Israeli Pro Wrestling Association is an independent wrestling promotion, operating from Israel.

History

IPWA was founded on October 17, 2001 by Gery Roif and ran a few exhibition matches on national TV before holding the initial ''Summer Splash'' event in summer 2002. Roif was crowned its first champion after defeating Texas Wrestling Academy graduate Joey "The MOALM" Tylec in a televised match in the summer of 2003. Subsequently, the IPWA gained a fair amount of recognition worldwide; toward the end of 2003 ''Total Wrestling'' magazine started publishing its rankings on a monthly basis. ''Summer Splash 3'' in 2004 featured FWA star Aviv Maayan making a one-night appearance to team up with Hawaii Allen and take on Jumping Lee and Yossi The Bull with Joey Tylec finally defeating Gery Roif to win the IPWA title. In 2005 almost the entire IPWA roster starred in a wrestling/social satire sitcom series "Makkat Medina" ("The Land Under Attack"), gaining further recognition in Israel. Both Kevin Von Erich and Bret Hart visited the crew during taping. In the beginning of 2006, the IPWA ''Wrestlenovella'' event was aired on '' The Wrestling Channel''. In June 2009, the promotion had an event that got aired on the local ''Ego Total'' channel under the title of ''Israeli Wrestling''. In the summer of 2011 Rabbi Swissa defeated Israel's ''Survivor'' reality show winner, Nathan Bashevkin. In 2011 the promotion ran a series of monthly events, from "Makat Shemesh" at June to "Makot Besukut" at November. On August 16, 2012 Tatanka main evented the ''Wrestling Super Show'' as he defeated Rabbi Swissa to win the IPWA Heavyweight Championship. Two months later the match was shown on Israeli sport channel ONE. On April 19, 2014 former two time

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and two time ECW Tag Team champion, Little Guido defeated Rabbi Swissa in IPWA's traditional Passover Bash which was the last show of the promotion. In April 2019 however, IPWA returned with an additional Passover Bash event, which featured Jay Lethal against David Starr. Originally, Lethal was scheduled to defend the

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against Starr, but Lethal lost the title to Matt Taven in a Three-way

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, which included Marty Scurll as well at

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event on April 6, 2019. The card also featured Gery Roif defending the IPWA Heavyweight Championship against Matt Sydal.

IPWA special events

The IPWA events feature

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that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed

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, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

IPWA Passover Bash

On 21 April 2019, IPWA put on their return event, IPWA Passover Bash. It was held at Berale in

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and drew 200 people.

IPWA Wrestling Party

On 26 August 2019, IPWA put on their second return event, IPWA Wrestling Party. It was held at Berale in

and drew approximately 80 people.

IPWA at Cinema City

On 15 December 2019, IPWA put on their third return event, IPWA Cinema City Wrestling. It was held at Cinema City in Ramat Hasharon and drew over 300 people.

Roster

Last known roster

* Rabbi Swissa * Hellboy * Guy Landau * Joey Tylec * Killer Degani * Lior Libman * Sharon Palty * Ivan Brovkin * Khan Hannibal * Johnny Horvitz * Adam Blood * Tomer Offner * Rixon Ruas * Boom Bregman * Jack Dahma * Jason Cruz * Sean Hayes * Maor Mizrahi * Yokozuna Shavit * Gaya Glass

Alumni

* Aviv Maayan * Tatanka * "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn * Little Guido *

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* Jay Lethal * David Starr * Matt Sydal * Darby Allin * Sammy Guevara * Nadia Sapphire * Molly Spartan

IPWA Heavyweight Championship

The IPWA Heavyweight Championship is the only professional wrestling championship in the Israeli Pro Wrestling Association promotion. At the end of 2002, Israeli professional wrestler Gery Roif announced a match between himself and Joey "The Moalm" Tylec to determine the first IPWA Heavyweight Champion. The current champion is Matt Sydal, who is in his first reign. From the IPWA Heavyweight Championship's inception in 2003, there have been thirteen different title holders, combining for eighteen championship reigns.

Reigns

Combined reigns

References

External links

Results at Online World of WrestlingOfficial IPWA English websiteOfficial IPWA website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Association, Israeli Pro Wrestling Israeli professional wrestling promotions 2003 establishments in Israel Organizations established in 2003 Organizations based in Netanya Professional wrestling schools