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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 .
Lord James Blears (wrestler/commentator) † Gary DeRusha "Scrap Iron" George Gadaski (wrestler/referee) † Donna Gagne (ring announcer) Paul E. Dangerously ; Lord Alfred Hayes † Bobby Heenan † Dick Jonkowski (ring announcer/commentator) Rodger Kent (ringside announcer) † Scott LeDoux †
International Wrestling Association (Montreal) IWA International Heavyweight Championship (1 time) NWA Minneapolis Wrestling and Boxing Club / American Wrestling Association. AWA World Heavyweight Championship [36] AWA World Tag Team Championship – with Moose Evans (1), The Crusher (1), Billy Robinson (1), and Mad Dog Vachon (1) [37]
The AWA released an AWA Remco Action Figure line with the toy company Remco and a series of 30 minute videos entitled "Wrestling Classics", primarily featuring wrestlers such as Sgt. Slaughter, the Road Warriors, Jimmy Garvin and Steve Regal, and World Champion Martel.
Nicholas Warren Francis Bockwinkel (December 6, 1934 – November 14, 2015) was an American professional wrestler.He is best known for his appearances with the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the 1970s and 1980s.
Raymond Louis Heenan (November 1, 1944 – September 17, 2017) was an American professional wrestling manager, color commentator, and wrestler.He performed with the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name Bobby "the Brain" Heenan.
Born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Regal started wrestling in 1977 and later achieved his biggest success in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) during the mid-1980s. During his tenure there, Regal defeated Buck Zumhofe for the AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship in 1984. [ 1 ]
As the promotion grew, the AWA World Tag Team Championship became one of the most coveted tag team titles in the United States from the beginning until the late 1980s, when the AWA's talent roster was depleted by the World Wrestling Federation and Jim Crockett Promotions. This led to the retirement of the titles when the AWA closed. [1]