NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship
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| NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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 Abdullah the Butcher is a former NWA Columbus Heavyweight Champion. | |||||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Georgia Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | July 22, 1970[1] | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | 1979 | ||||||||||||
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The NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). It was a minor title, complementing the NWA Columbus Tag Team Championship, and defended almost exclusively at the Columbus Municipal Auditorium throughout the 1970s.[2]
The Columbus titles were one of two sets of GCW's city-wide championships, along with the NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship and NWA Macon Tag Team Championship, and one of a select few city championships recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance. The final champion was Angelo Mosca and the title was eventually abandoned after 1979.
There have been a total of 11 recognized champions who have had a combined 18 official reigns, with "Bullet" Bob Armstrong holding the most at four. At 131 days, Armstrong's second reign was the longest in the title's history. The shortest reigning champion was Hiro Matsuda, whose first and only reign lasted 21 days.
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
| 1 | Assassin #2 | July, 1971 (NLT) | GCW show | N/A | 1 | [Note 1] | [1] | |||
| 2 | Bill Dromo | October 6, 1971 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | [Note 2] | [3] | |||
| Championship history is unrecorded from October 6, 1971 to September 6, 1972. | ||||||||||
| 3 | Bob Armstrong | September 6, 1972 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | 126 | [4] | |||
| 4 | Hiro Matsuda | January 10, 1973 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | 21 | [5] | |||
| 5 | Bob Armstrong | January 31, 1973 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 2 | 131 | ||||
| 6 | Bobby Duncum | June 11, 1973 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | [6][7] | ||||
| 7 | Bill Dromo | 1973 | GCW show | N/A | 2 | [8] | ||||
| 8 | Bobby Duncum | August 8, 1973 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 2 | 14 | [8] | |||
| 9 | Mr. Wrestling II | August 22, 1973 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | [Note 3] | ||||
| 10 | Gorgeous George Jr. | November, 1973 (NLT) | GCW show | N/A | 1 | [9] | ||||
| Championship history is unrecorded from November, 1973 (NLT) to January, 1974 (NLT). | ||||||||||
| 11 | Bob Armstrong | January, 1974 (NLT) | GCW show | N/A | 3 | |||||
| Championship history is unrecorded from January, 1974 (NLT) to April, 1974 (NLT). | ||||||||||
| 12 | Bob Armstrong | April, 1974 (NLT) | GCW show | N/A | 4 | [10] | ||||
| Championship history is unrecorded from April, 1974 (NLT) to 1975. | ||||||||||
| — | Vacated | 1975 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for unknown reasons. | |||
| Championship history is unrecorded from 1975 to February, 1977 (NLT). | ||||||||||
| 13 | Mr. Wrestling II | February, 1977 (NLT) | GCW show | N/A | 2 | [11] | ||||
| Championship history is unrecorded from February, 1977 (NLT) to January, 1978 (NLT). | ||||||||||
| 14 | Mr. Wrestling II | January, 1978 (NLT) | GCW show | N/A | 3 | 102 | [12] | |||
| 15 | Abdullah the Butcher | April 30, 1978 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | 49 | [13] | |||
| 16 | Stan Hansen | June 18, 1978 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | [13][14] | ||||
| Championship history is unrecorded from June 18, 1978 to November 29, 1978. | ||||||||||
| 17 | Ole Anderson | November 29, 1978 | GCW show | Columbus, GA | 1 | Defeated Mr. Wrestling II. | [15] | |||
| Championship history is unrecorded from November 29, 1978 to January, 1979 (NLT). | ||||||||||
| 18 | King Kong Mosca | January, 1979 (NLT) | GCW show | N/A | 1 | [16] | ||||
- 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 | Bob Armstrong | 4 | 257¤ |
| 2 | Mr. Wrestling II | 3 | 173¤ |
| 3 | Bill Dromo | 2 | 119¤ |
| 4 | Assassin #2 | 1 | 77¤ |
| 5 | Abdullah the Butcher | 1 | 49 |
| 6 | Hiro Matsuda | 1 | 21 |
| 7 | Bobby Duncum | 2 | 16¤ |
| 8 | Gorgeous George Jr. | 1 | N/A |
| 9 | Stan Hansen | 1 | N/A |
| 10 | Ole Anderson | 1 | N/A |
| 11 | King Kong Mosca | 1 | N/A |