Who was WWE champion when you were born?
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I was flipping through all of the Bret Harts and Hogans, thinking I was really going to feel old when I typed in Bruno Sammartino (May 1975). Thanks for not making me feel like the one old guy and not the first.
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Don't you love being known as the old man while not being anywhere near the oldest guy here? Lol
From its inception in 1972 until 1975, I am unaware if they had any champion. However, in 1975 NJPW became a member of the NWA, so they only used the NWA titles. There was a brief time in the late 70's when WWWF actually rejoined the NWA and Antonio Inoki held the WWWF Championship, although not recognized today.
A lot of early NJPW was dependent upon NWA wrestlers coming to Japan, which is why they were comfortable using the NWA Championship as their world title. Of course they decided to start their own in 83 and the rest is history.
But for information's sake, the main title in Japan when I was born was Pacific Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Championship and the champion was Giant Baba.
Looks like Jack Brisco was the NWA champ and Verne Gagne AWA champ. Not a bad field of champs for my birthday.
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I didn't want to start a new post and hijack this thread, but Stopspot's post about NJPW championships really got me thinking. I knew that they were an NWA affiliate and contrary to what I said earlier, Inoki actually did not win the WWWF title due to the NWA affiliation. WWWF and NJPW had a working agreement at the time.
Doing research, the tournaments which began in 1974, may have been the major "championship" of the promotion, aside from the NWA. The tournament winner even was awarded a belt, which is why Hulk Hogan claims to this day to be the first IWGP Champion when he was in fact was simply the winner of one of these tournaments. Furthermore, it looks like in addition to the NWA titles, until the IWGP belts were established, there were a constantly changing array of interpromotional titles that NJPW used.
An interesting read:www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/newjapan/
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Macho Man, his first and only reign. And it was epic.
NWA - Flair's 14 month reign.
IWGP - Fujinami's 2nd reign.
Triple Crown wasn't formed yet.
AWA - Jerry Lawler, his first and only.
NWA - Flair's 14 month reign.
IWGP - Fujinami's 2nd reign.
Triple Crown wasn't formed yet.
AWA - Jerry Lawler, his first and only.
To do the others....
NWA -- Ric Flair, his first time
IWGP -- Not around yet :haha:
AWA -- Nick Bockwinkel, for the third time
NWA -- Ric Flair, his first time
IWGP -- Not around yet :haha:
AWA -- Nick Bockwinkel, for the third time
So......what I'm getting is that Fox is the oldest person on the forum, Kevin's second, and I'm third?
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Never was. GN was always here before me.ity:
But you can't call her Old Man, and if you did I'd feel really sorry for you when she finds out.
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Now you see why I was so happy when all you old guys signed up. :smug:
Yay, no longer the oldest! :woohoo: