NWA Hawaii United States Championship
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The NWA Pacific International Heavyweight Championship was the primary singles championship of Mid-Pacific Promotions, the NWA
territory based in Hawaii
. The title was originally the Hawaiian version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship that was defended in Hawaii
. It existed from 1962 until 1968. It was renamed the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Hawaii version) in 1968 and renamed again as the NWA Pacific International Heavyweight Championship in 1978, which was the name it used until it was retired in 1980.
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=20%|Wrestler:
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!style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=17%|Date:
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|colspan=6 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Hawaii version)
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|Nick Bockwinkel
|1
|1962
|
|Records unclear as to how he got title.
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|1
|June 6, 1962
|Hawaii
|
|-
|Billy White Wolf
|1
|November 21, 1962
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|2
|December 12, 1962
|Hawaii
|-
|Dick the Bruiser
|1
|July 15, 1963
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|3
|November 6, 1963
|Hawaii
|-
|Luther Lindsay
|1
|June 1964
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|4
|July 1964
|Hawaii
|-
|Enrique Torres
|1
|December 12, 1964
|Hawaii
|-
|Hard Boiled Haggerty
|1
|February 24, 1965
|Honolulu, Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|5
|September 15, 1965
|Hawaii
|-
|Killer Kowalski
|1
|November 3, 1965
|Hawaii
|-
|Nick Kozak
|1
|January 5, 1966
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
|1
|February 2, 1966
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|6
|March 1, 1967
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
|2
|November 7, 1967
|Hawaii
|-
|Jim Hady
|1
|April 24, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|Ray Stevens
|1
|May 15, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|Jim Hady
|2
|June 12, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|colspan=6 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|NWA North American Championship (Hawaii version)
|-
|Toru Tanaka
|1
|December 25, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|Gene Kiniski
|1
|February 19, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|Pedro Morales
|1
|June 18, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|7
|September 24, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|Pedro Morales
|2
|November 5, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
|3
|February 7, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|Pedro Morales
|3
|August 5, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|The Destroyer
|1
|September 30, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|Billy Robinson
|1
|December 16, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|8
|January 9, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Sam Steamboat
|1
|February 24, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Gene Kiniski
|2
|May 12, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Ed Morrow
|1
|August 25, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Gene Kiniski
|3
|September 9, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Sam Steamboat
|2
|September 29, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Sweet Daddy Siki
|1
|October 27, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
|4
|March 22, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Freddie Blassie
|1
|July 26, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Sam Steamboat
|3
|September 27, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Dusty Rhodes
|1
|November 25, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Billy Robinson
|2
|June 6, 1973
|Hawaii
|-
|Vacated
|
|between 1973 & 1977
|
|Title inactive.
|-
|John Tolos
|1
|July 1977
|
|Awarded
|-
|Sam Steamboat
|4
|October 1977
|Hawaii
|
|-
|Tor Kamata
|1
|December 1977
|Hawaii
|-
|Rick Martel
|1
|March 1978
|
|-
|Big John Studd
|1
|June 1978
|
|Awarded when Martel leaves.
|-
|colspan=6 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|NWA Pacific International Championship
|-
|Don Muraco
|1
|September 1978
|Hawaii
|
|-
|Tor Kamata
|2
|1979
|Hawaii
|-
|Masked Cyclops (AKA Frenchy Martin)
|1
|1980
|Hawaii
|-
|Siva Afi
|1
|1980
|Hawaii
|-
|Title Retired
|
|1980
|
|Title abandoned.
|-
|}
National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...
territory based in Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. The title was originally the Hawaiian version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship that was defended in Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. It existed from 1962 until 1968. It was renamed the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Hawaii version) in 1968 and renamed again as the NWA Pacific International Heavyweight Championship in 1978, which was the name it used until it was retired in 1980.
Title history
{|{| class="wikitable"!style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=20%|Wrestler:
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=3%|Reigns:
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=17%|Date:
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=20%|Place:
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|-
|colspan=6 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Hawaii version)
|-
|Nick Bockwinkel
Nick Bockwinkel
Nicholas Warren Francis "Nick" Bockwinkel is a retired American professional wrestler. He mainly competed in the American Wrestling Association in the United States...
|1
|1962
|
|Records unclear as to how he got title.
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
King Curtis Iaukea
Curtis Piehau Iaukea, III was a professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional US promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s. He then competed in the World Wrestling Federation where he...
|1
|June 6, 1962
|Hawaii
|
|-
|Billy White Wolf
|1
|November 21, 1962
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|2
|December 12, 1962
|Hawaii
|-
|Dick the Bruiser
|1
|July 15, 1963
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|3
|November 6, 1963
|Hawaii
|-
|Luther Lindsay
Luther Lindsay
Luther Jacob Goodall was an American professional football player and wrestler, known by his ringname Luther Lindsay or Lindsey, who competed throughout the United States with the National Wrestling Alliance as well as international promotions such as All-Japan Pro Wrestling, Joint Promotions and...
|1
|June 1964
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|4
|July 1964
|Hawaii
|-
|Enrique Torres
Enrique Torres
Enrique Torres was a Mexican-American professional wrestler, the oldest three Torres brothers in wrestling, and a major star in the late 1940s and 1950s.-Personal Background:...
|1
|December 12, 1964
|Hawaii
|-
|Hard Boiled Haggerty
Don Stansauk
Don Stansauk was a professional wrestler and actor, known by his ring name, Hard Boiled Haggerty. He was previously a professional American football player, and became a successful character actor after his wrestling career.-Career:After attending Pasadena City College and the University of...
|1
|February 24, 1965
|Honolulu, Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|5
|September 15, 1965
|Hawaii
|-
|Killer Kowalski
|1
|November 3, 1965
|Hawaii
|-
|Nick Kozak
|1
|January 5, 1966
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
Johnny Barend
"Handsome" Johnny Barend , was an American professional wrestler.Barend started wrestling as an amateur at the age of eight. After graduating Jefferson High in Rochester in 1944, he served his country during World War II, and wrestled in the Navy. He was trained to wrestle professionally by Ed Don...
|1
|February 2, 1966
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|6
|March 1, 1967
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
|2
|November 7, 1967
|Hawaii
|-
|Jim Hady
|1
|April 24, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens (wrestler)
Carl Ray Stevens , better known as Ray "The Crippler" Stevens or Ray "Blond Bomber" Stevens, was an American professional wrestler. Stevens was a wrestling superstar since the early years of the television era until he retired during the early 1990s...
|1
|May 15, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|Jim Hady
|2
|June 12, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|colspan=6 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|NWA North American Championship (Hawaii version)
|-
|Toru Tanaka
Charles Kalani, Jr.
Charles "Charlie" J. Kalani, Jr. was an American professional wrestler, professional boxer, college football player, soldier, actor, and Martial Artist who, in fighting rings, was also known as Professor Toru Tanaka, or simply, Professor Tanaka.-Early life:He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son...
|1
|December 25, 1968
|Hawaii
|-
|Gene Kiniski
Gene Kiniski
Eugene Nicholas "Gene" Kiniski was a Canadian professional wrestler and the father of wrestlers Nick Kiniski and Kelly Kiniski. "Canada's Greatest Athlete" as he billed himself for promotional purposes was born outside of Edmonton, Alberta...
|1
|February 19, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|Pedro Morales
Pedro Morales
Pedro Morales is a retired Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He began his wrestling career as a teenager in 1959 and continued through to the late 1980s...
|1
|June 18, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|7
|September 24, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|Pedro Morales
|2
|November 5, 1969
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
|3
|February 7, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|Pedro Morales
|3
|August 5, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|The Destroyer
Dick Beyer
Dick Beyer is a retired professional wrestler who is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.-Early life:...
|1
|September 30, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|Billy Robinson
Billy Robinson
Billy Robinson is a British professional wrestler and catch wrestling instructor. Robinson was well known in Japan where he has trained mixed martial arts fighters in catch wrestling...
|1
|December 16, 1970
|Hawaii
|-
|King Curtis Iaukea
|8
|January 9, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Sam Steamboat
Sam Mokuahi, Jr.
Sam "Steamboat" Mokuahi, Jr., or simply Sammy Steamboat, was an American professional wrestler whose career spanned from the 1950s through to the 1970s....
|1
|February 24, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Gene Kiniski
|2
|May 12, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Ed Morrow
|1
|August 25, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Gene Kiniski
|3
|September 9, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Sam Steamboat
|2
|September 29, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Sweet Daddy Siki
Sweet Daddy Siki
Reginald Siki is a former professional wrestler and was born on June 16 in Montgomery, Texas.Sweet Daddy Siki started wrestling in 1955 in Artesia, New Mexico. He also did some training in Los Angeles with Sandor Szabo and Ray Ortega...
|1
|October 27, 1971
|Hawaii
|-
|Johnny Barend
|4
|March 22, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Freddie Blassie
|1
|July 26, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Sam Steamboat
|3
|September 27, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Dusty Rhodes
Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)
Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr. , better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler currently working for WWE...
|1
|November 25, 1972
|Hawaii
|-
|Billy Robinson
|2
|June 6, 1973
|Hawaii
|-
|Vacated
|
|between 1973 & 1977
|
|Title inactive.
|-
|John Tolos
John Tolos
John Tolos, nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was a Canadian professional wrestler, and professional wrestling manager.-Canadian Wrecking Crew:...
|1
|July 1977
|
|Awarded
|-
|Sam Steamboat
|4
|October 1977
|Hawaii
|
|-
|Tor Kamata
Tor Kamata
McRonald Kamaka was an American/Canadian professional wrestler known by the ring name Tor Kamata. He won several Heavyweight and Tag Team championships, including one World Tag Team title. He was a classic "bad guy" wrestler...
|1
|December 1977
|Hawaii
|-
|Rick Martel
Rick Martel
Richard Vigneault is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation between 1980 and 1995 under the ring name Rick Martel...
|1
|March 1978
|
|-
|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
|June 1978
|
|Awarded when Martel leaves.
|-
|colspan=6 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|NWA Pacific International Championship
|-
|Don Muraco
Don Muraco
Donald Muraco , better known by his ring name "The Rock" Don Muraco, is a retired American professional wrestler...
|1
|September 1978
|Hawaii
|
|-
|Tor Kamata
|2
|1979
|Hawaii
|-
|Masked Cyclops (AKA 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
|1980
|Hawaii
|-
|Siva Afi
|1
|1980
|Hawaii
|-
|Title Retired
|
|1980
|
|Title abandoned.
|-
|}