Heavy Weight Champ's founding members, Brad Alexander (guitar/vocals), Dean Miller (drums), and Grant McCulloch (vocals/guitar) had played in several rock venues in Victoria in the early 1990s.

Heavy Weight Champ recorded their first extended play, Two Triple Zero, at Perth's Pinnacle Studios with producer Forester Savell.

The five-track EP was released in August 2000 and appeared on the Australian Independent Record Companies Association charts Top 20 for almost a year.

Working with Jarrad Hearman from Watt Studios HWC trialled new tracks and in August 202 released a six-track EP called Grey Filters that gained them a nomination at the 2003 WAMi Awards.

[citation needed] Heavy Weight Champ played its final performance on 14 December 2007 in Perth before disbanding in early 2008.