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O'Connor, NWA World Heavyweight Championship since 1959, was recognized as the first AWA World Champion in May 1960, but was given 90 days to defend the title against Verne Gagne or be stripped of the title. [5] 2 Verne Gagne: August 16, 1960: N/A N/A 1 329 Gagne was awarded the championship after Pat O'Connor failed to defend the title. [5] 3 ...
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.
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
Carpentier lost his title to Gagne in Omaha on August 9, 1958, [2] making him the recognized NWA World champion in the NWA territories that had recognized Carpentier, before dropping the belt three months later to Wilbur Snyder. By early 1960, the wealthy Gagne rarely wrestled and turned his focus towards building a wrestling promotion of his own.
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The only active National Wrestling Alliance championships in a specified weight division are the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (active since July 14, 1948) and the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (revived in March 2022). The usual weight limit between the two is 225 lbs., but in practice the heavyweight championship is open to ...
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 ...
There were a total of 28 reigns and 3 vacancies. The first recognized World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion was George Hackenschmidt, who officially won the championship on May 4, 1905, by defeating Tom Jenkins in New York City, New York, [4] the championship remained active for the next 51 years with the last recognized reign beginning on November 9, 1956.
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