NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Central States version)

NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Central States)
Details
Promotion Central States Wrestling
Date established August 24, 1961
Date retired July 1970

The NWA Central States United States Championship was the version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship that was defended in the Central States Wrestling territory around Missouri. It existed from 1961 until 1968. Records indicate that Bob Orton, The Viking and The Destroyer also held championship but no specific dates were found for those reigns. Because the championship is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The championship is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.[1]

Title History

Key
Symbol Meaning
# The overall championship reign
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
— Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes
1 Pat O'Connor 1 August 24, 1961 315 N/A N/A Awarded
2 Hans Schmidt 1 July 5, 1962 77 Greensboro, North Carolina Live event  
3 Pat O'Connor 2 August 16, 1962 78 Greensboro, North Carolina Live event  
4 Lee Henning 1 November 2, 1962 14 St. Joseph, Missouri Live event  
5 Pat O'Connor 3 November 16, 1962 114 St. Joseph, Missouri Live event  
6 Bob Orton Sr. 1 March 10, 1963 154 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
7 Pat O'Connor 4 August 11, 1963 69 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
8 Rocky Hamilton 1 October 19, 1963 [Note 2] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
9 Rock Hunter 1 December 1963 [Note 3] Missouri Live event  
10 Rocky Hamilton 2 February 4, 1964 95 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
11 Sonny Myers 1 May 9, 1964 42 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
12 Bob Geigel 2 June 20, 1964 119 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
13 Bob Orton Sr. 2 October 17, 1964 14 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
14 The Lawman 1 October 31, 1964 21 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
15 Rocky Hamilton 3 November 21, 1964 7 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
16 Tom Clark 1 November 28, 1964 35 Live event  
17 Sonny Myers 2 January 2, 1965 [Note 4] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
18 Tom Clark 2 January 1965 [Note 5] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
19 Sonny Myers 3 January 31, 1965 14 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
20 Rocky Hamilton 4 February 14, 1965 [Note 6] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
— Vacated N/A March 1965 N/A N/A N/A Championship vacated for undocumented reasons
21 Bobby Shane 1 March 21, 1965 28 Waterloo, Iowa Live event Defeated Rocky Hamilton
22 Rocky Hamilton 5 April 18, 1965 [Note 7] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
— Vacated N/A 1965 N/A N/A N/A Vacated sometime between June 12th to July 6th
23 Rocky Hamilton 6 July 10, 1965 7 Waterloo, Iowa Live event Defeated Ron Etchison in the finals of a 10 man tournament
24 Ron Etchison 1 July 17, 1965 28 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
25 The Stomper 1 August 14, 1965 112 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
26 Bobby Shane 2 December 4, 1965 175 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
27 Bob Brown 2 February 5, 1966 42 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
28 Bobby Shane 3 March 19, 1966 8 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
29 The Viking 1 March 27, 1966 189 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
30 Pat O'Connor 5 October 2, 1966 238 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
31 Jack Donovan 1 May 27, 1967 105 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
32 Ron Etchison 2 September 9, 1967 35 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
33 Jack Donovan 2 October 14, 1967 29 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
34 Ron Etchison 3 November 12, 1967 126 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
35 Destroyer (Stan Pulaski) 1 March 17, 1968 13 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
36 Ron Etchison 4 March 30, 1968 14 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
37 Destroyer 2 April 13, 1968 43 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
38 Ron Etchison 5 May 26, 1968 62 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
39 Roger Kirby 1 July 27, 1968 35 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
40 Eddie Sharkey 1 August 31, 1968 35 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
41 Ron Etchison 5 October 5, 1968 35 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
42 Dick Murdoch 1 November 9, 1968 126 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
— Vacated N/A February 8, 1969 N/A N/A N/A Held up following a match against Earl Hayward
43 Dick Murdoch 2 February 15, 1969 119 Waterloo, Iowa Live event Won rematch
44 Ron Etchison 6 June 14, 1969 14 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Live event  
45 Dick Murdoch 3 June 28, 1969 49 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
46 Luke Brown 1 August 16, 1969 [Note 8] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
47 K.O. Cox 1 October 1969 [Note 9] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
48 Ron Etchison 7 December 28, 1969 48 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
49 Roger Kirby 2 February 14, 1970 112 Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
50 The Viking 2 June 6, 1970 [Note 10] Waterloo, Iowa Live event  
— Title Retired N/A July 1970 N/A N/A N/A Championship abandoned

Reigns by combined length

Key
Symbol Meaning
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
Rank Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1Pat O'Connor3252¤
2The Sheik1215¤
3Bob Geigel2147¤
4Rocky Hamilton2113¤
5The Stomper364¤
6Sonny Myers220¤
7Enrique Torres17
8Jack Donovan22¤
9Tom Clark12¤
10"Bulldog" Bob Brown11¤
11Bobby Shane11¤
12Eddie Sharkey11¤
13Rock Hunter11¤
14Ron Etchison11¤

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Due to gaps in record keeping it is possible that someone else has held the championship for longer but that cannot be verified.
  2. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 42 days and 73 days
  3. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 34 days and 89 days
  4. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 10 days and 26 days
  5. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 2 days and 19 days
  6. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 16 day and 45 days
  7. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 55 days and 79 days
  8. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 45 days and 76 days
  9. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 59 days and 88 days
  10. ↑ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 24 days and 55 days

References

General references
  • Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "Central States: NWA United States Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. pp. 255–256. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  • "NWA United States Heavyweight Title (Central States version)". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
Specific references
  1. ↑ Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works. Retrieved 2009-04-05.

See also

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