Chikara Grand Champion
| Chikara Grand Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Juan Francisco de Coronado, the current Chikara Grand Champion
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| Promotion | Chikara | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | February 3, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Juan Francisco de Coronado | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | April 1, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Statistics | |
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| First champion(s) | Eddie Kingston |
| Most reigns | Hallowicked (2 reigns) |
| Longest reign | Eddie Kingston (924 days) |
| Shortest reign | UltraMantis Black (91–118 days) |
| Oldest winner | UltraMantis Black (41 years) |
| Youngest winner | Princess KimberLee (25 years, 161 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Eddie Kingston (228 lb (103 kg)) |
| Lightest champion | Princess KimberLee (120 lb (54 kg)) |
The Chikara Grand Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Chikara promotion. The first champion was crowned on November 13, 2011, at the High Noon pay-per-view, when Eddie Kingston defeated Mike Quackenbush at the conclusion of a six-month long, twelve-person tournament.
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Since the founding of the promotion in 2002 and before the Chikara Grand Championship was created, Chikara promoted only the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, a tag team championship, and the Chikara Young Lions Cup, a championship for rookies, but did not have a major singles championship until an announcement regarding the creation of the Grand Championship was made in February 2011. On March 14, 2013, Chikara announced that in the future the title would be defended at every event held by the promotion. This was later negated following Mike Quackenbush's takeover as Director of Fun and on August 1, 2014, he announced a three-point system to determine contendership for the title, similar to the system used for the Campeonatos de Parejas. Under the system, wrestlers need to accumulate three back-to-back wins in order to be eligible to challenge for the title.
Overall, there have been seven reigns shared among six wrestlers. One female wrestler, Princess KimberLee, has held the title. With the win, KimberLee became the first female wrestler to hold the top title in a major non-female promotion. Juan Francisco de Coronado is the current champion in his first reign.
On February 3, 2011, Chikara's new Director of Fun Wink Vavasseur announced that the promotion would be determining their first ever singles champion, nine years after the promotion was founded in 2002. Being new in his job, Vavasseur asked the Chikara roster to cast their vote on who should get to compete for the title with the only provision being that a wrestler cannot vote for themselves. For the next two months wrestlers such as Vin Gerard, UltraMantis Black, Green Ant, Brodie Lee and Icarus pleaded for votes on Chikara's official website. While most of Chikara's top rudo (villainous) stable Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (BDK) seemed united behind their leader Claudio Castagnoli, who had ordered his stablemates to vote for him, BDK member Sara Del Rey also asked for votes for herself.
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