World Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)

The World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship of the National Wrestling Association (NWA), an offshoot of the National Boxing Association (NBA).

World Heavyweight Championship
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The title existed from 1930 through 1949, when it was unified with the National Wrestling Alliance's World Heavyweight Championship.

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
N/A Unknown information
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 Jim Londos June 6, 1930 N/A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1 1,847 Recognized as the first official champion by the National Wrestling Association after he defeated Dick Shikat for the NYSAC World Title. The wrestling section of the National Boxing Association previously stripped Gus Sonnenberg of the World Title in July, 1929. Also won the NYSAC World Title in June 25, 1934, defeating Jim Browning and unified both titles, to be become recognized as the Undisputed World champion. Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion. [1]
2 Danno O'Mahony June 27, 1935 N/A Boston, Massachusetts 1 249 Defeats Ed Don George in July 30, 1935 and unify Boston AWA World Title and becomes the "Unified World Champion".[2]
3 Dick Shikat March 2, 1936 N/A New York City, New York 2 54 Reign continue as World Champion
4 Ali Baba April 25, 1936 N/A Detroit, Michigan 1 62 Recognised as World Champion in all organisations.
5 Everett Marshall June 26, 1936 N/A Columbus, Ohio 1 96 Retroactively recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion until December 28, 1937.
— Vacated N/A — — — — NWA/NBA title is declared vacant in September, 1936.
6 John Pesek September 12, 1937 N/A White Sulphur Springs, Virginia 1 333 Title awarded at the NWA/NBA annual meeting.
— Vacated N/A — — — — Stripped on August 16, 1938, for failure to defened against worthy opponents.
7 Everett Marshall September 14, 1938 N/A Montréal, Quebec 2 101 Title awarded at the NWA/NBA annual meeting. Retroactively recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.
8 Lou Thesz February 23, 1939 N/A St. Louis, Missouri 1 120 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.
9 Bronko Nagurski June 23, 1939 N/A Houston, Texas 1 258 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.
10 Ray Steele March 7, 1940 N/A St. Louis, Missouri 1 369 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion. [3]
11 Bronko Nagurski March 11, 1941 N/A Houston, Texas 2 86 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.
12 Sándor Szabó June 5, 1941 N/A St. Louis, Missouri 1 259 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.
13 Bill Longson February 19, 1942 N/A St. Louis, Missouri 1 230 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.[4]
14 Yvon Robert October 7, 1942 N/A Montreal, Quebec 1 20 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.
15 Bobby Managoff November 27, 1942 N/A Houston, Texas 1 115 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World Champion.
16 Bill Longson February 19, 1943 N/A St. Louis, Missouri 2 1,463 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.[4]
17 Whipper Billy Watson February 21, 1947 N/A St. Louis, Missouri 1 63
18 Lou Thesz April 25, 1947 N/A St. Louis, Missouri 2 210
19 Bill Longson November 21, 1947 N/A Houston, Texas 3 232
20 Lou Thesz July 20, 1948 N/A Indianapolis, IN 3 505 Recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the real World champion.
— Deactivated November 27, 1949 — — — — Title unified with the National Wrestling Alliance's World Heavyweight Championship, which is forfeited to Thesz by previous champion Orville Brown when he cannot defend due to career-ending injuries from an automobile accident on November 1.

References
  1. "Professional Wrestling Online Museum - Ring Chronicle Hall of Fame Inductee - Jim Londos". www.wrestlingmuseum.com.
  2. "AWA World Heavyweight Title (Boston)". Wrestling-Titles.com.
  3. Hoops, Brian (March 7, 2020). "Daily Pro Wrestling history (03/07): Bruno Sammartino vs. Giant Baba". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  4. Hoops, Brian (February 19, 2017). "Daily Pro Wrestling History (02/19): Kurt Angle vs. Undertaker at No Way Out 2006". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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