American Heavyweight Championship (Tri-State version) (3 times) NWA Tri-State Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time) NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Tri-State version) (2 times) – with Killer Karl Kox (1), Ted DiBiase (1) NWA Western States Sports NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (Amarillo version) (3 times) NWA International Heavyweight Championship (Amarillo version) (3 times) NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship (1 time) NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Bobby Duncum (1) and Blackjack Mulligan (2) National Wrestling Federation NWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Dusty Rhodes Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2013 Pro Wrestling Illustrated PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (1974) PWI ranked him #96 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003 St. Louis Wrestling Club NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (3 times) St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2010 World Championship Wrestling (Australia) IWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Lars Anderson (1), Dusty Rhodes (1) World Wrestling Council WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 time) WWC World Television Championship (3 times) World Wrestling Federation WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Adrian Adonis See also List of premature professional wrestling deaths References External links 1946 births 1996 deaths American male professional wrestlers Expatriate professional wrestlers in Japan American Ku Klux Klan members People from Waxahachie, Texas Professional wrestlers from Texas Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum Stampede Wrestling alumni Western States Sports 20th-century professional wrestlers WWC Universal Heavyweight Champions WWC Television Champions NWF World Tag Team Champions NWA Florida Heavyweight Champions NWA Florida Tag Team Champions NWA Southern Heavyweight Champions (Florida version) NWA United National Champions IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia) NWA/WCW United States Tag Team Champions