SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship
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The SWCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship was the top singles title of Southwest Championship Wrestling
Southwest Championship Wrestling
Southwest Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that was owned by Joseph Blanchard and based in San Antonio, Texas, from 1978 to 1985, when it was purchased by Texas All-Star Wrestling and absorbed into that company.-Venues:...

 for most of its existence. It was established as the SWCW Southwest Television Championship in 1978 and was renamed in February 1979, and it lasted until the promotion was sold to Texas All-Star Wrestling in 1985, at which point the title was abandoned.

Title history

Silver areas in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage.
Wrestler: Times: Date: Location: Notes:
SWCW Southwest Television Championship
Al Madril 1 circa June 1978 Title awarded
Tully Blanchard
Tully Blanchard
Tully Arthur Blanchard is a semi-retired second generation American professional wrestler. He is best known as an original member of the Four Horsemen....

1 July 1978 San Antonio, TX
Dale Valentine
Dale Hey
Dale Hey is a retired professional wrestler better known as Buddy Roberts.-Professional wrestling career:Dale Hey grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He started wrestling in 1965 as Dale Valentine, the "brother" of Johnny Valentine...

1 circa December 1978 ?
Tully Blanchard 2 January 10, 1979 ?
Dale Valentine 2 January 11, 1979 ?
Tully Blanchard 3 January 12, 1979 Austin, TX
Renamed SWCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship
Dale Valentine 3 circa June 1979 ?
Tully Blanchard 4 1979 ?
Tom Jones 1 1979 ?
Tully Blanchard 5 circa February 1980 ?
Wahoo McDaniel
Wahoo McDaniel
Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel was a Choctaw-Chickasaw Native American who achieved fame as a professional American football player and later as a professional wrestler.-Early life:...

1 August 23, 1980 San Antonio, TX
Tully Blanchard 6 1980 ?
Vacant circa April 1981 Title vacant
Terry Funk
Terry Funk
Terrence "Terry" Funk is an American professional wrestler and actor known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the latter part of his career that inspired many younger wrestlers, including Mick Foley...

1 1981 ? Wins tournament
Wahoo McDaniel 2 1981 ?
Vacant 1981 Title vacant
Manny Fernandez
Manny Fernandez (wrestler)
Emanuel "Manny" Fernandez is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for different independent promotions. He is best known by the his ring name "The Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez.-Professional wrestling career:...

1 1981 Corpus Christi, TX Wins tournament
Dick Slater
Dick Slater
Richard Van Slater , better known by his ring name "Dirty" Dick Slater, is a retired American professional wrestler who wrestled in the 1970s, 1980s, and mid 1990s for various promotions including Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling .Slater began wrestling with Mike...

1 August 15, 1981 San Antonio, TX
Mongolian Stomper
Mongolian Stomper
Archie Gouldie is a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name The Mongolian Stomper.-Stampede Wrestling:Gouldie held the North American heavyweight title a record ten times between 1968 and 1984, quite a streak of longevity for that time frame...

1 circa July 1982 San Antonio, TX Unknown whom Stomper beat for the title
Dick Slater 2 September 1982 Beaumont, TX
Vacant December 1982 Slater leaves SWCW
Tully Blanchard 7 January 3, 1983 San Antonio, TX Defeats Bob Sweetan in tournament final
Bob Sweetan 1 February 27, 1983 San Antonio, TX
Adrian Adonis
Adrian Adonis
Keith A. Franke was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Adorable" Adrian Adonis.-Career:Franke trained under Fred Atkins and debuted in 1974, wrestling under his own name...

1 April 15, 1983 Austin, TX
Bob Sweetan 2 May 20, 1983 Weslaco, TX
Tully Blanchard 8 June 13, 1983 San Antonio, TX
Scott Casey 1 September 11, 1983 San Antonio, TX
Killer Brooks 1 February 27, 1984 San Antonio, TX
Bobby Jaggers 1 June 16, 1984 Austin, TX
Killer Brooks 2 July 1, 1984 San Antonio, TX
Kevin Sullivan
Kevin Sullivan (wrestler)
Kevin Francis Sullivan is an American professional wrestler and booker, perhaps best known for his role in WCW as "The Taskmaster" and his leading of the "Dungeon of Doom".-Early career:...

1 December 9, 1984 San Antonio, TX
Title retired April 1985 SWCW is sold to Texas All-Star Wrestling

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