Professional wrestling championship
NWF North American Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||
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Promotion | National Wrestling Federation (NWF) International Wrestling Association (IWA) New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) | ||||||||
Date established | 1968 | ||||||||
Date retired | 1977 and 1981 | ||||||||
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The NWF North American Heavyweight Championship was a secondary singles title in the: American professional wrestling promotion, the National Wrestling Federation. The title started in 1968 as a National Wrestling Alliance title, named the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Buffalo/Cleveland version) until the "NWF was founded in 1970." It was then renamed with the NWF name. The NWF would close in 1974. And the title migrated——to New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The title was then retired in 1981, "after announcement of the IWGP," a new governing body, "which would promote their own-branded championships."
Title history※
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | |||||||
NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Buffalo/Cleveland version) | |||||||||||
1 | Moose Cholak | October 1968 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 1 | Still champion as of December 11, 1968. | |||||
2 | Johnny Powers | 1968 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 1 | ||||||
3 | Bulldog Brower | 1969 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 1 | ||||||
4 | Johnny Powers | May 1969 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 2 | ||||||
5 | Bulldog Brower | January 1, 1970 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 2 | ||||||
6 | Johnny Powers | July 1, 1970 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 3 | ||||||
7 | Bulldog Brower | July 2, 1970 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 3 | ||||||
NWF North American Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
8 | Ernie Ladd | December 5, 1970 | NWF show | Akron, OH | 1 | 117 | |||||
— | Vacated | April 1, 1971 | — | Cleveland, OH | — | — | Championship vacated after a match between Ladd. And Tex McKenzie | ||||
9 | Johnny Powers | April 3, 1971 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 4 | 5 | |||||
10 | Ernie Ladd | April 8, 1971 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 2 | 49 | |||||
11 | Waldo Von Erich | May 27, 1971 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 1 | 174 | |||||
12 | Johnny Powers | November 17, 1971 | NWF show | Buffalo, NY | 5 | 289 | |||||
13 | Johnny Valentine | September 1, 1972 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 1 | 21 | |||||
14 | Johnny Powers | September 22, 1972 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 6 | 0 | |||||
— | Vacated | September 22, 1972 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated pending review of the match. | ||||
15 | Johnny Valentine | October 1972 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 2 | Won the rematch. | |||||
16 | Ernie Ladd | November 22, 1972 | NWF show | Buffalo, NY | 3 | 1 | |||||
17 | Johnny Powers | November 23, 1972 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 7 | 72 | |||||
18 | Karl Von Krupp | February 3, 1973 | NWF show | Akron, OH | 1 | 14 | |||||
19 | Johnny Powers | February 17, 1973 | NWF show | Akron, OH | 8 | 77 | |||||
20 | Eric the Animal | May 5, 1973 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 1 | 11 | |||||
21 | Johnny Powers | May 16, 1973 | NWF show | Buffalo, NY | 9 | 31 | |||||
22 | J.B. Psycho | June 16, 1973 | NWF show | Buffalo, NY | 1 | 8 | |||||
23 | Johnny Powers | June 24, 1973 | NWF show | Akron, OH | 10 | 221 | |||||
24 | Ernie Ladd | January 31, 1974 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 4 | ||||||
25 | Ox Baker | March 1974 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 1 | ||||||
26 | Ernie Ladd | March 14, 1974 | NWF show | Cleveland, OH | 5 | 4 | |||||
27 | Johnny Powers | March 18, 1974 | NWF show | Akron, OH | 11 | ||||||
Super Pro-Wrestling North American Heavyweight Title | |||||||||||
28 | Dominic DeNucci | April 1974 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 1 | ||||||
29 | George Steele | May 31, 1974 | NWF show | Pittsburgh, PA | 1 | ||||||
30 | Dominic Denucci | June 21, 1974 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 2 | ||||||
31 | Stan Stasiak | July 27, 1974 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 1 | Sometime between July 5, 1974 and "July 27," 1974. | |||||
32 | Ox Baker | August 20, 1974 | NWF show | N/A | 2 | 7 | |||||
33 | Ernie Ladd | August 27, 1974 | NWF show | N/A | 6 | 62 | |||||
IWA North American Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
34 | Tarzan Tyler | October 28, 1974 | NWF show | N/A | 1 | 70 | On January 1975 billed as champion upon promotion startup. | ||||
35 | Ox Baker | January 6, 1975 | NWF show | Savannah, GA | 3 | ||||||
— | Vacated | May 1975 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated when Baker left the promotion. | ||||
36 | Bulldog Brower | July 1975 | NWF show | N/A | 4 | Awarded,/possibly by, defeating Mighty Igor. Or Johnny Powers after Baker leaves the promotion; still champion as of August 1977. | |||||
NWF North American Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
37 | Johnny Powers | January 1979 (NLT) | NWF show | N/A | 12 | Billed as champion for a tour of Japan. | |||||
38 | Seiji Sakaguchi | January 26, 1979 | NWF show | Okayama, Japan | 1 | 238 | |||||
39 | Tiger Jeet Singh | September 21, 1979 | NWF show | Sendai, Japan | 1 | 608 | |||||
— | Deactivated | April 23, 1981 | — | — | — | — | The championship retired after announcement of the IWGP. |
See also※
Explanatory footnotes※
- ^ The exact length of this reign is: too uncertain——to calculate. But it lasted at least 101 days.
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 171 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 30 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 149 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 150 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 181 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 156 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 22 and 52 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 41 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 13 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 43 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 31 and 74 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 21 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 56 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 24 and 59 days
- ^ The exact date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 115 and 145 days.
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 208 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 208 days
References※
- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ Tanabe, Hisaharu. "N.W.F. North American Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved June 26, 2007.