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The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship and the highest ranked championship in the defunct American Wrestling Association (AWA). All AWA trademarks, including the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, are now owned by WWE .
Final champion Chief Don Eagle. The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship promoted by Paul Bowser in Boston. [1]The title was created by Bowser after Gus Sonnenberg, who had beaten Ed Lewis for the original World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1929, [2] was stripped of recognition as champion by the National Boxing Association.
Rick Martel (c) vs. Billy Robinson for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship [9] AWA: Verne Gagne Retirement Show (Day 1) May 10, 1981: St. Paul, Minnesota: St. Paul Civic Center: 15,780 Verne Gagne (c) vs. Nick Bockwinkel for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship [10] AWA: Blackjack Lanza & Bobby Duncum vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher ...
This was the last time the World Heavyweight Championship has been unified and to date has never been fully unified again. The Omaha version of the World Heavyweight Championship was later unified with the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. Thesz defeated Carpentier in a rematch by disqualification on July 24, 1957, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ...
From 1929 until 1931, the American Wrestling Association (AWA) controlled the Championship. The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was recognized by the CSAC as the world championship until May 4, 1931, when the Commission refused to recognize Henri Deglane's victory over Ed "Strangler" Lewis in Montreal, Quebec, as the title had changed hands ...
The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1981 until it closed in 1991. In 1989, the Japan-based Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) promotion began billing Florida Championship Wrestling/Professional Wrestling Federation champion Jim Backlund as the AWA champion, something not acknowledged by the AWA; the title became FMW's ...
Also won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from Verne Gagne on July 9, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota 15 Verne Gagne July 20, 1963 House show: Minneapolis, Minnesota 4 7 Won both the Omaha title and AWA title. 16 Fritz Von Erich July 27, 1963 House show: Omaha, Nebraska 2 42 Won both the Omaha title and AWA title. 17
Gagne was an 11-time world champion in major professional wrestling promotions, having held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship ten times and the IWA World Heavyweight Championship once as the IWA World Heavyweight Championship was considered a world championship in Japan.