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Western States Sports (also known as the Amarillo Territory) was a professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Amarillo, Texas in the United States. [1] Founded by Dory Detton in 1946, the promotion enjoyed its greatest success in the 1960s and 1970s under the management of Dory Funk and, later, his sons Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk, with its top performers including the Funks themselves ...
The match ended in a disqualification. Because the PWF Championship could be won by disqualification but the AWA Championship could not, Choshu only won the PWF Championship. -Vacated - March 1987 - N/A N/A Vacated when Choshu left for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. 12 Stan Hansen: 3 April 24, 1987: 320 Yokohama, Japan: House show
In May he decided to part ways with the PWF and join the World Wrestling Federation as a wrestler. [10] Before departing, Rhodes was defeated by The Big Steel Man on May 13, 1989 for the PWF title at an event in Sarasota, FL. His final match with the company was on May 20, where he wrestled Steel Man at an event in Fort Lauderdale. [9]
PWF Show Tampa, Florida 5 12 198 Steve Keirn: July 9, 1989: PWF Show Tampa, Florida 2 N/A: 199 Dan Spivey: November 1989 (NLT) PWF Show Orlando, Florida 2 N/A: 200 Tyree Pride: June 29, 1991: PWF Show Tampa, Florida 1 N/A: Reverted back to NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship: 201 Lou Perez: July 1992 (NLT) PWF Show Winter Haven, Florida 1 N/A ...
The titles were unified on April 18, 1989, when NWA International Heavyweight Champion Jumbo Tsuruta defeated the PWF World Heavyweight and NWA United National Champion Stan Hansen. [ 1 ] Unlike most unified championships, the Triple Crown was originally represented through the continued use of the three individual championship belts .
By 1995, the promotion was running at least four shows a week in the Carolinas alone. [21] In the early-1990s, the promotion filmed two television pilots with hopes of a weekly television series. The PWF was able to get a studio wrestling show on WBTV (Channel 15) in Charlotte, North Carolina but it only lasted six months on the air. One of the ...
The title was established in 1970 when The Destroyer, who held the Hawaii version of the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship, had the belt which would become the PWF United States Championship made to replace the original North American title belt, which had fallen into disrepair. The Destroyer then embarked on a world tour, on which he ...
The Amarillo version of the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship was a top singles title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports. It lasted from 1957 until 1969, when it was replaced with the NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship .