Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship

Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion	Atlantic Athletic Commission
Date established	June 14, 1957
Date retired	1975
Statistics First champion Edouard Carpentier Final champion Gypsy Joe Gonzales Most reigns Jackie Fargo (2 reigns) Longest reign Jackie Fargo (1,185 days) Shortest reign Ted Blassie (35 days)

The AAC World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the Atlantic Athletic Commission in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ^[1] The title was created in 1957 when Edouard Carpentier defeated the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz when Thesz could not continue due to a back injury. As it was a professional wrestling championship, the AAC World Heavyweight Championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match. ^[a]

Title history

Key

No.	Overall reign number
Reign	Reign number for the specific champion
Days	Number of days held

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics		Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days
1	Edouard Carpentier	June 14, 1957	N/A	Chicago, Illinois	1	323	Defeated the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz when Thesz could not continue due to a back injury.
2	Killer Kowalski	May 3, 1958	N/A	Boston, Massachusetts		1,067
3	Bearcat Wright	April 4, 1961	N/A	Boston, Massachusetts	1	56
4	Jackie Fargo	May 30, 1961	N/A	Boston, Massachusetts	1	1,185
5	Ted Blassie	August 27, 1964	N/A	N/A	1	35
6	Jackie Fargo	October 1, 1964	N/A	Boston, Massachusetts	1	N/A	Vacant in 1966 when Fargo left the area.
7	Buddy Fuller	1966	N/A	N/A	1	N/A
8	Frank Scarpa	April 27, 1967	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	Title was vacated in January 1969 when Scarpa died in the ring.
9	Gypsy Joe Gonzales	1969	N/A	N/A	1	N/A	Wins tournament; vacated the title when the promotion closed in 1975.

Footnotes

1. Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters" ^[2]

References

• Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN   978-1-61321-808-2.

1. "World Heavyweight Title (Massachusetts)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
2. Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.