Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship |
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![The original championship belt](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/Atlantic_Athletic_Commission_World_Heavyweight_Championship.png/260px-Atlantic_Athletic_Commission_World_Heavyweight_Championship.png) |
Details |
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Promotion | Atlantic Athletic Commission |
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Date established | June 14, 1957 |
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Date retired | 1975 |
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Statistics |
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First champion(s) | Edouard Carpentier |
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Final champion(s) | Gypsy Joe Gonzales |
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Most reigns | Jackie Fargo (2 reigns) |
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Longest reign | Jackie Fargo (1,185 days) |
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Shortest reign | Ted Blassie (35 days) |
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The AAC World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the Atlantic Athletic Commission in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[1] The title was created in 1957 when Edouard Carpentier defeated the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz when Thesz could not continue due to a back injury. As it was a professional wrestling championship, the AAC World Heavyweight Championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match.[a]
Title history
Key No. | Overall reign number |
Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days |
1 | Edouard Carpentier | June 14, 1957 | N/A | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 323 | Defeated the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz when Thesz could not continue due to a back injury. | |
2 | Killer Kowalski | May 3, 1958 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | | 1,067 | | |
3 | Bearcat Wright | April 4, 1961 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | 1 | 56 | | |
4 | Jackie Fargo | May 30, 1961 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | 1 | 1,185 | | |
5 | Ted Blassie | August 27, 1964 | N/A | N/A | 1 | 35 | | |
6 | Jackie Fargo | October 1, 1964 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | 1 | N/A | Vacant in 1966 when Fargo left the area. | |
7 | Buddy Fuller | 1966 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
8 | Frank Scarpa | April 27, 1967 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | Title was vacated in January 1969 when Scarpa died in the ring. | |
9 | Gypsy Joe Gonzales | 1969 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | Wins tournament; vacated the title when the promotion closed in 1975. | |
- ^ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"
References
- Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
- ^ "World Heavyweight Title (Massachusetts)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved December 28, 2019.