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1960 1981 The American Wrestling Alliance United States Championship was created in November 1960 with Ray Stevens declared the inaugural champion. In 1968, it was renamed the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship after Big Time Wrestling joined the National Wrestling Alliance. The championship was retired in 1981 when the promotion folded.
The AWA Midwest Heavyweight Championship was a title in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the American Wrestling Association. It was primarily defended in the Omaha, Nebraska area and was a title for mid-level wrestlers.
In comparison to the declining support of media outlets during the 1960s and 1970s, professional wrestling, notably the emerging World Wrestling Federation (WWF; abridged from WWWF in 1979), received great exposure through its reappearance on network television.
Wally Karbo and Verne Gagne's Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club break away from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) to form the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and created the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Ronald Doyle "Lonnie" Mayne (September 12, 1944 – August 14, 1978) was an American professional wrestler in the 1960s and 1970s who frequently went by the name Moondog Mayne. He wrestled in various National Wrestling Alliance territories, as well as the World Wide Wrestling Federation in 1973.
Below is a list of former members of the American Wrestling Association , an American professional wrestling organization based in Minnesota. AWA wrestlers
During the 1970s, Big Time Wrestling helped popularize hardcore wrestling. [ 10 ] The promotion's fortunes began to decline in the mid-1970s due to a combination of the 1973–75 recession , "no-shows" by its wrestlers, and the fanbase tiring of its predictable and formulatic booking. [ 11 ]