NWA Roster in 1987: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions
On this page you find the full NWA Roster in the year 1987. 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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NWA: All (87)
Teams
The Andersons / The Minnesota Wrecking Crew
The Armstrongs
The Brain Busters
The Bushwhackers / The Sheepherders
Dick Murdoch & Ivan Koloff
The Fabulous Freebirds
The Fabulous Ones
The Four Horsemen
Hot Stuff & Hyatt International
Jimmy & Ronnie Garvin
The Midnight Express
The Road Warriors / Legion of Doom
The Rock N' Roll Express
The Rockers / The Midnight Rockers
The Super Powers
Terry Gordy & Steve Williams
Champions
NWA World Heavyweight Championship | Ric Flair
On November 21, 1988 NWA's flagship promotion JCP was purchased by Ted Turner and renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW). | 35+
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Ronnie Garvin
| 61
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Ric Flair
| 413
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NWA United States Heavyweight Championship | Dusty Rhodes
| 35+
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Lex Luger
| 138
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Nikita Koloff
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
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NWA World Television Championship | Nikita Koloff
At Starrcade 1987, Koloff defeated Terry Taylor to unify the UWF Television Championship into the NWA World Television Championship. | 136+
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Tully Blanchard
| 263
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NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship | Jerry "The King" Lawler
| 24+
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Jeff Jarrett
| 28
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Jimmy Jack Funk
He previously held the title under the ring name Jesse Barr. | 7
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Jeff Jarrett
| 49
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Carl Fergie
| 7
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Jeff Jarrett
| 77
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Moondog Spot
| 14
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Jeff Jarrett
| 7
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NWA World Tag Team Championship | Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard
| 93+
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The Rock 'n' Roll ExpressRicky Morton & Robert Gibson
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
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"Ravishing" Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez
| 171
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NWA United States Tag Team Championship | The Midnight ExpressStan Lane & Bobby Eaton
Defeated Barry Windham & Ron Garvin in a tournament final to win the vacant titles. | 229+
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Vacant
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
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Ivan Koloff & Dick Murdoch
| 21
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Barry Windham & Ronnie Garvin
| 91
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NWA Women's Championship | Debbie Combs
Defeated Penny Mitchell to win the vacant title. | 265+
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Vacant
The title was declared vacant when the Kansas City promotion withdrew from the NWA. | 99
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Debbie Combs
Won a 9-Woman Battle Royal to win the vacant title. | 323
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NWA United States Women's Championship | Misty Blue Simmes
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+
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NWA World Women's Tag Team Championship | Joyce Grable & Vicki Williams
The titles history is unrecorded from 1977-02-27 to 1978-08-01. | 3959+
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NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Nelson Royal
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+
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Vacant
The title was vacated after Lazor Tron left JCP. | 8
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Lazor Tron
Tron previously unofficialy won a disputed version of the title under the ring name Hector Guerrero. | 215
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Denny Brown
| 187
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