| SCW Heavyweight Championship | |
| Created: | October 8, 1994 |
| Retired: | 2000 |
| Promotion: | Steel City Wrestling |
| Firstchamp: | T. Rantula |
| Finalchamp: | T. Rantula |
| Mostreigns: | T. Rantula (4 reigns) |
| Shortestreign: | T. Rantula |
| Oldest: | Cueball Carmichael |
| Youngest: | Johnny Gunn |
| Heaviest: | T. Rantula (325lb) |
| Lightest: | Cody Michaels (220lb) |
The SCW Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship in Steel City Wrestling (SCW). The title was the top championship of the SCW promotion. It was the first singles championship established in SCW, having been introduced in 1994, in the finals of a four-man tournament.
The inaugural champion was T. Rantula, who defeated Shane Douglas in a tournament final on October 8, 1994 to become the first SCW Heavyweight Champion. T. Rantula holds the record for most reigns, with four. At 892 days, Johnny Gunn first and only reign is the longest in the title's history. T. Rantula's third reign was the shortest in the history of the title having been stripped of the championship the day after he won it. The previous champion, Cueball Carmichael, had won control of SCW for 30 days prior to their match. He justified the decision as T. Rantula had been a substitute for his originally scheduled opponent Dennis Gregory. Overall, there have been 12 reigns shared between 7 wrestlers, with one vacancy, and 1 deactivation.
| Order in reign history | ||
| Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed | |
| Location | The city in which the title was won | |
| 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 |
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| width=0 scope="col" | No. | width=32% scope="col" | Champion | width=0 scope="col" | Reign | width=12% scope="col" | Date | width=0 scope="col" | Days held | width=13% scope="col" | Location | width=15% scope="col" | Event | width=60% class="unsortable" scope="col" | Notes | width=0 class="unsortable" scope="col" | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T. Rantula | 1 | Connellsville, Pennsylvania | Live event | T. Rantula defeated Shane Douglas in a tournament final to become the first SCW Heavyweight Champion. | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | New Castle, Pennsylvania | Live event | [1] [2] | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Edgewood, Pennsylvania | Deaf Wrestlefest (1995) | [3] [4] | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Connellsville, Pennsylvania | Live event | [5] | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Lou Marconi | 1 | Irwin, Pennsylvania | Live event | [6] | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Dennis Gregory | 1 | Irwin, Pennsylvania | Live event | [7] | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Lou Marconi | 2 | Irwin, Pennsylvania | Live event | Marconi was awarded the championship when the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission stripped Dennis Gregory of the title. | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Dennis Gregory | 2 | Irwin, Pennsylvania | Live event | This was a lumberjack match. | [8] [9] | |||||||||||
| 9 | Cody Michaels | 1 | Irwin, Pennsylvania | Live event | |||||||||||||
| 10 | Cueball Carmichael | 1 | Jeannette, Pennsylvania | Live event | [10] [11] | ||||||||||||
| 11 | T. Rantula | 3 | White Oak, Pennsylvania | Live event | [12] | ||||||||||||
| Carmichael, having won control of SCW for 30 days, stripped T. Rantula of the title due to Dennis Gregory being his original opponent. He subsequently orders a tournament to decide a new champion. | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | T. Rantula | 4 | White Oak, Pennsylvania | Live event | T. Rantula defeated Dennis Gregory in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | ||||||||||||
| SCW closed during the summer of 2000, and the championship was retired. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Gunn | 1 | 892 | ||
| 2 | 4 | 389+ | |||
| 3 | 2 | 230 | |||
| 4 | Lou Marconi | 2 | 191 | ||
| 5 | Cueball Carmichael | 1 | 106 | ||
| 6 | Cody Michaels | 1 | 104 | ||
| 7 | 1 | 21 |