NATIONAL WRESTLING FEDERATION

WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE	(	1970 - 1976/08	)
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE	(	1976/08 - 1981/04	)
	(	2003/01 - 2004/01	)

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Johnny Powers	70	Los Angeles, CA *
Defeats Fred Blassie.
Waldo Von Erich	71/11/20	Cleveland, OH
Dominic Denucci	71/12/08	Buffalo, NY
Waldo Von Erich [2]	72/01/05	Buffalo, NY
Ernie Ladd	72/06/09	Cleveland, OH
Abdullah the Butcher	72/06/24	Akron, OH
Victor Rivera *	72/09<
Abdullah the Butcher *	72/10<
Johnny Valentine	72/10/19	Cleveland, OH
Held up after a match against Johnny Powers on 72/12/07 in Cleveland, OH; Valentine may have won the rematch but is stripped in 73/01.
Jacques Rougeau	73/01/24	Buffalo, NY
Defeats Waldo Von Erich in tournament final.
Johnny Valentine [2]	73/08
Johnny Powers [2]	73
Antonio Inoki	73/12/10	Tokyo
NWF orders Inoki to accept the title match against Tiger Jeet Singh; Inoki refuses and vacates the title on 75/02/12.
Tiger Jeet Singh	75/03/13	Hiroshima
Defeats Antonio Inoki.
Antonio Inoki [2]	75/06/26	Tokyo
Told to stop referring to the title as a world title at the annual NWA meeting on 76/08/07.
Stan Hansen	80/02/08	Tokyo
Antonio Inoki [3]	80/04/03	Tokyo
Title held up after match against Stan Hansen on 81/04/17 in Kagoshima ends as no-contest.
Antonio Inoki [4]	81/04/23	Tokyo
Defeats Stan Hansen in rematch; abandons title immediately after the match to enter the International Wrestling Grand Prix tournament.
Yoshihiro Takayama	03/01/04	Tokyo
Defeats Tsuyoshi Kosaka in the final of 4-man tournament.
Shinsuke Nakamura	04/01/04	Tokyo
Officially unified with IWGP Heavyweight Title on 04/01/05.