Australian Heavyweight Championship
Statistics
First champion(s)"Professor" William Miller
Final champion(s)Billy White Wolf
Most reignsBilly Meeske and Fred Atkins (3)

The Australian Heavyweight Wrestling Championship was the first Heavyweight professional wrestling championship in Australia.[1][2]

Title history

Wrestler: Times: Date won: Location: Notes:
"Professor" William Miller 1 before 1880 New South Wales
Clarence Whistler 1 1885/10/26 New South Wales
Vacant/Abandoned Dies in 1885
Harry Pearce 1 1894 Perth, Western Australia [3][4]
Buttan Singh 1 1903 Melbourne
Clarence Weber 1 1906/11[5] Melbourne
Vacant 1915 Weber retired
Billy Meeske 1 1922/11/22 Melbourne Defeated Joe Bailey in a tournament final
Clarence Weber 2 1923/09/01 Melbourne
Billy Meeske 2 1926/09/18 Melbourne
Joe Dawson 1 1933/03/18 Brisbane, Queensland
Billy Meeske 3 1933/04/15 Brisbane, Queensland Ordered to defend title at Leichhardt Stadium in 33, but refused
Tom Lurich 1 1933/06/03 New South Wales Defeats Bonny Muir to win the Leichhardt Stadium version after Meeske refuses to defend the title. Eddie Scarf defeats Jim Barlett in tournament final to win the Stadiums Limited version in 38 and defend it at least until 41 Meeske loses in earlier round. Leo Demetral claims the title in 38.
Eddie Scarf 1 1938 Sydney Stadium, Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales Defeated Chief Little Wolf[6][7][8][9][10]
George Pencheff 1 1939/12/09 Sydney Still recognised as champion of 47; Fred Atkins defeats Leo Demetral to claim the title in 40; Pencheff defeats Atkins on 40/12/07 in Broken Hill to unify the two versions
Fred Atkins 1 1942/10/10 Sydney Defeated Pat Meehan in a tournament final and left the country in 1949[11]
Fred Atkins 2 1944 [12]
Fred Atkins 3 1947 [13]
Leo Jensen 1 1952/12/03 Leichhardt, New South Wales Defends against Bonnie Muir on this day[14]
Rocky Riley 1 1953 Leichhardt, New South Wales Defeated Alf Greer in a tournament final.[15]
George Pencheff 2 1955 New South Wales Returned from overseas and claimed the title
Baron Von Heczy 1 1957/02/04 Adelaide, South Australia
Kangaroo Kennedy 1 1962/04/14 Newcastle, New South Wales
Brian Ashby 1 1965/05 New South Wales
Larry O'Dea 1 1965/05/07 Sydney
Earl Black 1 1966/01/28 Melbourne
Billy White Wolf 1 1967/01/28 Melbourne Wins tournament for the title
Vacant/Abandoned 1967/02/11 Melbourne White Wolf won the IWA World Heavyweight Championship

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Heavyweight Title".
  2. ↑ "Wrestlingdata.com - The World's Largest Wrestling Database".
  3. ↑ "Results | Westside Pro Wrestling".
  4. ↑ "16 Mar 1902 - GREAT WERSTLING MATCH - Trove".
  5. ↑ "Weber, Clarence Alfred (1882–1930) – Australian Dictionary of Biography".
  6. ↑ "Biography - Edward Richard Scarf - Australian Dictionary of Biography".
  7. ↑ "05 Nov 1938 - EDDIE SCARF. - Trove".
  8. ↑ "19 Dec 1938 - SCARF WINS IN NEW CLASS - Trove".
  9. ↑ "14 Nov 1939 - SCARF DEFEATS MUIR - Trove".
  10. ↑ "12 Nov 1940 - EDDIE SCARF WINS. - Trove".
  11. ↑ "Reference at www.onlineworldofwrestling.com".
  12. ↑ "Reference at www.onlineworldofwrestling.com".
  13. ↑ "Reference at www.onlineworldofwrestling.com".
  14. ↑ "Biography - Leo Ejner Jensen - Australian Dictionary of Biography".
  15. ↑ "Australia".
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