Following the name of the champion(s): Indicates the number of times the wrestler has held that title at that point.
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Indicates a gap in the listing where title changes are not known.
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If used next to the names of the wrestlers, they may, in fact, not have held the title in the period indicated. If used next to the dates or places, either they are possibly wrong or the title changes are fictitious.
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Title was held or changed hands no later than this. In these cases, it is known that a wrestler held the title at a certain time but not when he/she won it.
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Broadcast date; the actual recording date is unknown.
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Order uncertain. Different titleholders may be known for the same year, for example, but it is not known who held the title before whom.
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Unofficial or disputable claims. These are usually matches that certainly took place, but where there is doubt that the wrestler shown should be recognized as a true title holder. These listings are also italicized in HTML files
Claims the title (The Bay of Plenty Times, Whakatane, NZL, 19-10-30).
Arthur Powell
1919-11-19
Auckland
Still champion as of 22-09-23.
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Alex Anderson
1923-06-20
Palmerston N.
Defeats Taki Kara.
Ike Robin
1923-10-12
Auckland
Also defeats title claimant Mohamed Ali Sunni on 25-03-16 in Auckland (see below); vacates in 26 upon retirement (sometime after 26-09).
Tom Alley
1929
Loses to Stanley Pinto in tournament final on 31-11-23 in Wellington (see below).
Mohamed Ali Sunni
1924-01-07<
Claims heavyweight and light heavyweight titles; loses heavyweight title to Ike Robin on 25-03-16 in Auckland (see above).
Ern Anderson
1927-08-23<
Billed as the champion in Palmerston North; still champion as of 28-02-10.
Jimmy Price #
1932-04-19<
Billed as champion in Newcastle, NSW, AUS (Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 32-04-19).
Bob Wilson #
1933-09<
Billed as European and New Zealand champion in NIR, GBR.
Stanley Pinto
1931-11-23
Wellington
Defeats another title claimant Tom Alley in tournament final; vacant in 32 when Pinto does not return for the season to defend the title.
George Walker
1934-06-12<
Vacates on 37-11-23 upon retirement.
Lofty Blomfield
1936-04
Dean Detton defeats Blomfield via DQ on 38-08-22 in Auckland but does not win the title (or vacates the title later); Blomfield defeats Dick Raines, not Detton as previously reported, on 38-08-27 in Auckland; also defeats another claimant Pat Fraley on 38-09-10 in Auckland; defeats Detton on 38-09-27 in Auckland; wins tournament to become undisputed champion in 38-10; vacates on 49-06-07 upon retirement.
Kiwi Kingston (Ernie Kingston)
1941-12<
Still/again billed as champion in Hartlepool, Durham, ENG, GBR as of 50-06-08.
