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Professional wrestling championship
The NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). It was a secondary title, complementing the NWA Macon Tag Team Championship , and defended almost exclusively at the Macon City Auditorium and Macon Coliseum throughout the 1970s.[1]
The Macon titles were one of two sets of GCW's citywide championships, along with the NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship and NWA Columbus Tag Team Championship, and one of a select few city championships recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance . The final champion was "Wildfire" Tommy Rich before the title was eventually abandoned after 1979.
There have been a total of 13 recognized champions who have had a combined 22 official reigns, with Mr. Wrestling II holding the most at four. The longest reigning champion was "Dirty" Dick Slater , who held the title for 285 days. The shortest reigning champion was "Bullet" Bob Armstrong , whose first reign lasted only nine days.
Title history [ edit ]
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.
Date
Event
Location
Reign
Days
1
Buddy Colt
August 14, 1973
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
35
Won title in a one-night 16-man championship tournament.
[2] [3]
2
Bob Armstrong
September 18, 1973
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
147
[4]
3
Bobby Duncum
February 12, 1974
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
35
[5] [6]
4
Bob Armstrong
March 19, 1974
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
2
42
[5]
5
Bobby Duncum
April 30, 1974
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
2
14
[6] [7]
6
Mr. Wrestling II
May 14, 1974
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
[Note 1]
[7]
—
Vacated
1975
—
—
—
—
Championship vacated for unknown reasons.
7
Toru Tanaka
March 18, 1975
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
84
Defeated Danny Little Bear in a tournament final.
[8]
8
Bob Armstrong
June 10, 1975
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
3
9
[9]
9
Dick Slater
June 19, 1975
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
285
[9]
10
Stan Stasiak
March 30, 1976
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
28
[10]
11
Mr. Wrestling II
April 27, 1976
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
2
[Note 2]
[11]
Championship history is unrecorded from April 27, 1976 to March 1977 (NLT) .
12
J. J. Dillon
March 1977 (NLT)
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
[12]
13
Mr. Wrestling II
March 29, 1977
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
3
42
[13]
14
Ole Anderson
May 10, 1977
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
245
[14]
15
Dick Slater
January 10, 1978
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
2
[Note 3]
[15]
—
Vacated
March 1978
—
—
—
—
Championship vacated for unknown reasons.
16
Tommy Rich
March 14, 1978
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
42
Defeated Stan Hansen in a tournament final.
[16]
17
Abdullah the Butcher
April 25, 1978
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
28
[16]
18
Mr. Wrestling II
May 23, 1978
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
4
140
[16]
19
Angelo Mosca
October 10, 1978
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
112
[17] [18]
20
Wahoo McDaniel
January 30, 1979
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
[Note 4]
[19]
—
Vacated
September 1979
—
—
—
—
Championship vacated for unknown reasons.
21
Killer Karl Kox
September 25, 1979
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
1
12
Defeated Tommy Rich in a tournament final.
[20]
22
Tommy Rich
October 7, 1979
GCW show
Macon, Georgia
2
50
[21] [22]
—
Deactivated
1979
—
—
—
—
Championship is vacated for unknown reasons and subsequently abandoned in favor of the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship .
List of top combined reigns [ edit ]
¤
The exact length of several title reigns are uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
^ The exact date on which the title was vacated is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 1 and 307 days.
^ The exact date on which the title was lost is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 266 and 307 days.
^ The exact date on which the title was vacated is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 50 and 80 days.
^ The exact date on which the title was vacated is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 214 and 243 days.
References [ edit ]
General
Specific
^ Avery, Fred Jr. (2004). "Regional Territories: GCW #17" . KayfabeMemories.com .
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (August 1973)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012.
^ Hoops, Brian (August 14, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (August 14): CM Punk beats John Cena to unify WWE title and then loses it, Hulk Hogan "retires" Kevin Nash" . F4Wonline.com . Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly .
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (September 1973)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012.
^ a b Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January-March 1974)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.
^ a b Schwarz, H.K. (2013). "Bobby Duncum Sr. Biography" . Professional Wrestling Historical Society .
^ a b Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (April-June 1974)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 16, 2012.
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January-March 1975)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.
^ a b Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (April-June 1975)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012.
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January-March 1976)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.
^ Martinez, Ryan (April 27, 2008). "THIS DAY IN HISTORY: D-GENERATION X INVADES WCW MONDAY NITRO, BACKLASH, FATHER AND SON TAG CHAMPS AND MORE" . PWInsider.com .
^ Marston, James (June 26, 2013). "Five Questions With ... J. J. Dillon" . AcrossThePondWrestling.co.uk .
^ Martinez, Ryan (March 29, 2009). "THIS DAY IN HISTORY: WWWF BECOMES WWF, WRESTLEMANIAS III AND XIV, BENJAMIN DEFEATS THE GAME AND MORE" . PWInsider.com .
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (April-June 1977)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008.
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January-March 1978)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008.
^ a b c Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (April-June 1978)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 17, 2012.
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (October-December 1978)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 17, 2012.
^ Hoops, Brian (October 10, 2016). "On this date in pro wrestling history (10/10): Steamboat wins Mid Atlantic Title, Hardy wins vacant TNA Title" . F4Wonline.com . Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly .
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January-March 1979)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (July-September 1979)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013.
^ Tate, Rich and Larry Goodman (ed.). "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (October-December 1979)" . GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com . Georgia Wrestling History: Cards & Results. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013.
^ Hoops, Brian (October 7, 2015). "On this date in pro wrestling history 10-7: Rich wins Macon title, HHH and Orton trade title wins" . F4Wonline.com . Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly .
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