# NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Central States version)

The NWA Central States United States Championship was the version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship that was defended in the Central States Wrestling territory around Missouri. It existed from 1961 until 1970. Records indicate that Bob Orton, The Viking and The Destroyer also held championship but no specific dates were found for those reigns.

## Title History

Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Pat O'Connor | August 24, 1961 | N/A | N/A | 1 | 315 | Awarded | |
| 2 | Hans Schmidt | July 5, 1962 | JCP show | Greensboro, North Carolina | 1 | 77 | | |
| 3 | Pat O'Connor | August 16, 1962 | JCP show | Greensboro, North Carolina | 2 | 78 | | |
| 4 | Lee Henning | November 2, 1962 | CSW show | St. Joseph, Missouri | 1 | 14 | This was a Best Two Out Of Three Falls match. | |
| 5 | Pat O'Connor | November 16, 1962 | CSW show | St. Joseph, Missouri | 3 | 114 | This was a Best Two Out Of Three Falls match. | |
| 6 | Bob Orton Sr. | March 10, 1963 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 1 | 154 | | |
| 7 | Pat O'Connor | August 11, 1963 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 4 | 69 | | |
| 8 | Rocky Hamilton | October 19, 1963 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | | | |
| 9 | Rock Hunter | December 1963 | CSW show | Missouri | 1 | | | |
| 10 | Rocky Hamilton | February 4, 1964 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 95 | | |
| 11 | Sonny Myers | May 9, 1964 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 42 | | |
| 12 | Bob Geigel | June 20, 1964 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 119 | | |
| 13 | Bob Orton Sr. | October 17, 1964 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 14 | | |
| 14 | The Lawman | October 31, 1964 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 21 | | |
| 15 | Rocky Hamilton | November 21, 1964 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 3 | 7 | | |
| 16 | Tom Clark | November 28, 1964 | CSW show | N/A | 1 | 35 | | |
| 17 | Sonny Myers | January 2, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | | | |
| 18 | Tom Clark | January 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | | | |
| 19 | Sonny Myers | January 31, 1965 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 3 | 14 | | |
| 20 | Rocky Hamilton | February 14, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 4 | | | |
| — | Vacated | March 1965 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons | |
| 21 | Bobby Shane | March 21, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 28 | Defeated Rocky Hamilton | |
| 22 | Rocky Hamilton | April 18, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 5 | | | |
| — | Vacated | 1965 | — | — | — | — | Vacated sometime between June 12 to July 6 | |
| 23 | Rocky Hamilton | July 10, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 6 | 7 | Defeated Ron Etchison in the finals of a 10 man tournament | |
| 24 | Ron Etchison | July 17, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 28 | | |
| 25 | The Stomper | August 14, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 112 | | |
| 26 | Bobby Shane | December 4, 1965 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 175 | | |
| 27 | Bob Brown | February 5, 1966 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 2 | 42 | | |
| 28 | Bobby Shane | March 19, 1966 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 3 | 8 | | |
| 29 | The Viking | March 27, 1966 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 189 | | |
| 30 | Pat O'Connor | October 2, 1966 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 5 | 238 | This was a Best Of Two Out Of Three Falls match. | |
| 31 | Jack Donovan | May 27, 1967 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 105 | | |
| 32 | Ron Etchison | September 9, 1967 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 35 | | |
| 33 | Jack Donovan | October 14, 1967 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 29 | | |
| 34 | Ron Etchison | November 12, 1967 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 3 | 126 | | |
| 35 | Destroyer (Stan Pulaski) | March 17, 1968 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 13 | | |
| 36 | Ron Etchison | March 30, 1968 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 4 | 14 | | |
| 37 | Destroyer | April 13, 1968 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 43 | | |
| 38 | Ron Etchison | May 26, 1968 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 5 | 62 | | |
| 39 | Roger Kirby | July 27, 1968 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 35 | | |
| 40 | Eddie Sharkey | August 31, 1968 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 35 | | |
| 41 | Ron Etchison | October 5, 1968 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 5 | 35 | | |
| 42 | Dick Murdoch | November 9, 1968 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | 126 | | |
| — | Vacated | February 8, 1969 | — | — | — | — | Held up following a match against Earl Hayward | |
| 43 | Dick Murdoch | February 15, 1969 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 119 | Murdoch defeated Earl Maynar in a Lumberjack match for the vacant title. | |
| 44 | Ron Etchison | June 14, 1969 | CSW show | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 6 | 14 | | |
| 45 | Dick Murdoch | June 28, 1969 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 3 | 49 | | |
| 46 | Luke Brown | August 16, 1969 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | | | |
| 47 | K.O. Cox | October 1969 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 1 | | | |
| 48 | Ron Etchison | December 28, 1969 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 7 | 48 | | |
| 49 | Roger Kirby | February 14, 1970 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | 112 | | |
| 50 | The Viking | June 6, 1970 | CSW show | Waterloo, Iowa | 2 | | | |
| — | Deactivated | July 1970 | — | — | — | — | Championship abandoned | |

## Combined reigns

| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Pat O'Connor | 3 | 252¤ |
| 2 | The Sheik | 1 | 215¤ |
| 3 | Bob Geigel | 2 | 147¤ |
| 4 | Rocky Hamilton | 2 | 113¤ |
| 5 | The Stomper | 3 | 64¤ |
| 6 | Sonny Myers | 2 | 20¤ |
| 7 | Enrique Torres | 1 | 7 |
| 8 | Jack Donovan | 2 | 2¤ |
| 9 | Tom Clark | 1 | 2¤ |
| 10 | "Bulldog" Bob Brown | 1 | 1¤ |
| 11 | Bobby Shane | 1 | 1¤ |
| 12 | Eddie Sharkey | 1 | 1¤ |
| 13 | Rock Hunter | 1 | 1¤ |
| 14 | Ron Etchison | 1 | 1¤ |