NWA Roster in 1980: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

National Wrestling Alliance: Rosters History Database

On this page you find the full NWA Roster in the year 1980. 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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1980

NWA: All (147)

Bruce Prichard / Brother Love

"Crippler" Ray Stevens

Greg "The Hammer" Valentine

Harley Race

Haystacks Calhoun

"High Chief" Peter Maivia

Jerry "The King" Lawler

Professor Toru Tanaka

"Superstar" Billy Graham

Thunderbolt Patterson

Men

Women

Teams

Champions

NWA World Heavyweight Championship

Harley Race

Won: September 9, 1980

Ōtsu, Japan | House show

113+ days

113+

days

Giant Baba

Won: September 4, 1980

Saga, Japan | House show

5 days

days

Harley Race

Won: November 7, 1979

Amagasaki, Japan | House show

302 days

302

days

NWA United States Heavyweight Championship	Ric Flair Won: November 24, 1980 Greenville, SC \| House Show 37+ days For unknown reasons, this reign is not recognized by WWE.com	37+ days
	Greg "The Hammer" Valentine Won: July 26, 1980 Charlotte, NC \| House Show 121 days For unknown reasons, this reign is not recognized by WWE.com	121 days
	Ric Flair Won: April 19, 1980 Greensboro, NC \| House Show 98 days	98 days
	Jimmy Snuka Won: September 1, 1979 Charlotte, NC \| House Show 231 days Defeated Ricky Steamboat in a tournament final for the vacant title.	231 days

NWA Television Championship	"Rowdy" Roddy Piper Won: November 1, 1980 Richmond, VA \| Live event 60+ days Defeats Paul Jones in tournament final to win the vacant title.	60+ days
	Vacant Won: October 1, 1980 31 days The title was vacated after The Masked Superstar started to team with Paul Jones.	31 days
	The Masked Superstar Won: April 1, 1980 Raleigh, NC \| Live event 183 days Won a tournament to win the vacant title.	183 days
	Vacant Won: October 24, 1979 Raleigh, NC \| Live event 160 days The title was vacated after Ricky Steamboat won the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Jay Youngblood.	160 days

NWA National Heavyweight Championship	The Mongolian Stomper Won: December 12, 1980 Atlanta, GA \| Live event 19+ days	19+ days
	Jack Brisco Won: October 9, 1980 Atlanta, GA 64 days Defeated Terry Funk in a tournament final to win the vacant title.	64 days
	Vacant Won: August 20, 1980 50 days The title was vacated for unknown reasons.	50 days
	Austin Idol Won: January 12, 1980 Atlanta, GA 221 days During this reign, on 1980-03-29, Idol also defeated Mr. Wrestling II to win the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship in Atlanta, GA.	221 days

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship	Vacant Won: October 1, 1980 91+ days The title was vacated when NWA Mid-America ceased to operate, and Jerry Jarrett gained control of the title.	91+ days
	Bobby Eaton Won: July 23, 1980 Nashville, TN \| House show 70 days	70 days
	Robert Gibson Won: June 25, 1980 Nashville, TN \| House show 28 days	28 days
	The Great Togo Won: May 15, 1980 Louisville, KY \| House show 41 days	41 days
	Rocky Johnson Won: May 10, 1980 Chattanooga, TN \| House show 5 days	5 days
	Roger Mason Won: April 5, 1980 ChattanoogaChattanooga, TN \| House show, TN \| House show 35 days	35 days
	Steve Travis Won: April 1, 1980 Lexington, KY \| House show 4 days	4 days
	Tojo Yamamoto Won: February 25, 1980 Versailles, IN \| House show 36 days	36 days

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NWA World Tag Team Championship	The Masked Superstar & Paul Jones Won: November 27, 1980 Greensboro, NC \| House show 34+ days	34+ days
	"Crippler" Ray Stevens & Jimmy Snuka Won: June 22, 1980 Greensboro, NC \| House show 158 days	158 days
	Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood Won: May 10, 1980 Greensboro, NC \| House show 43 days	43 days
	Greg "The Hammer" Valentine & "Crippler" Ray Stevens Won: March 29, 1980 Charlotte, NC \| House show 42 days	42 days
	Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood Won: October 24, 1979 Raleigh, NC \| House show 157 days	157 days

NWA Women's Championship

The Fabulous Moolah

Won: September 18, 1956

Baltimore, MD | Live Event

8870+ days

During this reigns the following title changes took place: Bette Boucher, then The Fabulous Moolah, then Yukiko Tomoe, then The Fabulous Moolah, then Evelyn Stevens, then The Fabulous Moolah; however, WWE recognizes Moolah's reign as being uninterrupted until 1984. The title was known as the NWA World Women's Championship until May 19, 1984, when Moolah sold the rights to the championship to the WWF, and the title was renamed to WWF Women's Championship.

8870+

days

NWA Women's Championship

The Fabulous Moolah

Won: October 9, 1978

Fort Worth, TX | Live event

814+ days

814+

days

NWA United States Women's Championship

Joyce Grable

Won: December 1, 1978

761+ days

The title history is unrecorded from 1976-11-25 to 1978-12-01.

761+

days

NWA Women's Tag Team Championship

Wendi Richter & Joyce Grable

Won: April 30, 1980

Springfield, MO | Live event

245+ days

245+

days

Leilani Kai & Judy Martin

Won: December 26, 1979

Live event

126 days

The titles history is unrecorded from 1978-08-25 to 1979-12-26. It is uncertain who Kai & Martin defeated to win the titles.

126

days

Joyce Grable & Vicki Williams

Won: February 27, 1977

St. Petersburg, FL | Live event

1403+ days

The titles history is unrecorded from 1977-02-27 to 1978-08-01.

1403+

days

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Les Thornton

Won: March 1, 1980

Tulsa, OK | MSW House show

305+ days

Thornton won the title by forfeit after Ron Starr failed to appear for the match.

305+

days

Ron Starr

Won: February 11, 1980

Tulsa, OK | MSW House show

19 days

Defeated Les Thornton to win the vacant title. After his victory, Starr received recognition from NWA as champion over international unofficial champion Steve Keirn.

days

Vacant

Won: December 9, 1979

64 days

Nelson Royal vacated the title upon retiring from wrestling. During this vacancy, on 1979-12-10, Steve Keirn defeated Chavo Guerrero in the final of a tournament (promoted by Hollywood Wrestling) to seemingly win the vacant title, but NWA did not recognize Keirn as champion; Keirn received recognition from the NWA territories CWF, HW and NJPW, and this unofficial version was later renamed the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship.

days

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Jota Eme · 14 hours ago
Idk if someone ever asked for this before but I think you should add the feature of creating a custom roster and share on this website. No matter the year, era or company. It would be a cool thing for the fans.
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GHOST · 3 days ago
Braun Strowman returned to the ring in a dark match after SmackDown
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Nakamura just returned yesterday. Remove the inactive logo
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ty eash · 4 days ago
While we are on the discussion for ECW aluumni, could you guys also add Big Sal E. Graziano? He's like, the only FBI member that's missing here.
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Joe Limbus · 5 days ago
Mustafa Saed is missing from the ECW alumni....he was New Jacks tag team partner, they won the ECW titles together
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  @Joe Limbus He will be done soon, great suggestion!
  
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Add Sami zayn to OG bloodline
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Carter Berndt · 11 days ago
Can you update Karrion Kross's picture, he has had long hair for a while.
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PrivatePenguin 95 · 11 days ago
Why aren't jade and Perez listed as a team
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James Basolo · 12 days ago
The Blackpool Combat Club are called the "Death Riders" now.
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Ryan Landrau · 12 days ago
Will you add a WWEID section
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  @Ryan Landrau Might be difficult to add every single one, especially as the program will be expansive across the entire USA and presumably abroad too with tens of hundreds of talents. I think wrestlers will be added once they graduate to the NXT system, we still have other profiles to begin, such as with the NWA Hall of Fame or some remaining minor WCW/ECW talent. It might be a good idea to feature a list somewhere on here
  
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Josh Watson · 12 days ago
Update the wwe teams
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GHOST · 17 days ago
BEEF is in OVW as well
And James Storm is not in OVW anymore
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Vince Russo · 18 days ago
Lexis turned face
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update raw logo background
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  @gary vaughan With what? I'm legit curious. The logo is up-to-date. If you have a link to the background you mean, let us know.
  
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David R. · 1 months ago
These people who cry update background are total losers. It's a background, chill out
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  fWRENzy! · 28 days ago
  
  @David R. does the background even need updating?
  
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Shotzi & Tegan Nox Tag Team Comeback Please.🙏❤️
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fWRENzy! · 1 months ago
ok so I clicked face/heel split and the NXT women's division is a little weird (i.e. Stephanie Vaquer is the only one on Upper Card, Michin and Natalya are still on NXT midcard, and they have been inactive.)
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  @fWRENzy! Yup we're still finishing up NXT, work in progress :)
  
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  @fWRENzy! Women will be completed soon, we just finished up the men's NXT roster!
  
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Pufas · 1 months ago
Hello,
I have a full list of my rosters for WWE 2K24 Universe mode, and I would really like to know what tools you guys use for your rosters on your website. Thank You.
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Hi there, I love to see you sort the wrestling rosters from date to date.
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NWA Roster in 1980: Full List of Wrestlers, Teams, Champions

NWA: All (147)

Men

Women

Teams

Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik

Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami

The Blond Bombers

Bob Backlund & Pedro Morales

The Brisco Brothers

Dusty Rhodes and Bobo Brazil

The Fabulous Freebirds

The Funks

Greg Valentine & Ray Stevens

Ivan Koloff & Nikolai Volkoff

Ivan Koloff & Ole Anderson

Jack Brisco & Jim Garvin

Jim Garvin & Steve Keirn

Jimmy Snuka & Ray Stevens

Kerry von Erich & Bruiser Brody

The Masked Superstars

Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens

Pat O'Connor & Rufus R. Jones

Ric Flair & Blackjack Mulligan

Roddy Piper & Greg Valentine

The Sheepherders / Los Pastores / The Kiwi Sheepherders / The Kiwis

Stan Hansen & Ole Anderson

Ted DiBiase & Robert Fuller

The Texas Outlaws

Tito Santana & Ivan Putski

The Von Erichs

Champions

NWA World Heavyweight Championship

NWA United States Heavyweight Championship

NWA Television Championship

Vacant

Vacant

NWA National Heavyweight Championship

The Mongolian Stomper

Vacant

Austin Idol

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship

Vacant

The Great Togo

Roger Mason

Steve Travis

Tojo Yamamoto

NWA World Tag Team Championship

The Masked Superstar & Paul Jones

"Crippler" Ray Stevens & Jimmy Snuka

Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood

Greg "The Hammer" Valentine & "Crippler" Ray Stevens

Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood

NWA Women's Championship

NWA Women's Championship

NWA United States Women's Championship

Joyce Grable

NWA Women's Tag Team Championship

Wendi Richter & Joyce Grable

Leilani Kai & Judy Martin

Joyce Grable & Vicki Williams

NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Les Thornton

Ron Starr

Vacant

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