Following the name of the champion(s): Indicates the number of times the wrestler has held that title at that point.
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Indicates a gap in the listing where title changes are not known.
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If usednext to the names of the wrestlers, they may, in fact, not have held the title in the period indicated. If usednext to the dates or places, either they are possibly wrong or the title changes are fictitious.
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Title was held or changed hands no later than this. In these cases, it is known that a wrestler held the title at a certain time but not when he/she won it.
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Broadcast date; the actual recording date is unknown.
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Order uncertain. Different titleholders may be known for the same year, for example, but it is not known who held the title before whom.
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Unofficial or disputable claims. These are usually matches that certainly took place, but where there is doubt that the wrestler shown should be recognized as a true title holder. These listings are alsoitalicized in HTML files
Claims the title (The Bay of Plenty Times, Whakatane, NZL, 19-10-30).
ArthurPowell
1919-11-19
Auckland
Still champion as of 22-09-23.
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AlexAnderson
1923-06-20
Palmerston N.
Defeats Taki Kara.
IkeRobin
1923-10-12
Auckland
Also defeats title claimant Mohamed AliSunni on 25-03-16 in Auckland (see below); vacates in 26 upon retirement (sometime after 26-09).
TomAlley
1929
Loses to StanleyPinto in tournament final on 31-11-23 in Wellington (see below).
Mohamed AliSunni
1924-01-07<
Claims heavyweight andlight heavyweight titles; loses heavyweight title to IkeRobin on 25-03-16 in Auckland (see above).
ErnAnderson
1927-08-23<
Billed as the champion in Palmerston North; still champion as of 28-02-10.
JimmyPrice #
1932-04-19<
Billed as champion in Newcastle, NSW, AUS (Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 32-04-19).
BobWilson #
1933-09<
Billed asEuropean and New Zealand champion in NIR, GBR.
StanleyPinto
1931-11-23
Wellington
Defeats another title claimant TomAlley in tournament final; vacant in 32 when Pinto does not return for the season to defend the title.
GeorgeWalker
1934-06-12<
Vacates on 37-11-23 upon retirement.
LoftyBlomfield
1936-04
DeanDetton defeats Blomfield via DQ on 38-08-22 in Auckland but does not win the title (or vacates the title later); Blomfield defeats DickRaines, not Detton as previously reported, on 38-08-27 in Auckland; also defeats another claimant PatFraley on 38-09-10 in Auckland; defeats Detton on 38-09-27 in Auckland; wins tournament to become undisputed champion in 38-10; vacates on 49-06-07 upon retirement.
KiwiKingston (ErnieKingston)
1941-12<
Still/again billed as champion in Hartlepool, Durham, ENG, GBR as of 50-06-08.
