NWA Roster in 1997: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NWA Roster in the year 1997. This includes the list of all NWA Wrestlers, 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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1997NWA: All (15)
Champions
NWA World Heavyweight Championship |  | Dan Severn
| 1041+
|
NWA National Heavyweight Championship |  | Vacant
The title was vacated for undocumented reasons. | 53+
|
Salvatore Sincere
| 113
| ||
Big Slam
The title was reactivated by NWA and awarded after to Big Slam. | 62
|
NWA North American Heavyweight Championship | | Vacant
The title was vacated so it could be used in an NWA angle in WWF. | 2+
|
Reckless Youth
| 198
| ||
Ace Darling
| 49
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Lance Diamond
| 14
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Reckless Youth
Defeated Derrick Domino to win the title, after Tommy Cairo no-showed. | 217
|
NWA World Tag Team Championship | | Vacant
The titles vacated due to agreement with WWF to have the belts defended in that promotion; C. W. Anderson & Pat Anderson were not a part of WWF. | 84+
|
 | The AndersonsC.W. Anderson & Pat Anderson
Defeated The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers) to win the vacant titles. | 389
|
J-Crown Unified Championship | | Vacant
The title was vacated when the J-Crown was dissolved upon the request of WWF. All of the component titles were returned to their home promotions. | 56+
|
 | Shinjiro Otani
| 87
| |
 | El Samurai
| 35
| |
 | Jushin "Thunder" Liger
| 183
| |
 | Último Dragón
| 95
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NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship | Shocker
| 241+
| |
Black Warrior
| 201
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NWA World Middleweight Championship | | Último Dragón
Match promoted by WAR. Último Dragón stops defending the title around 1997. | 1149+
|
NWA World Welterweight Championship | | Vacant
Otani vacated six of the seven remaining J-Crown titles after being forced by the World Wrestling Federation to return their Light Heavyweight Championship belt, ending the J-Crown Championship. | 56+
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| Shinjiro Otani
| 87
| |
| El Samurai
| 35
| |
| Jushin "Thunder" Liger
| 183
| |
| Último Dragón
| 85
|
 |  | Vacant
Debbie Combs was stripped of the title. | 456+
|
Extras
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