NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship
Professional wrestling championship
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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]
| NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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Abdullah the Butcher is a former NWA Macon Heavyweight Champion. | |||||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Georgia Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | August 14, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | 1979 | ||||||||||||
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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
| 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
| ¤ | The exact length of several title reigns are uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dick Slater | 2 | 285¤ |
| 2 | Ole Anderson | 1 | 245 |
| 3 | Bob Armstrong | 3 | 198 |
| 4 | Mr. Wrestling II | 4 | 182¤ |
| 5 | Angelo Mosca | 1 | 112 |
| 5 | Tommy Rich | 2 | 92 |
| 6 | Toru Tanaka | 1 | 84 |
| 7 | Bobby Duncum | 2 | 49 |
| 8 | Stan Stasiak | 1 | 38 |
| 9 | Buddy Colt | 1 | 35 |
| 10 | Abdullah the Butcher | 1 | 28 |
| 11 | Killer Karl Kox | 1 | 12 |
| 12 | James Dillon | 1 | N/A |
| 13 | Wahoo McDaniel | 1 | N/A |
Footnotes
- 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.