AWA United States Heavyweight Championship
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| Date established | September 3, 1953 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | 1963 | ||||||||||
| Promotion | National Wrestling Alliance (1953-1960) NWA Minneapolis Wrestling and Boxing Club (1958-1960) American Wrestling Association (1960-1962) |
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The AWA United States Championship was a short-lived title in the early days of the American Wrestling Association. It started out as the NWA United States Championship promoted in the Chicago, Illinois from 1953 until 1958. in 1958 then champion Verne Gagne created the American Wrestling Association (AWA) based on Minneapolis, Minnesota and took the championship with him, claiming the linage of the Chicago version. The Chicago promotion recognized Wilbur Snyder as their next champion, splitting the lineage into their own NWA United States Heavyweight Championship. The Minneapolis version of the championship was renamed the AWA United States Championship in 1960.[1]
Contents
Title history
- Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
| No. | The overall championship reign |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed. |
| Event | The event in which the championship changed hands |
| N/A | The specific information is not known |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
| [Note #] | Indicates that the exact length of the title reign is unknown, with a note providing more details. |
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
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| 1 | Verne Gagne | 1 | September 3, 1953 | [Note 1] | N/A | House show | Gange was awarded the championship | [1][2] |
| 2 | Wilbur Snyder | 1 | April 7, 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Chicago, Illinois | House show | [1][2] | |
| 3 | Hans Schmidt | 1 | October 19, 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Chicago, Illinois | House show | [1][2] | |
| 4 | Wilbur Snyder | 2 | February 19, 1957 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Chicago, Illinois | House show | [1][2] | |
| 5 | Dick the Bruiser | 1 | December 14, 1957 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Chicago, Illinois | House show | [1][2] | |
| 6 | Verne Gagne | 2 | April 12, 1958 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Chicago, Illinois | House show | [1][2] | |
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| - | Vacated | - | August 16, 1960 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Vacated when Gagne won AWA World Heavyweight Championship. | [1][2] |
| 7 | Gene Kiniski | 1 | November 19, 1960 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Minneapolis, Minnesota | House show | [1][2] | |
| 8 | Wilbur Snyder | 3 | December 6, 1960 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Minnesota | House show | [1][2] | |
| 9 | Gene Kiniski | 2 | December 13, 1960 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Minneapolis, Minnesota | House show | [1][2] | |
| 10 | Wilbur Snyder | 4 | February 15, 1961 | [Note 2] | Duluth, Minnesota | House show | [1][2] | |
| 11 | Gene Kiniski | 3 | February 1961 | [Note 3] | [Note 4] | House show | [1][2] | |
| 12 | Wilbur Snyder | 5 | March 1, 1961 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Duluth, Minnesota | House show | [1][2] | |
| 13 | Gene Kiniski | 4 | April 1, 1961 | [Note 5] | Saint Paul, Minnesota | House show | [1][2] | |
| 14 | Hard Boiled Haggerty | 1 | September 1961 | [Note 6] | Minnesota | House show | Sometime after September 5, 1961. | [1][2] |
| 15 | Mr. M | 1 | October 17, 1961 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Minneapolis, Minnesota | House show | [1][2] | |
| - | Vacated | - | January 9, 1962 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Vacated when Mr. M won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. | [1][2] |
| 16 | Pat O'Connor | 1 | February 1962 | [Note 7] | [Note 4] | House show | Was awarded the NWA version of the IS Championship on August 24, 1961; also recognized as champion in the AWA territories. | [1][2] |
| - | Title retired | - | 1962 | N/A | N/A | N/A | The United States Championship was abandoned by the AWA. | [1][2] |
Footnotes
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- American Wrestling Association
- AWA Superstars of Wrestling United States Championship, brief revival.
References
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