NWA Roster in 1987: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

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On this page you find the full NWA Roster in the year 1987. 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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1987

NWA: All (102)

"Dr. Death" Steve Williams

"Ravishing" Rick Rude

Ron Simmons / Faarooq

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Women

Teams

Champions

NWA World Heavyweight Championship	Ric Flair Won: November 26, 1987 Chicago, IL \| NWA Starrcade 1987: Chi-Town Heat On November 21, 1988 NWA's flagship promotion JCP was purchased by Ted Turner and renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW).	35+ days
	Ronnie Garvin Won: September 26, 1987 Detroit, MI \| WorldWide	61 days
	Ric Flair Won: August 9, 1986 St. Louis, MO \| House show	413 days

NWA United States Heavyweight Championship	Dusty Rhodes Won: November 26, 1987 Chicago, IL \| House Show	35+ days
	Lex Luger Won: July 11, 1987 Greensboro, NC \| House Show	138 days
	Nikita Koloff Won: August 17, 1986 Charlotte, NC \| House Show Defeated Magnum T.A. in a best of seven series for the vacant title, Koloff defeated Wahoo McDaniel on September 28, 1986 to unify the NWA National Heavyweight Championship into the US title.	328 days

NWA World Television Championship		Nikita Koloff Won: August 17, 1987 Fayetteville, NC \| Live event At Starrcade 1987, Koloff defeated Terry Taylor to unify the UWF Television Championship into the NWA World Television Championship.	136+ days
NWA World Television Championship		Tully Blanchard Won: November 27, 1986 Greensboro, NC \| NWA Starrcade 1986: Night of the Skywalkers	263 days

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship	Jerry "The King" Lawler Won: December 7, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show	24+ days
	Jeff Jarrett Won: November 9, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show	28 days
	Jimmy Jack Funk Won: November 2, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show He previously held the title under the ring name Jesse Barr.	7 days
	Jeff Jarrett Won: September 14, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show	49 days
	Carl Fergie Won: September 7, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show	7 days
	Jeff Jarrett Won: June 22, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show	77 days
	Moondog Spot Won: June 8, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show	14 days
	Jeff Jarrett Won: June 1, 1987 Memphis, TN \| House show	7 days

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WCWA Texas Brass Knuckles Championship		Tony Atlas Won: August 1, 1987 Montreal, Quebec, Canada \| House show	30 days
WCWA Texas Brass Knuckles Championship		Abdullah the Butcher Won: July 4, 1986 Dallas, Texas \| Independence Day Star Wars World Class Championship Wrestling left the NWA in February 1986.	393 days

NWA World Tag Team Championship	Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard Won: September 29, 1987 Misenheimer, NC \| NWA Pro Wrestling	93+ days
	The Rock 'n' Roll ExpressRicky Morton & Robert Gibson Won: May 26, 1987 Spokane, WA They were awarded the titles in a phantom match, said to have defeated Manny Fernandez & Ivan Koloff (substituting for Rick Rude after he left for the WWF); there wew also shown an earlier match against Fernandez & Rude.	126 days
	"Ravishing" Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez Won: December 6, 1986 Atlanta, GA \| World Championship Wrestling	171 days

NWA United States Tag Team Championship	The Midnight ExpressStan Lane & Bobby Eaton Won: May 16, 1987 Atlanta, GA \| World Championship Wrestling Defeated Barry Windham & Ron Garvin in a tournament final to win the vacant titles.	229+ days
	Vacant Won: April 4, 1987 Ivan Koloff & Dick Murdoch were stripped of the titles because Murdoch was suspended by NWA after performing a brainbuster on Nikita Koloff on a concrete floor.	42 days
	Ivan Koloff & Dick Murdoch Won: March 14, 1987 Atlanta, GA \| World Championship Wrestling	21 days
	Barry Windham & Ronnie Garvin Won: December 13, 1986 Spartanburg, SC \| NWA Pro Wrestling	91 days

NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

Dusty Rhodes, Road Warrior Animal & Road Warrior Hawk

Won: May 17, 1986 Baltimore, Maryland | JCP Live event

593+

days

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship	Nelson Royal Won: October 16, 1987 Columbia, SC \| JCP House show Defeated Denny Brown to win the vacant title;. Royal takes the title to Knoxville, TN's USA Championship Wrestling promotion in May 1988. Masanobu Fuchi, AJPW reigning World Junior Heavyweight Champion, received disputed recognition as the new c1987-10-16hampion; however, Royal continued promoting the title until 1989, when it was abandoned.	76+ days
	Vacant Won: October 8, 1987 The title was vacated after Lazor Tron left JCP.	8 days
	Héctor Guerrero Won: March 7, 1987 Atlanta, GA \| JCP House show Tron previously unofficialy won a disputed version of the title under the ring name Hector Guerrero.	215 days
	Denny Brown Won: September 1, 1986 Greenville, SC \| JCP House show	187 days

NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship	Cien Caras Won: June 24, 1987 Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico \| Live event	190+ days
	MS-1 Won: March 20, 1987 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	96 days
	Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. Won: June 21, 1985 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	637 days

NWA World Middleweight Championship	Kung Fu Won: October 6, 1987 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	86+ days
	El Dandy Won: July 17, 1987 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	81 days
	Kung Fu Won: October 17, 1986 Mexico City, Mexico \| Live event	273 days

NWA World Welterweight Championship

Américo Rocca

Won: November 2, 1986 Mexico City, Mexico | EMLL show

424+

days

NWA World Women's Championship	Debbie Combs Won: April 10, 1987 Kansas City, MO \| Live event Defeated Penny Mitchell to win the vacant title.	265+ days
	Vacant Won: January 1, 1987 The title was declared vacant when the Kansas City promotion withdrew from the NWA.	99 days
	Debbie Combs Won: February 12, 1986 Honolulu, HI \| Live event Won a 9-Woman Battle Royal to win the vacant title.	323 days

NWA United States Women's Championship

Misty Blue Simmes

Won: September 10, 1986

The title history is unrecorded from 1983-10-19 to 1986-09-10. Records unclear as to whom Simmes defeated to win the title.

477+

days

WWF Women's Tag Team Championship

The Glamour GirlsLeilani Kai & Judy Martin

Won: August 1, 1985 Cairo, Egypt | House Show

882+

days

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Constance Affinito · 8 hours ago
Rest in peace, Neville! It really came as a surprise
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Roy · 9 hours ago
PAC put on a great show against andrade last night, unfortunately we never wouldve thought it was going to be his last. He did it for his fans and family, sure as hell did it for the Death Riders too. RIP PAC
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Max · 13 hours ago
I can’t believe it Pac/Neville has died wrestled an amazing match at all out no one could of predicted that was his last day 😭😭😭
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Earlier I updated the pages of Big Boss Man and David Otunga, but after hearing about PAC's death earlier, I wanted to fully update his page too. I put a lot of effort into finding each image (especially the 2000s ones), and it was definitely a journey, considering I've been watching the man since I was a kid scrolling through this very website.

RIP to a legend, the Bastard we'll never forget
https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/wrestlers/pac-neville

https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/wrestlers/big-boss-man

https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/wrestlers/david-otunga
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Wright · 17 hours ago
Rest in Peace, PAC. I believe him to be a tremendous talent and a phenomenal athlete. I will always remember his matches as Neville back when I was a child. I will certainly continue to remember him with a great deal of fervent love specifically in his role as PAC within All Elite Wrestling. I hope he rests peacefully, knowing that he delivered one final, excellent competitive performance last night.
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APLDAGOAT · 18 hours ago
RIP to pac he was a freaking legend I had always hoped he came back to WWE still in shock of what happened
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zay · 18 hours ago
PAC passed
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Draysin Martin · 18 hours ago
I hoped what I saw was fake. Unfortunately it wasn't RIP PAC.
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  MrAicrow · 18 hours ago
  
  @Draysin Martin He's too young to die man
  
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MrAicrow · 19 hours ago
Neville/PAC died, He was only 40

And he literally wrestled last night....

RIP
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DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh · 19 hours ago
Benjamain Satterley aka Pac/Neville has passed away at 40
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  @DJ Aphrodite Henrys Bartholomews The Second Cometh This is heartbreaking
  
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Masha Slamovich debuted in MLW
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Tony Khan says he has a great update on Steven Borden. He's awake and responsive, all the tests came back positive at hospital. Steven is now doing better and they're hopeful he will be able to fly tomorrow to his family!
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Speedball & The Brawling Birds are apart of United Empire.
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Profile for Garrett Borden??
Pretty sure he's also signed to AEW.
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Shun Skywalker is NEW NJPW World Television Champion
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John Cena's August 2025 Photo should be his July 2024 photo, or the one that WWE has on their website.
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Dani Luna is All Elite
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AEW teased Wardlow returning so he should be labeled inactive also Buddy Matthews confirmed he was cleared from injury back in August so he should be inactive as well
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NWA Roster in 1987: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NWA: All (102)

Men

Women

Teams

The Andersons / The Minnesota Wrecking Crew

The Armstrongs

Barry & Kendall Windham

The Brain Busters

The Bushwhackers / The Sheepherders

Dick Murdoch & Ivan Koloff

The Fabulous Freebirds

The Fabulous Ones

The Four Horsemen

The Guerreros

Hot Stuff & Hyatt International

Jimmy & Ronnie Garvin

The Midnight Express

The Midnight Rockers

The Road Warriors / Legion of Doom

Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden

The Rock N' Roll Express

The Super Powers

Terry Gordy & Steve Williams

Champions

NWA World Heavyweight Championship

NWA United States Heavyweight Championship

NWA World Television Championship

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship

Jimmy Jack Funk

Carl Fergie

Moondog Spot

WCWA Texas Brass Knuckles Championship

NWA World Tag Team Championship

Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard

The Rock 'n' Roll ExpressRicky Morton & Robert Gibson

"Ravishing" Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez

NWA United States Tag Team Championship

The Midnight ExpressStan Lane & Bobby Eaton

Ivan Koloff & Dick Murdoch

Barry Windham & Ronnie Garvin

NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

Dusty Rhodes, Road Warrior Animal & Road Warrior Hawk

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Nelson Royal

Denny Brown

NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

Cien Caras

MS-1

Rayo de Jalisco, Jr.

NWA World Middleweight Championship

Kung Fu

El Dandy

Kung Fu

NWA World Welterweight Championship

Américo Rocca

NWA World Women's Championship

Debbie Combs

Debbie Combs

NWA United States Women's Championship

Misty Blue Simmes

WWF Women's Tag Team Championship

The Glamour GirlsLeilani Kai & Judy Martin

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