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The NWA Midwest Heavyweight Championship is the top professional wrestling title in the NWA Midwest promotion.The title has been in use since 2001. [1] On November 1, 2011, the title was renamed Zero1 Pro Wrestling USA Midwest Heavyweight Championship, when NWA Midwest left the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
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. The professional wrestling championships are not won through legitimate athletic competition; they are instead won via ...
The MWA World Heavyweight Championship was an Americanprofessional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Kansas City, Kansas-based Midwest Wrestling Association (MWA). It was the direct predecessor of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship, and a successor of sorts to the early world heavyweight ...
Leroy McGuirk's Championship Wrestling Tri-States Wrestling Midwest Championship Wrestling NWA Tri-State Mid-South Wrestling [21] 1949–1982 [18] Tulsa, Oklahoma: Sam Avey (through 1958) Leroy McGuirk (1951–1979) Bill Watts (1979–1982) Maple Leaf Wrestling: 1949–1984 [18] Toronto, Ontario, Canada Frank Tunney (through 1983) Jack Tunney ...
In 1948, Paul "Pinkie" George, a professional wrestling promoter from the U.S. Midwest, founded the National Wrestling Alliance with the backing of six other promoters: Al Haft, Tony Stecher, Harry Light, Orville Brown, Don Owen, and Sam Muchnick. The concept of the NWA was to consolidate the championships of these regional companies into one ...
Thesz had earlier won the National Wrestling Association's World Heavyweight Championship on July 20, 1948 from Wild Bill Longson. Thesz became the undisputed champion of all of wrestling by winning the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium 's World Heavyweight Championship , the remaining major world championship at the time other than the NWA World ...
The top promotional title of the Midwest Wrestling Association first won by Bobby Bruns, retired when the MWA joined the National Wrestling Alliance with Brown as the first champion. NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Still active July 1948 Present As a member of the NWA, the NWA World title was recognized as the top title in the promotion.
NWA Exodus Pro Midwest, also known as Exodus Pro Wrestling, is an American independent professional wrestling promotion, founded on July 17, 2023 by EC3. [1] It serves as the Midwestern territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).