PWP World Heavyweight Championship (Australia)

The PWP World Heavyweight Championship is Pro Wrestling Power's top singles Championship.
== History ==
The PWP Championship was first introduced at Pro Wrestling Power's second event, Hot August Nights, on August 4, 2018. The belt at this time featured a black strap with a gold PWP logo taking up most of the faceplate. A tournament would be held for the title with Champ Phoenix and Jumpin' Jay Konnors advancing to the finals. The match to crown the first champion would be interrupted by Vida Loca, who would steal the belt. A triple threat match would take place at Fallout on November 17, 2018 with Phoenix becoming the first PWP Champion.
In January 2019, Phoenix would turn heel by betraying Konnors following an 8-man elimination tag team match in which Konnors would be the sole survivor. The following month at Locked 'N' Loaded, Phoenix would successfully defend the title against Konnors with a low blow while the referee was unconscious. While Phoenix continued to defend the PWP Championship, Konnors would win the (now inactive) 24/7 Fugly Shield Championship. On May 5, Phoenix would cost Konnors the Fugly Shield in a match against The Charisma Kid, though would himself not pin Konnors. In the main event, Phoenix would once again score a cheap victory over Mad Maxx, though Konnors would save Maxx from a post-match beatdown, challenging Phoenix to a Tables match for the title the following month, which Konnors would win.
Konnors would not defend his title the following month, instead competing in a triple threat match against Champ Phoenix and E10 for the right to face Carlito in the night's main event, which E10 would win. Konnors would be attacked by Shinji after the show. In their first title match at Hot August Nights, 2019, Konnors would win by disqualification after Shinji used his Kendo Stick on Konnors. The following month would see a rematch between the two with radio host Elliott Lovejoy acting as special guest enforcer. Lovejoy would low blow Konnors after the referee was knocked out, handing Shinji the win. The following month, Konnors would rename himself JayME, failing to win a 2-out-of-3 Falls rematch.
The next month, Shinji would be stripped of the PWP Championship due to a (kayfabe) incident backstage as well as the controversial nature of his win. Shinji would end the night by winning the $10,000 Rumble and earning a guaranteed title shot in the future. In January 2020, a tournament would be held for the vacant title. The final match of the tournament was a four-way elimination match featuring E10, Bulldog Bailey, Rocko Rumblé, and Rip Rielly. After Bailey and Rumblé had been eliminated, Shinji would cash in his guaranteed title match, becoming the first - and to date only - person to win the PWP Championship twice.
Shinji would - somewhat aided by a 6-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic - hold the title until November 7, 2020, where he would lose the title in a no-disqualifications match against E10. At the next event, E10 would introduce a new design of the PWP Championship featuring a white strap and more rounded faceplate. E10's final defense of the title would take place against CHAOS in Port Douglas at Carnivale Carnage on May 15, 2021. The following month, the PWP Championship would be vacated after E10 failed to make his scheduled Steel Cage match with CHAOS. Instead, Bulldog Bailey, Dean-O-Mac (the former Rocko Rumblé), and Marshall Samson would each enter themselves into the match, with CHAOS leaving victorious. Behind the scenes, E10 had informed Dean-O-Mac that he would be unable to make the Cage match before it had been announced and requested to drop the title to CHAOS in Port Douglas, however Dean would refuse. Dean would sell PWP to Dan the End following the Cage match.
After CHAOS's first defense of the title the following month in an unsanctioned Street Fight against Marshall Samson, PWP would go on hiatus for four months. CHAOS would not make the next event, following which another 6-month hiatus would take place. When PWP events returned on June 4, 2022, CHAOS would begin carrying a new design of the championship inspired by the WWE Championship's "Big Eagle" design, returning to the black strap and featuring a small globe with a PWP logo on the front of it. Owing to the introduction of the PWP Cairns Championship at this event, the PWP Championship would be renamed the PWP World Heavyweight Championship.
CHAOS would be stripped of the title on September 17, 2022 after no-showing multiple events. Marshall Samson had been scheduled to face CHAOS in a 2-out-of-3 Falls match in the main event. Instead, Dan the End and former referee Sheriff K would face off in a match to deermine who would face Samson for the vacant title in the main event. While Dan would defeat Sheriff K, Samson would win the title after Sheriff K turned heel by aligning himself with Samson.
== External links ==
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Category:Singles championships
Category:Pro Wrestling Power
Category:Heavyweight championships