World Middleweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)

The National Wrestling Association (NWA) World Middleweight Championship was a professional wrestling

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Championship (professional wrestling)

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sanctioned by the National Wrestling Association

National Wrestling Association

The National Wrestling Association was an off-shoot of the National Boxing Association, formed to sanction professional wrestling. This NWA is not the same organization as the National Wrestling Alliance, which was formed in 1948....

, an offshoot of the National Boxing Association

World Boxing Association

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(NBA). The title existed from 1928 through 1940, and is said to have connecting lineage to what would become the National Wrestling Alliance's World Middleweight Championship

NWA World Middleweight Championship

The NWA World Middleweight Championship is a currently inactive professional wrestling championship, promoted by the National Wrestling Alliance . For the majority of its existence it has been promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where it was known as the Campeonato...

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The title had a weight range of 155 to 160 lbs

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(70 to 73 kg

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Title history

— no later than.

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:
Gus Kallio Gus Kallio Gustav Kallio was a Finnish born professional wrestler known under the ring name Gus Kallio or Gust Kallio. Kallio's wrestling career peaked in the 1920s and 1930s where he was known as the "King of the Welterweights" and later on "king of the Middleweights" as he held multiple world titles in...	1	August 7, 1928	Chicago, Illinois
Hugh Nichols	1	March 8, 1929
Title vacated		1930
Gus Kallio Gus Kallio Gustav Kallio was a Finnish born professional wrestler known under the ring name Gus Kallio or Gust Kallio. Kallio's wrestling career peaked in the 1920s and 1930s where he was known as the "King of the Welterweights" and later on "king of the Middleweights" as he held multiple world titles in...	2	1930
George Sauer	1	1931
Gus Kallio Gus Kallio Gustav Kallio was a Finnish born professional wrestler known under the ring name Gus Kallio or Gust Kallio. Kallio's wrestling career peaked in the 1920s and 1930s where he was known as the "King of the Welterweights" and later on "king of the Middleweights" as he held multiple world titles in...	3	July 1932

Gus Kallio Gus Kallio Gustav Kallio was a Finnish born professional wrestler known under the ring name Gus Kallio or Gust Kallio. Kallio's wrestling career peaked in the 1920s and 1930s where he was known as the "King of the Welterweights" and later on "king of the Middleweights" as he held multiple world titles in...	4	March, 1935
Joe Gunther	1		Nashville, Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
Gus Kallio Gus Kallio Gustav Kallio was a Finnish born professional wrestler known under the ring name Gus Kallio or Gust Kallio. Kallio's wrestling career peaked in the 1920s and 1930s where he was known as the "King of the Welterweights" and later on "king of the Middleweights" as he held multiple world titles in...	5	July 1937
Octavio Gaona Octavio Gaona Octavio Gaona was a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler, known for his participation in the first ever high profile Lucha de Apuesta, or wager fight, against Murciélago Velázquez. Gaona held both the Mexican National Middleweight Championship and the Mexican version of the World...	1	March 29, 1939	Mexico City Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... , Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
Tarzán López	1	February 4, 1940	Mexico City, Mexico
Title retired		1940 or 1941

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