EWU World Super Heavyweight Championship
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The EWU World Super Heavyweight Championship is an inactive professional wrestling
championship
that was competed for in the European Wrestling Union, contested exclusively among Super Heavyweight
(120 kg (264.6 lb)) wrestlers. It was established in 1974, and the first and last champion was Jan Wilkens. In 1984 the belt reached inactive status when Wilkens retired .
Professional wrestling
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championship
Championship (professional wrestling)
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that was competed for in the European Wrestling Union, contested exclusively among Super Heavyweight
Super heavyweight
In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms . Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division, despite its grandiose name, is merely the amateur equivalent of the professional heavyweight division...
(120 kg (264.6 lb)) wrestlers. It was established in 1974, and the first and last champion was Jan Wilkens. In 1984 the belt reached inactive status when Wilkens retired .
Title history
| Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Location | Notes |
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| Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens is a retired South African professional wrestler who is a former South African Heavyweight Champion and six-time EWU World Super Heavyweight Champion.-Joint Promotions/Ring Wrestling Stars :... |
1 | 1974 | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Don Leo Jonathan Don Leo Jonathan Don Heaton , also known as Don Leo Jonathan, is an American former professional wrestler.-Professional wrestling career:... |
1 | 1975 | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens is a retired South African professional wrestler who is a former South African Heavyweight Champion and six-time EWU World Super Heavyweight Champion.-Joint Promotions/Ring Wrestling Stars :... |
2 | 1975 | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Seiji Sakaguchi Seiji Sakaguchi is a retired Japanese professional wrestler who was a mainstay of New Japan Pro Wrestling and also competed for the World Wide Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance.... |
1 | October 30, 1976 | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens is a retired South African professional wrestler who is a former South African Heavyweight Champion and six-time EWU World Super Heavyweight Champion.-Joint Promotions/Ring Wrestling Stars :... |
3 | November 13, 1976 | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Blackjack Mulligan Blackjack Mulligan Robert Jack Windham , better known by his ring name Blackjack Mulligan is a former professional wrestler and a former American football player... |
1 | October 3, 1981 | Good Hope Centre Good Hope Centre The Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa by Pier Luigi Nervi, is an exhibition hall and conference centre, with the exhibition hall comprising an arch with tie-beam on each of the four vertical facades and two diagonal arches supporting two intersecting barrel-like roofs which in turn were... , Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens is a retired South African professional wrestler who is a former South African Heavyweight Champion and six-time EWU World Super Heavyweight Champion.-Joint Promotions/Ring Wrestling Stars :... |
4 | October 1982 | Good Hope Centre Good Hope Centre The Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa by Pier Luigi Nervi, is an exhibition hall and conference centre, with the exhibition hall comprising an arch with tie-beam on each of the four vertical facades and two diagonal arches supporting two intersecting barrel-like roofs which in turn were... , Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Big John Studd Big John Studd John William Minton was an American professional wrestler and actor who was born and raised in Butler, Pennsylvania, better known by his ring name, Big John Studd.-Career:... |
1 | February 13, 1984 | Good Hope Centre Good Hope Centre The Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa by Pier Luigi Nervi, is an exhibition hall and conference centre, with the exhibition hall comprising an arch with tie-beam on each of the four vertical facades and two diagonal arches supporting two intersecting barrel-like roofs which in turn were... , Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens is a retired South African professional wrestler who is a former South African Heavyweight Champion and six-time EWU World Super Heavyweight Champion.-Joint Promotions/Ring Wrestling Stars :... |
5 | February 18, 1984 | Good Hope Centre Good Hope Centre The Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa by Pier Luigi Nervi, is an exhibition hall and conference centre, with the exhibition hall comprising an arch with tie-beam on each of the four vertical facades and two diagonal arches supporting two intersecting barrel-like roofs which in turn were... , Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Hercules Ayala | 1 | October 6, 1984 | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens Jan Wilkens is a retired South African professional wrestler who is a former South African Heavyweight Champion and six-time EWU World Super Heavyweight Champion.-Joint Promotions/Ring Wrestling Stars :... |
6 | November 3, 1984 | Johannesburg, South Africa |