NWA Roster in 1985: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

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On this page you find the full NWA Roster in the year 1985. 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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1985

NWA: All (165)

Abdullah the Butcher

Akio Sato

American Starship Eagle

Bruce Prichard / Brother Love

"Crippler" Ray Stevens

"Dr. Death" Steve Williams

Jerry "The King" Lawler

Larry “The Axe” Hennig

"Ravishing" Rick Rude

Sir Oliver Humperdink

Thunderbolt Patterson

Men

Women

Teams

Champions

NWA World Heavyweight Championship

Ric Flair

Won: May 24, 1984 Yokosuka, Japan | House show

By early 1985, JCP controlled many NWA territories and attempted going national, thus limiting title matches primarily to performers under contract with JCP.

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NWA National Heavyweight Championship	Dusty Rhodes Won: December 19, 1985 Albuquerque, NM Rhodes was awarded the title in a phantom match, after Buddy Landel was fired due to his drug problem.	12+ days
	Buddy Landel Won: November 28, 1985 Greensboro, NC \| NWA Starrcade 1985: The Gathering	21 days
	Terry Taylor Won: September 22, 1985 Atlanta, GA	67 days
	Black Bart Won: June 1, 1985 Atlanta, GA \| NWA World Championship Wrestling	113 days
	Miss Atlanta Lively Won: October 11, 1984 Baltimore, MD \| GCW Night of Champions	233 days

NWA United States Heavyweight Championship	Magnum T.A. Won: November 28, 1985 Greensboro, NC \| House Show	33+ days
	Tully Blanchard Won: July 21, 1985 Charlotte, NC \| House Show	130 days
	Magnum T.A. Won: March 23, 1985 Charlotte, NC \| House Show	120 days
	Wahoo McDaniel Won: October 7, 1984 Charlotte, NC \| House Show Defeated Manny Fernandez in a tournament final for the vacant title.	167 days

NWA World Television Championship	Vacant Won: October 19, 1985 Rhodes was stripped of the title due to an injury.	73+ days
	Dusty Rhodes Won: July 6, 1985 Charlotte, NC \| NWA The Great American Bash 1985	105 days
	Tully Blanchard Won: April 28, 1985 Charlotte, NC \| Live event	69 days
	Dusty Rhodes Won: March 16, 1985 Greensboro, NC \| Live event During this reign, the title was renamed as "NWA World Television Championship".	43 days
	Tully Blanchard Won: March 28, 1984 Spartanburg, SC \| Live event	353 days

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship	Koko Ware Won: November 16, 1985 Memphis, TN \| House show	45+ days
	Tom Branch Won: November 1, 1985 Kansas City, MO \| House show	15 days
	Harley Race Won: October 7, 1985 Memphis, TN \| House show	25 days
	Koko Ware Won: September 1, 1985 North Vernon, IN \| House show	36 days
	Bota the Witch Doctor Won: August 15, 1985 Richmond, IN \| House show	17 days
	Koko Ware Won: August 12, 1985 Memphis, TN \| House show Defeated Bota the Witch Doctor in a tournament final to win the vacant title.	3 days
	Vacant Won: July 29, 1985 The title was vacated when Jerry Lawler won the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship	14 days
	Jerry "The King" Lawler Won: July 15, 1985 Memphis, TN \| House show	14 days

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WCCW American Heavyweight Championship	"Ravishing" Rick Rude Won: November 4, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| House show	57+ days
	Iceman King Parsons Won: July 5, 1985 Dallas, Texas \| House show	122 days
	Chris Adams Won: February 8, 1985 Dallas, Texas \| House show Aired February 16, 1985 on WCCW Episode #164	147 days
	Kerry von Erich Won: October 29, 1984 Ft. Worth, Texas \| House show	102 days

WCCW Television Championship	Mark Youngblood Won: December 23, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| WCCW show	8+ days
	Jack Victory Won: December 9, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| WCCW show	14 days
	Dave Peterson Won: December 2, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| WCCW show Defeated The Grappler.	7 days
	Vacant Won: November 1, 1985 Parsons was injured by Rick Rude and could not compete.	31 days
	Iceman Parsons Won: October 21, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| WCCW show	11 days
	John Tatum Won: August 5, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| WCCW show Defeated Shawn Cody to win the vacant championship	77 days
	Vacant Won: August 5, 1985 Parsons no-showed a title match against John Tatum.	0 days
	Iceman Parsons Won: July 15, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| WCCW show	21 days

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WCCW Texas Brass Knuckles Championship	The Great Kabuki Won: July 1, 1985 Texas \| House show Won a tournament to win the vacant title.	183+ days
	Vacant Won: January 1, 1985 Championship vacated for undocumented reasons	181 days
	Gino Hernandez Won: October 1, 1984 Texas \| House show	92 days

NWA World Tag Team Championship	The Rock 'n' Roll ExpressRicky Morton & Robert Gibson Won: November 28, 1985 Greensboro, NC \| NWA Starrcade 1985: The Gathering	33+ days
	The Russian TeamIvan Koloff & Nikita Koloff Won: October 13, 1985 Charlotte, NC \| House show	46 days
	The Rock 'n' Roll ExpressRicky Morton & Robert Gibson Won: July 9, 1985 Shelby, NC \| House show	96 days
	The Russian TeamIvan Koloff & Nikita Koloff Won: March 18, 1985 Fayetteville, NC \| House show During this reign, Krusher Krushchev joined the Koloffs and NWA applied the Freebird Rule, allowing all three members to defend the title.	113 days
	Dusty Rhodes & Manny Fernandez Won: October 20, 1984 Raleigh, NC \| House show	149 days

WCCW American Tag Team Championship	Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez Won: November 28, 1985 Dallas, Texas \| Thanksgiving Star Wars Defeated Kerry and Kevin Von Erich in a rematch.	33+ days
	Vacant Won: October 18, 1985 Championship vacated after a match against Chris Adam and Gino Hernandes ended inconclusively.	41 days
	The Von ErichsKerry von Erich & Kevin von Erich Won: September 20, 1985 Dallas, Texas \| WCCW Show Defeated Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez in a rematch.	28 days
	Vacant Won: September 13, 1985 Championship vacated after a match against Kerry and Kevin Von Erich ended in a double disqualification.	7 days
	Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez Won: June 24, 1985 Ft. Worth, Texas \| WCCW Show	81 days
	The Fantastics Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers Won: May 5, 1985 Irving, Texas \| Parade of Champions Defeated The Midnight Express in a two-ring match despite one of the Midnight Express pinning one of the Fantastics. The count by referee Rick Hazzard ended at 3 just before a count by referee David Manning with a Fantastic pinning the other Midnight Express member started.	50 days
	Vacant Won: January 24, 1985 Championship vacated after a match where the Midnight Express' manager Jim Cornette interfere in the match.	101 days
	The Midnight ExpressDennis Condrey & Bobby Eaton Won: January 11, 1985 Dallas, Texas \| WCCW Episode #161	13 days

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NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship		The RussiansIvan Koloff, Nikita Koloff & Krusher Kruschev Won: January 1, 1985 Krusher Khruschev replaced Kernodle.	364+ days
NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship		Ivan Koloff & Nikita Koloff & Don Kernodle Won: July 18, 1984 Winston-Salem, North Carolina \| JCP Live event Defeated Rufus R. Jones, Angelo Mosca Jr. and Tom Shaft to revive the title in Jim Crockett Promotions. During this reign, the championship is renamed to the "NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship".	167 days

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship	Denny Brown Won: September 15, 1985 Atlanta, GA \| JCP House show	107+ days
	Gary Royal Won: August 15, 1985 Kansas City, KS \| \| CSW House show	31 days
	Denny Brown Won: August 1, 1985 Brown previously unofficialy won a disputed version of the title at Starrcade '84. He received official recognition as champion by NWA vice president Shohei Baba, promoter of AJPW, on August 1 after NJPW, which had controlled the title since 1982, withdrew from NWA.	14 days
	Vacant Won: August 1, 1985 The title was vacated after NJPW, the promotion which The Cobra performed for, pulled out of NWA.	0 days
	The Cobra Won: July 28, 1985 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Burning Spirit in Summer (1985)	4 days
	Hiro Saito Won: July 28, 1985 Osaka, Japan \| NJPW Burning Spirit in Summer (1985)	0 days
	The Cobra Won: November 3, 1983 Tokyo, Japan \| NJPW Toukon Series 1983 Defeated Davey Boy Smith to win the vacant title. During this reign, Les Thornton was recognized by some promoters in the USA as champion due to The Cobra working for WWF. On 1943-11-14, GCW announced that Les Thornton won a fictitious tournament to become champion (unofficial). Then, on 1984-06-02, American promoters vacated their version of the title after Les Thornton joined WWF; Thornton continued to bill himself as champion, defending the title on WWF events as the "WWF Lt. Hvywt Championship". Then, on 1984-07-13, JCP announced that Hector Guerrero won a fictitious tournament to become champion (unofficial). Then, on 1984-10-02, Mike Davis defeated Guerrero to win this unofficial version of the title; then, on 1984-11-22, Denny Brown defeated Davis to win this unofficial version of the title.	633 days

NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship	Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. Won: June 21, 1985 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	193+ days
	MS-1 Won: February 13, 1985 Acapulco, Guerrero \| Live event	128 days
	Ringo Mendoza Won: October 23, 1983 Guadalajara, Jalisco \| Live event	479 days

NWA World Middleweight Championship	Chamaco Valaguez Won: July 20, 1985 Puebla, Puebla \| Live event	164+ days
	La Fiera Won: April 5, 1985 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	106 days
	Gran Hamada Won: November 18, 1984 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	138 days

NWA World Welterweight Championship	El Dandy Won: November 17, 1985 Mexico City, Mexico \| EMLL show	44+ days
	Vacant Won: July 20, 1985 EMLL vacated the championship after Valaguez won the NWA World Middleweight Championship.	120 days
	Chamaco Valaguez Won: July 26, 1984 Cuernavaca, Morelos \| EMLL show	359 days

Vacant

Won: December 31, 1983

The WWF withdrew from the NWA in 1983, and The Fabulous Moolah sold the championship to the WWF.

731+

days

NWA United States Women's Championship

Judy Martin

Won: October 19, 1983

The title history is unrecorded from 1983-10-19 to 1986-09-10. Martin was recognized as champion only in East Texas.

804+

days

WWF Women's Tag Team Championship		The Glamour GirlsLeilani Kai & Judy Martin Won: August 1, 1985 Cairo, Egypt \| House Show	152+ days
WWF Women's Tag Team Championship		Velvet McIntyre & Desiree Petersen Won: December 7, 1984 Pittsburgh, PA \| House Show Victoria suffered a career-ending neck injury on September 1, 1984. Petersen took her place as McIntyre's partner.	237 days

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Annia S. Barrón · 14 hours ago
For grand slam France there are two new matches confirmed
-Mercedes Mone vs Queen Aminata for the Womens World Championship
-Bandido vs Kofi for the ROH World Championship
For wrestledream it was confirmed the Bucks vs Kevin Knight and Kyle Fletcher for the tag titles and the main event which is kind of like a casino royale ? I didnt understand the rules lol
For Heroes inmortales it was confirmed a rematch of EGA vs Dominik Mysterio for the megacampeonato
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Texas Steve · 23 hours ago
For WWE ID Josiah Jean has been ID'd and Monica Monroe defeated Laynie Luck to win the Women's ID championship
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 1 days ago
Jay White injured and will be out for up to 2 months
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MrAicrow · 1 days ago
Max Caster, Anthony Bowens and Scorpio Sky are gone from AEW
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Wright · 1 days ago
American Made is all but dead. The Creed Brothers are just in NXT now, and Ivy Nile is somewhat inactive.
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 1 days ago
New image for Nick Wayne? The one used currently is pretty old
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Mouhamed amine Laksiri · 1 days ago
So War Raiders are heels now, the reasons why they were even put in tweeners in the first place is when they were face in WWE but Heels in AAA, now they don't seem face in WWE at all
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Draysin Martin · 2 days ago
The Great Hands seem to be back together, & Order 4 is No More.
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Roy · 3 days ago
I love the fact that punk brought this fire burns back for one more time
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 3 days ago
MJF inactive since AEW All In
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Joshua Araujo

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Want to announce two things:
1. I finished updating the EVOLVE roster with new images! Just about every wrestler/announcer there has an updated image

2. I plan to update the images of other current wrestlers soon, I have a list down of some recommended names from a prior comment, but am open to adding more:
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Johnny Gargano
Bronson Reed
Reina Volcan
Aalyah Mysterio
Blake Monroe
Julius Creed
Kam Hendrix
Kyoki
Lexis King
Reina Volcan
Ricky Saints
Shawn Spears
Uriah Connors
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  Wright · 3 days ago
  
  @Joshua Araujo Solo Sikoa is one that could use a Babyface photo, and The Rock could use one with him in a suit.
  
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  Mr Eliezer Mbuku the Rock: HIT THE SUMELL · 2 days ago
  
  @Joshua Araujo OK, alright.
  
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smah · 4 days ago
very touching tribute show for pac.
i honestly think all of the death riders are faces or at least tweeners now, not just mox. mox making up with danielson is what really sealed it for me. but you have him anointing ospreay after the all out main event, DG winning the butcher battle royale and being presented as the face there, then everything tonight.
i don't think the faction will be portrayed as full on heels again any time soon, maybe gabe kidd if he keeps his antics up but that's it.
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 4 days ago
Kenny Omega and Wardlow are back
Bryan Danielson in the Death Riders
Death Riders seem to be leaning into becoming faces unless they were just being face only for the special
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Keith Meyer · 5 days ago
Layla diggs ain't injured anymore cuz she is in the Battle Royal for next week in NXT for the number one contender for that XT women's champion
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Haley McCrary · 5 days ago
Shawn Spears is inactive I haven't seen him in a hot minute same with niko vance
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MrAicrow · 5 days ago
So, Keanu Carver is in some hot water it seems
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zay · 5 days ago
Again, im not sure if this is correct but Jacob and The Usos are most definitely faces, especially after last night, Roman's still a heel tho
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Wright · 5 days ago
Solo Sikoa is billed at 113 kg (250 lbs) after his NXT run.
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Nkrst · 6 days ago
Jaida Parker debuted on RAW as a heel and joined the 946
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smah · 6 days ago
i know it's weird but oba should probably be moved to mid card for now. he isn't feuding with roman or any other upper carders at the moment. i'm sure he will eventually but right now he's feuding with the vision, specifically bronson reed and bron breakker. either that or move the vision (or at least just those two, maybe not logan and theory) up to upper card.
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NWA Roster in 1985: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NWA: All (165)

Men

Women

Teams

Akio Sato & Tarzan Goto

America's Team

American Express

American Starship

The Andersons / The Minnesota Wrecking Crew

Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami

The Armstrongs

Army of Darkness

The Axe Attack

Barry & Kendall Windham

Bill Dundee & Dutch Mantell

The Cosmic Cowboys

The Fabulous Freebirds

The Fabulous Ones

The Four Horsemen

The Freedom Fighters

The Funks

Golden Combi

The Guerreros

The High Flyers

Jake Roberts & The Barbarian

Jim Neidhart & Krusher Kruschev

Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami

Kerry von Erich & Bruiser Brody

The Midnight Express

The Midnight Rockers

Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens

The Rising Suns

The Road Warriors / Legion of Doom

Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden

The Rock N' Roll Express

The Russians

Stan Hansen & Ted DiBiase

Ted DiBiase & Steve Williams

U.S. Express

The Von Erichs

Champions

NWA World Heavyweight Championship

NWA National Heavyweight Championship

Black Bart

NWA United States Heavyweight Championship

NWA World Television Championship

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship

Tom Branch

Bota the Witch Doctor

WCCW American Heavyweight Championship

Iceman King Parsons

WCCW Television Championship

Mark Youngblood

Dave Peterson

Iceman Parsons

John Tatum

Iceman Parsons

WCCW Texas Brass Knuckles Championship

Gino Hernandez

NWA World Tag Team Championship

The Rock 'n' Roll ExpressRicky Morton & Robert Gibson

The Russian TeamIvan Koloff & Nikita Koloff

The Rock 'n' Roll ExpressRicky Morton & Robert Gibson

The Russian TeamIvan Koloff & Nikita Koloff

Dusty Rhodes & Manny Fernandez

WCCW American Tag Team Championship

Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez

The Von ErichsKerry von Erich & Kevin von Erich

Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez

The Fantastics Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers

The Midnight ExpressDennis Condrey & Bobby Eaton

NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

The RussiansIvan Koloff, Nikita Koloff & Krusher Kruschev

Ivan Koloff & Nikita Koloff & Don Kernodle

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Denny Brown

Gary Royal

Denny Brown

NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship