A.W.A.C. Championship

The **A.W.A.C. Championship** (also known interchangeably as the A.W.A.C. World Championship and/or the A.W.A.C. World Heavyweight Championship) is a belt promoted by A.W.A.C. on the Anarchy brand. It is one of two world titles for A.W.A.C.'s brands, alongside the A.W.A.C. United States Heavyweight Championship that was drafted to the Liberty brand as a result of the 2018 Draft. At the start of Season 3, the brands were merged together.

Chronologically, this is the oldest championship in A.W.A.C. and is currently keeping its active status through 3 seasons.

## History

Being the longest-active-running championship in A.W.A.C., the championship has quite a short history. Although A.W.A.C. first began as an E-fed, it wasn't publicly recorded and uploaded to YouTube until 2013. The last champion before A.W.A.C. went on YouTube was Kevin Steen (now going by the name Kevin Owens). His first defense was against Koing Webb at A.W.A.C.'s first CPV on YouTube, In Your House: Yes Or Yes, where he was successful. A.W.A.C. recognizes Kevin's reign as the "1st" reign in the title's full-length history.

Kevin lost the title at No Guts, No Mercy in a 3 Stages Of Hell Match to Azkadellia. Azkadellia disguised herself as the original #1 contender Batista up until the closing moments of the 3rd fall; a Parking Lot Brawl here she finally revealed her true identity before defeating Kevin and winning the title. She is (so far) the only female wrestler to hold any male title in A.W.A.C.. Azkadellia eventually lost the title to Shadow The Hedgehog at Anarchy Rulz I. The following night at Anarchy #13, Shadow vacated the title after announcing his retirement from A.W.A.C..

At Smashlash 2014, Cell defeated Kevin Steen and Bray Wyatt to win the vacant title and kick off his 1000+ day reign. As a result of this, Cell has the longest reign in A.W.A.C. history. After several defenses against wrestlers such as Dean Ambrose, Kevin Steen, and Matthew Santoro, El Noveno defeated Cell at Anarchy Rulz II to win the A.W.A.C. Title, while also retaining his CAW Interpromotional Title since this was a Winner-Take-All Double Title Match.

El Noveno lost the title at Smashlash 2018 to Booster Gold in a Triple Threat Match which also included former champion Cell. At Final Destination 2018, Cell won back the title, crowning him the only 2-time A.W.A.C. Champion in history. However, this reign was short-lived as Daas Wheedon cashed in his Men's Money In The Bank contract and successfully won the A.W.A.C. Championship. Cell only held the title for 4 minutes and 58 seconds, making him both the longest and shortest reigning A.W.A.C. Champion in history.

Daas Wheedon is the current champion and is in his first reign. He successfully defended the title against Cell in a rematch at Summer Slamboree 2018, before retaining it against Daniel Foolhardy, King, Mike Berkley, Dan "The Beast" Severn, Zack Bateley & Nick Gage, and AJ Styles (in that order so far). On August 18th at SCAW/A.W.A.C. Challenge Of The Immortals, Daas Wheedon successfully retained the title against SCAW's Brian Urlacher. On September 17th, 2020, at Above And Beyond, Daas once again retained his title, this time against Rabid in a Final Destination Deathmatch. On January 26, 2021, on Anarchy #63, Daas defeated Ori Kahn. The match was stopped when King threw in the towel for Ori after Daas kept punching him in the corner as he was bleeding profusely. As a result, Daas was awarded the win via corner stoppage. On February 1, 2021, on Anarchy #64, Daas retained his title against Spot Monkey. On July 17, 2021, on Night 3 of Anarchy Rulz 3, Daas once again defeated King to retain his title.

## Season 3

On August 2, 2021, on the first CPV of Season 3, Undisputed Universe, A.W.A.C. Champion Daas Wheedon defeated A.W.A.C. United States Heavyweight Champion Metallo. As a result, the belts were unified together and the US Heavyweight Title was officially retired. On October 30, on Anarchy #65, the first episode of Season 3, Daas Wheedon defeated Ori Kahn in a First Blood Match to retain his A.W.A.C. Championship. On November 21, at Collateral Damage, Daas once again defeated King to retain his title. As per the stipulation, King can never challenge for the A.W.A.C. Title again so long as Daas is champion.

On December 4, on Anarchy #69, Daas defeated King's trainer/mentor Armor King to retain the title. On March 14, on Anarchy #73, Daas retained his A.W.A.C. Title against Mike Berkley. On April 2, at Superfight, Daas defeated Milo to retain his A.W.A.C. Title. On September 10, 2022, at In Your House: All Night Long, a new design debuted. Daas Wheedon went on to defeat Beefy Magnum and Spot Monkey in a Triple Threat Match to retain his title. On October 11, 2022, Daas fought Inuyasha to a 20-minute time limit draw. As a result, Daas retained his title.

On February 18, 2023, at A.W.A.C. presents Saturday Night's Maine Event, Daas defeated William Wallace to retain his title.

## Belt Design

The A.W.A.C. Championship has had 3 designs in its history. The first design bore a striking resemblance to the WWE Undisputed Championship.

The second design debuted in 2016 during Cell's 1000+ day reign; this time looking more like the WWE Championship circa 1998 to 2002. The leather strap is black and the plates are all made of gold. The front plate has a floral-like pattern as the background with an eagle motif and a blue globe at the bottom, cutting off where the nameplate is. At the top of the front plate, it reads "A.W.A.C. Heavyweight Championship", though this is in-name-only since the belt is promoted as an open weight-class belt, thus anyone of any weight class can win it. The outer side plates contain unique indentations with a black outline, a gold lion in the middle, and custom made coat-of-arms. The inner side plates contain various continents around the world. The left has Europe and Africa while the right has North America and South America.

The third design debuted in 2018 at the Intercommonwealth Cup Finals show by then-champion Daas Wheedon. Both this, the second or fourth designs borrow heavily from the ROH World Championship circa 2010 to 2012. The front plate now has a sunburst pattern as the background and the eagle/globe combo has been resized to fit black and gold banners which read "World" at the top and "Wrestling Champion" at the bottom. Along the edges of the sunburst pattern is this jagged-looking design with the crown at the very bottom of the front plate. The side plates both have the jagged look to them, plus flags and globes. The outer side plates depict a gold embossed wrestling ring as the background with the (up, down/left, right) Canadian, German, Mexican and Japanese flags. The inner sides have a sunburst pattern as the background with the US flag and a globe showing the continent of Asia and the country of Australia on the left, plus the UK flag and a globe showing Europe and Africa on the right. The strap also featured a gold belt tip. This particular design was only used once at the Intercommonwealth Cup Finals show, before being decommissioned to make way for the fourth design with the new A.W.A.C. logo. The third belt currently resides in A.W.A.C. Headquarters in Jump City, California.

Alongside all the other belts, the A.W.A.C. Championship was altered to coincide with the new A.W.A.C. logo. The 4th design has the globe on the front plate replaced with the new A.W.A.C. logo, whereas the old logo was taken off. The side plates were completely changed to a circular design with continents. The left side plates show Europe, Africa, Asia, and the country of Australia. The right side plates show North America, South America, and Antarctica. The current belt has also removed the gold belt tip and only features the colors black and gold.

    On September 10, 2022, at A.W.A.C. In Your House: All Night Long, a newly-updated 5th and current design was revealed, now resembling the 2010-2012 design of ROH World Championship almost to a tee. The front and side plates all retain the side similar shield-like shape and gold/nickel plating with the champion's nameplate removed. The side plates from left to right show the flags of Canada, Germany, USA, UK, Mexico and Japan. The front plate displays the A.W.A.C. logo without the lettering (the second belt in A.W.A.C. to have this distinction) with the globe at the bottom, an eagle in the centre and the words "World Champion" inbetween them.

## Title Defenses

2 - El Noveno
3 - Austin Juhasz
4 - Dean Ambrose
5 - Booster Gold
6 - Matthew Santoro
2 - A.W.A.C. Summer Slamboree 2014
3 - A.W.A.C. Royal Crumble 2015
4 - A.W.A.C. Anarchy #16
5 - CAW Network presents FIGHT BACK
 Daas Wheedon
2 - Daniel Foolhardy
3 - King
4 - Mike Berkley
5 - Dan Severn
6 - Zack Bateley and Nick Gage
7 - AJ Styles
8 - Brian Urlacher
9 - Rabid
10 - Ori Kahn
11 - Spot Monkey
12 - King
13 - Metallo
14 - Ori Kahn
15 - King
16 - Armor King
17 - Mike Berkley
18 - Milo Elasovic
19 - Beefy Magnum and Spot Monkey
20 - Inuyasha
21 - William Wallace
2 - A.W.A.C. Intercommonwealth Cup Finals
3 - A.W.A.C. Deadly Sin 2019
4 - A.W.A.C. presents Raven's Dark Ass Summer Vacation
5 - A.W.A.C. Envy 2019
6 - A.W.A.C. presents CANCELLED.... MY ASS!
7 - A.W.A.C. Descendance 2020
8 - SCAW/A.W.A.C. Challenge Of The Immortals
9 - A.W.A.C. Above And Beyond
10 - A.W.A.C. Anarchy #63
11 - A.W.A.C. Anarchy #64
12 - A.W.A.C. Anarchy Rulz III
13 - A.W.A.C. Undisputed Universe
14 - A.W.A.C. Anarchy #65
15 - A.W.A.C. Collateral Damage
16 - A.W.A.C. Anarchy #69
17 - A.W.A.C. Anarchy #73
18 - A.W.A.C. Superfight
19 - A.W.A.C. In Your House: All Night Long
20 - A.W.A.C. Full Zone (via time limit draw)
21 - A.W.A.C. presents Saturday Night's Maine Event