NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (New England version)
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The New England version of the NWA Brass Knuckles Championship was a secondary championship
Championship (professional wrestling)
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 that was used and defended in the National Wrestling Alliance
National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

 affiliated NWA New England promotion. Created in 2000, the title was used in specialty matches
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 in which the combatants would wear brass knuckles
Brass knuckles
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. The championship was regularly used and defended within the promotion before being abandoned in late 2004. Throughout the history of the NWA, a number of NWA affiliated promotions used their own territorial brass knuckles championship, with the ones used in Fritz Von Erich
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's World Class Championship Wrestling
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 based in Dallas, Texas
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 and Eddie Graham
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's Championship Wrestling from Florida being two of the most prominent.
Wrestler Reigns Date Location Notes
Mike Johnson 1 June 22, 2000 Somerville, Massachusetts
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Defeats Trooper Gilmore to become the first champion.
Trooper Gilmore 1 July 20, 2000 Somerville, Massachusetts N/A
Gino Martino 1 August 24, 2000 Somerville, Massachusetts Defeats Trooper Gilmore, Nemesis, Jaime Paine, and Zach Mason. However, he is stripped sometime later for attacking the commissioner.
The Outpatient 1 November, 2000 Unknown He is awarded the vacated title, though he vacates it at a later date.
Rick Fuller
Rick Fuller
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1 June 9, 2001 Milford, Massachusetts
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Wins the vacant title in a 20-man battle royal.
Eric Sbraccia 1 February 16, 2002 Malden, Massachusetts
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Vacates the title after leaving the promotion.
Gino Martino 2 June 6, 2004 Buxton, Maine
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Wins a 12-man taped fist battle royal.
Osirus 1 August 3, 2004 Buxton, Maine N/A
Gino Martino 3 August 10, 2004 Buxton, Maine The title is later abandoned for the final time; the promotion closes in 2007.
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