- (n) written after a date indicates the title change occurred no later than that date.
Wrestler:
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Times:
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Date:
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Location:
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Notes:
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Dizzy Davis
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1
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January 3, 1957
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Amarillo, Texas
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Defeated Jim Wright to become the first champion.
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Dory Funk
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1
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January 31, 1957
|
Amarillo, Texas
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The Great Bolo
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1
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February 7, 1957
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Also defeated Funk to win the NWA Southwest Heavyweight Championship on February 14, 1957 in Amarillo, Texas.[2]
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Dory Funk
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2
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February 28, 1957
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Amarillo, Texas
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Won the Southwest and North American Heavyweight titles.[3]
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Roy Shire
|
1
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April 11, 1957
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Don Curtis
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1
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May 1957 (n)
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Bob Geigel
|
1
|
May 9, 1957
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Mike DiBiase
|
1
|
August 15, 1957
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Danny Plechas
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1
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1957
|
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Dory Funk
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3
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December 19, 1957
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Buddy Rogers
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1
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January 23, 1958
|
Amarillo, Texas
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[4]
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Dory Funk
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4
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April 3, 1958
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Mike DiBiase
|
2
|
1958
|
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Dory Funk
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5
|
January 29, 1959
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Nick Roberts
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1
|
May 21, 1959
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Dory Funk
|
6
|
1959
|
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Antone Leone
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1
|
August 13, 1959
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Dory Funk
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7
|
December 3, 1959
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Rock Hunter
|
1
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January 1960 (n)
|
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Sonny Myers
|
1
|
January 21, 1960
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Gene LeBell
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1
|
March 17, 1960
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Pancho Lopez
|
1
|
1960
|
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Mike DiBiase
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3
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October 27, 1960
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Sonny Myers
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2
|
November 3, 1960
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Nikita Mulkovich
|
1
|
November 10, 1960
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Pancho Lopez
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2
|
November 17, 1960
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Defeated Mike DiBiase.
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Nikita Mulkovich
|
2
|
November 24, 1960
|
Amarillo, Texas
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[5]
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Dory Funk
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8
|
March 16, 1961
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Danny McShain
|
1
|
June 22, 1961
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Dory Funk
|
9
|
July 13, 1961
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Fritz Von Erich
|
1
|
April 26, 1962
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Dory Funk
|
10
|
June 7, 1962
|
Amarillo, Texas
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Fritz Von Erich
|
2
|
October 1962 (n)
|
|
Dory Funk
|
11
|
November 1, 1962
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Title vacated between November 1962 and January 1963.
|
Dory Funk
|
12
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January 16, 1963
|
Lubbock, Texas
|
Defeated Gene Kiniski in a tournament final.[6]
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Fritz Von Erich
|
3
|
February 20, 1963
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Dory Funk
|
13
|
1963
|
|
Fritz Von Erich
|
4
|
July 23, 1964
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Dory Funk
|
14
|
July 30, 1964
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Johnny Valentine
|
1
|
February 10, 1965
|
Lubbock, Texas
|
[7]
|
Dory Funk, Jr.
|
1
|
February 11, 1965
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
|
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Johnny Valentine
|
2
|
1965-1966
|
|
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Fritz Von Erich
|
1
|
August 4, 1966
|
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[8]
|
|
Kinji Shibuya
|
1
|
June 29, 1967
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
[9]
|
Dory Funk
|
15
|
December 1967 (n)
|
|
Clubfoot Inferno
|
1
|
August 8, 1968
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Dory Funk
|
16
|
September 5, 1968
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Title vacated in October 1968 after Funk is injured by Pat Patterson and The Infernos.
|
Pat Patterson
|
1
|
October 24, 1968
|
Amarillo, Texas
|
Defeated Pat O'Connor in a tournament final.
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Ricky Romero
|
1
|
1968
|
|
Buddy Colt
|
1
|
January 9, 1969
|
|
Dory Funk
|
17
|
June 12, 1969
|
|
Title replaced with the NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship in 1969.
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