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Pages in category "AWA World Tag Team Champions" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
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.
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.
He was also a very successful professional wrestler: sixteen-time world champion, AWA World Heavyweight Champion once, WWA World Heavyweight Champion (Indianapolis version) thirteen times, World Heavyweight Champion (Omaha version) once, and WWA World Heavyweight Champion (Los Angeles version) once. He also excelled at tag-team wrestling, with ...
American Wrestling Association AWA United States Heavyweight Championship ( 3 times ) AWA World Tag Team Championship ( 2 times ) – with Leo Nomellini (1) and Pat O'Connor (1)
Pages in category "American Wrestling Association championships" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... AWA World Heavyweight Championship;
After SuperClash III, the AWA stripped Jerry Lawler of the World Title (Lawler eventually left the AWA and competed in the USWA as that federation's World champion). It was then decided that the new champion would be determined in a battle royal in February 1989. Many fans expected either Gagne or Slaughter to win the title that night and the ...