NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship information
NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship
The current NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship belt, introduced by NWA Vendetta Pro Wrestling in 2015. Identical to the NWA Western States Heritage Championship belt used from 1987-1989.
Details
Promotion
Western States Sports[1] Vendetta Pro Wrestling, January 2015[2]- September 2017[3]
Date established
1969
Date retired
1981 (Western States Sports) September 2017 (Vendetta Pro Wrestling)
Statistics
First champion(s)
Dory Funk, Sr.
Most reigns
Terry Funk (12 reigns)
The NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports.[1]
The title was in use from 1969, when it replaced Amarillo's version of the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship,[4] through the promotion's 1981 closure.[5]
The title was revived in 2015 by NWA Vendetta Pro Wrestling, with a new champion being crowned via a tournament held in Santa Maria, California. This was an eight-man, single-elimination tournament, won by "Loverboy" Matt Riviera.[6] Though created as a "new" title, all previous champions have received recognition.[2]
The original title was not related to the NWA Western States Heritage Championship, which was used in Jim Crockett Promotions from 1987 to 1989, though the 2015 version does use the same title belt design, and as such, is often referred to as the Western States "Heritage" Championship.[7]
Title retired once again as of September 8, 2017 when titleholder Rik Luxury defeated Vendetta Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Champion Apostle Judah Mathew to unify the two titles into the new Vendetta Pro Wrestling Western States Heavyweight Championship.[3]
^ ab"Pro-Wrestling Title Histories: Amarillo". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
^ ab"NWA Western States Championship". Retrieved March 9, 2015.
^ ab"Vendetta Pro Wrestling Western States Heavyweight Championship". vendettaprowrestling.com. September 12, 2017.
^"N.W.A. North American Heavyweight Title (Amarillo)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved December 19, 2007. Replaced with Western States Heavyweight Title.
^"N.W.A. Western States Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
^"National Wrestling Alliance Western States Heavyweight title". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
^"New Western States Heritage Champion". Alliance-Wrestling.com. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
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