NWA Australasian Heavyweight Championship explained

Australasian Heavyweight Championship
Created:	1938
Retired:	1968
Firstchamp:	Lofty Blomfield
Finalchamp:	Peter Maivia
Mostreigns:	Peter Maivia

The New Zealand version of the NWA Australasian Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional heavyweight championship recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance and competed for by wrestlers in the Australasian region. It was largely defended in New Zealand's Dominion Wrestling Union from around 1938 to 1951 and in All Star Pro Wrestling from 1964 to 1968. The earliest-known champion was New Zealand wrestler Lofty Blomfield who defended the title until losing it to American wrestler Ray Steele in Auckland on December 12, 1938. Peter Maivia and Steve Rickard feuded over the title during the mid-1960s with Maivia regaining the title in 1968 shortly before it was abandoned. Much of the title's history is unknown, however, there were 7 officially recognized champions during the three decades it was defended.^[1]

Title history

	Order in reign history
Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event	The event in which the title was won
-	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A	The information is not available or is unknown
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

Reigns

width=0%		width=20%	Wrestlers	width=0%	Reign	width=10%	Date	width=0%	Days held	width=16%	Location	width=18%	Event	width=60% class="unsortable"	Notes	width=0% class="unsortable"	Ref.
			N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Earliest known champion.
				N/A
			1938-1951		N/A	N/A	Title history is unrecorded.
			N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		^[2]
			1951	N/A	N/A	N/A
			1951-1964		N/A	N/A	Title history is unrecorded.
			N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
			1964	N/A
			1968	N/A	N/A
			1968
			1968		N/A	N/A	The title is abandoned.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Australasian Heavyweight Title (New Zealand) . 2003 . Wrestling-Titles.com . Puroresu Dojo . 8 July 2010.
2. News: Keeps Title . . November 25, 1950 .
3. Web site: High Chief Peter Maivia . Slagle, Steve . 2000 . Photos & Bios: The Stories Behind the Stars . . 8 July 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060317011403/http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/pages/bios/petermaivia2.html . 17 March 2006 . dead .
4. Web site: Torch Trivia: Test your knowledge - and learn new things - about latest WWE Hall of Fame entrants . Hunter, Ian . February 27, 2008 . Torch Trivia . . 26 July 2010.
5. Web site: Torch Trivia: Test your knowledge - and learn new things - about WrestleMania history . Hunter, Ian . March 5, 2008 . Torch Trivia . . 26 July 2010.