WWP World Heavyweight Championship

The WWP World Heavyweight Championship^[1] was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the South African professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Professionals (WWP), contested exclusively among Heavyweight (>=100 kg (220 lb)) wrestlers. It was created in April 2004 when WWP debuted its television show, WWP Thunderstrike. Tornado has had the longest reign.^[2]

WWP World Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Professionals
Brand	CPW
Date established	April 2004
Date retired	24 December 2018
Statistics First champion Tornado Final champion Mr. Wrestling Most reigns Tornado & Mr. Wrestling (2 times) Longest reign 3 years (Tornado) Shortest reign 1 month (Dameon Duke) Oldest champion Tornado Youngest champion Dameon Duke Heaviest champion Fury Lightest champion Dameon Duke

Title history

Champion	Reign	Date	Location	Notes
Tornado	1	December 2005	Johannesburg, South Africa
Dameon Duke	1	April 2007	Johannesburg, South Africa
Fury	1	2 January 2008	Johannesburg, South Africa
Vacant		9 January 2009
Joe E. Legend	1	10 January 2009	Johannesburg, South Africa	Defeated P. J. Black.[1]
Vacated on 10 July 2009
Tornado	2	11 July 2009	Lubambashi, Democratic Republic of Congo	Defeated Dameon Duke.[1]
Mr. Wrestling	1	22 March 2014	Port Elizabeth, South Africa	[3]
Markus Burke	1	16 April 2017	Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Brody Steele	1	17 September 2017	Prince Edward Island, Canada	Defeated Markus Burke.
Mr. Wrestling	2	31 March 2018	Port Elizabeth, South Africa	Defeated Brody Steele.
Retired on 24 December 2018

See also

• South Africa portal

• World Wrestling Professionals