Who's the greatest NWA champion of all time?
Over the past few months, SLAM! Wrestling has been asking the experts from around the wrestling world who the greatest NWA champion ever was. The NWA as an organization was formed in 1948 as an alliance between promoters, so we only considered champs since then, even though the title dates back historically to the early part of the century.
John Molinaro polled the experts for the answer, and surprise, surprise, it ended being the same name as the fans.
The Nature Boy Ric Flair. No one else was even close.
Here are the fan picks for the greatest NWA champion of all time:
52% voted for Ric Flair
7% voted for Sting
6% voted for Ricky Steamboat
6% voted for Lou Thesz
5% voted for Terry Funk
5% voted for Harley Race
5% voted for Gene Kiniski
2% voted for Great Muta
2% voted for Dusty Rhodes
2% voted for Dan Severn
2% voted for Kerry von Erich
1% voted for Jack Brisco
1% voted for Chris Candido
1% voted for Dory Funk Jr.
1% voted for Buddy Rogers
1% voted for Whipper Watson
0% voted for Giant Baba
0% voted for Orville Brown
0% voted for Masahiro Chono
0% voted for Tatsumi Fujinami
0% voted for Ronnie Garvin
0% voted for Dick Hutton
0% voted for Pat O'Connor
0% voted for Naoya Ogawa
0% voted for Tommy Rich
0% voted for Barry Windham
(courtesy The Great Hisa's Puroresu Dojo)
