| Championshipname: | IPWA Light Heavyweight Championship |
| Promotion: | Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance |
| Created: | June 7, 1996 |
| Mostreigns: | Julio Sanchez (4) |
| Firstchamp: | Mark Shrader |
| Finalchamp: | Jacey North (won March 25, 2000) |
| Longestreign: | Julio Sanchez (11 days) |
| Shortestreign: | Julio Sanchez (273 days) |
| Titleretired: | 2001 |
The IPWA Light Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling light heavyweight championship in Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance (IPWA). The inaugural champion was Mark "The Shark" Shrader, who defeated Quinn Nash (substituting for Earl the Pearl) in a tournament final on June 7, 1996 to become the first IPWA Light Heavyweight Champion.
There were 7 officially recognized champions with Julio Sanchez winning the title a record 4-times. He was also its longest reigning champion with his second title reign lasting 273 days. Some of the top "indy cruiserweights" on the East Coast wrestled for the title during its near 6-year history with former champions including Steve Corino, Christian York, and Joey Matthews.
| Order in reign history | ||
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed | |
| Event | The event in which the title was won | |
| - | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign | |
| N/A | The information is not available or is unknown | |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
| width=0% | width=20% | Wrestlers | width=0% | Reign | width=10% | Date | width=0% | Days held | width=16% | Location | width=18% | Event | width=60% class="unsortable" | Notes | width=0% class="unsortable" | Ref. | |
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| Shrader defeated Quinn Nash (substituting for Earl the Pearl in a tournament final to become the first IPWA Light Heavyweight Champion. | [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||||
| N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated after Mark Shrader wins the MEWF Heavyweight Championship. | |||||||||||||||
| Defeated Johnny Graham and Sheik Ali Amin in a three-way match to win the vacant title. | |||||||||||||||||
| May 1996 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
| [3] [4] [5] [6] < | -- Cagematch, Genickbruch, and Solie.org claim the match took place on April 22. --> | ||||||||||||||||
| N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
| Corino defeated Christian York in a tournament final to win both the IPWA and NWA 2000 Light Heavyweight Championships. | < | -- Cagematch claims the match took place on May 3. --> | |||||||||||||||
| [7] < | -- Cagematch, Genickbruch, and Solie.org claims the match took place on December 11. --> | ||||||||||||||||
| [8] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sanchez defeated Joey Matthews and Christian York in a three-way match. | |||||||||||||||||
| [10] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | The IPWA ceases promoting events and closes in the spring of 2001. |
| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day. |