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Athletik Club Wrestling
World Heavyweight Title (as of 2025-12-06)
Eric Schwarz
2003-11-01
Weinheim, BW
Reigning ACW Heavyweight champion, defeats GWF Champion Michael Kovac in a unification match to become the first ACW World Wrestling champion.
Doug Williams
2003-12-20
Weinheim, BW
Declared vacant on 04-05-08 when an Iron Man match against Eric Black has to be stopped at 59 minutes.
Doug Williams [2]
2004-05-08
Weinheim, BW
Wins a royal rumble.
Joe E. Legend
2005-12-17
Weinheim, BW
Pins Williams during an 8-man elimination match.
Tommy Suede
2005-12-17
Weinheim, BW
Pins Legend during an 8-man elimination match; vacant on 06-05-20 when Suede no-shows; a 20-man battle royal is held to crown new champion where the last two participants Chris the Bambikiller and Headshrinker Alofa eliminate each other at the same time so no winner is found; later in the evening, triple threat match between Bambikiller, Alofa and Legend ends in a no contest; title remains vacant.
Ulf Hermann
2007-11-03
Weinheim, BW
Defeats Joe E. Legend and Martin Stone in a 3-way match.
Bad Bones
2009-12-05
Weinheim, BW
Ulf Hermann [2]
2009-12-05
Weinheim, BW
Nok Su Kau
2009-12-12
Bad Harzburg, NI
Ulf Hermann [3]
2009-12-12
Bad Harzburg, NI
Bad Bones [2]
2010-01-30
Heppenheim, HE
Nok Su Kau [2]
2010-05-15
Weinheim, BW
Teams with Joe E. Legend & Jonny Storm to defeat World champion Bad Bones & Wrestling Challenge champion Argjend Qufaj & German champion Sören Reuter by pinning Bad Bones.
Eric Schwarz [2]
2010-12-04
Weinheim, BW
Argjend Qufaj
2011-04-02
Weinheim, BW
Nok Su Kau [3]
2011-12-03
Weinheim, BW
Defeats Argjend Qufaj.
Dave Mastiff
2012-09-15
Weinheim, BW
The Insane Killer
2012-12-01
Weinheim, BW
Michael Phoenix
2013-12-07
Weinheim, BW
Viper
2014-12-06
Weinheim, BW
Defeats Phoenix and Berengar in a 3-way match.
Steve Morocco
2015-04-11
Weinheim, BW
Vacant on 15-12-05 when Morocco no-shows the scheduled title defense.
BAM
2015-12-05
Weinheim, BW
Defeats Best Of British Wrestling: Binairial & Boombastic & Crusher Curtis & Jonny Storm & Sören Reuter in a handicap gauntlet match.
Nicolai
2016-05-07
Ludwigshafen, RP
Criss Riot
2016-12-03
Weinheim, BW
Murat Bosporus
2017-09-16
Weinheim, BW
Criss Riot [2]
2018-04-14
Weinheim, BW
Boombastic
2019-07-06
Weinheim, BW
Tim Massive defeats Boombastic on 19-12-07 but the decision is overturned.
Alrik
2021-10-09
Weinheim, BW
Tim Massive
2022-12-03
Weinheim, BW
Mexxberg
2023-09-09
Weinheim, BW
Hektor Invictus
2024-12-07
Weinheim, BW
Mexxberg [2]
2025-02-08
Weinheim, BW
Hektor Invictus [2]
2025-10-04
Haßloch, RP
Defeats Mexxberg and Georges Khoukaz in a 3-way match.