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Wilbur Snyder (September 15, 1929 – December 25, ... 1956. [1] Snyder was a regional champion in a myriad of territories that were affiliated with the National ...
October 19, 1956 Chicago, IL: Wilbur Snyder: 2 February 19, 1957 Chicago, IL: Dick the Bruiser: 1 December 14, 1957 Chicago, IL: Verne Gagne: 2 April 12, 1958 Chicago, IL: During this reign, Gagne creates his own splinter of the championship, later renaming it to the AWA United States Heavyweight Championship. Wilbur Snyder: 3 November 15, 1958 ...
January 30, 1956 21 Don Leo Jonathan: 1 February 20, 1956 14 Hollywood, CA [1] Oyama Okato 2 March 5, 1956 26 Wilbur Snyder: 3 March 31, 1956 9 Don Leo Jonathan: 2 April 9, 1956 14 Rito Romero: 1 April 23, 1956 150 Sometime after April 16, 1956. Sandor Szabo: 5 September 20, 1956 70/102 Vacated December 1956 9/41 Sometime after November 28 ...
The WWA International Television Tag Team Championship was the tag team title in the Los Angeles–based Worldwide Wrestling Associates from the title's formation in 1954 (as the NWA International Television Tag Team Championship, renamed as a North American Wrestling Alliance title with that promotion's formation in 1958 and then as a WWA title in 1961 when the promotion was renamed) until ...
Wilbur Snyder: March 14, 1956: Live event: Montreal, Quebec 7 21 56 Killer Kowalski: April 4, 1956: Live event: Montreal, Quebec 7 9 57 Yvon Robert: April 13, 1956: Live event: Quebec City, Quebec 16 47 58 Killer Kowalski: May 30, 1956: Live event: Montreal, Quebec 8 343 [30] 59 Édouard Carpentier: August 15, 1956: Live event: Montreal, Quebec ...
The AWA United States Championship was a short-lived title in the early days of the American Wrestling Association.It started out as the NWA United States Championship promoted in the Chicago, Illinois from 1953 until 1958. in 1958 then champion Verne Gagne created the American Wrestling Association (AWA) based on Minneapolis, Minnesota and took the championship with him, claiming the lineage ...
The first championship team was that of Verne Gagne and Wilbur Snyder, who were awarded the championship in July 1958 by Southwest Sports. The last recorded champions of the Southwest Sports era were Mr. Ito and Chati Yokochi, who won the championship on December 12, 1968, with the championship being abandoned in 1969 or 1970.
Wilbur Snyder and Dick the Bruiser: April 25, 1964: WWA show N/A 1 97 First champions. 2 Nicoli Volkoff and Angelo Poffo: July 31, 1964: WWA show N/A 1 35 Won the title via countout. 3 Wilbur Snyder and Dick the Bruiser September 4, 1964: WWA show Indianapolis, Indiana 2 N/A 4 The Von Brauners (Kurt Von Brauner and Karl Von Brauner) October ...