NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship
The original championship belt
Details
PromotionNational Wrestling Alliance
Date established1957
Current champion(s)Jeremiah Plunkett
Date wonJune 1, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)"Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers
Most reignsDutch Mantell (13 reigns)
Longest reignJerry Lawler (343 days)
Shortest reignDutch Mantel (53 minutes)
Oldest championTojo Yamamoto (At least 52 years)
Youngest championTommy Rich (20 years old)
Heaviest championBig Bubba (385 lb (175 kg))

The NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title that was originally defended in the US states of Tennessee and Alabama. The title began in 1957 and lasted first until 1980 when it was first abandoned when Jerry Jarrett took over the Mid-American titles from Nick Gulas. Jarrett revived it in 1981, making it a part of the Memphis-based Continental Wrestling Association, and it then lasted until 1987 when it was unified with the newly created CWA (now renamed Championship Wrestling Association) Heavyweight Championship.[1][2]

On May 10, 2024, NWA President Billy Corgan announced that the NWA will reactivate the Mid-America Heavyweight Championship and a new champion will be crowned at their Back to the Territories event on June 1, 2024, in Knoxville, Tennessee;[3] Jeremiah Plunkett defeated Dante Casanova, Hunter Drake, and Mario Parua in a four-way elimination match to be crowned the new champion.

  1. ^ Will, Gary; Duncan, Royal (2000). "Tennessee: NWA Mid-American Heavyweight Title [Gulas & Lawler]". Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. p. 194. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  2. ^ "NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  3. ^ "The Return of the NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship". Instagram. Retrieved May 10, 2024.