Irish Whip Wrestling

Irish Whip Wrestling Heavyweight Championship
Mandrake with the IWW International Heavyweight Championship at an Irish Whip Wrestling event
Details
Promotion	Irish Whip Wrestling
Date established	March 27, 2005
Current champion(s)	The Supermodel
Statistics Most reigns Sheamus (2 reigns) Longest reign Mandrake (1,141 Days) Shortest reign Sheamus (62 Days) Youngest winner Drew Galloway (21 years)

Irish Whip Wrestling (IWW) is an Irish owned independent professional wrestling promotion established in 2002. The company was named in tribute to Irish professional wrestler Danno O'Mahony, who is credited as the inventor of the "Irish Whip" wrestling maneuver. IWW runs shows throughout the whole of Ireland. The company has appeared on Sky One, RTÉ, TV3, The Wrestling Channel, and recently had a weekly show on Buzz TV.

Irish Whip Wrestling (IWW) ran its first two shows in June 2002 in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, which featured wrestler Tatanka, "Middleman" Lee Butler. After these two shows, IWW returned to the ESB National Basketball Arena on October 9 for a show that was headlined by Jake "The Snake" Roberts. During one match at the show, Roberts defeated Flatliner.

IWW continued to promote shows around Ireland through 2003 and 2004, which featured the debuts of several wrestlers including Mad Man Manson, Red Vinny, Vic Viper, "The Friday Night Kid" Brian Roche, Sheamus O'Shaunessy, Dave Zero and Joey Cabray. On December 2, 2004 IWW held a show in Lucan, Dublin, and the main event featured an FWA British Heavyweight Championship match in which Alex Shane pinned O'Shaunessy with the help of Vinny.

Also in 2004, IWW opened up their 'Lock-up' training school in Dublin. Trainers at this school have included Blake Norton, "Middleman" Lee Butler and "The Pukka One" Darren Burridge. Several graduates of the school also went on to become trainers there, such as Bam Katraz, The Ballymun Bruiser, and Bingo Ballance. On occasion guest trainers have made appearances at the school, including D'Lo Brown, A.J. Styles, Kid Kash, Doug Basham, and Tracy Smothers. The training school has also been host to the company's Gym Wars shows which trainees a chance to show their skills to IWW management and to a crowd.