NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship
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The NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance and is defended in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The title, which is still currently defended, began in 1935. From February 1940 through 1942 the title was known as the Hawaii Junior Heavyweight Championship.
The title was being defended in the Island Xtreme Wrestling Federation promotion, before the promotion merged with Hawaii Championship Wrestling, wherein the title was eventually abandoned. Previously it was in Mid-Pacific Promotions and Polynesian Wrestling.
[edit] Title history
Silver areas in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage.
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildcat Pete | 1 | April 23, 1935 | Honolulu, HI | Defeated Tetsuo Higami to become the first champion. |
| Toots Estes | 1 | April 30, 1935 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Vacated | 1937 | |||
| Oki Shikina | 1 | November 16, 1937 | Honolulu, HI | Defeated Rusty Wescoatt to win the vacant title. |
| Dean Detton | 1 | January 24, 1939 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Dick Raines | 1 | February 7, 1939 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Oki Shikina | 2 | April 4, 1939 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ignacio Martinez | 1 | November 14, 1939 | Honolulu, HI | Won the title by forfeit after Shikina leaves the area. |
| Paul Jones | 1 | November 28, 1939 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Vacated | February 1940 | Title vacated and renamed Hawaii Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| Billy Venable | 1 | April 24, 1940 | Honolulu, HI | Defeated Kimon Kudo to win the vacant title. |
| Tetsuo Higami | 1 | July 3, 1940 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ben Pilar | 1 | January 22, 1941 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Tony Morelli | 1 | July 23, 1941 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Bill Weidner | 1 | November 12, 1941 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Charley Carr | 1 | 1942 | Hawaii | |
| Jimmy Gonsalves | 1 | 1945 | Hawaii | Defeated Ben Sherman. |
| Lee Grable | 1 | 1947 | Hawaii | |
| Ted Travis | 1 | 1947 | Hawaii | |
| Lee Grable | 2 | May 2, 1948 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Hisao Tanaka | 1 | August 8, 1948 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Jack Claybourne | 1 | October 31, 1948 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Bobby Managoff | 1 | November 9, 1949 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Dean Detton | 2 | December 11, 1949 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Hans Schnabel | 1 | December 14, 1949 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Sandor Szabo | 1 | February 5, 1950 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Arjan Singh | 1 | June 18, 1950 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ray Eckert | 1 | July 16, 1950 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Terry McGinnis | 1 | July 23, 1950 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Sandor Szabo | 2 | September 3, 1950 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Vacated | 1951 | |||
| Terry McGinnis | 2 | August 20, 1951 | Honolulu, HI | Defeated Ted Travis to win the vacant title. |
| Al Kashey | 1 | October 11, 1951 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Lucky Simunovich | 1 | March 30, 1952 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Red Scorpion (Tom Rice) | 1 | May 18, 1952 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Vacated | 1952 | |||
| Bobby Bruns | 1 | September 14, 1952 | Honolulu, HI | Defeated Tom Rice to win the vacnat title. |
| Hans Schnabel | 2 | June 7, 1953 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Bobby Managoff | 2 | July 19, 1953 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ben Sharpe | 1 | August 23, 1953 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Al Lovelock | 1 | February 14, 1954 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Vacated | May 1954 | |||
| Larry Moquin | 1 | May 23, 1954 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Karl Von Schober | 1 | July 11, 1954 | Honolulu, HI | |
| John Paul Henning | 1 | August 29, 1954 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Roger Mackay | 1 | November 21, 1954 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Lucky Simunovich | 2 | February 13, 1955 | Honolulu, HI | |
| The Zebra Kid (George Bollas) |
1 | April 10, 1955 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Al Lolotai | 1 | December 16, 1955 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Billy Varga | 1 | March 18, 1956 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Tosh Togo | 1 | July 19, 1956 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Tom Rice | 2 | October 7, 1956 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Al Lolotai | 2 | May 19, 1957 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ed Francis | 1 | May 13, 1959 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Al Lolotai | 3 | July 8, 1959 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Dick Hutton | 1 | January 18, 1961 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Sam Steamboat | 1 | January 25, 1961 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Luigi Macera | 1 | April 15, 1961 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Neff Maivia | 1 | June 14, 1961 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Curtis Iaukea | 1 | August 16, 1961 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Lord James Blears | 1 | October 25, 1961 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Masked Executioner | 1 | December 13, 1961 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Neff Maivia | 2 | April 4, 1962 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Gene LaBelle | 1 | February 15, 1963 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Neff Maivia | 3 | April 24, 1963 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Hard Boiled Haggerty | 1 | February 6, 1964 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Neff Maivia | 4 | April 8, 1964 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Gene Kiniski | 1 | July 16, 1964 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Neff Maivia | 5 | August 27, 1964 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Johnny Barend | 1 | October 7, 1964 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Nick Bockwinkel | 1 | November 25, 1964 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Curtis Iaukea | 2 | December 18, 1964 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Luther Lindsay | 1 | September 29, 1965 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ron Reed | 1 | January 5, 1966 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ripper Collins | 1 | January 19, 1966 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Neff Maivia | 6 | August 24, 1966 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ripper Collins | 2 | October 19, 1966 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Jim Hady | 1 | March 15, 1967 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Dutch Schultz | 1 | August 1967 | Hawaii | |
| Jim Hady | 2 | October 14, 1967 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Curtis Iaukea | 3 | February 28, 1968 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Klondike Bill | 1 | August 28, 1968 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Luke Graham | 1 | October 9, 1968 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Nick Bockwinkel | 2 | December 25, 1968 | Honolulu, HI | Defeated Johnny Barend to win the title. |
| Curtis Iaukea | 4 | December 29, 1968 | Honolulu, HI | |
| The Missing Link (Pampero Firpo) |
1 | July 1969 | Hawaii | |
| Ripper Collins | 3 | October 29, 1969 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Sam Steamboat | 2 | January 14, 1970 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ripper Collins | 4 | February 4, 1970 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Sam Steamboat | 2 | June 10, 1970 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ripper Collins | 5 | June 24, 1970 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Sam Steamboat | 3 | July 29, 1970 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ripper Collins | 6 | November 4, 1970 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Johnny Barend | 2 | December 9, 1970 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ripper Collins | 7 | January 2, 1971 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Frankie Laine | 1 | February 6, 1971 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Moondog Mayne | 1 | February 24, 1971 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ed Francis | 2 | October 27, 1971 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Gene Kiniski | 2 | February 16, 1972 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Fred Curry | 1 | August 2, 1972 | Honolulu, HI | |
| The Sheik | 1 | October 21, 1972 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Ed Francis | 3 | January 17, 1973 | Honolulu, HI | |
| "Superstar" Billy Graham | 1 | January 9, 1974 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Title inactive | ||||
| Bill Francis | 1 | July 1977 | Hawaii | Defeated Steve Strong to win the inactive title. |
| Steve Strong | 1 | January 1978 | Hawaii | |
| John Tolos | 1 | February 1978 | Hawaii | |
| John Anson | 1 | March 1978 | Hawaii | |
| Buddy Rose | 1 | May 1978 | Hawaii | |
| Don Muraco | 1 | July 1978 | Hawaii | |
| Tor Kamata | 1 | August 1978 | Hawaii | |
| Don Muraco | 2 | September 1978 | Hawaii | |
| Larry Sharpe | 1 | November 1978 | Hawaii | Awarded title as he was top contender for the title following Muraco's defeat of Big John Studd for the NWA Pacific International Heavyweight Championship in September 1978. |
| Mando Guerrero | 1 | November 22, 1978 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Vacated | December 22, 1978 | |||
| Mando Guerrero | 2 | January 1979 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Hans Schroeder | 1 | March 5, 1979 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Don Muraco | 3 | March 1979 | Hawaii | |
| Vacated | 1979 | |||
| Karl Von Steiger | 1 | April 4, 1979 | Pearl Harbor, HI | Defeated Kevin Von Erich in a tournament final to win the vacant title. |
| Siva Afi | 1 | April 18, 1979 | Hawaii | |
| Ripper Collins | 8 | ? | Hawaii | |
| Peter Maivia | 1 | March 1980 | Hawaii | |
| Hans Schroeder | 2 | March 5, 1980 | Hawaii | |
| Tama Tonga | 1 | April 1980 | Hawaii | |
| Wildman Austin | 1 | July 1980 | Hawaii | |
| Tor Kamata | 2 | October 1980 | Hawaii | |
| Vacant and inactive | 1980 | Title vacated when Kamata was injured by the Samoans. | ||
| Keethan Hawke | 1 | February 5, 2000 | Hawaii | Title awarded when it is revived by the NWA for use in the Island Xtreme Wrestling Federation. |
| Vacant | June 2000 | Title vacated when Hawke left the IXWF. | ||
| Dark Ninja | 1 | July 16, 2000 | Waipahu, HI | Defeated Black Rain and Don Lee in a three-way match to win the vacant title. |
| Black Rain | 1 | August 27, 2000 | Kāne'ohe, HI | Defeated The Jet, subbing for Dark Ninja. |
| The Jet | 1 | April 21, 2001 | Kāne'ohe, HI | |
| Johnny Allback (Black Rain) |
2 | August 18, 2001 | Kāne'ohe, HI | |
| The Sassy Assassin | 2 | October 6, 2001 | Kāne'ohe, HI | |
| Johnny Allback | 3 | October 20, 2001 | Kāne'ohe, HI | |
| Kaimana | 1 | July 4, 2002 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Tiki | 1 | November 17, 2002 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Sickdog | 1 | June 28, 2003 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Tiki | 2 | December 20, 2003 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Kris Kavanaugh | 1 | March 13, 2004 | Honolulu, HI | |
| Superfly Ete | 1 | July 4, 2005 | Pearl Harbor, HI | |
| Kenjiro Katahira | 1 | November 18, 2005 | Honolulu, HI | Katahira unified the NWA Hawaii title with Hawai'i Championship Wrestling's Kamehameha Heritage Championship. |
| Vacated | March 2006 | Katahira vacated both his championships upon returning to Japan. | ||
| Kaimana | 2 | March 25, 2006 | Wahiawā, HI | Defeated Ahuna, Kapu and Jody Lopez in a four-way elimination match to win the vacant title. |
| Kapu | 1 | May 13, 2006 | Wahiawā, HI | |
