NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship

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NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship
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Promotion Georgia Championship Wrestling
Date establishedAugust 14, 1973
Date retired1979

The NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). It was a secondary title, complementing the NWA Macon Tag Team Championship, and defended almost exclusively at the Macon City Auditorium and Macon Coliseum throughout the 1970s. [1]

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The Macon titles were one of two sets of GCW's citywide championships, along with the NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship and NWA Columbus Tag Team Championship, and one of a select few city championships recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance. The final champion was "Wildfire" Tommy Rich before the title was eventually abandoned after 1979.

There have been a total of 13 recognized champions who have had a combined 22 official reigns, with Mr. Wrestling II holding the most at four. The longest reigning champion was "Dirty" Dick Slater, who held the title for 285 days. The shortest reigning champion was "Bullet" Bob Armstrong, whose first reign lasted only nine days.

Title history

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
1 Buddy Colt August 14, 1973GCW showMacon, Georgia135Won title in a one-night 16-man championship tournament. [2] [3]
2 Bob Armstrong September 18, 1973GCW showMacon, Georgia1147 [4]
3 Bobby Duncum February 12, 1974GCW showMacon, Georgia135 [5] [6]
4 Bob Armstrong March 19, 1974GCW showMacon, Georgia242 [5]
5 Bobby Duncum April 30, 1974GCW showMacon, Georgia214 [6] [7]
6 Mr. Wrestling II May 14, 1974GCW showMacon, Georgia1 [Note 1] [7]
— Vacated 1975————Championship vacated for unknown reasons.
7 Toru Tanaka March 18, 1975GCW showMacon, Georgia184Defeated Danny Little Bear in a tournament final. [8]
8 Bob Armstrong June 10, 1975GCW showMacon, Georgia39 [9]
9 Dick Slater June 19, 1975GCW showMacon, Georgia1285 [9]
10 Stan Stasiak March 30, 1976GCW showMacon, Georgia128 [10]
11 Mr. Wrestling II April 27, 1976GCW showMacon, Georgia2 [Note 2] [11]
Championship history is unrecorded from April 27, 1976 to March 1977(NLT).
12 J. J. Dillon March 1977(NLT)GCW showMacon, Georgia1 [12]
13 Mr. Wrestling II March 29, 1977GCW showMacon, Georgia342 [13]
14 Ole Anderson May 10, 1977GCW showMacon, Georgia1245 [14]
15 Dick Slater January 10, 1978GCW showMacon, Georgia2 [Note 3] [15]
— Vacated March 1978————Championship vacated for unknown reasons.
16 Tommy Rich March 14, 1978GCW showMacon, Georgia142Defeated Stan Hansen in a tournament final. [16]
17 Abdullah the Butcher April 25, 1978GCW showMacon, Georgia128 [16]
18 Mr. Wrestling II May 23, 1978GCW showMacon, Georgia4140 [16]
19 Angelo Mosca October 10, 1978GCW showMacon, Georgia1112 [17] [18]
20 Wahoo McDaniel January 30, 1979GCW showMacon, Georgia1 [Note 4] [19]
— Vacated September 1979————Championship vacated for unknown reasons.
21 Killer Karl Kox September 25, 1979GCW showMacon, Georgia112Defeated Tommy Rich in a tournament final. [20]
22 Tommy Rich October 7, 1979GCW showMacon, Georgia250  [21] [22]
—Deactivated1979————Championship is vacated for unknown reasons and subsequently abandoned in favor of the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship.

List of top combined reigns


¤The exact length of several title reigns are uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
List of combined reigns
RankChampionNo. of reignsCombined days
1 Dick Slater 2285¤
2 Ole Anderson 1245
3 Bob Armstrong 3198
4 Mr. Wrestling II 4182¤
5 Angelo Mosca 1112
5 Tommy Rich 292
6 Toru Tanaka 184
7 Bobby Duncum 249
8 Stan Stasiak 138
9Buddy Colt135
10 Abdullah the Butcher 128
11 Killer Karl Kox 112
12 James Dillon 1N/A
13 Wahoo McDaniel 1N/A

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The exact date on which the title was vacated is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 1 and 307 days.
  2. ↑ The exact date on which the title was lost is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 266 and 307 days.
  3. ↑ The exact date on which the title was vacated is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 50 and 80 days.
  4. ↑ The exact date on which the title was vacated is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 214 and 243 days.

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