The NWA Austra-Asian Heavyweight Championship was the top singles
professional wrestling
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title
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in the
Australian
World Championship Wrestling
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promotion
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Marketing
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from 1972 until the promotion's 1978 closure.
WCW had joined the
National Wrestling Alliance in August 1969,
still recognizing its
IWA World Heavyweight Championship title as its world title. In 1971, that title was abandoned in favor of this one. The
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
The NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship is a world heavyweight professional wrestling championship owned and promoted by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), an American professional wrestling promotion. The current champion is Tyrus, who is i ...
was then recognized in WCW as the world title.
11 different men held the championship, combining for 15 individual title reigns.
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Title history
See also
*Professional wrestling in Australia
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*World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling, Inc. (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of Nati ...
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National Wrestling Alliance championships
World Championship Wrestling (Australia) championships
Heavyweight wrestling championships
Professional wrestling in Australia
Intercontinental professional wrestling championships