| Championshipname: | NWA World Brass Knuckles Championship |
| Promotion: | NWA Mid-America, Southern Championship Wrestling (Tennessee) |
| Created: | November 15, 1978 |
| Titleretired: | May 1982 |
| Firstchamp: | Gypsy Joe |
| Mostreigns: | Gypsy Joe (4 reigns) |
The NWA World Brass Knuckles Championship was a short-lived title promoted by National Wrestling Alliance NWA Mid-America territory from 1978 until 1981. The championship was used in specialty matches in which the combatants would wear brass knuckles. There were other such championships used in a number of NWA territories throughout the United States of America, including versions in the Florida territory, Amarillo, New England, the Mid-Atlantic region and in NWA Tri-State. Because the championship was a professional wrestling championship, it was not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The championship was awarded after the chosen wrestler "won" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.[1]
| Symbol | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Indicates periods of unknown lineage |
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Nashville, Tennessee | Mid-America Live event | Defeated the Mexican Angel in a tournament final. | |||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Mid-America Live event | Won Sometime after January 13, 1979. | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Mid-America Live event | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Mid-America Live event | Still billed as champions on May 26, 1979. | |||||||||||
| 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Nashville, Tennessee | Mid-America Live event | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Mid-America Live event | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Mid-America Live event | ||||||||||||
| 9 | 3 | Mid-America Live event | |||||||||||||
| Abandoned | Championship Abandoned when the NWA Mid-America territory closed. | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Steve Muslin | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 11 | Rick Conners | 1 | Knoxville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Ron Wright | 1 | Knoxville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Rick Conners | 2 | Knoxville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Ron Wright | 2 | Knoxville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||
| Title Retired |