Season 3 of DW's existence won't be remembered with much of anything that happened in the ring. With no PPV event at the end of the season for the first time since the creation of the fed storylines didn't develop too fast and no big matches came. There was one exception - after losing her CW title at the start of the second week of the season the Slayer went on to the following show four days later and with a clear display of dominance proved that she had not so much lost the title as she passed it on to the next in line. After that she began a two season long series on Last Blood matches that became know as the Blood Gauntlet. Each week she would face a heavyweight and defeat them by beating them so badly they would pass out in the ring. The object of that grueling series of matches was for Buffy to prove her worthiness and earn a Heavyweight title shot. She did indeed earn it but the toll of seven consecutive Last Blood battles tuned out to be too high and she fell just short of the mark at the NEW DAWN PPV on May 8th 2010 in front of a sold out 8400 seat Darkness Arena.
The record attendance for Season 3 was 8000 viewers at the closing show of the season. The average attendance through the season was a healthy 5753,6 seats per show over the 5 shows that the fed aired that season - if the three missed shows are take into account the average over 8 shows drops to just under 3600.
The fourth season saw a total 57571 visit the 8 DW events that season resulting in a 7200 average attendance throughout the season. With seven completely sold out shows it was one of the best seasons for the fed in terms ticket sales coming very close to 100% sold out season.
The Season saw the creation of the latest two DW championships and the crowning of their first holders. The Heavyweight Tag Team championship was contested on the first show of the season and won by the team of the first ever HW Champion Altilon who partnered up Vagabond. The titles have been vacant on two occasions - both times after one of the holders left DW and their partner either didn't find or didn't look for a replacement for them. Among the interesting details surrounding the belts are that Blackwing was Altilon's biggest nightmare for a second time taking away the HW Tag gold from him after only a three week run only to vacate the titles a few days later when his partner MaNe did not re-sing with the company. Altilon regained the gold with a new partner the following season becoming the first man to win the belts twice. That feat has since been repeated by every single holder to follow with only two teams winning the title twice in with the same team composition. The most successful competitor in regards to this title is Buffy who managed to win the title four times with three different partners, with 3 title runs right behind her is Carnage but he has left DW and is unknown if he will ever return. The teams of Eric Tank and Kokina and Buffy and Carnage are the only two to win the belts a second time while still in the same team configuration. The belts have been won 10 times in total by a combined 10 different wrestlers. The longest run belongs to the team of Carnage and kAotiker 10.5 weeks from June 9th to August 14th 2010. With 14 weeks Buffy hold the longest combined run the first 7.5 weeks of which were a continuous reign despite her having to change partners during the run. Notably her other two runs were only set apart by a period during which the titles were vacant and not held by another team.
The first Hardcore champion was crowned after a tournament that ended on May 1st and was won by Antonio Inoki. The HC title has been won 5 times, each time by a different wrestler making it only the second belt that has had no repeat winners and on the same ground with the CW title in terms of number of holders. A fact that is truly surprising given that the title's rules allow for the same exact champion to be challenged for the gold twice in the same night and for the title itself to be contested up to three times in the course of a single show. The challenge can also come at any time during a show as long as the champion is not currently competing - if he is he is required to take the challenge between 5 and 10 minutes from finishing his ongoing. match. Those rules have only been made use of once at the Season 6 DOMINION PPV where Mr. "Crowly" Murder challenged Ulysses just a few minutes after he had one the HC title becoming the first and to date only DW wrestler to have hold two championships at the same time. Crowly won the match making Ulysses' two title's run last only about 5 minutes. Crowly holds the record for longest reign with the belt after holding it for three full months from August 14th to November 13th 2010 when he was stripped of the title for conduct unbecoming a champion after repeatedly running away from his matches with greeny paws.
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