AWA Roster in 1960: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full AWA Roster in the year 1960. This includes the list of all AWA Wrestlers, active Tag Teams & Stables, the current reigning Champions, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in American Wrestling Association.
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1960AWA: All (5)
Champions
AWA World Heavyweight Championship |  | Verne Gagne Won: August 16, 1960 Gagne was awarded the championship after Pat O'Connor failed to defend the title. | 137+ days |
 | Pat O'Connor Won: May 18, 1960 O'Connor, NWA World Heavyweight Championship since 1959, was recognized as the first AWA World Champion in May 1960, but was given 90 days to defend the title against Verne Gagne or be stripped of the title. | 90 days |
AWA United States Heavyweight Championship |  | Gene Kiniski Won: December 13, 1960 Minneapolis, Minnesota | House show | 18+ days |
 | Wilbur Snyder Won: December 6, 1960 Minnesota | House show | 7 days | |
| Gene Kiniski Won: November 19, 1960 Minneapolis, Minnesota | House show Defeated Nick Roberts in a house show in St. Paul, Minnesota; match was not billed for the title. | 17 days | |
| Vacant Won: August 16, 1960 Vacated when Gagne won AWA World Heavyweight Championship. | 95 days | |
| Verne Gagne Won: April 12, 1958 Chicago, Illinois | House show The title was split from the original championship, which retained the same joint lineage in the Chicago territory. Minneapolis version renamed "AWA United States Championship" in 1960. | 857 days |
AWA World Tag Team Championship | | Hard Boiled Haggerty & Len Montana / Gene KiniskiGene Kiniski & Hard Boiled Haggerty & Len Montana Won: October 4, 1960 Minneapolis, Minnesota | Live event Montana suffered a broken leg in a match against Verne Gagne. On March 18, 1961, Haggerty chose Kiniski as his new partner. | 88+ days |
| Murder, Inc. Stan Kowalski & Tiny Mills Won: August 10, 1960 Kowalski and Mills were awarded the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version) in August 1960. They were recognized as the first AWA champions when the AWA withdrew from the NWA and recognized its own champions. | 55 days |
NWA World Tag Team Championship | | Murder Incorporated Stan Kowalski & Tiny Mills Won: August 16, 1960 Minneapolis, Minnesota | House show Murder Incorporated were awarded the championship when Leo Nomellini returned to the NFL. Became the first AWA World Tag Team Champions when AWA stopped recognizing NWA champions. | 49 days |
| Leo Nomellini & Verne GagneVerne Gagne Leo Nomellini Won: July 19, 1960 Minneapolis, Minnesota | House show | 28 days | |
| Murder Incorporated Stan Kowalski & Tiny Mills Won: March 5, 1960 Murder Incorporated claimed to be International Tag Team champions in 1959, awarded the world title on this date. The Minneapolis promotion withdraws from NWA and forms American Wrestling Association in May but initially recognize NWA champions. | 136 days | |
| Vacant Won: September 2, 1959 The championship was vacated when Leo Nomellini returned to play for the San Francisco 49ers in 1959. | 185 days |
AWA World Women's Championship |  | June Byers Won: August 20, 1954 Atlanta, GA | House show Byers defeated Mildred Burke for the NWA World Women's Championship and continues to be recognized by AWA after it splits from NWA in 1960. | 2325+ days |
Extras
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