NWF North American Heavyweight Championship

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NWF North American Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion National Wrestling Federation (NWF)
International Wrestling Association (IWA)
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)
Date established1968
Date retired1977 and 1981
Other names
  • NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Buffalo/Cleveland version)
  • IWA North American Heavyweight Championship
Statistics
Most reigns Johnny Powers
(12 reigns)
Longest reign Tiger Jeet Singh
(608 days)
Shortest reign Ernie Ladd
(24 hours)

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. [1] [2]

Contents

Title history

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Buffalo/Cleveland version)
1 Moose Cholak October 1968(NLT)NWF showN/A1 [Note 1] Still champion as of December 11, 1968.
2 Johnny Powers 1968(NLT)NWF showN/A1 [Note 2]
3 Bulldog Brower 1969(NLT)NWF showN/A1 [Note 3]
4 Johnny Powers May 1969(NLT)NWF showN/A2 [Note 4]
5 Bulldog Brower January 1, 1970NWF show Cleveland, OH 2 [Note 5]
6 Johnny Powers July 1, 1970(NLT)NWF showN/A3 [Note 6]
7 Bulldog Brower July 2, 1970NWF show Cleveland, OH 3 [Note 7]
NWF North American Heavyweight Championship
8 Ernie Ladd December 5, 1970NWF show Akron, OH 1117
— Vacated April 1, 1971— Cleveland, OH ——Championship vacated after a match between Ladd and Tex McKenzie
9 Johnny Powers April 3, 1971NWF show Cleveland, OH 45
10 Ernie Ladd April 8, 1971NWF show Cleveland, OH 249
11 Waldo Von Erich May 27, 1971NWF show Cleveland, OH 1174
12 Johnny Powers November 17, 1971NWF show Buffalo, NY 5289
13 Johnny Valentine September 1, 1972NWF show Cleveland, OH 121
14 Johnny Powers September 22, 1972NWF show Cleveland, OH 60
— Vacated September 22, 1972————Championship vacated pending a review of the match.
15 Johnny Valentine October 1972(NLT)NWF showN/A2 [Note 8] Won the rematch.
16 Ernie Ladd November 22, 1972NWF show Buffalo, NY 31
17 Johnny Powers November 23, 1972NWF show Cleveland, OH 772
18 Karl Von Krupp February 3, 1973NWF show Akron, OH 114
19 Johnny Powers February 17, 1973NWF show Akron, OH 877
20 Eric the Animal May 5, 1973NWF show Cleveland, OH 111
21 Johnny Powers May 16, 1973NWF show Buffalo, NY 931
22J.B. PsychoJune 16, 1973NWF show Buffalo, NY 18
23 Johnny Powers June 24, 1973NWF show Akron, OH 10221
24 Ernie Ladd January 31, 1974NWF show Cleveland, OH 4 [Note 9]
25 Ox Baker March 1974(NLT)NWF showN/A1 [Note 10]
26 Ernie Ladd March 14, 1974NWF show Cleveland, OH 54
27 Johnny Powers March 18, 1974NWF show Akron, OH 11 [Note 11]
Super Pro-Wrestling North American Heavyweight Title
28 Dominic DeNucci April 1974(NLT)NWF showN/A1 [Note 12]
29 George Steele May 31, 1974NWF show Pittsburgh, PA 1 [Note 13]
30 Dominic Denucci June 21, 1974(NLT)NWF showN/A2 [Note 14]
31 Stan Stasiak July 27, 1974(NLT)NWF showN/A1 [Note 15] Sometime between July 5, 1974 and July 27, 1974.
32 Ox Baker August 20, 1974NWF showN/A27
33 Ernie Ladd August 27, 1974NWF showN/A662
IWA North American Heavyweight Championship
34 Tarzan Tyler October 28, 1974NWF showN/A170In January 1975 billed as champion upon promotion startup.
35 Ox Baker January 6, 1975NWF show Savannah, GA 3 [Note 16]
— Vacated May 1975————Championship vacated when Baker left the promotion.
36 Bulldog Brower July 1975NWF showN/A4 [Note 17] Awarded, or 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 showN/A12 [Note 18] Billed as champion for a tour of Japan.
38 Seiji Sakaguchi January 26, 1979NWF show Okayama, Japan 1238
39 Tiger Jeet Singh September 21, 1979NWF show Sendai, Japan 1608
—DeactivatedApril 23, 1981————The championship retired after announcement of the IWGP.

See also

Explanatory footnotes

  1. ↑ The exact length of this reign is too uncertain to calculate but it lasted at least 101 days.
  2. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 171 days
  3. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 30 days
  4. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 149 days
  5. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 150 days
  6. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 181 days
  7. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 156 days
  8. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 22 and 52 days
  9. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 41 days
  10. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 13 days
  11. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 43 days
  12. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 31 and 74 days
  13. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 21 days
  14. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 56 days
  15. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 24 and 59 days
  16. ↑ The exact date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 115 and 145 days.
  17. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 208 days
  18. ↑ The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 208 days

References

  1. ↑ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN   0-9698161-5-4.
  2. ↑ Tanabe, Hisaharu. "N.W.F. North American Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved June 26, 2007.
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