WWF North American Heavyweight Championship
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The WWF North American Heavyweight Championship was a relatively short-lived title in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) from 1979 until 1981.[1] It was established as the WWWF North American Heavyweight Championship on February 13, 1979 before the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) was renamed to WWF the following month. The inaugural champion was Ted DiBiase and the final champion was Seiji Sakaguchi.[2]
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Promotion | World Wrestling Federation (WWF) New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date established | February 13, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date retired | April 23, 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Second champion Pat Patterson was recognised by the WWF as Intercontinental Championship after he reported on WWF television that he had won a (fictitious) one-night tournament in Rio de Janeiro to create a new overall title.[3][4] Nonetheless the North American title was later awarded to Sakaguchi on a New Japan Pro Wrestling house show.[5]
In March 2018, the now WWE established a new North American championship for their NXT brand, the NXT North American Championship. This new title, however, does not carry the lineage of the promotion's original North American championship.[6]