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NWF North American Heavyweight Championship

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Professional wrestling championship

NWF North American Heavyweight Championship

Details

Promotion

National Wrestling Federation (NWF)
International Wrestling Association (IWA)
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)

Date established

1968

Date retired

1977 and 1981

Other names

NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Buffalo/Cleveland version)
IWA North American Heavyweight Championship

Statistics
Most reigns	Johnny Powers (12 reigns)
Longest reign	Tiger Jeet Singh (608 days)
Shortest reign	Ernie Ladd (24 hours)

TheNWF North American Heavyweight Championship was a secondary singlestitle in theAmerican professional wrestling promotion, theNational Wrestling Federation. The title started in 1968 as aNational Wrestling Alliance title, named theNWA North American Heavyweight Championship(Buffalo/Cleveland version) until the NWF was founded in 1970. It was then renamed with the NWF name. The NWF would close in 1974, and the title migrated toNew Japan Pro-Wrestling. The title was then retired in 1981, after announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.^[1]^[2]

Title history

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Key
No.	Overall reign number
Reign	Reign number for the specific champion
Days	Number of days held

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics		Notes	Ref.
No.	Champion	Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Notes	Ref.
	NWA North American Heavyweight Championship(Buffalo/Cleveland version)
1	Moose Cholak	October 1968(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	1	^{[Note 1]}	Still champion as of December 11, 1968.
2	Johnny Powers	1968(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	1	^{[Note 2]}
3	Bulldog Brower	1969(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	1	^{[Note 3]}
4	Johnny Powers	May 1969(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	2	^{[Note 4]}
5	Bulldog Brower	January 1, 1970	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	2	^{[Note 5]}
6	Johnny Powers	July 1, 1970(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	3	^{[Note 6]}
7	Bulldog Brower	July 2, 1970	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	3	^{[Note 7]}
	NWF North American Heavyweight Championship
8	Ernie Ladd	December 5, 1970	NWF show	Akron, OH	1	117
—	Vacated	April 1, 1971	—	Cleveland,OH	—	—	Championship vacated after a match between Ladd and Tex McKenzie
9	Johnny Powers	April 3, 1971	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	4	5
10	Ernie Ladd	April 8, 1971	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	2	49
11	Waldo Von Erich	May 27, 1971	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	1	174
12	Johnny Powers	November 17, 1971	NWF show	Buffalo, NY	5	289
13	Johnny Valentine	September 1, 1972	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	1	21
14	Johnny Powers	September 22, 1972	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	6	0
—	Vacated	September 22, 1972	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated pending a review of the match.
15	Johnny Valentine	October 1972(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	2	^{[Note 8]}	Won the rematch.
16	Ernie Ladd	November 22, 1972	NWF show	Buffalo, NY	3	1
17	Johnny Powers	November 23, 1972	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	7	72
18	Karl Von Krupp	February 3, 1973	NWF show	Akron, OH	1	14
19	Johnny Powers	February 17, 1973	NWF show	Akron, OH	8	77
20	Eric the Animal	May 5, 1973	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	1	11
21	Johnny Powers	May 16, 1973	NWF show	Buffalo, NY	9	31
22	J.B. Psycho	June 16, 1973	NWF show	Buffalo, NY	1	8
23	Johnny Powers	June 24, 1973	NWF show	Akron, OH	10	221
24	Ernie Ladd	January 31, 1974	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	4	^{[Note 9]}
25	Ox Baker	March 1974(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	1	^{[Note 10]}
26	Ernie Ladd	March 14, 1974	NWF show	Cleveland,OH	5	4
27	Johnny Powers	March 18, 1974	NWF show	Akron, OH	11	^{[Note 11]}
	Super Pro-Wrestling North American Heavyweight Title
28	Dominic DeNucci	April 1974(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	1	^{[Note 12]}
29	George Steele	May 31, 1974	NWF show	Pittsburgh,PA	1	^{[Note 13]}
30	Dominic Denucci	June 21, 1974(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	2	^{[Note 14]}
31	Stan Stasiak	July 27, 1974(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	1	^{[Note 15]}	Sometime between July 5, 1974 and July 27, 1974.
32	Ox Baker	August 20, 1974	NWF show	N/A	2	7
33	Ernie Ladd	August 27, 1974	NWF show	N/A	6	62
	IWA North American Heavyweight Championship
34	Tarzan Tyler	October 28, 1974	NWF show	N/A	1	70	In January 1975 billed as champion upon promotion startup.
35	Ox Baker	January 6, 1975	NWF show	Savannah, GA	3	^{[Note 16]}
—	Vacated	May 1975	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated when Baker left the promotion.
36	Bulldog Brower	July 1975	NWF show	N/A	4	^{[Note 17]}	Awarded, or possibly by defeating Mighty Igor or Johnny Powers after Baker leaves the promotion; still champion as of August 1977.
	NWF North American Heavyweight Championship
37	Johnny Powers	January 1979(NLT)	NWF show	N/A	12	^{[Note 18]}	Billed as champion for a tour of Japan.
38	Seiji Sakaguchi	January 26, 1979	NWF show	Okayama,Japan	1	238
39	Tiger Jeet Singh	September 21, 1979	NWF show	Sendai,Japan	1	608
—	Deactivated	April 23, 1981	—	—	—	—	The championship retired after announcement of the IWGP.

Explanatory footnotes

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^The exact length of this reign is too uncertain to calculate but it lasted at least 101 days.
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 171 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 30 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 149 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 150 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 181 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 156 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 22 and 52 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 41 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 13 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 43 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 31 and 74 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 21 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 56 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 24 and 59 days
^The exact date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 115 and 145 days.
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 208 days
^The date the championship was won and/or lost is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 208 days

References

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^Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006).Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications.ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
^Tanabe, Hisaharu."N.W.F. North American Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. RetrievedJune 26, 2007.

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NWF North American Heavyweight Title History

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Championships	NWF Heavyweight Championship NWF North American Heavyweight Championship NWF World Tag Team Championship
Key personnel	Johnny Powers

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Championships

Active

Heavyweight	IWGP World Heavyweight (reigns) IWGP Global Heavyweight (reigns) IWGP Tag Team (reigns)
Junior heavyweight	IWGP Junior Heavyweight (reigns) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team (reigns)
Openweight	NJPW World Television (reigns) NEVER Openweight (reigns) NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team (reigns) Strong Openweight (reigns) Strong Openweight Tag Team (reigns)
Women's	IWGP Women's Championship (reigns) Strong Women's Championship (reigns)

Former

Tournaments

Active	G1 Climax (winners) New Japan Cup (winners) Best of the Super Juniors (winners) World Tag League (winners) Super Junior Tag League (winners) Super J-Cup (winners) Young Lion Cup (winners)

Video games

Partnerships

Current

Former

Related companies

Owners	Amuse Inc. (5%) Bushiroad (85%) TV Asahi (10%)
Subsidiaries	World Wonder Ring Stardom

Personnel

Current	List of New Japan Pro-Wrestling personnel
Former	List of former New Japan Pro-Wrestling personnel

Miscellaneous

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See also

Explanatory footnotes

References

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