NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
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The NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling
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...

 title
Championship (professional wrestling)
A Championship or "title" in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries...

 that has existed since the 1930s. Though its exact date of creation isn't known, it is among the oldest championships used in professional wrestling today. The title has used a variety of different names over the years, which consists of initial changes to represent the various companies that have controlled the title at different times. Originally, it was simply known as the Texas Heavyweight Championship until its name was changed after the formation 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...

 in 1948. For most of the title's existence, at least until the early 1990s, it was defended almost exclusively within the Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio areas of Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. From the 30s to the mid 1960s, these cities and the surrounding towns were within the territory operated by Ed McLemore, which was known simply as Southwest Sports, Inc. at the time. After McLemore's death, the territory came under the control of Fritz Von Erich
Fritz Von Erich
Jack Barton Adkisson was an American professional wrestler under the ring name Fritz Von Erich, better known today as a wrestling promoter and the patriarch of the Von Erich family...

 and was renamed simply Big Time Wrestling. However, the promotion would be renamed World Class Championship Wrestling in the early 1980s, which is the name the territory is best remembered under today. The championship remained an NWA affiliated title until February 1986.

In 1986, WCCW withdrew from the NWA and changed their name to "World Class Wrestling Association", while still promoting under the WCCW banner. The title became the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship at this time. In 1991, the title became the USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship in the United States Wrestling Association
United States Wrestling Association
The United States Wrestling Association or USWA was a professional wrestling promotion based in Memphis, Tennessee. It was founded by former CWA owner Jerry Jarrett.-Foundation:...

 when WCCW merged into the USWA.

It renamed the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship in 1993 (after USWA and WCWA split) and became the GWF Texas Heavyweight Championship in the Global Wrestling Federation
Global Wrestling Federation
Global Wrestling Federation was a professional wrestling promotion based in Dallas, Texas. It started in June 1991 and folded in September 1994. At one time its shows were presented on the ESPN television network. On many weeks, the promotion provided programming five days a week airing at 4 p.m...

 in 1994. It reverted back to the WCCW Texas Title in 1997 and was briefly the CWA Texas Heavyweight Championship in 1997. It then reverted back to its original name when awarded to NWA Southwest, where it is still used today.

Title history

Wrestlers: Reigns: Date: Place: Notes:
Texas Heavyweight Championship
Martino Angelo 1 1930s Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

Leo Savage 1 1930s
Chief Little Beaver 1 1938 Houston, TX
Everett Marshall
Everett Marshall
Everett Marshall was an American professional wrestler who was best known for his work in the late 1930s with what is now National Wrestling Alliance.- Biography :...

1 March 1938 Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

Bobby Managoff
Bobby Managoff
Robert Manoogian, Jr. was an American professional wrestler who was best known for his work with National Wrestling Alliance in the 1940s as Bobby Managoff...

1 February 1942
Juan Humberto 1 February 17, 1942 Dallas, TX
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

Lou Thesz
Lou Thesz
Aloysius Martin "Lou" Thesz was a United States professional wrestler and 18-time world heavyweight champion, most notably holding the NWA World Heavyweight Championship three times. Combined, he held the NWA Championship for 10 years, three months and nine days , longer than anyone else in history...

1 May 12, 1944 Houston, TX
Ernie Dusek 1 June 30, 1944 Houston, TX
Lou Thesz 2 August 18, 1944 Houston, TX
Olaf Olson 1 December 8, 1944 Texas
Vacated 1945 Title vacant
Buddy Rogers 1 1945 Houston, TX
Bobby Managoff 2 1945
Dave Levin 1 July 13, 1945 Houston, TX
Buddy Rogers 2 July 27, 1945 Houston, TX
Ted Cox 1 August 31, 1945 Houston, TX
Buddy Rogers 3 September 7, 1945 Houston, TX
Jim Casey 1 September 19, 1945 San Antonio, TX
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

Buddy Rogers 4 November 23, 1945 Houston, TX
Lou Thesz 3 May 3, 1946 Houston, TX
Buddy Rogers 5 May 10, 1946 Houston, TX
Kay Bell 1 July 1946 Texas
Dave Levin 2 July 26, 1946 Houston, TX
Ted Cox 2 August 16, 1946 Houston, TX
Gino Garibaldi 1 September 1946 Texas
Vacated 1946 or 1947
Miguel Guzmán
Black Guzmán
Miguel Wenceslao Guzmán Huerta was a Mexican professional wrestler, or Luchador as they are known in Spanish, who worked under the ring name Miguel Guzmán and Black Guzmán, a nickname he had earned due to his dark skin.Guzmán was the brother of Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, better known as the wrestling...

1 August 1, 1947 Houston, TX
Sonny Myers
Sonny Myers
Harold "Sonny" Myers was an American professional wrestler, involved in the business for sixty years.-Career:...

1 January 23, 1948 Houston, TX
Yukon Eric
Eric Holmback
Eric Holmback was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Yukon Eric.Holmback spent the majority of his career in Southern Ontario, Canada, where he won the NWA Canadian Open Tag Team Championship on two occasions with Whipper Billy Watson in 1955 and 1961 and the Montreal...

1 January 30, 1948 Houston, TX
Miguel Guzmán 2 February 6, 1948 Houston, TX
Danny McShain
Danny McShain
Danny McShain was an American professional wrestler who competed in the Southern United States from the 1930s to the 1960s.-Early life:...

1 May 7, 1948 Houston, TX
Miguel Guzmán 3 June 11, 1948 Houston, TX
NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
Dizzy Davis 1 July 30, 1948 Houston, TX
Antonio Rocca
Antonino Rocca
Antonino Rocca was an Italian-born Argentine professional wrestler. Rocca was a popular face and in some cities with both Italian-American and especially Hispanic audiences, his following was exceptionally large and loyal.He had a love for opera and was apparently described as having an excellent...

1 August 6, 1948 Houston, TX
Danny McShain 2 November 12, 1948 Houston, TX
Antonio Rocca 2 November 30, 1948 Dallas, TX
Dizzy Davis 2 January 1, 1949 Waco, TX
Waco, Texas
Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. Situated along the Brazos River and on the I-35 corridor, halfway between Dallas and Austin, it is the economic, cultural, and academic center of the 'Heart of Texas' region....

Wild Red Berry
Red Berry (wrestler)
Ralph L. Berry was an American professional wrestler known by his ring name "Wild" Red Berry. He was a multiple time World Light-Heavyweight Champion and an important smaller wrestler of the 1930s to the 1950s, as well as a famous wrestling manager in his later years.-Professional wrestling...

1 January 28, 1949 Houston, TX
Miguel Guzmán 4 March 2, 1949 San Antonio, TX
Danny McShain 3 April 1, 1949 Houston, TX
Sonny Myers 2 April 22, 1949 Houston, TX
Bob Wagner 1 May 1949 Houston, TX
Rito Romero
Rito Romero
Rito Romero Loza was a successful luchador who wrestled in Mexico and in the NWA territories of Texas and Los Angeles. He appeared in several films in his native country along with a number of other luchadors...

1 June 1949 San Antonio, TX
Sonny Myers 3 July 8, 1949 Dallas, TX
Sandy O'Donne 1 July 1949 Dallas, TX
Held Up July 1949
Sonny Myers 4 August 1949 Texas
Miguel Guzmán 5 August 19, 1949 Houston, TX
Wild Red Berry 2 November 1949 Texas
Leo Newman 1 November 1949 Texas
Verne Gagne
Verne Gagne
Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne , is a retired American professional wrestler, football player, and professional wrestling trainer and promoter. He was the former owner/promoter of the American Wrestling Association , based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was the predominant promotion throughout...

1 December 16, 1949 Houston, TX
Danny McShain 4 January 13, 1950 Houston, TX
Vacant May 1950
Sonny Myers 5 June 30, 1950 Houston, TX
Miguel Guzmán 6 August 7, 1950 Texas
Verne Gagne
Verne Gagne
Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne , is a retired American professional wrestler, football player, and professional wrestling trainer and promoter. He was the former owner/promoter of the American Wrestling Association , based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was the predominant promotion throughout...

2 September 8, 1950 Houston, TX
Rito Romero
Rito Romero
Rito Romero Loza was a successful luchador who wrestled in Mexico and in the NWA territories of Texas and Los Angeles. He appeared in several films in his native country along with a number of other luchadors...

2 October 27, 1950 Houston, TX
Danny Savish 1 February 1951 Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

Miguel Guzmán 7 June 8, 1951 Houston, TX
Wayne Martin 1 June 12, 1951 Dallas, TX
Miguel Guzmán 8 June 18, 1951 Ft. Worth, TX
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

Vacant 1951
Duke Keomuka
Hisao Tanaka
Hisao "Martin" Tanaka was a professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestler Pat Tanaka and referee Jimmy Tanaka.-Career:In the 1950s, Duke Keomuka formed a very successful tag team with Hiro Matsuda...

1 August 17, 1951 Houston, TX
Ray Gunkel
Ray Gunkel
Raymond Fred Gunkel , known professionally as Ray Gunkel, was an American professional wrestler and promoter in the state of Georgia. He died of heart trauma after a match in Savannah, Georgia in which he defeated Ox Baker.-Early life:Gunkell was born on February 16, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois...

1 September 4, 1951 Dallas, TX
Vacant 1951
Mighty Atlas 1 November 16, 1951 Houston, TX
Ray Gunkel 2 May 23, 1952 Houston, TX
Duke Keomuka 2 September 26, 1952 Houston, TX
Cyclone Ayala 1 November 14, 1952 Houston, TX
Duke Keomuka 3 December 1952 Texas
Vacant January 1953
Ray Gunkel 3 February 18, 1953 Austin, TX
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

Bull Curry
Bull Curry
Fred Thomas Koury, Sr. was an American of Lebanese decent who was best known as a professional wrestler under the name ”Wild Bull” Curry. Bull Curry is recognized as one of the originators of the hardcore style predating even legends such as The Sheik and Abdullah the Butcher...

1 May 7, 1954 Houston, TX
Enrique Guzmán 1 May 21, 1954 Houston, TX
Ed Francis 1 June 11, 1954 Houston, TX
Johnny Valentine
Johnny Valentine
Johnny Valentine was a professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades. He has been inducted into four halls of fame for his achievements in wrestling...

1 August 1954 Texas
The Sheik
Ed Farhat
Edward George Farhat was an American professional wrestler best known as by his ring name The Sheik...

1 October 1954 Texas
Polo Torres 1 November 19, 1954 Houston, TX
Mr. Moto 1 July 1955 Texas
Pepper Gomez 1 August 5, 1955 Houston, TX
Duke Keomuka 4 December 1955 Texas
Pepper Gomez 2 January 1956 Texas
Buddy Rogers 6 June 1, 1956 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 3 August 3, 1956 Houston, TX
Gene Kiniski
Gene Kiniski
Eugene Nicholas "Gene" Kiniski was a Canadian professional wrestler and the father of wrestlers Nick Kiniski and Kelly Kiniski. "Canada's Greatest Athlete" as he billed himself for promotional purposes was born outside of Edmonton, Alberta...

1 August 18, 1956 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 4 September 7, 1956 Houston, TX
El Medico 1 October 19, 1956 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 5 February 8, 1957 Houston, TX
El Medico 2 February 1957 Texas
Pepper Gomez 6 February 22, 1957 Houston, TX
Don Leo Jonathan
Don Leo Jonathan
Don Heaton , also known as Don Leo Jonathan, is an American former professional wrestler.-Professional wrestling career:...

1 April 19, 1957 Houston, TX
Ivan the Terrible 1 August 30, 1957 Houston, TX
El Medico 3 September 13, 1957 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 7 November 1, 1957 Houston, TX
Crusher Duggan 1 November 8, 1957 Houston, TX
Bill Melby 1 November 15, 1957 Houston, TX
Johnny Valentine 2 January 21, 1958 Dallas, TX
El Medico 4 March 28, 1958 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 8 April 25, 1958 Houston, TX
El Medico 5 May 9, 1958 Houston, TX
Dick Steinborn 1 July 25, 1958 Houston, TX
Tosh Togo
Harold Sakata
Toshiyuki "Harold" Sakata was a Japanese American professional wrestler and film actor most famous for his role as the villain "Oddjob" in the James Bond film Goldfinger.-Career:...

1 October 3, 1958 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 9 November 7, 1958 Houston, TX
Danny McShain 5 December 1958 Texas
Pepper Gomez 10 December 1958 Texas
Joe Christie 1 January 20, 1959 Dallas, TX
Luis Hernandez 1 May 1959 Houston, TX
Corsica Joe 1 June 4, 1959 San Antonio, TX
Nick Kozak 1 October 1959
Pete Managoff 1 January 8, 1960 Houston, TX
Torbellino Blanco 1 April 8, 1960 Houston, TX
Danny McShain 6 April 26, 1960 Dallas, TX
Torbellino Blanco 2 May 10, 1960 Dallas, TX
Duke Keomuka 5 June 22, 1960 San Antonio, Texas
Torbellino Blanco 3 July 1960 Texas
Don Leo Jonathan
Don Leo Jonathan
Don Heaton , also known as Don Leo Jonathan, is an American former professional wrestler.-Professional wrestling career:...

2 July 1960 Texas
Danny McShain 7 1960 Texas
Ciclon Negro 1 October 1960 Texas
Dan Manoukian 1 January 20, 1961 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 11 February 10, 1961 Houston, TX
Waldo Von Erich 1 June 23, 1961 Houston, TX
Dory Dixon
Dory Dixon
Dorrel "Dory" Dixon is a retired Jamaican professional wrestler who worked for the majority of his career in Mexico, where he eventually became a Mexican citizen...

1 July 14, 1961 Houston, TX
Sputnik Monroe
Sputnik Monroe (wrestler)
Sputnik Monroe was a professional wrestler from the mid 1940s through the early 1970s. Monroe was a headliner in many territories, and was best known in Memphis, where he and Billy Wicks set an attendance record that lasted until the Monday Night Wars boom period.-Life:Sputnik was born Rosco...

1 October 27, 1961 Houston, TX
Pepé Gonzales 1 November 17, 1961 Houston, TX
Jack Dalton 1 December 1, 1961 Houston, TX
Dory Dixon 2 January 5, 1962 Houston, TX
The Mummy 1 May 18, 1962 Houston, TX
Sailor Art Thomas
Sailor Art Thomas
Sailor Art Thomas was a bodybuilder working as a professional wrestler.Arthur "Sailor Art" Thomas was born in Gurdon, Arkansas, as the son of Alfred and Jessie Thomas. Early in his life he moved to Wisconsin...

1 June 15, 1962 Houston, TX
El Medico II 1 October 26, 1962 Houston, TX
Rip Hawk
Rip Hawk
Harvey Maurice Evers is a retired American professional wrestler best known by his ring name, Rip Hawk. He began his wrestling career in the Mid-Western United States before joining Jim Crockett Promotions in the early 1960s. In the company, he teamed with fellow wrestler Swede Hanson as the...

1 January 11, 1963 Houston, TX
Sweet Daddy Siki
Sweet Daddy Siki
Reginald Siki is a former professional wrestler and was born on June 16 in Montgomery, Texas.Sweet Daddy Siki started wrestling in 1955 in Artesia, New Mexico. He also did some training in Los Angeles with Sandor Szabo and Ray Ortega...

1 February 8, 1963 Houston, TX
Sailor Art Thomas 2 April 26, 1963 Houston, TX
Bill Watts
Bill Watts
William F. "Bill" Watts is a former American professional wrestler and promoter. Watts was famous under his "Cowboy" gimmick in his wrestling career, and then as a tough, no-nonsense promoter in the Mid-South area of the United States, which grew to become the UWF.In 1992, he was the Executive...

1 May 3, 1963 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 12 June 21, 1963 Houston, TX
Mark Lewin
Mark Lewin
-Career:Mark Lewin broke into wrestling in the early '50s and had great early success in a matinee-idol babyface tag team with Don Curtis, headlining in major territories like New York and Chicago. The team's brief heel turn was a shock to its many fans...

1 June 29, 1963 Houston, TX
Billy White Wolf 1 September 24, 1963 Dallas, TX
Joe Blanchard 1 December 3, 1963 Dallas, TX
Tokyo Tom
Antonio Inoki
is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes...

1 June 24, 1964 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez 13 July 1964 Texas
Fritz Von Erich 1 January 5, 1965 Texas
Ernie Ladd
Ernie Ladd
Ernest "Ernie" Ladd , nicknamed "The Big Cat" was an American collegiate and professional football player and a professional wrestler.-Pro Football career:...

1 1965 Texas
Fritz Von Erich 2 April 30, 1965 Houston, TX
Joe Blanchard 2 November 21, 1966 Ft. Worth, TX
Fritz Von Erich 3 January 16, 1967 Ft. Worth, TX
Vacant March 27, 1967 Fritz won NWA American Title
Buddy Austin 1 May 1967 Dallas, TX (Defeated Paul DeMarco in tournament final)
Buddy Moreno 1 August 9, 1967 San Antonio, TX
Vacant 1967
Billy Red Lyons
Billy Red Lyons
William Snip was a Canadian professional wrestler, who used the stage name Billy Red Lyons. He was an active wrestler between 1956 and 1984, and won numerous championship throughout his career. He worked for promotions in both Canada and the United States, particularly in Ontario, California,...

1 November 8, 1967 San Antonio, TX
The Spoiler
Don Jardine
Don Jardine was a Canadian professional wrestler best known for his masked gimmick as "The Spoiler".-Career:Jardine began wrestling in the mid-1950s,making his wrestling debut in 1955 at the age of 15...

1 March 29, 1968 Houston, TX
Grizzly Smith
Aurelian Smith
Aurelian Smith was an American professional wrestler better known as Grizzly Smith. He was the father of professional wrestlers Aurelian, Jr...

1 June 1968 Texas
The Spoiler 2 August 20, 1968 Dallas, TX
Dan Miller 1 December 10, 1968 Houston, TX
Johnny Valentine
Johnny Valentine
Johnny Valentine was a professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades. He has been inducted into four halls of fame for his achievements in wrestling...

3 February 28, 1969 Houston, TX
Jose Lothario
Jose Lothario
Guadalupe Robledo is an American professional wrestler, best known by the ring name of Jose Lothario.-Career:Lothario competed in the National Wrestling Alliance for most of his career...

1 June 7, 1969 San Antonio, TX
Johnny Valentine 4 August 20, 1969 Texas
Wahoo McDaniel
Wahoo McDaniel
Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel was a Choctaw-Chickasaw Native American who achieved fame as a professional American football player and later as a professional wrestler.-Early life:...

1 October 1969 Texas
Johnny Valentine 5 October 29, 1969 Austin, TX
Wahoo McDaniel 2 January 26, 1970 Ft. Worth, TX
Johnny Valentine 6 April 1970 Texas
George Scott
George Scott (wrestler)
George Scott was a Canadian professional wrestler, booker and promoter. From the 1950s until the 1970s, he and his younger brother Sandy competed as The Flying Scotts in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance, particularly the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic...

1 October 13, 1970 Dallas, TX
Johnny Valentine 7 November 1970 Texas
Pepper Gomez 14 February 18, 1971 Corpus Christi, TX
Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties. The MSA population in 2008 was 416,376. The population was 305,215 at the 2010 census making it the...

Johnny Valentine 8 March 1971 Texas
Jose Lothario 2 November 17, 1971 San Antonio, TX
Red Bastien
Red Bastien
Rolland Bastein is a former professional wrestler, better known as Red Bastien.-Professional wrestling career:He took part in football and swimming in high school and broke in on Midwest carnivals, fighting local toughs and learning wrestling the hard way. Turning professional, he began in...

1 March 9, 1972 San Antonio, TX
Stan Stasiak
Stan Stasiak
George Stipich , better known by his ring name Stan Stasiak, was a Canadian professional wrestler and fifth World Wide Wrestling Federation Champion. He is the father of professional wrestler Shawn Stasiak.-Career:...

1 June 24, 1972 Irving, TX
Jose Lothario 3 October 25, 1972 San Antonio, TX
Blackjack Mulligan
Blackjack Mulligan
Robert Jack Windham , better known by his ring name Blackjack Mulligan is a former professional wrestler and a former American football player...

1 May 4, 1973 Houston, TX
Jose Lothario 4 May 18, 1973 Texas
Great Mephisto 1 January 15, 1974 Dallas, TX
Red Bastien 2 May 28, 1974 Dallas, TX
Gran Markus 1 September 1974 Texas
Al Madril
Alberto Madril
Alberto Madril is an American retired professional wrestler who most often wrestled as Al Madril, and used the Indian Deathlock as a finishing move.-Career:...

1 March 1975 Texas
John Tolos
John Tolos
John Tolos, nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was a Canadian professional wrestler, and professional wrestling manager.-Canadian Wrecking Crew:...

1 May 14, 1975 San Antonio, TX
Al Madril 2 July 15, 1975 Dallas, TX
Held Up 1975
John Tolos 2 September 16, 1975 Dalls, TX
Al Madril 3 October 1975 Texas
Buddy Wolfe
Buddy Wolfe
Les Wolff is a retired American football player and professional wrestler, known by his ring name "Beautiful" Buddy Wolfe, who competed in North American regional promotions including the American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wide Wrestling Federation during the...

1 November 3, 1975 Texas
John Tolos 3 November 1975 Texas
Peter Maivia
Peter Maivia
Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia was a American Samoan professional wrestler better known as "High Chief" Peter Maivia. He was head of the famous Samoan wrestling family...

1 November 1975 Texas
Rocky Johnson
Rocky Johnson
Rocky Johnson is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. Quite popular in his own right in the 1970s and 1980s, he is also known for being the father of actor and professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson...

1 August 1976 Texas
Seigfreid Steinke 1 August 20, 1976 Houston, TX
Rocky Johnson 2 1976 Texas
Seigfreid Steinke 2 1976 Texas
Moondog Mayne 1 March 1977 Texas
Scott Casey
Scott Casey
Scott Casey is a retired American professional wrestler who is probably best known for his stint in the World Wrestling Federation between 1987 and 1990. His brother, Steve, was also a wrestler who appeared in the National Wrestling Alliance in the late 1980s and for the Global Wrestling...

1 May 1977 Texas
Jimmy Snuka 1 May 1977 Texas
Ox Baker
Ox Baker
Douglas A. Baker better known professionally as Ox Baker, is an American former professional wrestler and actor, and was feared for his dreaded finishing move, the Heart Punch, sometimes called the "Hurt Punch", after Baker's famous catchphrase "I love to hurt people!" He has appeared in several...

1 1977
Al Madril 4 January 1978 Texas
Dale Valentine
Dale Hey
Dale Hey is a retired professional wrestler better known as Buddy Roberts.-Professional wrestling career:Dale Hey grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He started wrestling in 1965 as Dale Valentine, the "brother" of Johnny Valentine...

1 March 24, 1978 Houston, TX
Bruiser Brody
Frank Goodish
Frank Donald Goodish was an American professional wrestler who earned his greatest fame under the name Bruiser Brody. Goodish was an All-State football and basketball player at Warren High School, Michigan, and played football at West Texas A&M University...

1 May 28, 1978 Houston, TX
David Von Erich
David Von Erich
David Alan Adkisson was an American professional wrestler who competed as "The Yellow Rose of Texas" David Von Erich...

1 September 10, 1978 Dallas, TX
Gino Hernandez
Gino Hernandez
Charles Eugene Wolfe, Jr. was a professional wrestler better known by his ring name Gino Hernandez. His in-ring nickname was "The Handsome Half-Breed" -Career:...

1 October 1978 Ft. Worth, TX
David Von Erich 2 1978 Dallas, TX
Gino Hernandez 2 December 1978 Dallas, TX
David Von Erich 3 February 1979 Dallas, TX
Mark Lewin 2 December 10, 1979 Ft. Worth, TX
Gino Hernandez 3 1980 Texas
Mark Lewin 3 May 25, 1980 Dallas, TX
Gino Hernandez 4 1980 Texas
David Von Erich 4 August 1980 Dallas, TX
Killer Tim Brooks
Killer Tim Brooks
Timothy Paul Brooks is a retired American professional wrestler, better-known by his ring name "Killer Tim Brooks". He competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance, Pacific Northwest Wrestling and World Class Championship Wrestling during the 1970s and...

1 May 1981
Al Madril 5 1981 Ft. Worth, TX
Bill Irwin
Barney Irwin
Barney William Irwin is a professional wrestler best known as Bill Irwin.-Professional wrestling career:Bill Irwin started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance's Central States territory and in World Class Championship Wrestling...

1 August 1982 Lawton, OK
Lawton, Oklahoma
The city of Lawton is the county seat of Comanche County, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Located in the southwestern region of Oklahoma approximately southwest of Oklahoma City, it is the principal city of the Lawton Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area...

David Von Erich 5 September 19, 1982 Dallas, TX
Jimmy Garvin
Jimmy Garvin
James Williams is a retired American professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name "Gorgeous" Jimmy "Jam" Garvin and as a member of the legendary Fabulous Freebirds....

1 March 1983 Dallas, TX
David Von Erich 6 April 4, 1983 Ft. Worth, TX
Held Up April 1983
David Von Erich 7 July 4, 1983 Dallas, TX
Held Up July 11, 1983
David Von Erich 8 1983
Vacant February 11, 1984
Gino Hernandez 5 June 23, 1984 San Antonio, TX
Brian Adias
Brian Adias
Brian Adias was a professional wrestler best known for his time in World Class Championship Wrestling . He was a legitimate longtime friend of the Adkisson family, and was a classmate of Kerry Von Erich in high school....

1 July 29, 1985 Ft. Worth, TX
Gino Hernandez 6 September 2, 1985 Ft. Worth, TX
Brian Adias 2 September 27, 1985 Ft. Worth, TX
The Grappler
Len Denton
Len Denton is a semi-retired professional wrestler, best known by his ring name The Grappler.While wrestling as The Grappler in Pacific Northwest Wrestling , his gimmick was a loaded boot, and later a loaded mask, which he had started wearing earlier in his career after losing a hair match and...

1 December 9, 1985 Ft. Worth, TX
WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
Brian Adias 3 March 10, 1986 Ft. Worth, TX
Buzz Sawyer
Buzz Sawyer
Bruce Woyan was a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Buzz Sawyer. Throughout his career, he was also known by the nickname "Mad Dog". He was characterized by his crazy antics inside the ring and out.-Career:Sawyer started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance 's...

1 July 4, 1986 Ft. Worth, TX
Vacant January 1987
Bob Bradley 1 January 12, 1987 Ft. Worth, TX
Dingo Warrior 1 February 2, 1987 Ft. Worth, TX
Al Perez
Al Perez
Al Perez is a retired American professional wrestler.-Professional wrestling career:Perez began wrestling as an amateur in high school and was one of the top athletes in his home state of Florida. He started professional wrestling in 1982.He formed a team in ICW with Joe Savoldi known as the "New...

1 June 21, 1987 Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

Vacant August 21, 1987
Ted Arcidi
Ted Arcidi
Theodore "Ted" Arcidi is an American former professional wrestler, actor and powerlifter.-Early life:The son of a nurse and doctor and one of seven children, Ted was born in Buffalo, New York, and took a different route from the family's academia tradition...

1 August 31, 1987 Ft. Worth, TX
Matt Borne
Matt Osborne
Matthew "Matt" Wade Osborne is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. Osborne is a second generation wrestler, being son of "Tough" Tony Borne, but he is best known as the first wrestler to portray the character of Doink the Clown, which he still uses to this day.-Independent...

1 November 10, 1987 Midland, TX
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County. As of 2010, the population of Midland was 111,147. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas...

Terry Taylor
Terry Taylor
Terry Taylor , is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his time in the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation...

1 February 26, 1988 Dallas, TX
Kevin Von Erich 1 July 4, 1988
Iceman Parsons 1 August 5, 1988 Dallas, TX
Brickhouse Brown 1 February 3, 1989 Dallas, TX
Gary Young
Gary Young
Gary Young was the first drummer of the 1990s alternative rock band Pavement.-Early life:Gary Young was born in Mamaroneck, New York. His father worked in the plastics business.-Work with Pavement:...

1 March 4, 1989 San Antonio, TX
Eric Embry
Eric Embry
Douglas Eric Embry is a retired professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with World Class Championship Wrestling and the United States Wrestling Association as The Flamboyant Eric Embry...

1 April 7, 1989 Dallas, TX
Super Zodiac
Gary Young
Gary Young was the first drummer of the 1990s alternative rock band Pavement.-Early life:Gary Young was born in Mamaroneck, New York. His father worked in the plastics business.-Work with Pavement:...

2 May 19, 1989 Dallas, TX
Eric Embry 2 May 2, 1989 Dallas, TX
P.Y. Chu-Hi 1 July 3, 1989 Wichita Falls, TX
Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita counties. According to the U.S. Census estimate of 2010,...

Eric Embry 3 August 18, 1989 Dallas, TX
The Punisher 1 October 5, 1989 Dallas, TX
Kerry Von Erich
Kerry Von Erich
Kerry Gene Adkisson was an American professional wrestler under the ring names Kerry Von Erich, The Modern Day Warrior, and The Texas Tornado and was part of the Von Erich family of professional wrestlers...

1 October 20, 1989 Dallas, TX
Jerry Lawler
Jerry Lawler
Jerry O'Neil Lawler is an American professional wrestler, wrestling commentator, musician, businessman, commercial artist and film actor, known throughout the wrestling world as Jerry "The King" Lawler. He is currently signed to WWE, working on its Raw brand as the color commentator and occasional...

1 December 12, 1989 Dallas, TX
Kerry Von Erich 2 January 5, 1990 Dallas, TX
Matt Borne 2 May 25, 1990 Dallas, TX
Kerry Von Erich 3 June 1, 1990 Dallas, TX
Angel of Death
David Sheldon
Later in 1980's Russian assassin #1 was portrayed by Joe Piermatteo, another masked wrestler out of Johnny Rodz StableDavid Sheldon was a professional wrestler, known by his ring name the Angel of Death, who wrestled in North American regional promotions during the 1980s and early 1990s including...

1 July 13, 1990 Dallas, TX
Kevin Von Erich 2 November 23, 1990 Dallas, TX
Vacant January 1991
USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
Bill Dundee 1 January 25, 1991 Dallas, TX
Eric Embry 4 February 15, 1991 Dallas, TX
Held Up March 29, 1991
Bill Dundee 2 April 5, 1991 Dallas, TX
Eric Embry 5 April 12, 1991 Dallas, TX
Jerry Lawler 2 April 26, 1991 Dallas, TX
Eric Embry 6 April 1991
Held Up May 24, 1991
Bill Dundee 3 May 31, 1991 Dallas, TX
Tom Prichard
Tom Prichard
Thomas Prichard is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, working in their developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling as a trainer using his ring name Tom Prichard...

1 June 7, 1991 Dallas, TX
Lord Humongous
Sid Eudy
Sidney Raymond "Sid" Eudy is an American professional wrestler, best known as Sid Vicious in World Championship Wrestling, and as Sid Justice and Sycho Sid in the World Wrestling Federation...

1 August 12, 1991 Memphis, TN
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

Tom Prichard 2 August 19, 1991 Memphis, TN
Brian Christopher
Brian Lawler
Brian Christopher Lawler is a professional wrestler. He is the son of color commentator and professional wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler and brother of wrestling referee Kevin Christian...

1 February 10, 1992 Memphis, TN
Vacant 1992
WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
Chris Adams 1 January 16, 1993 Mexia, TX
Mexia, Texas
Mexia is a city in Limestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,552 at the 2008 census.The city's motto, based on the fact that outsiders tend to mispronounce the name , is "A great place, no matter how you pronounce it."...

Vacant 1993
GWF Heavyweight Championship
Scott Putski
Scott Putski
James Scott Bednarski is an American former professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Scott Putski. Putski is a second generation wrestler, being the son of Ivan Putski, with whom he has wrestled alongside on several occasions.-Global Wrestling Federation :After attending college at...

1 July 16, 1994 Arlington, TX
Arlington, Texas
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...

Vacant September 21, 1994
WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
Chris Adams 2 January 1997
Vacant 1997
CWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
Warrior 2000 1 November 14, 1997 Dallas, TX
Vacant December 1997
NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
Rod Price 1 May 1, 1998 Dallas, TX
Stripped June 28, 1998
Brian Adias 4 July 3, 1998 North Richland Hills, TX
North Richland Hills, Texas
North Richland Hills is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 63,343 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth largest city in Tarrant County. In 2006, North Richland Hills was selected as one of the "Top 100 Best Places to live in America"...

Vacant July 30, 1998
Perry Jackson
Perry Jackson
J. Parnel Jackson was a professional football player who spent three seasons in the National Football League with the Providence Steam Roller in 1928, 1929 and 1930. Jackson won an NFL championship in 1928 with Providence.-Right name, wrong player?:...

1 July 31, 1998 North Richland Hills, TX
Rodney Begnaud
Rodney Begnaud
Rodney Begnaud is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his stint in World Wrestling Entertainment and for his work on its Raw brand under the ring name Rodney Mack.-Debut :...

1 November 27, 1998 North Richland Hills, TX
Vacant February 3, 1999
Khris Germany 1 February 5, 1999 North Richland Hills, TX
Brian Adias 5 February 19, 1999 North Richland Hills, TX
Steven Dunn
Steve Doll
Steve Doll was an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenure in the World Wrestling Federation as Steven Dunn in the tag team Well Dunn.-Professional wrestling career:...

1 March 26, 1999 North Richland Hills, TX
Stripped June 10], 1999
Kevin Northcutt
Kevin Northcutt
Kevin Northcutt is an American professional wrestler.-Total Nonstop Action Wrestling:During his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as part of the Red Shirt Security, he won the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Joe E. Legend & held the belts from January 28, 2004 until February 4 of the...

1 June 10, 1999 Dallas, TX
Rodney Begnaud 2 July 29, 1999 Dallas, TX
Vacant September 1999
Kevin Northcutt 2 September 25, 1999 North Richland Hills, TX
Cedric of Hollywood 1 February 18, 2000 North Richland Hills, TX
Kevin Northcutt 3 April 8, 2000 Galveston, TX
Galveston, Texas
Galveston is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas. , the city had a total population of 47,743 within an area of...

Vacant April 14, 2000
Mike Fox 1 April 28, 2000 North Richland Hills, TX
Rodney Begnaud 3 May 26, 2000 North Richland Hills, TX
Vacant September 29, 2000
Al Jackson 1 September 29, 2000 North Richland Hills, TX
Hotstuff Hernandez 1 December 1, 2000 North Richland Hills, TX
Gary Tool 1 February 2, 2001 North Richland Hills, TX
Hotstuff Hernandez 2 March 16, 2001 North Richland Hills, TX
Kevin Northcutt 4 May 23, 2001 San Antonio, TX
Hotstuff Hernandez 3 August 17, 2001 Refugio, TX
Refugio, Texas
Refugio is a town in Refugio County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,941 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Refugio County. Although the town's name is derived from Spanish, a vast majority of the town's residents pronounce it re-fury-oh. The Spanish pronunciation is...

Vacant October 13, 2001
Kevin Northcutt 5 October 26, 2001 North Richland Hills, TX
Mike Anthony 1 December 14, 2001 North Richland Hills, TX
Stripped March 5, 2002
J.P. Black 1 March 22, 2002 North Richland Hills, TX
Steve DeMarco 1 June 21, 2002 North Richland Hills, TX
J.P. Black 2 August 1, 2002 Ft. Worth, TX
Steve DeMarco 2 October 26, 2002 Corpus Christi, TX
J.P. Black 3 May 31, 2003 Pasadena, TX
Pasadena, Texas
Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in Harris County, 17th-largest in Texas, and 162nd largest in the United States. The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston....

Al Jackson 2 September 20, 2003 Greenville, TX
Greenville, Texas
Greenville is the county seat, and the largest city, of Hunt County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,557....

Stripped February 1, 2004
J.P. Black 4 February 1, 2004
Al Jackson 3 2004 Texas
Tejas 1 April 24, 2004 Perry, OK
Perry, Oklahoma
Perry is a city in Noble County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 5,126. It is the county seat of Noble County.-19th century:...

Kevin Northcutt 6 April 16, 2005 Ponca City, OK
Ponca City, Oklahoma
Ponca City is a small city in Kay and Osage counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, which was named after the Ponca Tribe. Located in north central Oklahoma, it lies approximately south of the Kansas border, and approximately east of Interstate 35. 25,919 people called Ponca City home at the...

Mark Orton 1 July 15, 2006 Beaumont, TX
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...

Chaz Taylor 1 August 12, 2006 Houston, TX
Seth Korbin 1 July 14, 2007 Cypress, TX
Cypress, Texas
Cypress is an unincorporated area of Harris County, Texas, United States located completely inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston. The Cypress area is located along U.S...

Chaz Taylor 2 August 10, 2007 Houston, TX
Kevin Northcutt 7 October 14, 2007 Corpus Christi, TX
Chaz Taylor 3 August 24, 2008 San Antonio, TX
Mike DiBiase
Mike DiBiase II
Michael Wills DiBiase is an American professional wrestler, who uses the ring name Mike DiBiase.Mike DiBiase is a third generation professional wrestler. His grandfather "Iron" Mike DiBiase grandmother Helen Hild and his father "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase are professional wrestlers. His...

1 September 6, 2008 Amarillo, TX
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...

Stripped October 4, 2008
Kevin Northcutt 8 October 4, 2008 Robstown, TX
Robstown, Texas
Robstown is a city in Nueces County, Texas, United States, and a western suburb of Corpus Christi. It was founded about 1906, and was named for Robert Driscoll Jr., a landowner...

Michael Faith 1 January 9, 2009 Cypress, TX
Spoiler 2000 1 March 21, 2009 Livingston, TX
Livingston, Texas
Livingston is a town in Polk County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,433 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Polk County. Livingston was settled in 1835 as Springfield. Its name was changed to Livingston and became the county seat of Polk County in 1846.The Alabama-Coushatta...

Kevin Northcutt 9 May 2, 2009 Tyler, TX
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...

Stripped February 26, 2010
Ben Galvan 1 February 26, 2010 Robstown, TX
Robstown, Texas
Robstown is a city in Nueces County, Texas, United States, and a western suburb of Corpus Christi. It was founded about 1906, and was named for Robert Driscoll Jr., a landowner...

Chad Thomas 1 May 15, 2010 Amarillo, TX
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...

Michael Faith 2 August 14, 2010 Gainesville, TX
Gainesville, Texas
Gainesville is a city in and the county seat of Cooke County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,538 at the 2000 census.-History:...

Charlie Haas
Charlie Haas
Charles "Charlie" Doyle Haas II is an American professional wrestler and former collegiate amateur wrestler. He competes on the independent circuit, and is signed to Ring of Honor , where he is one-half of the reigning ROH World Tag Team Champions with Shelton Benjamin...

1 September 4, 2010 Amarillo, TX
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...

Stripped January 3, 2011
Lance Hoyt
Lance Hoyt
Lance Hoyt is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling as Lance Archer. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time NWA World Tag Team Champion with Kid Kash while the title was under the TNA banner...

1 January 7, 2011 Robstown, Texas

See also

  • 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...

  • World Class Championship Wrestling
    World Class Championship Wrestling
    World Class Championship Wrestling ' was a regional professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Originally owned by promoter Ed McLemore, by 1966 it was run by Southwest Sports, Inc., whose president, Jack Adkisson, was better known as wrestler Fritz Von Erich...

  • United States Wrestling Association
    United States Wrestling Association
    The United States Wrestling Association or USWA was a professional wrestling promotion based in Memphis, Tennessee. It was founded by former CWA owner Jerry Jarrett.-Foundation:...

  • Global Wrestling Federation
    Global Wrestling Federation
    Global Wrestling Federation was a professional wrestling promotion based in Dallas, Texas. It started in June 1991 and folded in September 1994. At one time its shows were presented on the ESPN television network. On many weeks, the promotion provided programming five days a week airing at 4 p.m...

  • Continental Wrestling Association
    Continental Wrestling Association
    The Continental Wrestling Association was a wrestling promotion managed by Jerry Jarrett. The CWA was the name of the "governing body" for the Championship Wrestling, Inc. promotion which was usually referred to as Mid-Southern Wrestling...

  • NWA Southwest
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