USW Championship

The USW Championship (also known/referred to as the Ultimate Showcase Wrestling Championship) is a world championship competed for in the American professional wrestling promotion Ultimate Showcase Wrestling, currently being competed for on the Wednesday Night Intensity brand. The championship is one of two world championships in Ultimate Showcase Wrestling, alongside the World Heavyweight Championship on the Friday Night Severity brand. The current champion is Quincy Newsome, who is in his first reign as champion.
The championship was established on January 12, 2013 as one of two world championships for the promotion. In March of 2016, after the inaugural Ultimate Showcase Wrestling brand split, the USW Championship became exclusive property of the Wednesday Night Intensity brand, becoming the brand's sole world championship, while the World Heavyweight Championship became exclusive to the Friday Night Severity brand.
== History ==
When Whacked Out Wrestling dissolved and later transitioned into Ultimate Showcase Wrestling, the promotion announced the creation of five championships, one of which happened to be the USW Championship. The championship was then officially declared active upon the first episode of USW Wednesday Night Intensity. While initially being a co-world championship with the World Heavyweight Championship, the USW Championship was always given the higher spot before the original brand split, most often closing out pay per view events. 
In March of 2016, when Ultimate Showcase Wrestling declared a brand split between Wednesday Night Intensity and the newly-created Friday Night Severity shows, with both shows getting their own rosters, the USW Championship became exclusive property of the Intensity brand, while the World Heavyweight Championship became exclusive property of the Severity brand, officially making it the only winnable world championship for any performer on the Intensity roster.
The USW Championship has seen thirty-one separate championship reigns spread across seventeen individual performers. 
The first champion was Cannon, who won the championship on January 30, 2013, holding the championship for 25 days until February 24, 2013. Zack Hardy holds the record for the most championship reigns with seven, his most recent reign coming to an end on February 11, 2018. James holds the record for longest championship reign with 441 days, his reign lasting from February 11, 2018 until April 28, 2019. Majagetta and Alexander Rotten share the shortest reign with the championship, both reigns lasting three days.
== Reigns ==
Cannon was the first performer to hold the USW Championship, defeating Majagetta in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion. Zack Hardy has held the championship the most times of any performer, with seven separate reigns with the championship, including two as his "ENIGMA" character in 2014. Majagetta and Alexander Rotten share the shortest reign with the championship, holding the championship for three days in total. James holds the longest reign with the championship, holding the championship for 441 days. 
No.	Performer 	Reign	Date Won 	Date Lost 	Days
1 	Cannon 	1 	January 30, 2013 	February 24, 2013 	25
2 	Majagetta 	1 	February 24, 2013 	February 27, 2013 	3
3 	Cannon 	2 	February 27, 2013 	April 28, 2013 	60
4 	Zack Hardy 	1 	April 28, 2013 	June 30, 2013 	63
5 	Double XL 	1 	June 30, 2013 	July 28, 2013 	28
6 	Zack Hardy 	2 	July 28, 2013 	August 4, 2013 	7
7 	Cannon 	3 	August 4, 2013 	December 8, 2013 	126
8 	Zack Hardy 	3 	December 8, 2013 	May 4, 2014 	147
9 	Alexander Rotten	1 	May 4, 2014 	May 7, 2014 	3
10 	Zack Hardy1 	4 	May 7, 2014 	July 27, 2014 	81
11 	Derrick Carter 	1 	July 27, 2014 	August 3, 2014 	7
12 	Zack Hardy1 	5 	August 3, 2014 	March 1, 2015 	210
13 	Majagetta 	2 	March 1, 2015 	March 29, 2015 	28
14 	Dustin Ramond 	1 	March 29, 2015 	April 26, 2015 	28
15 	Dwayne Porter 	1 	April 26, 2015 	June 7, 2015 	42
16 	Alexander Rotten	2 	June 7, 2015 	December 27, 2015 	173
17 	Zack Hardy 	6 	December 27, 2015 	January 31, 2016 	35
18 	Derrick Carter 	2 	January 31, 2016 	March 27, 2016 	35
19 	Cannon 	4 	March 27, 2016 	June 5, 2016 	70
20 	Morbid 	1 	June 5, 2016 	October 23, 2016 	140
21 	Indigo Child 	1 	October 23, 2016 	November 27, 2016 	35
22 	Derrick Carter 	3 	November 27, 2016 	April 30, 2017 	154
23 	Ezarank Hills 	1 	April 30, 2017 	August 13, 2017 	105
24 	Benny Franklin 	1 	August 13, 2017 	September 10, 2017	28
25 	Zack Hardy 	7 	September 10, 2017	February 11, 2018 	154
26 	James 	1 	February 11, 2018 	April 28, 2019 	441
27 	Phillip Akron 	1 	April 28, 2019 	July 14, 2019 	77
28 	Suzuki Kirokashi	1 	July 14, 2019 	April 26, 2020 	288
29 	George Martin 	1 	April 26, 2020 	July 12, 2020 	78
30 	Ezarank Hills 	2 	July 12, 2020 	October 11, 2020 	92
31 	Quincy Newsome 	1 	October 11, 2020 	present 	1+
1 Zack Hardy used the name "ENIGMA" during his fourth and fifth championship reign, complete with a mask and new attire. The identity was referred to as an alternate personality for Hardy's character, therefor the character's reign is categorized under Hardy's name as opposed to his ENIGMA name.
== Championship Belt Design ==
=== Current Design ===
The current design features a bloated centerplate reading "Ultimate Showcase Wrestling Champion" in streamed-banners with a global in the center of the plate with engraving on either side of the globe. The sideplates are squared with sharpened-edges featuring wrestling maneuvers and the Ultimate Showcase Wrestling logos.
=== Overall Designs ===
The original USW Championship was an expanded circle, much like the design of the original WoW Xtreme Championship. In the middle of the championship read "Ultimate Showcase Wrestling, World, Champion" above a nameplate. There were two side plates, both of which bared the Ultimate Showcase Wrestling company logo. In April of 2014, then-champion Zack Hardy entered at USW Call To Greatness IX before his match against Morbid with a new championship design, which featured the center plate in the shape of the Ultimate Showcase Wrestling "five side" company logo that read "USW Champion" above a nameplate. There were four side plates, all of which were rectangular that all had branding specific to the promotion. This version of the championship was used up to Call To Greatness XIII.
=== The "ENIGMA Belt" Design ===
After Zack Hardy revealed himself to be ENIGMA (a masked character solely motivated by destruction) he brought out a performer-specific USW Championship design for his character. Being as Zack Hardy was the current USW Champion at the time of changing his gimmick, the championship was then changed to allow the ENIGMA character to be known as the USW Champion instead of the Zack Hardy character. The new design that the ENIGMA character debuted, self-titled the "ENIGMA Belt" featured a tiki-mask center plate of the ENIGMA mask, with two side plates, both of which had half of Zack Hardy's face, and the other half being the ENIGMA tiki-mask. Once Zack Hardy returned as the Zack Hardy character and put away the ENIGMA gimmick, he retired the championship design and brought back the "five side" USW Championship belt.