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Name
Date/Location Notes
1. Verne Gagne
August 16, 1960 1
2. Gene
Kiniski
July 11, 1961
Minneapolis, MN
3. Verne Gagne
August 8, 1961
Minneapolis, MN
4. Mister M (Bill Miller)
January 9, 1962
Minneapolis, MN
5. Verne Gagne
August 21, 1962
Minneapolis, MN
6. Crusher Lisowski
July 9, 1963
Minneapolis, MN 2
7. Verne Gagne
July 20, 1963
Minneapolis, MN 3
8. Fritz
Von Erich
July 27, 1963
Omaha, NB 4
9. Verne Gagne
August 8, 1963
Amarillo, TX 5
10. Crusher Lisowski
November 28, 1963
St.Paul, MN
11. Verne Gagne
December 14, 1963
Minneapolis, MN
12. Maurice " Mad Dog " Vachon
May 2, 1964
Omaha, NB
13. Verne Gagne
May 15, 1964
Omaha, NB
14. Maurice Vachon
October 20, 1964
Minneapolis, MN
15. Mighty Igor Vodic
May 15, 1965
Omaha, NB
16. Maurice Vachon
May 22, 1965
Omaha, NB
17. Crusher Lisowski
August 21, 1965
St.Paul, MN
18. Maurice Vachon
November 12, 1965
Denver, CO
19. Dick The Bruiser
November 12, 1966
Omaha, NB
20. Maurice Vachon
November 19, 1966
Omaha, NB
21. Verne Gagne
February 26, 1967
St.Paul, MN
22. Dr. X (Dick Beyer)
August 17, 1968
Bloomington, MN
23. Verne Gagne
August 31, 1968
Minneapolis, MN
24. Nick Bockwinkle
November 8, 1975
St.Paul, MN 6
25. Verne Gagne
July 18, 1980
Chicago, IL
26. Nick Bockwinkle
May 19, 1981 7
27. Otto Wanz
August 29, 1982
St.Paul, MN
28. Nick Bockwinkle
October 9, 1982
Chicago, IL
29. Jumbo Tsuruta
February 22, 1984
Tokyo, Japan
30. Rick Martel
May 13, 1984
St.Paul, MN 8
31. Stan Hansen
December 29, 1985
East Rutherford, NJ
32. Nick Bockwinkle
June 28, 1986
Denver, CO 9
33. Curt Hennig
May 2, 1987
San Francisco, CA
34. Jerry Lawler
May 9, 1988
Memphis, TN 10
Title Vacant
35. Larry Zbyszko
February 7, 1989
St.Paul, MN 11
36. Masa Saito
February 10, 1990
Tokyo, Japan
37. Larry Zbyszko
April 8, 1990
St.Paul, MN 12
Title Defunct
Notes:
1. Title awarded to Verne Gagne after Pat O'Connor didn't
respond to Gagne's challenge to defend his NWA Title
against him upon formation of the AWA.
2. Lisowski won the Omaha version of the title from
Fritz Von Erich on
February 15, 1963 in Omaha, Nebraska.
3. Verne Gange won both the Omaha version
and the AWA World title.
4. Fritz Von Erich won both the Omaha version
and the AWA World title.
5. Verne Gagne won the AWA World title. He then beat
Fritz Von Erich on September 7, 1963 in Omaha, Nebraska
to unify both titles.
6. Bockwinkle wrestled to a Double-Count Out against
WWF World Champion Bob Backlund on
March 25, 1979
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
7. Nick Bockwinkle
was awarded the title when
Verne Gagne retired.
8. Rick Martel
wrestled to a Double Count-Out against
NWA World Champion Ric Flair on October 2, 1985
in Tokyo, Japan.
9. Title awarded to Nick Bockwinkle when Stan
Hansen
left the promotion because he didn't want to do the
job to Bockwinkle on June 28, 1986 in Denver, Colorado.
Hansen took the belt and defended
it on All-Japan cards
in July of 1986.
10. Jerry Lawler unified the
World Class Wrestling Association
World Title by defeating Kerry Von Erich on December
13, 1988
in Chicago, Illinois to become the first Unified World
Heavyweight Champion, but was stripped of the AWA World Title
on January 20, 1989 after
the CWA split with the AWA.
11. Larry Zbyszko wins the title in a battle royal after
eliminating Tom Zenk.
12. Larry Zbyszko was stripped of the AWA World title on
December 12, 1990 when Zbyszko left the inactive AWA
for WCW. The AWA closed in 1991.
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