The NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship was the top singles title in
Maple Leaf Wrestling
Maple Leaf Wrestling was the unofficial name in the 1970s and 1980s of the professional wrestling promotion run by Frank Tunney in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Queensbury Athletic Club
The promotion, initially known as the Queensbury Athle ...
from 1978 until 1984, when it was abandoned after the Toronto promotion partnered with the
World Wrestling Federation
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a as WWE, is an American professional wrestling promotion. A global integrated media and entertainment company, WWE has also branched out into other fields, including film, American football, and vario ...
(WWF).
Its national scope was in name only, similar to the
NWA National Heavyweight Championship
The NWA National Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned and promoted by the U.S.-based, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The current champion is Cyon, who is in his first reign.
The championship was established in January ...
in
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
. The title was reinstated as the present-day,
NWA
NWA or Nwa most commonly refers to:
* N.W.A ("Niggaz Wit Attitudes"), a hip hop group from Compton, California, US
* National Wrestling Alliance, a professional wrestling organization
NWA or Nwa may refer to:
Music
* New Weird America, a subgenr ...
Board-controlled version of the NWA Canadian Heavyweight title.
Previous versions also existed in
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
,
Halifax and
Vancouver
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. Has been defended in the World Wrestling Federation.
Title history
Reigns by combined length
As of , .
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Footnotes
See also
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List of National Wrestling Alliance championships
National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion operating via its parent company Lightning One, Inc. The following is a list of its active and inactive/unofficial/defunct championships. The professional wrestling ...
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NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship ''(Calgary version)''
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NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship ''(Halifax version)''
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NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship ''(Vancouver version)''
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NWA National Heavyweight Championship
The NWA National Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned and promoted by the U.S.-based, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The current champion is Cyon, who is in his first reign.
The championship was established in January ...
, counterpart in the United States, originally a regional championship before being acquired by the NWA Board
References
External links
Solie.org Canadian Heavyweight Title historyECCW.com Canadian Heavyweight Championship history
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Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling championships
Heavyweight wrestling championships
Maple Leaf Wrestling championships
National Wrestling Alliance championships
Canadian professional wrestling championships