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Richard Gilbert Vest Sr. (March 5, 1927 – April 22, 1993 [1] [3]) was an American professional wrestler best known by the ring name Chief Big Heart. A popular TV wrestling star of the 1950s , [ 3 ] Vest won championships in numerous National Wrestling Alliance territories between 1956 and 1963.
The NWA World Television Championship Tournament was a tournament held on January 4, 1986, to crown a new World Television Champion after Dusty Rhodes was stripped of the title due to injury at the hands of Ric Flair and The Minnesota Wrecking Crew. [2]
Richard Morton: Richard Morton Ricky Morton 1983 1985-1988 1990-1993 1996 Louis Mucciolo Jr. † Lou Taffiloni Louie Spicolli 1989 1997-1998 Hoyt Murdoch † Dick Murdoch 1974 1977-1978 1986-1989 1991 1993 1995 Keiji Mutoh: The Great Muta 1989-1998 2000 Yuji Nagata: Yuji Nagata 1994 1998 Chigusa Nagayo: Zero 1996 1996 Keiko Nakano: Bull Nakano ...
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).
The World Class Wrestling Association started out under the name "Southwest Sports" from 1940 to 1966, then known as "Big Time Wrestling", a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), from 1966 until 1982. In 1982 the promotion was renamed World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and grew beyond the limits of the Texas territory, with ...
Steiner Brothers received their IWGP Tag Team Championship at a New Japan Pro-Wrestling show on June 26, 1992, where they defeated Big, Bad and Dangerous (Big Van Vader and Bam Bam Bigelow) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship. On July 5, Steiner Brothers lost their WCW World Tag Team Championship to Terry Gordy and Steve Williams at a live event.
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National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion operating via its parent company Lightning One, Inc. [1] The following is a list of its active and inactive/unofficial/defunct championships.