NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Vancouver version)

The NWA Vancouver Canadian Heavyweight Championship was the Vancouver, British Columbia version of the NWA Canadian Heavyweight title. It was the top singles title in Vancouver-based NWA All-Star Wrestling from 1982 until 1985, when the promotion withdrew from the NWA; the title was then renamed the UWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (for its fictitious sanctioning body, the Universal Wrestling Alliance) and served as a secondary singles title until 1989.[1]

Title history

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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
NWA Vancouver Canadian Heavyweight Championship
1 Silvano Sousa May 1982 NWA All-Star show British Columbia 1 N/A Claims to have beaten Angelo Mosca for the Championship  
2 Al Tomko May 31, 1982 NWA All-Star show Vancouver, BC 1 112    
3 Mr. Pro September 20, 1982 NWA All-Star show Vancouver, BC 1 56    
4 Moose Morowski November 15, 1982 NWA All-Star show Vancouver, BC 1 126    
5 Igor Volkoff March 21, 1983 NWA All-Star show Vancouver, BC 1 N/A    
6 Al Tomko May 1983 NWA All-Star show British Columbia 2 N/A Awarded title after Volkoff is injured on May 2, 1983; Snake Williams defeats Tomko on December 17, 1983 in Cloverdale, BC, but the title is returned due to outside interference  
7 Moondog Moretti February 20, 1984 NWA All-Star show British Columbia 1 56    
8 Al Tomko April 16, 1984 NWA All-Star show Vancouver, BC 3 30    
9 Wojo Yawrenko May 16, 1984 NWA All-Star show Abbotsford, BC 1 N/A    
10 Al Tomko 1984 NWA All-Star show British Columbia 4 N/A Awarded title when Yawrenko left the promotion  
11 Sonny Myers December 1, 1984 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 N/A    
Vacated January 1985 Declared vacant after a match against Al Tomko  
12 Elton Stanton January 19, 1985 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 N/A Defeated Butch Moffat in tournament final; Gerry Morrow defeats Stanton around May 1985, but the title is returned because Morrow is not the scheduled opponent  
Vacated July 1985 Stanton was suspended  
UWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship
13 Al Tomko October 10, 1985 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 5 161 Defeated Moose Morowski  
14 Mike Stone March 20, 1986 NWA All-Star show Victoria, BC 1 44    
15 Al Tomko May 3, 1986 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 6 N/A    
Vacated 1986 Championship vacated for undocumented reasons  
16 Joe Cagle September 6, 1986 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 56 Defeated Pat Brady  
17 Rick Davis November 1, 1986 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 31    
18 J.R. Bundy December 2, 1986 All Star Wrestling
[Note 1]
Burnaby, BC 1 70 This title change aired on tape delay  
19 Billy Two Eagles February 10, 1987 All Star Wrestling Burnaby, BC 1 39 This title change aired on tape delay  
20 Timothy Flowers March 21, 1987 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 72    
21 Jonathan Sayers June 1, 1987 N/A Burnaby, BC 1 5 This title change aired on tape delay  
22 Bruiser Costa June 6, 1987 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 N/A    
23 J.R. Bundy 1987 NWA All-Star show British Columbia 2 N/A    
24 John Tenta August 1, 1987 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 N/A    
Vacated 1987 Championship vacated for undocumented reasons  
25 Ole Olson October 1, 1987 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 1 3 Defeated Sweet Daddy Sampson  
26 Sweet Daddy Sampson October 4, 1987 All Star Wrestling Burnaby, BC 1 363 This title change aired on tape delay  
27 Ole Olsen October 1, 1988 NWA All-Star show Cloverdale, BC 2 N/A    
28 The Olympian N/A NWA All-Star show British Columbia 1 N/A    
29 Pat Brady N/A NWA All-Star show British Columbia 1 N/A    
30 Steve E. Ocean N/A NWA All-Star show British Columbia 1 N/A    
31 Dan Denton June 1989 NWA All-Star show British Columbia 1 N/A    
Deactivated 1989 Promotion closed  

References

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  1. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ All Star Wrestling was a television program for ASW that began airing on local BCTV television markets in the early 1960s.
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