Nick Bockwinkel

[Chris]

• 50th State Big Time Wrestling
  • NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bobby Shane
  • NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Hawaii version) (2 times)
• American Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (1 time) – with Wilbur Snyder
• American Wrestling Association
  • AWA World Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
  • AWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Ray Stevens
• Cauliflower Alley Club
  • Iron Mike Mazurki Award (2009)
• Championship Wrestling from Florida
  • NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ray Stevens
• Continental Wrestling Association
  • AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Class of 2009
• Georgia Championship Wrestling
  • NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • NWA Georgia Television Championship (3 times)
• National Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2016)
• North American Wrestling Alliance / Worldwide Wrestling Associates
  • International Television Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Édouard Carpentier (1 time) and Lord James Blears (1 time)
  • NWA International Television Championship (1 time)
• NWA San Francisco
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (2 times) – with Ramón Torres (2 times)
• Pacific Northwest Wrestling
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Nick Kozak (1 time) and Nick Kozak/Buddy Mareno (1 time)
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI Stanley Weston Award (2007)
  • PWI Tag Team of the Year (1973) – with Ray Stevens
• Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Class of 2003
• Western States Sports
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (West Texas version) (1 time) - with Ricky Romero
• World Wrestling Entertainment
  • WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2007)
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

 

[Chris]

On this day 46 years ago, Nick Bockwinkel won his first AWA World Heavyweight Championship by ending a 7 year reign from Verne Gagne

 

[Alexa]

I think people know of Nick more for the memes from OSW Review then his wrestling career

 

[Chris]

On this day 48 years ago, Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens defeated Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson to win the AWA tag titles for the second time

 

[Bobby Barrows]

I think people know of Nick more for the memes from OSW Review then his wrestling career

It's a shame because Nick Bockwinkel back in the 70s and 80s was one of the absolute best talkers in the world.

I think Nick is an extremely underrated wrestler especially nowadays. WWE had Hogan and JCP had Flair, but AWA was perfect for Bockwinkel who in the early to mid 80s was arguably the best American wrestler in the world.

 

[Chris]

 

[Necro]