NWA Roster in 1965: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

National Wrestling Alliance: Rosters History Database

On this page you find the full NWA Roster in the year 1965. This includes the list of all NWA Wrestlers, division between Men and Women Rosters, active Tag Teams & Stables, the current reigning Champions, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in National Wrestling Alliance.

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1965

NWA: All (102)

"Baron" Mikel Scicluna

Bearcat Wright

"Big Cat" Ernie Ladd

Billy White Wolf

"Blond Bomber" Ray Stevens

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Women

Teams

Champions

NWA World Heavyweight Championship

Lou Thesz

Won: January 24, 1963 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | House show

During this reign, Buddy Rogers won the title but promoters in the Northeastern United States refused to recognize it.

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NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship	Vacant Won: December 7, 1965	24+ days
	Fritz von Erich Won: April 30, 1965 Houston, Texas \| House show	221 days
	"Big Cat" Ernie Ladd Won: January 8, 1965 Houston, Texas \| House show	112 days
	Fritz von Erich Won: January 5, 1965 Dallas, Texas \| House show	3 days
	Pepper Gomez Won: July 1, 1964 Texas \| House show	188 days

NWA Louisiana State Championship	Bobby Fields Won: December 3, 1965 Lafayette, Louisiana \| Live Show	28+ days
	Danny McShain Won: October 22, 1965 Lafayette, Louisiana \| Live Show	42 days
	Bobby Fields Won: September 21, 1965 Baton Rouge, Louisiana \| Live Show	31 days
	Sputnik Monroe Won: July 13, 1965 Baton Rouge, Louisiana \| Live Show	70 days
	Bobby Fields Won: October 16, 1964 Lafayette, Louisiana \| Live Show Defeats Terry Garvin in tournament final.	270 days

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship

Tor Yamata

Won: April 24, 1958 Chattanooga, TN | House show

The title history is unrecorded from 1958-04-24 to July 1971.

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NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Championship	Bull Curry Won: May 17, 1965 Fort Worth, Texas \| House show	228+ days
	Killer Karl Kox Won: February 21, 1965 Texas \| House show	85 days
	Bull Curry Won: November 30, 1964 Fort Worth, Texas \| House show Defeated The Wrecker (Frank Shields).	83 days

NWA Texas Tag Team Championship		Argentina Apollo Tony Borne Won: January 6, 1965 San Antonio, Texas \| House show Win a tag team title in tournament .	359+ days
NWA Texas Tag Team Championship		Rip Hawk & Swede Hanson Won: May 17, 1964 Texas \| House show	234 days

NWA World Tag Team Championship	Duke Keomuka & Kanji Inoki Won: December 31, 1965 Texas \| House show	0+ days
	Fritz von Erich & Killer Karl Kox Won: June 29, 1965 Dallas, Texas \| House show Defeated Eddie Graham and Sam Steamboat to win the championship	185 days
	Inactive Won: December 31, 1963 Championship not promoted for around two years	546 days

NWA Mid-Southern Tag Team Championship	Vacant Won: December 1, 1965 Held up after a match against Hiro Matsuda and Kanji Inoki on November 28, 1965; still held up after a rematch on January 4, 1966, in Nashville, Tennessee.	30+ days
	The Mysterious Medics Mysterious Medic #1 & Mysterious Medic #2 Won: November 25, 1965 Chattanooga, Tennessee \| House Show	6 days
	Jackie Fargo & Len Rossi Won: October 19, 1965 Nashville, Tennessee \| House Show May not win the title but were again billed as champions in Chattanooga on November 11, 1965.	37 days
	Tor Kamata & Tojo Yamamoto Won: October 2, 1965 Nashville, Tennessee \| House Show	17 days
	Jackie Fargo & Len Rossi Won: September 10, 1965 Jonesboro, Arkansas \| House Show	22 days
	Alex Perez & Tojo Yamamoto Won: July 27, 1965 Nashville, Tennessee \| House Show	45 days
	Frankie Cain & Mike Clancy Won: July 13, 1965 Nashville, Tennessee \| House Show	14 days
	Mitsu Hirai & Tojo Yamamoto Won: July 1, 1965 Tennessee \| House Show	12 days

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NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship	Lorenzo Parente Won: November 23, 1965 House show	38+ days
	Danny Hodge Won: April 23, 1965 Oklahoma City, OK \| House show	214 days
	Angelo Savoldi Won: November 13, 1964 Oklahoma City, OK \| House show	161 days

NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

Gory Guerrero

Won: September 24, 1963 Mexico City, Mexico | Live event

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days

NWA World Middleweight Championship		René Guajardo Won: April 9, 1965 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	266+ days
NWA World Middleweight Championship		Rayo de Jalisco Sr. Won: September 25, 1964 Mexico City, Mexico \| EMLL 31 Aniversario	196 days

NWA World Welterweight Championship	Karloff Lagarde Won: September 24, 1965 Mexico City, Mexico \| EMLL 32 Aniversario	98+ days
	Huracán Ramírez Won: August 5, 1965 Cuernavaca, Morelos \| Arena Isabel 12 Aniversario	50 days
	Karloff Lagarde Won: January 31, 1958 Mexico City, Mexico \| EMLL show	2743 days

NWA Women's Championship

The Fabulous Moolah

Won: September 18, 1956 Baltimore, MD | Live Event

During this reigns the following title changes took place: Bette Boucher, then The Fabulous Moolah, then Yukiko Tomoe, then The Fabulous Moolah, then Evelyn Stevens, then The Fabulous Moolah; however, WWE recognizes Moolah's reign as being uninterrupted until 1984. The title was known as the NWA World Women's Championship until May 19, 1984, when Moolah sold the rights to the championship to the WWF, and the title was renamed to WWF Women's Championship.

3391+

days

NWA Women's Championship

The Fabulous Moolah

Won: September 18, 1956 Baltimore, MD | Live event

Won a 13-Woman Battle Royal to win the vacant title.

3391+

days

NWA United States Women's Championship		Cora Combs Won: May 1, 1965 St. Louis, MO \| Live event The title history is unrecorded from 1961-10-04 to 1965-05-01, and then from 1965-05-01 to 1968-07-07. Combs starts claiming the title in Northern California from May 1965, billed as champion after defeating Penny Banner for the title.	244+ days
NWA United States Women's Championship		Kathy Starr Won: October 4, 1961 Honolulu, HI \| Live event The title history is unrecorded from 1961-10-04 to 1965-05-01.	1305 days

NWA World Ladies Tag Team Championship

Adrienne Ames & Pat Lyda

Won: November 23, 1961 Harvey, LA | Live event

The titles history is unrecorded from 1958-12-04 to 1961-11-23, and then from 1961-11-23 to 1967-11-02.Lyda were billed as "NWA titlists" when they defeated Chris Clark & Ann Regan (holders of the Southern Women's Tag Team Championship) to become "undisputed women's tag team champions".

1499+

days

Extras

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Roy · 7 hours ago
kiana james might as well be inactive, i havent seen her since her last match against giulia
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 11 hours ago
I'm once again preaching Fred Rosser is removed off the WWE roster here given he was a one time guest coach at the wwe performance center and there was no indication anywhere else saying he signed to wwe not even he himself said anything about being signed only stating being a guest coach
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MrAicrow · 15 hours ago
RIP Jim Herd

That WCW booker who almost made Ric Flair Spartacus and created the Ding Dongs
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Amanda Pax · 1 days ago
Giulia and Sol Ruca or Paige add Wargames 2026
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Roy · 1 days ago
creed brothers leaving is just… not it.
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Alex Garcia · 1 days ago
Is Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee still with LWO or no
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  Wright · 20 hours ago
  
  @Alex Garcia According to the WWE, they are still members.
  
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Vishnoah · 1 days ago
AFter Crown Jewel,
Rey Fenix active on RAW and become top candidate for IC Title
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Jackson Conley · 1 days ago
Jacob is back!!! And the 2 words have been said!!!!! "WAR GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 1 days ago
Donovan Dijak is no longer in MLW anymore and is back to being a free agent
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Nkrst · 2 days ago
Some updates to MLW following Saturday Night SuperFight:
- Tessa Blanchard and Yota Tsuji debuted and won their respective matches.
- The Good Brothers and Austin Aries retained their respective titles.

Also, the roster needs quite a few updates, such as the addition of Zamaya, Diego Hill, Labron Kozone, Jumbo, Brick Savage, Don Gato, and others.

There should also be the addition of CONTRA, led by Josef Samael, and other factions.

Joe Dombrowski should also be added to the commentary team, since Rich Bocchini is currently just an interviewer.

If you could update the roster, that would be awesome. Sorry for the long message!
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 2 days ago
I just want to say AEW on Twitter X made a post wishing Keith Lee a happy birthday so if you want definitive proof other than being listed on the roster page on their website that hes still employed there you go
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 2 days ago
LA Knight is inactive (literally only doing dark matches and house shows)

Stephanie Vaquer is inactive (had a match at a house show on November 5th and 6th in Portland and Bangor Maine she also had a match at the hawaii live tour shows)
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Constance Affinito · 2 days ago
It still shows that Stratton has the briefcase on this roster, but also has the title, so that needs to he fixed.
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Vishnoah · 2 days ago
Tiffy is heel

Btw new team Penta and Jevon
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APLDAGOAT · 3 days ago
Well obviously WWE doesn’t agree with my predictions not one of them except for Chelsea green and even then she didn’t even walk out with the title
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Lensky · 3 days ago
Imma be honest, ive been a wwe only guy for 10-12 years, nowadays i'd watch an aew ple or an episode of dynamite if im bored, but besides that it's been strictly wwe. it's been such a terrible year for wwe(and it's not just me saying it), and it's getting hard to defend them, they do nothing but go backwards. I'll give them until the rumble, but im not liking anything im seeing from them, i'll have to consider a short-term switch to aew if things somehow get worse.
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Roy · 3 days ago
tommaso ciampa is your new national champion
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MrAicrow · 3 days ago
AAA has gone of the rails, My god, It's amazing
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MrAicrow · 3 days ago
How was Crown Jewel 2026 for you guys

My only problem was the Womens Crown Jewel Match, It was bad and Tiffy cashing in made it worse
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  The R · 3 days ago
  
  @MrAicrow I don't think it was the worst PLE of the year, but it was definitely on the podium.
  
  Cody vs Orton was just fine, but the feud has done nothing for either guy. Hopefully they can both move on to other things.
  
  The tag title switch was a curious decision and I think Oba's appearance was unnecessary and detracted from Penta and Evans winning. I can't imagine they'll be champions for long.
  
  Liv vs Chelsea was what it was and Tiffy's MITB cash-in had to be the most predictable one ever. However, I'm glad Stratton is now a heel; it's the only time she ever shows any personality.
  
  Reigns vs Zayn was the best bout on the card, but like the opener, it just felt like there were zero stakes.
  
  I'd give Crown Jewel a 2/5.
  
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  Firstname Lastname · 3 days ago
  
  It was probably the worst Women's MITB cash-in (it's between that and Nikki ASH, imo), but I think worst of all time is a bit of an exaggeration when ones like Austin Theory's and Baron Corbin's exist.
  
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  Draysin Martin · 3 days ago
  
  @MrAicrow Close contender for worst PPV of the year.
  It took place in Saudi Arabia still even after you know what was still happening.
  
  the crowd was so quiet you could hear a pen drop when Cody finally punt kicked Randy Orton,which completely ruined the "Hightlight of the Night".
  
  then the vision losing the tag titles wasn't bad, it was just we knew who was going to win after Oba Femi's Music hit, & they have been teasing Bron Breakker breaking away from The Vision and this was a perfect way to do that, it's just that Oba Femi kinda ruined in In My Opinion.
  
  then The Women's Crown jewel championship match, I have a lot to say about this but I don't feel like starting something so i'm just gonna say match could've gone either way but fans knew Chelsea would win.
  
  Tiffany Stratton's heel turn was predictable, once again. the cash in was the worst thing to happen in that night & I felt like Chelsea's Reign should've gone on way longer. and WWE still hasn't pulled the trigger on Roxxane when they know it's time but of course we can never get what we want when it comes to Creative using AI.
  
  I Agree with The R on the Roman Reigns vs. Sami Zayn match, there were no Stakes at all.
  
  If you ask me to rate it out of 5 I say 1.5/5
  
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  Constance Affinito · 2 days ago
  
  @MrAicrow I'd give it a 7 out if 10. I usually judge events by matches, and every match was good. Oh course, the cash-in is the one reason its not an 8.
  
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EverBlast · 3 days ago
Tiffany Stratton cashes in on Chelsea Green to win the WWE Women's Championship, she turns heel.
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