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47-593: Professional wrestling championship SSW Heavyweight Championship Details Promotion Southern States Wrestling Date established October 1, 1990 Current champion(s) Daniel Richards Date won November 3, 2018 Statistics First champion(s) Tennessee Equalizer Most reigns Beau James (8 reigns) Longest reign Daniel Richards ( 2,211+ days) Shortest reign Buddy Landel (<1 day) The Southern States Wrestling (SSW) Heavyweight Championship

94-566: A four corners match also involving Johnny Thunder, Steve Flynn and Ricky Harrison. 23 Ricky Harrison December 13, 1997 SSW Mountain City, Tennessee 1 118 24 Buddy Landel April 10, 1998 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 <1 25 Beau James April 10, 1998 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 7 26 Ricky Harrison April 17, 1998 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 2 274 This

141-606: A 1999 house show in Toronto . If there is a title change, the title usually changes back during the same show or at another show on the loop before another televised event, like several titles changes of the WWE Hardcore Championship or when Booker T and Chris Benoit traded the WCW World Television Championship back-and-forth on several house shows, with Booker (the official champion) always having

188-614: A house show in Kingsport. Key No. Overall reign number Reign Reign number for the specific champion Days Number of days held <1 Reign lasted less than a day + Current reign is changing daily No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref. Date Event Location Reign Days 1 Tennessee Equalizer February 16, 1991 House show Elizabethton, Tennessee 1 146 Defeated George Hiatt to become

235-399: A live audience, and with the increase in number of pay-per-view events held by promotions, angles are now typically developed during weekly shows, and resolved during the next pay-per-view (or, on occasion, a special episode of the series), rendering house shows to be mostly minor events with no long-term story significance. Since house shows are not televised, promotions do not usually deploy

282-699: A new stage was introduced that closer-resembles the stages used by televised events at the time. During the first brand extension , each WWE tour was exclusive to either the Raw or SmackDown brand. This remained the case through 2012, even after the first brand extension ended in 2011 on televised programming. In 2013, the shows were rebranded as "WWE Live", with NXT house shows subsequently branded as "NXT Live". After WrestleMania 38 in April 2022, WWE began to brand house shows held on weekends as "Saturday Night's Main Event" (reviving

329-399: A scheduled title defense. The title was subsequently vacated. 21 Johnny Thunder September 1, 1997 House show Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 54 This was a tag team match in which Thunder pinned Otto Schwanz to win the vacant title. 22 The War Machine October 25, 1997 House show Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 49 This was

376-496: Is a professional wrestling event produced by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as to test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and gimmicks that are being considered for the main televised programming and upcoming pay-per-views . As house shows are not televised, all matches are technically dark matches , though that term

423-739: Is the primary professional wrestling championship in Southern States Wrestling . It was first won by The Tennessee Equalizer when he defeated George Hiatt in Elizabethton, Tennessee on February 16, 1991. The title is generally defended in the Southern United States , most often in its home base in East Tennessee , but also as far away as Virginia and West Virginia . In August 2004, then champion Ray Idol began wrestling for rival promotion NWA Championship Wrestling. Although he

470-514: Is uncertain. 38 Heinrich Von Keller July 2002 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 31-62 The exact length of this reign is uncertain. — Vacated September 1, 2002 — — — — The title was declared vacated after Von Keller was stripped of it due to attacking a local televisiob sponsor. 39 Jesse Taylor October 15, 2002 SSW Kingsport, Tennessee 1 71 Defeated Beau James in tournament final to win

517-476: Is uncertain. 45 Beau James October 2003 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 4 0-92 James was awarded the title via forfeit. The exact length of this reign is uncertain. 46 Ray Idol January 2004 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 0-220 The exact length of this reign is uncertain. 47 John Noble August 7, 2004 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 57 Noble

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564-471: Is uncertain. 55 Ray Idol June 2010 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 3 148-178 The exact length of this reign is uncertain. 56 Frank Parker November 25, 2010 SSW 19th Annual Thanksgiving Night Extravaganza Kingsport, Tennessee 2 234 Cagematch.net says this match was also for the SSW Young Guns Championship which

611-408: Is uncertain. 66 Krunch The Equalizer 2017 House show Gray, Tennessee 1 0-189 The exact length of this reign is uncertain. 67 Beau James July 8, 2017 House show Gray, Tennessee 7 176-281 The exact length of this reign is uncertain. — 2018 — — Cagematch.net shows an unknown status of

658-514: Is uncertain. — Vacated 2005 — — — — The title was vacated somewhere in 2005 due to unknown circumstances. 50 Wayne Adkins September 27, 2008 SSW Kingsport, Tennessee 1 61 Defeated Ryan Dookie in a tournament final to win the vacant title. 51 K. C. Thunder November 27, 2008 SSW Kingsport, Tennessee 2 43 — Vacated January 9, 2009 — — — — The title

705-481: Is uncertain. — Vacated September 1994 — — — — The Mongolian Stomper vacated the title somewhere in September after he announced his retirement from professional wrestling due to a legitimate injury. Therefore, his reign's exact length is uncertain. 10 Chic White October 1, 1994 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 97 Defeated Danny Christian to win

752-598: Is usually reserved for non-televised matches at otherwise televised events. House shows are also often scripted to make the face wrestlers win most matches, largely to send the crowd home happy. If a heel defends a title, the face may win by disqualification, preventing the title from changing hands. Until the 1990s, most televised professional wrestling programs were taped weeks in advance in small studios and featured primarily matches with lesser-known wrestlers while interviews revolved around feuds between upper level talent that were to be settled at an upcoming major show at

799-584: The Night of Grudges supercard at the National Guard Armory in Kingsport. This was the first interpromotional event in which both promotion's champions faced each other. In November 2006, Beau James married female wrestler Misty James at the 15th annual supercard Thanksgiving Night Spectacular at the Kingsport National Guard Armory. Both would participate in mixed tag team matches during

846-558: The SSW Young Guns Television Championship in Kingsport coinciding with the promotion launching its weekly television program which aired regularly on WAPK-CA from January 1999 until October 2003. The promotion eventually released a series of dvds from the program, most notably, Superstars and Legends, Vol. 1 , which featured Don Wright , Ivan Koloff , The Equalizer , Jimmy Valiant , Wahoo McDaniel , Killer Kyle , Jimmy Valiant and Stan Lee. On May 10, 2001,

893-764: The WCW Cruiserweight Championship on an unspecified house show (thereby giving the title to Psychosis), after WCW management was forced to drop Lane's gimmick that was perceived as offensive by the GLAAD . The phrase has been used to pejoratively describe WWE pay-per-views intended primarily for specific markets, including UK-only pay-per-views such as Insurrextion and Rebellion , and WWE's events in Saudi Arabia . In 2019, Shawn Michaels defended his one-off return at WWE's 2018 Crown Jewel pay-per-view in Saudi Arabia (reuniting D-Generation X to participate in

940-558: The Rougeau's home town of Montreal. This change (and the eventual "decision reversal") was only ever mentioned during segments taped specifically for and shown in the Montreal market. A fictional house show can be used to explain a sudden vacation or change of a title caused due to backstage issues on television. For example, on October 4, 1999 edition of WCW Monday Nitro , the commentators stated that Psychosis had defeated Lenny Lane for

987-609: The WWF Championship from Bob Backlund in 1994 at a live event in Madison Square Garden . There have also been occasions when title changes occur but are not recognized by the promotion. Some notable house show title changes include an August 10, 1987 match where The Rougeau Brothers ( Raymond and Jacques ) won over the champion Hart Foundation ( Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart ) to take the WWF Tag Team championship in

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1034-419: The advent of WWE Network , WWE has televised portions of what are otherwise house shows as hour-long specials on the service, such as Starrcade —an event that shares the name with the flagship pay-per-view of the now-defunct WCW (whose assets were acquired by WWE), and The Shield's Final Chapter —a special which featured Dean Ambrose 's final WWE appearance with his stable The Shield before his departure from

1081-588: The branding of a former WWE television series ) and "Sunday Night Stunner". Because house shows are not televised, sometimes controversial things occur during them (although this is rare) which might not happen on a televised show. For example, on May 19, 1996, the MSG "Curtain Call" , which was also a rare example of a shoot , occurred at a house show taped at Madison Square Garden . At the same show, The Bodydonnas lost their WWF Tag Team Championship to The Godwinns . With

1128-3444: The current champion ¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest length is considered. Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined days 1 Beau James 8 784-1,012¤ 2 Daniel Richards † 1 2,211+ 3 Eric Darkstorm 2 640 4 DeAndre Jackson 1 620 5 Ricky Harrison 3 599 6 Frank Parker 3 562-592 7 Ray Idol 4 418-668¤ 8 Wayne Rogers 2 403 9 Tennessee Equalizer/Krunch The Equalizer 3 373-562¤ 10 Cody Ices 1 283 11 Steve Flynn 3 254 12 Iron Cross 3 252¤ 13 Stan Lee 1 250 14 Mike Samson 2 212 15 Jesse Taylor 3 200-228¤ 16 The War Machine 2 197 17 G.Q. Stratus 1 196 18 Tracy Smothers 1 190 19 The Mongolian Stomper 1 186-216¤ 20 Kyle Kool 1 162 21 K. C. Thunder 2 121 22 Jimmy Golden 1 119 23 Brian Overbay 2 111 Skyfire 1 111 25 Iron Man 1 104 26 Chic White 1 97 27 Dan Cooley 1 68 28 Wayne Adkins 1 61 29 Robbie Cassidy 1 59 30 John Noble 1 57 31 Johnny Thunder 1 54 32 Scotty McKeever 1 47-75¤ 33 Eddie Bruiser 1 42 34 Danny Christian 1 33 35 Heinrich Von Keller 1 31-62¤ 36 Brad Batten 1 26-57¤ 37 Kyle Matthews 1 26 38 Steve Phillips 1 15 39 Stan Sierra 1 11 40 Buddy Landel 1 <1 41 Danny Ray 1 N/A¤ References [ edit ] ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN   0-9698161-5-4 . ^ Royal Duncan; Gary Will; Matt Benaka; Brian Westcott (2005). "SSW Heavyweight Title History" . Solie's Title Histories . Solie.org. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (2004). "SSW Heavyweight Championship" . Cagematch.de. External links [ edit ] Official Tag Team Championship Title History SSW Heavyweight Championship Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SSW_Heavyweight_Championship&oldid=1237912564 " Categories : Heavyweight wrestling championships Regional professional wrestling championships Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Southern States Wrestling Others to appear in

1175-532: The defense. 16 Tennessee Equalizer March 1, 1996 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 2 227 17 Danny Christian September 2, 1996 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 33 18 K. C. Thunder October 5, 1996 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 118 19 Dan Cooley January 31, 1997 House show Shawsville, Virginia 1 68 — Vacated April 9, 1997 — — — — Title

1222-936: The inaugural champion. 2 Skyfire July 12, 1991 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 111 3 Stan Lee October 31, 1991 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 250 4 Wayne Rogers July 7, 1992 House show Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 185 5 G.Q. Stratus January 8, 1993 House show Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 196 6 Jimmy Golden March 30, 1993 House show Weber City, Virginia 1 115 7 Wayne Rogers July 23, 1993 House show Fall Branch, Tennessee 2 218 8 Mike Samson February 26, 1994 House show Morristown, Tennessee 1 69 9 The Mongolian Stomper May 6, 1994 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 186-216 This reign's length

1269-455: The late Whitey Caldwell were also in attendance. Southern States Wrestling became involved with AWA Superstars of Wrestling during the early-2000s, although not an official affiliate promotion, and has held interpromotional events with its sister promotion Tennessee's Championship Wrestling. In April 2005, Beau James, Tom Prichard and The Super Destroyer faced Championship Wrestling's "Adorable" Danny Ray, Nick Hammonds & Wayne Adkins at

1316-847: The network also has rare footage from Continental Championship Wrestling and other Territory-era wrestling promotions from the Tennessee area. The Kingsport Wrestling Hall of Fame (also known as the East Tennessee Wrestling Hall of Fame ) is an American professional wrestling hall of fame maintained by the Kingsport -based promotion Southern States Wrestling (SWW). It was established in 1999 to honor select personalities in East Tennessee wrestling history. The induction ceremonies are held as part of its annual " Weekend of Champions and Legends Reunion ". House show A house show

1363-533: The next year. In early 2008, he and his wife were involved in a major interpromotional feud with AWA Superstars of Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion Brian Logan . In August 2017, Beau James announced that SSW had signed a deal with a VOD service to provide online streaming platform for the promotion. It took nearly a year to transfer the entire SSW Video Library from VHS/DVD to a digital format . The Southern States Wrestling Network made its debut on July 15, 2018. In addition to SSW television and supercards,

1410-598: The promotion continued to hold events at county fairs and high school gyms. Later on in 2022, Beau James announced that SSW would resume to full time competition, with a tournament to crown a new Southern States Heavyweight Champion, a tournament won by Lord Murphy Costigan. Southern States Wrestling was founded by Beau James, who began promoting wrestling events in Kingsport and Fall Branch, Tennessee . The promotion crowned its first heavyweight champion when The Tennessee Equalizer defeated George Hiatt in Elizabethton, Tennessee on February 16, 1991. A junior heavyweight title

1457-692: The promotion have included former National Wrestling Alliance veterans Ivan Koloff , Jimmy Valiant , Junkyard Dog , Pez Whatley , Terry Taylor , Shane Douglas and female wrestlers Sherri Martel , Debbie Combs , Brandi Alexander , Lexie Fyfe and Malia Hosaka . Jillian Hall , E. Z. Money , Joey Corman and Samir and Andy Douglas . The promotion also runs a wrestling school in Fall Branch, Tennessee . In 2015, Beau James began cutting back SSW's schedule due to his commitments to Appalachian Mountain Wrestling as manager of The Progressive Liberal , however,

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1504-626: The promotion held the Mark Curtis Memorial Weekend of Champions in Kingsport, Tennessee in honor of World Championship Wrestling referee Mark Curtis with the proceeds donated to the Children's Miracle Network . Among those headlining the event included Arn Anderson . The next year, the Mark Curtis Memorial Weekend of Champions and Legends Reunion featured Jimmy Valiant, Ivan Koloff and Sandy Scott . Family members of

1551-411: The promotion's flagship venues. Prior to the 1980s, these were house shows, though with the advent of closed-circuit television , and later pay-per-view , these became televised events as well. Later on in the 1990s, the advent of weekly shows such as WWF's Monday Night Raw and WCW Monday Nitro , where competitive matches between upper level talent and storylines play out as they happen in front of

1598-583: The promotion. Starting in March 2023, All Elite Wrestling launched a series of house shows under the "House Rules" brand. Most major promotions try to develop their angles only during televised shows and will rarely book a major development (such as a title change) for house shows. House show title changes can occur both to gauge how fans would react to a certain outcome, and allow for outcomes that would appeal to local fans—such as Edge winning his first WWF Intercontinental Championship over Jeff Jarrett at

1645-481: The same setup for staging or pyrotechnics used for their television counterparts. In the past, a WWE house show would consist mainly of a ring, essential lighting, and a crowd. In late 2011, WWE invested US$ 1.5 million in production improvements, which included three LED -lit entrance stages (one each for Raw and SmackDown , and one backup) featuring a ramp and video display, and leveraging venues' existing AV equipment for multimedia such as entrances . As of 2021,

1692-532: The title back in time for Nitro . Edge similarly lost the aforementioned Intercontinental Championship back to Jarrett at Fully Loaded the next evening in Buffalo . Even rarer is the top title of a promotion changing hands. This has occurred relatively few times, notable occurrences include Bret Hart winning the then- WWF Championship from Ric Flair in 1992 at a live event in Saskatchewan and Diesel winning

1739-565: The title by forfeit. 34 Steve Phillips January 26, 2001 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 15 35 Brian Overbay February 10, 2001 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 2 111 Overbay was awarded the title via referee's reverse decision. 36 Ricky Harrison June 1, 2001 SSW Kingsport, Tennessee 3 207 37 Beau James December 25, 2001 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 3 186-217 The exact length of this reign

1786-405: The title from the beginning of 2018 until October but doesn't say if it is a vacancy or the continuation of James' reign. 68 Beau James October 8, 2018 House show Gray, Tennessee 8 26 69 Daniel Richards November 3, 2018 SSW Gray, Tennessee 1 2,211+ Combined reigns [ edit ] † Indicates

1833-601: The vacant title. 11 Steve Flynn January 6, 1995 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 75 12 Mike Samson March 21, 1995 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 2 143 13 Steve Flynn August 11, 1995 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 2 57 14 Iron Man October 7, 1995 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 104 15 Eddie Bruiser January 19, 1996 SSW Fall Branch, Tennessee 1 42 Defeated Iron Man by forfeit due to Iron Man not showing up to

1880-711: The vacant title. 40 Scotty McKeever December 25, 2002 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 47-75 The exact length of this reign is uncertain. 41 Jesse Taylor February 2003 House show Beaver, West Virginia 2 70-98 The exact length of this reign is uncertain. 42 Robbie Cassidy May 9, 2003 House show Greeneville, Tennessee 1 59 43 Jesse Taylor July 7, 2003 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 3 59 44 Brad Batten September 4, 2003 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 26-57 The exact length of this reign

1927-829: Was a loser leaves the company match . 27 Beau James January 16, 1999 SSW Kingsport, Tennessee 2 140 28 Iron Cross June 5, 1999 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 124 29 The War Machine October 7, 1999 House show Johnson City, Tennessee 2 148 30 Tracy Smothers March 3, 2000 House show Saltville, Virginia 1 190 31 Iron Cross September 9, 2000 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 2 128 32 Stan Sierra January 15, 2001 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 11 33 Brian Overbay January 26, 2001 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 1 <1 Won

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1974-556: Was awarded the title after Idol left for rival promotion, NWA Championship Wrestling. Idol's stripping was not recognized as a vacancy but as an official title change without a proper match taking place. 48 Beau James October 3, 2004 House show Kingsport, Tennessee 5 173 49 Danny Ray March 25, 2005 Event held at the National Guard Armory Kingsport, Tennessee 1 N/A The exact length of this reign

2021-630: Was created the following year when Eddie Golden defeated Jamie Gibson in Banner Elk, North Carolina . In 1995 the promotion expanded by creating two more titles. The junior heavyweight title was abandoned the previous year and replaced by the SSW Appalachian Heavyweight Championship won by Eddie Golden when he beat Tracy Smothers in a best-of-three series in Meadowview, Virginia on May 11, 1996. Four years later, Mike Cooper won

2068-423: Was declared vacated after Dan Cooley was stripped out of it due to unknown circumstances. 20 Steve Flynn May 2, 1997 House show Fall Branch, Tennessee 3 122 Defeated Frank Parker in a tournament final to win the vacant title. — Vacated September 1, 1997 — — — — Steve Flynn was stripped of the championship after he failed to appear for

2115-1450: Was held by Beau James at the moment. However, the site recognizes Ray Idol as the Heavyweight champion instead of Beau James, not specifying a match where Parker took the title from James. Yet this title change appears to be real but no other evidence for this has been recorded. 57 Ray Idol July 17, 2011 House show Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 4 140 58 Frank Parker November 24, 2011 House show Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 3 234 59 Beau James July 15, 2012 House show Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 6 76 60 Eric Darkstorm September 29, 2012 House show Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 1 400 61 Kyle Matthews November 3, 2013 House show Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 1 26 62 Eric Darkstorm November 29, 2013 House show Mt. Carmel, Tennessee 2 140 63 Kyle Kool April 18, 2014 House show Rogersville, Tennessee 1 162 64 DeAndre Jackson September 27, 2014 SSW Kingsport, Tennessee 1 620 — Vacated June 8, 2016 — — — — 65 Iron Cross July 9, 2016 House show Gray, Tennessee 3 N/A The exact length of this reign

2162-459: Was immediately stripped of the title, Idol continued defending a different NWA Championship Wrestling-version under the SSW name. However, this was short-lived and the title became a regular title within the main promotion. There are 41 recognized champions with a total of 69 title reigns and 8 vacancies. Wayne Adkins is the current Champion in his second reign. He won the title off of Lord Murphy Costigan at

2209-495: Was vacated somewhere in 2005 due to unknown circumstances. 52 Cody Ices January 9, 2009 SSW New Year's Bash Kingsport, Tennessee 1 283 This was a 15-man rumble match for the vacant title. 53 Ray Idol October 19, 2009 SSW Kingsport, Tennessee 2 130 54 Frank Parker February 26, 2010 SSW 19th Anniversary Kingsport, Tennessee 1 94-124 The exact length of this reign

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