MWA World Heavyweight Championship explained
| Championshipname: | MWA World Heavyweight Championship (Kansas Version) |
| Created: | January 1940 |
| Titleretired: | October 1948 |
| Mostreigns: | Orville Brown (11) |
| Firstchamp: | Bobby Bruns |
| Longestreign: | Orville Brown (673 days) |
| Shortestreign: | Bobby Bruns (5 days) |
The MWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Kansas City, Kansas-based Midwest Wrestling Association (MWA). It was the direct predecessor of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship, and a successor of sorts to the early world heavyweight championships. The title was created in 1940, and first held by Bobby Bruns that January.
- At an unknown period, Brown won the Kansas Heavyweight Champion and had a match against 4-time World Heavyweight Champion Ed "Strangler" Lewis.
- 8 November 1933 Brown defeated Chief Chewchki in St. Louis, Missouri in 7 minutes. 11 April and 16 May 1934 in the same city he fought George Zaharias (of Colorado) then "Ray Steele" (Peter Sauer) to thirty-minute draws.
- 29 May 1936 in the Houston Post Brown was specified by Jim Londos as the strongest grappler he had ever faced, and that he had wrestled him "a few nights ago" to a two-hour draw in Detroit. 21 September 1936 Brown was named one of the top twenty contenders for the World’s Heavyweight Championship in Houston, Texas by the members of the National Wrestling Association.
- 1 June 1937 Bruns unsuccessfully challenged World Champion Everette Marshall at the Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. The match ended in 44:48 when Bruns was laid out and unable to recover.
- September 1937 John Pesek was award Londos' National Wrestling Association world title.
- 28 October 1937 Brown lost an important Columbus, Ohio match to Everette Marshall, the recognized holder of one of the World Championships. It drew 10,000 people, setting a city record. He lost one other, but then managed to tie Marshall in a third match on 16 December.
- 1 January 1938 Brown wrestled Pesek to a 90-minute draw. 17 August 1938 Pesek was stripped of the NWA world title and immediately awarded the MWA world title (Marshall's old title) instead.
- 10 November 1939 Bruns defeated Maurice Boyer in Bridgeport, Connecticut for the World Light Heavyweight Championship (the Jack Pfeffer version).[1]
The title lasted until the MWA joined the newly formed NWA in October 1948, with the MWA champion, Orville Brown, recognized as the first NWA World Heavyweight Champion.[2] [3]
Title history
MWA World Heavyweight Championship (Kansas)
- Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
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| The overall championship reign |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed. |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign | |
| width=0% | | width=23% | Wrestler | width=0% | Reign | width=15% | Date | width=5% | Days
held | width=13% | Location | width=15% | Event | width=40% class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| | 1 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | Defeated fellow contender Orville Brown to win the vacant championship.[4] [5] [6] [7] |
| | 1 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| | 1 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | [8] |
| | 2 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| | 1 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| | 3 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | Ed Lewis won a disputed decision over Brown on November 5, 1942. |
| | 1 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | Defeated Brown in a rematch. |
| | 2 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | [9] |
| | 4 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| 10 | | 3 | | | Great Bend, Kansas | Live event | |
| 11 | | 5 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| 12 | | 1 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| 13 | | 6 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | Dave Levin defeated Brown in a one-fall match on April 27, 1944 in Kansas City, Kansas, and laid claim to the title. However, Brown claimed that the title could only change hands in a two-out-of-three falls match. |
| 14 | | 1 | | | | Live event | Defeated Brown in a rematch. |
| 15 | | 4 | | | Topeka, Kansas | Live event | [10] |
| 16 | | 7 | | | Topeka, Kansas | Live event | |
| 17 | | 2 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| 18 | | 8 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| 19 | | 1 | | | St. Joseph, Missouri | Live event | |
| 20 | | 1 | | | St. Joseph, Missouri | Live event | |
| 21 | | 9 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
| 22 | | 1 | | | St. Joseph, Missouri | Live event | |
| 23 | | 10 | | | St. Joseph, Missouri | Live event | |
| 24 | | 3 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | Won the title by disqualification. |
| 25 | | 11 | | | Kansas City, Kansas | Live event | |
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Reigns by combined length
- Key
| Rank | Wrestler | - of reigns
| Combined days |
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| | 11 | align=center style="background-color:#bbeeff" | ¤ |
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Splinter titles
MWA World Heavyweight Championship (Ohio)
See also
References
- General references
- Specific references
Notes and References
- Web site: Orville Brown - biography. Puroresu Dojo. 2008-08-03.
- Book: Duncan, Royal and Gary Will . Wrestling Title Histories, Fourth Edition . Archeus Communications . 2006 . 0-9698161-5-4 .
- Web site: M.W.A. World Heavyweight Title (Kansas City). Puroresu Dojo. 2008-08-03.
- http://www.wrestling-titles.com/personalities/brown_orville/bio.html Wrestling-Titles: Orville Brown - biography
- http://www.legacyofwrestling.com/Bruns.html LegacyOfWrestling Bobby Bruns Wrestling History
- http://www.legacyofwrestling.com/OrvilleBrown.html LOW Orville Brown Wrestling History
- Web site: Pro wrestling history (01/19): Ric Flair wins WWF title in 1992 Royal Rumble . January 19, 2019 . January 18, 2019 . . Brian . Hoops.
- Web site: Daily pro wrestling (04/17): WCW Spring Stampede 1994 . April 17, 2020 . April 17, 2020 . . Brian . Hoops.
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- Web site: On this day in pro wrestling history: 2nd Steve Austin WWE title reign begins, infamous Stan Hansen AWA title belt stripping story . June 29, 2015 . February 19, 2017 . Brian . Hoops . Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online.
