World Heavyweight Championship (Omaha)

World Heavyweight Championship
Details
PromotionNational Wrestling Alliance (Nebraska)
Date establishedJune 14, 1957
Date retiredSeptember 7, 1963
Statistics
First champion(s)Édouard Carpentier
Most reignsVerne Gagne (5 times)
Longest reignVerne Gagne (465 days)
Shortest reignVerne Gagne (1 second)

The World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship sanctioned by a group of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) promoters led by the NWA affiliate in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. These promoters chose to recognize Édouard Carpentier as NWA World Heavyweight Champion following his disputed win over NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz on June 14, 1957.[1] The majority of NWA promoters continued to recognize Thesz as their champion.

It was often contested alongside the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, and the two titles were finally unified when AWA champion Verne Gagne defeated Omaha champion Fritz Von Erich on September 7, 1963.

  1. ^ "Canadian Hall of Fame: Edouard Carpentier". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved 2008-04-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)