FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship

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FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship
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Mason Ryan as the Florida Heavyweight Champion in 2010
Details
Date established February 15, 2008[1][2]
Date retired August 14, 2012
Promotion Florida Championship Wrestling

The FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling heavyweight championship owned and promoted by Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW, now known as NXT Wrestling), a former developmental territory of WWE. It is contested for in their heavyweight division. The championship was created and debuted on February 15, 2008 at a FCW house show.[1][2]

The first champion was Jake Hager who won a 23-man battle royal by defeating Ted DiBiase Jr. to become the first champion.[3] On March 22, 2008, Hager defeated FCW Southern Heavyweight Champion Heath Miller to unify the two championships and retire the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship. Bo Rotundo/Dallas holds the record for the most reigns with three reigns. Leo Kruger, Rick Victor and Bo Rotundo all hold the record for shortest reign, because all three have individually won and lost the title on the same day. Jake Hager holds the record for the longest reign (as an individual) with 216 days. In August 2012, the championship was retired when FCW was re-branded to NXT and replaced with the NXT Championship. The final champion was Richie Steamboat, who defeated Rick Victor to win the title.

Title history

Reigns

Reign The reign number for the specific champion listed
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
No. Champion[4][5] Reign Date Days held Location Event Notes
1 Jake Hager 1 February 15, 2008 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida Live event Hager defeated Ted DiBiase, Jr. after both were the two remaining superstars in a 23-man battle royal. On March 22, 2008, Hager defeated FCW Southern Heavyweight Champion Heath Miller to unify the two championships and retire the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship.[3]
2 Sheamus O'Shaunessy 1 September 18, 2008 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida Live event [3]
3 Eric Escobar 1 December 11, 2008 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW [3]
4 Joe Hennig 1 February 26, 2009 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW [3]
5 Drew McIntyre 1 March 19, 2009 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW Drew McIntyre defeated Eric Escobar in a singles match after Hennig was forced to turn in his title due to injury.[3]
6 Tyler Reks 1 June 11, 2009 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW [3]
7 Heath Miller 1 August 13, 2009 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW [3]
8 Justin Angel 1 September 24, 2009 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW This was a two out of three falls match.[3]
9 Alex Riley 1 March 18, 2010 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW This was a three–way match, also involving Wade Barrett.[3]
10 Mason Ryan 1 July 22, 2010 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW This was a three–way match, also involving Johnny Curtis.[3][6]
11 Bo Rotundo 1 February 3, 2011 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida March of Champions Norman Smiley was the special guest referee.[3]
12 Lucky Cannon 1 February 3, 2011 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida March of Champions Brett DiBiase was the special guest referee.[3][7]
13 Bo Rotundo 2 May 19, 2011 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW [3][7]
— Vacated — September 1, 2011 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW Title vacated after Rotundo was sidelined with an injury.[3][8]
14 Leo Kruger 1 September 1, 2011 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW This was a fatal–four way match, also involving Dean Ambrose, Husky Harris and Damien Sandow.[3][8]
15 Mike Dalton 1 February 2, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW' [9]
16 Leo Kruger 2 February 23, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW
17 Seth Rollins 1 February 23, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tampa, Florida FCW
18 Rick Victor 1 June 16, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Crystal River, Florida Live event [10][11][12][13]
19 Bo Rotundo/Bo Dallas 3 June 16, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Crystal River, Florida Live event [10]
20 Rick Victor 2 July 13, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Punta Gorda, Florida Live event [11][14]
21 Richie Steamboat 1 July 20, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. St. Augustine, Florida Live event [15]
— Deactivated — August 14, 2012 — Tampa, Florida — Title retired when FCW became NXT Wrestling.

Combined reigns

Rank Champion No. of reigns Combined days
1 Jake Hager 1 216
2 Mason Ryan 1 196
3 Justin Angel 1 175
4 Leo Kruger 2 154
5 Bo Rotundo/Bo Dallas 3 132
6 Alex Riley 1 126
7 Seth Rollins 1 114
8 Lucky Cannon 1 105
9 Sheamus O'Shaunessy 1 84
Drew McIntyre 1 84
11 Eric Escobar 1 77
12 Tyler Reks 1 63
13 Heath Miller 1 42
14 Richie Steamboat 1 25
15 Joe Hennig 1 21
Mike Dalton 1 21
17 Rick Victor 2 7

References

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  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  15. ↑ http://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/news/25697/Richie-Steamboat-Becomes-New-FCW-Heavyweight-Champion/
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