| Wrestler
|
Times
|
Date won
|
Location
|
Notes
|
| Edwin Bibby
|
1 |
January 19, 1881
|
New York City
|
Defeats Duncan C. Ross in a catch-as-catch-can match for "the championship of America".[2][3]
|
| Joe Acton
|
1 |
August 7, 1882
|
New York City
|
Has defeated Tom Cannon on December 9, 1881, in London, England, for the Catch-as-Catch-Can Title; Bibby is billed as champion for a match against World Greco-Roman champion William Muldoon on September 3, 1882, in Elmira, NY.
|
| Evan "Strangler" Lewis
|
1 |
April 11, 1887
|
Chicago
|
Lewis unified the American Catch-as-Catch Can Championship and the American Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship by defeating Ernest Roeber on March 2, 1893, in a 3 out of 5 falls match with alternating Greco-Roman match and Catch-as-Catch can matches. The two titles became known as the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.
|
| Martin "Farmer" Burns
|
1 |
April 20, 1895
|
Chicago
|
|
| Dan McLeod
|
1 |
October 26, 1897
|
Indianapolis
|
|
| Yusuf İsmail
|
1 |
June 20, 1898
|
Chicago
|
|
| Tom Jenkins
|
1 |
November 7, 1901
|
Cleveland, Ohio
|
|
| Dan McLeod
|
2 |
December 25, 1902
|
Worcester, Massachusetts
|
Jenkins forfeited the title to McLeod after having blood poisoning in his leg during their match.
|
| Tom Jenkins
|
2 |
April 3, 1903
|
Buffalo, N.Y.
|
[4]
|
| Frank Gotch
|
1 |
January 27, 1904
|
Bellingham, Washington
|
|
| Tom Jenkins
|
3 |
March 15, 1905
|
New York City
|
|
| Frank Gotch
|
2 |
May 23, 1906
|
Kansas City, Missouri
|
[5]
|
| Fred Beell
|
1 |
December 1, 1906
|
New Orleans
|
[6]
|
| Frank Gotch
|
3 |
December 17, 1906
|
Kansas City, Missouri
|
[6]
|
| Vacant
|
|
1910
|
|
Gotch vacates the title after two years as a double crown champion to concentrate on the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship he won from Georg Hackenschmidt on April 3, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois.[4]
|
| Henry Ordemann
|
1 |
October 25, 1910
|
Minneapolis
|
Defeats Charlie Cutler and awarded the title by special referee Frank Gotch.
|
| Charlie Cutler
|
1 |
February 1, 1911
|
Minneapolis
|
|
| Dr. Benjamin Roller
|
1 |
March 6, 1911
|
Chicago
|
|
| Charlie Cutler
|
2 |
March 25, 1911
|
Buffalo, N.Y.
|
|
| Jess Reimer
|
1 |
November 7, 1911
|
Des Moines, Iowa
|
|
| Henry Ordemann
|
2 |
December 14, 1911
|
Minneapolis
|
|
| Charlie Cutler
|
3 |
March 25, 1912
|
Chicago
|
Jess Westergaard (Reimer) defeats Ordemann on January 7, 1913, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to claim a title but loses to Cutler on January 22, 1913, in Dallas, Texas.
|
| Dr. Benjamin Roller
|
2 |
July 4, 1913
|
Benton Harbor, Michigan
|
|
| Ed "Strangler" Lewis
|
1 |
September 18, 1913
|
Lexington, Kentucky
|
|
| William Demetral
|
1 |
October 21, 1913
|
Lexington, Kentucky
|
|
| Dr. Benjamin Roller
|
3 |
July 10, 1914
|
Rock Island, Illinois
|
Ed "Strangler" Lewis defeats Roller during an international tournament on January 15, 1916, in New York City (title may not be on line).
|
| Wladek Zbyszko
|
1 |
January 8, 1917
|
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
|
Still/again champion as of September 22, 1922 (or a different reign, possibly by winning a tournament which has started on February 21, 1922).
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