BCW Hardcore Championship

BCW Hardcore Championship	BCW Hardcore Championship 	 	
 	 	 	
Details 	Details 	 	
Promotion 	British Championship Wrestling	 	
Date established 	April 4, 2023 	 	
Current champion(s) 	Jamie Hayter 	 	
Date won 	December 19, 2023 	 	
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First champion(s) 	Flash Morgan Webster 	 	
Most reigns 	Grado (232 reigns) 	 	
Longest reign 	Will Ospreay (74 days) 	 	
Shortest reign 	Grado (3 seconds) 	 	
The BCW Hardcore Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by British promotion British Championship Wrestling (BCW). The title is open to anyone regardless of gender or BCW employment and is defended under 24/7 rules meaning the title can change places at anytime as long as a referee is present.
The title has mostly been won by the male roster but female wrestlers who have won are Jamie Hayter, Aleah James, Candy Floss, Kanji, Nina Samuels, Mercedez Blaze, Laura James, Session Moth Martina. Several non-wrestlers have won the title as well including retired cricketer Michael Vaughan and former footballers and pundits Paul Scholes and Owen Hargreaves.
The title has also been won outside BCW events including at Lancaster Golf Course, in the arrivals lounge of Manchester Airport, at BT Studios inside Old Trafford and inside a Birmingham McDonalds.
==Reigns==
:Main article: List of BCW Hardcore Champions
As of , , there have been 607 officially recognized reigns between 53 humans and six inanimate objects. The record for most reigns is held by Grado, who won it 178 times, including by trading it back and forth in a thumb war with 107-time champion Joe Hendry a total of 199 times on the night. Hendry holds the record for longest reign at 15 days, Grado also holds the record for shortest reign at 3 seconds during his thumb war with Joe Hendry.
Non-wrestlers to have held the belt include retired cricketer Michael Vaughan, retired footballers Paul Scholes and Owen Hargreaves, BCW announcers Andy Shepherd and Nigel McGuinness, Midland Hotel General Manager Peter Kienast and Judas Priest members Rob Halford and Glenn Tipton. To date six inanimate objects has won the title, a painting, ladder, bin lid, television, fish and The Young Bucks' autobiography.