IW North American Heavyweight Championship
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This is a list of people who held the "North American Heavyweight Title" under the banner of International Wrestling (IW) from 1969 to 1984. The promotion was owned by the Eastern Sports Association
from 1969 until 1976. The IW promotion ends with end of 1984 season, and the title was discontinued.
There was not a North American Title in the Maritimes again until 1984, when there were two of them.
Eastern Sports Association
The Eastern Sports Association, often referred to in the business simply as "the Maritimes," was a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
from 1969 until 1976. The IW promotion ends with end of 1984 season, and the title was discontinued.
North American Heavyweight Title
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| The Beast The Beast (wrestler) Yvon Cormier was a Canadian professional wrestler. Competing primarily under the ring name The Beast, he and his three wrestling brothers made up the Cormier wrestling family. He wrestled in many countries but regularly returned to Canada, where he competed for the Eastern Sports Association and... (Ivan Cormier) |
1 | July 8, 1969 | ||
| Archie “The Stomper” Gouldie Mongolian Stomper Archie Gouldie is a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name The Mongolian Stomper.-Stampede Wrestling:Gouldie held the North American heavyweight title a record ten times between 1968 and 1984, quite a streak of longevity for that time frame... |
1 | August 26, 1969 | ||
| Bobo Brazil Bobo Brazil Houston Harris was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Bobo Brazil. He is credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling... |
1 | October 7, 1969 | ||
| Bobby Red Cloud | 1 | May 19, 1970 | ||
| Archie “The Stomper” Gouldie | 2 | June 2, 1970 | ||
| The Beast | 2 | August 4, 1970 | ||
| Eric Pomeroy | 1 | May 11, 1971 | ||
| Leo Burke Leo Burke Leonce Cormier is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. He was born in Dorchester, New Brunswick. He competed across Canada, in several American promotions, and wrestled internationally for both Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council and the National Wrestling Alliance in New Zealand... (Cormier) |
1 | June 22, 1971 | ||
| Gino Brito Gino Brito Louis Gino Acocella , better known by his ring name Gino Brito is a Canadian professional wrestler. He was a popular wrestler in Montreal, and was one of the promoters in the city in the 1980s... |
1 | September 22, 1971 | Halifax, Nova Scotia City of Halifax Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996... |
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| Leo Burke | 2 | September 27, 1971 | Halifax, Nova Scotia | |
| Killer Karl Krupp Killer Karl Krupp George Momberg , better known by the ring name Killer Karl Krupp, was a Dutch-born professional wrestler famous during the 1970s and early 1980s.-Early life:... |
1 | June 10, 1972 | ||
| Eric Pomeroy | 2 | July, 1972 | ||
| Killer Karl Krupp | 2 | July 25, 1972 | Halifax, Nova Scotia | |
| The Beast | 3 | September 12, 1972 | Halifax, Nova Scotia | |
| Jim Dillon | 1 | May, 1973 | ||
| Killer Karl Krupp | 3 | August, 1973 | ||
| Archie “The Stomper” Gouldie | 3 | September, 1973 | In October, the Stomper returned to Stampede Wrestling Stampede Wrestling Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies... , and in December won their North American title from Omar Atlas. On February 22, 1974, in Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies... , the Stomper lost the (Stampede) North American Title to Harley Race Harley Race Harley Leland Race is a retired American professional wrestler and current promoter and trainer. During his career as a wrestler, he held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 7 times... . ESA may have used this title change to explain Harley Race entering the Maritimes at the start of the 1974 season in possession of the North American belt - omitting that the Stomper had won back the Stampede version in March. |
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| Harley Race Harley Race Harley Leland Race is a retired American professional wrestler and current promoter and trainer. During his career as a wrestler, he held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 7 times... |
1 | May 7, 1974 | ||
| Leo Burke | 3 | May, 1974 | ||
| Great Kuma (Motoshi Okuma) | 1 | May, 1974 | ||
| The Beast | 4 | June, 1974 | ||
| Great Kuma | 2 | June, 1974 | ||
| Eric Pomeroy | 3 | July, 1974 | ||
| Bolo Mongol Bill Eadie Bill Eadie is a professional wrestler who has competed under the names of Ax as part of Demolition and The Masked Superstar... |
1 | August, 1974 | ||
| Archie “The Stomper” Gouldie | 4 | September, 1974 | ||
| Bolo Mongol | 2 | September, 1974 | ||
| Leo Burke | 4 | May 6, 1975 | Was supposedly won in Detroit. | |
| Bob Brown Bob Brown Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia... |
1 | July 29, 1975 | ||
| Leo Burke | 5 | October 21, 1975 | Substituting for Pat O’Connor. | |
| Bob Brown | 5 | 1975 | Returned to Brown upon appeal. | |
| Rudy Kay (Cormier) | 1 | November, 1975 | ||
| Vacated | The season ended without notice, leaving Rudy Kay unable to defend within 30 days. | |||
| Tommy Gilbert | 1 | April 24, 1976 | USA | Won a tournament to be crowned champion. |
| The Brute | 1 | May, 1976 | ||
| Tommy Gilbert | 2 | May 27, 1976 | Saint John, New Brunswick Saint John, New Brunswick City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043... |
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| The Brute | 2 | June, 1976 | ||
| Leo Burke | 5 | September, 1976 | ||
| Michel Dubois | 1 | 1976 | ||
| Steve Bolus | 1 | June 9, 1977 | Arrived as champion | |
| Frenchy Martin Jean Gagné Jean Gagné is a Québécois retired professional wrestler and manager, best known under the ring name Frenchy Martin. During his World Wrestling Federation heyday in the 1980s as the manager of Canadian wrestler Dino Bravo, he was known for his trademark sign that read "USA is not OK"... |
1 | June, 1977 | ||
| Leo Burke | 6 | July 14, 1977 | ||
There was not a North American Title in the Maritimes again until 1984, when there were two of them.
- 84/04 Archie “The Stomper” Gouldie arrived at rival Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling as North American Champion. This was a newly created title for AGPW.
- 84/06 Leo Burke arrives at International Wrestling as North American Champion, this title had a history with Toronto’s Maple Leaf WrestlingMaple Leaf WrestlingMaple Leaf Wrestling was the unofficial name in the 1970s and 1980s of the professional wrestling promotion run by Frank Tunney in Toronto.-Queensbury Athletic Club:...
, starting in 1982, when Leo Burke arrived there as Champion, with the old ESA/North American belt.
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| Leo Burke | 1 | October, 1982 | ||
| Johnny Weaver Johnny Weaver Kenneth Eugene Weaver was a professional wrestler and wrestling commentator in the National Wrestling Alliance, better known by his ring name, Johnny Weaver... |
1 | April 10, 1983 | Toronto, Ontario | |
| Leo Burke | 2 | May 29, 1983 | Toronto, Ontario | |
| June, 1984 | Maple Leaf Wrestling is sold to WWF. Leo Burke returns to Maritimes (Zinck) as North American champion. | |||
| Archie “The Stomper” Gouldie | August, 1984 | The Stomper jumped to International Wrestling, won title unification match over Leo Burke. | ||