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NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship, 1950s

Name changes: 

  • NWA Heart of America Heavyweight Title ( early '50s )
  • Central States Heavyweight Title ( until '88 )

No.

Champion

Date won

Location

reign

Event

Note

1.

Bill Longson 50/05/18 Kansas City, KS      
2. Killer Kowalski 51 Kansas City, MO      
3. Dennis Clary 51        
4. Sonny Myers 51        
5. Dennis Clary [2] 51        
6. Jimmy Coffield 51/11/12 Kansas City, MO      
7. Alo Leilani 51/11/19 Kansas City, MO      
8. Bob Orton 51/12/20 Kansas City, MO      
9. Enrique Torres 52/02/28 Kansas City, MO      
10. Sonny Myers [2] 52/03/06 Kansas City, MO     1
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VACANT          
Sonny Myers 52/04 Wichita, KS     2
11. Sonny Myers [3] 52       3
12. Red Berry 52/09<        
13. Bobby Lane 52/11 Kansas City, KS      
14. Dave Sims 53/01/15 Kansas City, KS      
15. Lenny Montana 53/10/01        
16. Sonny Myers [4] 53/12/11 St. Joseph, MO      
17. Dave Sims [2] 54/01        
18. Bob Orton [2] 54/01/28 Kansas City, KS      
19. Sonny Myers [5] 54/03        
  [...]          
20. El Toro 54        
21. Sonny Myers [6] 54 Kansas City, KS      
22. Joe Dusek 54/09/13 Wichita, KS      
23. Ray Villmer 54/12/16 Kansas City, KS      
24. Lu Kim          
25. Ray Villmer [2]          
  [...]          
26. Mike DiBiase 56/04<        
27. Richard Brown 56/04/10 Topeka, KS      
  [...]          
28. Mighty Atlas 56<        
  [...]          
29. Sonny Myers [7] 57/02<        
  [...]          
30. Richard Brown [2] 57        
31. Red Berry [2] 57/09/15 Wichita, KS      
32. Richard Brown [3] 57/10/07 Wichita, KS     4
  VACANT          
33. Sonny Myers [8] 58/07/25 St. Joseph, MO     5
  VACANT          
34. Bob Geigel 58/10/03       6
35. Bob Ellis 58/11/28 St. Joseph, MO      

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Notes:

1. Vacant in 52.

2. Defeats Bob Orton in 13-man tournament final, but Orville Brown refuses to present him with the title because the final was only one fall.

3. Defeats Bob Orton in 3-fall match.

4. Vacant in 58.

5. Wins tournament; vacant in 58/10<.

6. Defeats Bob Ellis in tournament final.


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