being involved in a total of four Brawl Championship matches, British Samurai never won the title. Added to his live circuit attempts to win both the Inter and Tag Team Championships (the latter with Matsuda), this gives him the worst title match record of any wrestler in UNION Wrestling, at an astounding 0-7.
# Grayson Gage was involved in all three of the title matches crowning a new champion, once as a challenger for the newly created belt, once winning it from someone else, and once dropping it to somebody else.
Category:Championships