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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 ...
Final champion Chief Don Eagle. The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship promoted by Paul Bowser in Boston. [1]The title was created by Bowser after Gus Sonnenberg, who had beaten Ed Lewis for the original World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1929, [2] was stripped of recognition as champion by the National Boxing Association.
A. AWA America's Championship; AWA Brass Knuckles Championship; AWA British Empire Heavyweight Championship; AWA International Heavyweight Championship
Rick Martel (c) vs. Billy Robinson for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship [9] AWA: Verne Gagne Retirement Show (Day 1) May 10, 1981: St. Paul, Minnesota: St. Paul Civic Center: 15,780 Verne Gagne (c) vs. Nick Bockwinkel for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship [10] AWA: Blackjack Lanza & Bobby Duncum vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher ...
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The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1981 until it closed in 1991. In 1989, the Japan-based Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) promotion began billing Florida Championship Wrestling/Professional Wrestling Federation champion Jim Backlund as the AWA champion, something not acknowledged by the AWA; the title became FMW's ...
From 1929 until 1931, the American Wrestling Association (AWA) controlled the Championship. The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was recognized by the CSAC as the world championship until May 4, 1931, when the Commission refused to recognize Henri Deglane's victory over Ed "Strangler" Lewis in Montreal, Quebec, as the title had changed hands ...
This was the last time the World Heavyweight Championship has been unified and to date has never been fully unified again. The Omaha version of the World Heavyweight Championship was later unified with the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. Thesz defeated Carpentier in a rematch by disqualification on July 24, 1957, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ...