AWA World Women's Championship
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| The AWA World Women's Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | American Wrestling Association | ||||||||||
| Date established | 1960 | ||||||||||
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The AWA World Women's Championship was the female title in the American Wrestling Association from 1961 until 1990.
[edit] Title history
Silver-shaded lines in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage.
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| June Byers | 1 | 1960 | Byers was recognized as World Women's Champion after the AWA split from the National Wrestling Alliance. Byers had defeated Mildred Burke for the NWA World Women's Championship on August 20, 1954 in Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| Penny Banner | 1 | August 26, 1961 | Angola, Indiana | AWA ceased to recognize Byers as women's champion after she no-showed a title defense. Banner won a battle royal to become the new AWA World Women's Champion. |
| The AWA vacated the title in 1963. Byers continued to be recognized as champion by the NWA until she retired in January 1964. | ||||
| Kay Noble | 1 | April 13, 1963 | St. Paul, Minnesota | Defeated Kathy Starr. |
| Vivian Vachon | 1 | November 4, 1971 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | Defeated Betty Boucher. |
| Betty Nicoli | 1 | August 16, 1973 | ||
| Candi Devine | 1 | November 1984 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Won a battle royal. The title was originally vacated in 85 but awarded back to Devine. AWA Superstars has since revised the title's history and merged the two reigns |
| Sherri Martel | 1 | September 28, 1985 | Chicago, Illinois (SuperClash) | |
| Candi Devine | 2 | October 1985 | Title awarded. | |
| Sherri Martel | 2 | October 17, 1985 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | |
| Candi Devine | 3 | January 16, 1986 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | This was the last AWA event to be held in Winnipeg before the WWF took over the AWA's TV time in March 1986. |
| Sherri Martel | 3 | June 28, 1986 | Oakland, California (Battle by the Bay live on ESPN) | |
| Title vacated on July 25, 1987 when Martel goes to the World Wrestling Federation. | ||||
| Madusa Miceli | 1 | December 27, 1987 | Las Vegas, Nevada (AWA Championship Wrestling) | Defeated Candi Devine. |
| Wendi Richter | 1 | November 26, 1988 | Bloomington, Minnesota | |
| Title vacated in December 1989 when Richter left the promotion. | ||||
| Candi Devine | 4 | December 6, 1989 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Defeated Judy Martin. |
| Title retired in January 1991 when the AWA closed. | ||||
