Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship
The original championship belt
Details
PromotionAtlantic Athletic Commission
Date establishedJune 14, 1957
Date retired1975
Statistics
First champion(s)Edouard Carpentier
Final champion(s)Gypsy Joe Gonzales
Most reignsJackie Fargo (2 reigns)
Longest reignJackie Fargo (1,185 days)
Shortest reignTed Blassie (35 days)

The AAC World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the Atlantic Athletic Commission in Boston.[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.[lower-alpha 1]

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.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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"[2]

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.
  1. ↑ "World Heavyweight Title (Massachusetts)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
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