HPW World Heavyweight Championship

The HPW World Title's history goes back to an indie federation called Ultimate Desire Wrestling. Not much is known about the title's history while in UDW. When Sean and Paul Steel founded HTR Underground in early 2008, they took the UDW Title belt. That belt was then used as the HTR World Heavyweight Title. HTR continued to put on shows until April 2009, when the Steel brothers gave the federation to [[James "Grimm" Blackwell|James Blackwell]]. Blackwell closed HTR and founded [[Underground Wrestling Entertainment]] in May. Blackwell was the HTR World Champion at the time and christened himself the UWE World Heavyweight Champion upon UWE's founding. UWE was successfully running it's product until November, when a personal problem involving Blackwell's family caused a suspension of operations. Operations eventually continued in May 2010, when UWE allowed the Steels to book matches for the UWE World Title on their reunion show, "One Last Ride". At "One Last Ride", a special 24/7 Rule was placed on the UWE World Title, and the belt switched hands many times, leaving Sean Steel both the HTR and UWE World Champion at the end of the event. One month later, UWE held it's closing show "Doomsday". At "Doomsday", Paul Steel defeated Sean Steel in an impromptu match to become the UWE World Champion, and is recognized as the final champion. At the end of the event, Sean announced that a new federation, [[Higher Passion Wrestling]] would start in 2011. On March 12, HPW held it's first event. In it, Lustkill defeated Cody Douglas to become the first HPW World Heavyweight Champion. However, after the match, it was revealed that Blackwell had disguised himself as Lustkill and entered the match as an act of revenge against Douglas, Paul Steel, and Sean Steel. Both Lustkill and Blackwell's reigns are recognized by HPW. One month later on April 2, "April Anarchy" was held. Blackwell lost the title in a match to Dukalien. Dukalien defended the title valiantly until he was defeated by Sean Steel on July 2 at "Dirty Black Summer". At the same time, Sean was the [[The Promise's Backyard Wrestling Association|TPBYWA]] [[TPBYWA World Heavyweight Championship|World Heavyweight Champion]], which he claimed was the true [[NBYWA World Heavyweight Championship]]. Steel started a feud with the [[National Backyard Wrestling Alliance]] founder [[Skull Jr.]] earlier in the year over who was the rightful champion. Steel, Skull, and Blackwell (who claimed he should get a shot because of a missed one two years prior and also revived the UWE brand during this time) entered in on the feud and it escalated to a 3-way, 3-Title unification match on September 3 at HPW's event "Homecoming". The match made backyard wrestling history, as it was the first time two backyard wrestling communities unified their World Titles. Steel retained the TPBYWA and HPW World Titles, while also winning the NBYWA World Title. He, Blackwell, his brother Max, Cody Douglas, and [[RPK|Lance Manion]] formed the Masters of the Backyard after the match and beat Skull down until Skull was saved by Dukalien. Dukalien challenged Steel for the HPW World Title and Steel accepted. Dukalien won the match. One month later on October 1 at "[[HPW/NBYWA 7: Hell-O-Ween]]", Dukalien defended the belt against Blackwell and Douglas, which lasted the whole time limit and was declared a draw. Dukalien gave the belt to Steel (who earlier in the show lost the TPBYWA and NBYWA World Titles to Skull in a rematch) who was retiring after the show. However, Steel re-considered his stance and became an active wrestler again and was considered the champion until March 22, 2012, when on HPW's new website it was announced that the title (along with the Underground Title) was vacated. On April 7, a four-man Battle Royal took place to decide a new champion at "First Blood". Sean Steel was the surprise fourth entrant, and Cody Douglas became the World Champion. The other participants were James Blackwell and Dukalien.