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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] Title reigns are either determined by professional wrestling matches or are awarded to a wrestler, as a result of the culmination of various scripted storylines, [2] following is correct as of December 12, 2024.
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.
Other major NWA territories like NWA Pro/NWA Pro West, NWA Georgia, NWA Pro East, NWA Southwest and NWA Midwest folded. In 2013, the NWA re-established a relationship with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where Bruce Tharpe became an on-screen character, portraying a villainous manager of wrestlers representing the NWA.
On August 24 at Midwest Journey II, Exodus Pro crowned their inaugural NWA Exodus Pro Midwest Tag Team Champions, when Major League (J-Rocc and Rex Brody) defeated TME (Duke Davis and Ganon Jones Jr.); at the same event, Tiffany Nieves defeated Kelsey Heather, Kylie Paige, and Maya World to become the territory's first Women's Champion.
In October 2023, while still under the ownership of Billy Corgan's Lightning One, Inc., the NWA reintroduced the territory system. The first NWA-affiliated promotion introduced under the new system was NWA Exodus Pro Midwest, owned by then NWA World's Heavyweight Champion Michael "EC3" Hutter. [6]
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.
At the time of the founding of the NWA, Brown already held the Midwest Wrestling Association's World Heavyweight Championship and the Iowa version of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship; during Brown's reign, the two championships were unified into the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. [a] [3] 2 Lou Thesz: November 27, 1949: N/A N/A 1 ...