NWA Southwest Junior Heavyweight Championship
Encyclopedia
The NWA Southwest Junior Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling
championship defended in the Amarillo, Texas
territory of the National Wrestling Alliance
.
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
championship defended in the Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...
territory of the National Wrestling Alliance
National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...
.
Title history
| Wrestler: | Reigns: | Date: | Place: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Getz | 1 | 1948 | |
| Wayne Martin | 1 | February 19, 1948 | Amarillo, Texas Amarillo, Texas Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census... |
| Billy Weidner | 1 | September 9, 1948 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Wayne Martin | 2 | 1948 | |
| Dory Funk Dory Funk Dorrance Wilhelm "Dory" Funk was a professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestlers Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk.-Career:... |
1 | 1949 | |
| Wayne Martin | 3 | February 11, 1950 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Frank Murdoch | 1 | May 18, 1950 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Ray Clements | 1 | July 26, 1950 | Lubbock, Texas Lubbock, Texas Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University... |
| Frank Murdoch | 2 | August 3, 1950 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Bob Cummings | 1 | 1950 | |
| Dory Funk | 2 | October 19, 1950 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Tony Morelli | 1 | April 3, 1951 | Lubbock, Texas |
| Frank Murdoch | 3 | June 13, 1951 | Lubbock, Texas |
| Dory Funk | 3 | 1951 | |
| Cowboy Carlson | 1 | July 10, 1952 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Gory Guerrero Gory Guerrero Salvador Guerrero Quesada , better known as Gory Guerrero, was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico. He wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre between the 1940s and 1960s... |
1 | September 2, 1952 | El Paso, Texas El Paso, Texas El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States... |
| Ivan Kalmikoff | 1 | October 16, 1952 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Dory Funk | 4 | February 17, 1953 | San Angelo, Texas San Angelo, Texas San Angelo is a city in the state of Texas. Located in West Central Texas it is the county seat of Tom Green County. As of 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total population of 93,200... |
| Roger Mackay | 1 | July 9, 1953 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Roy Shire | 1 | 1953 | |
| Dory Funk | 5 | May 13, 1954 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Great Bolo | 1 | February 7, 1957 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Dory Funk | 6 | February 28, 1957 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Nick Roberts | 1 | May 28, 1959 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Dory Funk | 7 | June 4, 1959 | Amarillo, Texas |
| Mike DiBiase Michael DiBiase "Iron" Mike DiBiase was an Italian professional wrestler and the adoptive father of professional wrestler "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. He married Ted's mother Helen Hild , and legally adopted and raised Ted... |
1 | 1959 | |
| Dory Funk | 8 | June 25, 1959 | Amarillo, Texas |