title: Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship
text: # Atlantic Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Championship
  
  The AAC World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned and promoted by the Atlantic Athletic Commission in Boston. The title was created in 1957 when Edouard Carpentier defeated the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz when Thesz could not continue due to a back injury. As it was a professional wrestling championship, the AAC World Heavyweight Championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match.
  
  ## Title history
  
  Key :
  
  | No. | Overall reign number |
  | - | - |
  | Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
  | Days | Number of days held |
  | No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
  | No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
  | 1 | Edouard Carpentier | June 14, 1957 | N/A | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 323 | Defeated the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz when Thesz could not continue due to a back injury. | |
  | 2 | Killer Kowalski | May 3, 1958 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | | 1,067 | | |
  | 3 | Bearcat Wright | April 4, 1961 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | 1 | 56 | | |
  | 4 | Jackie Fargo | May 30, 1961 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | 1 | 1,185 | | |
  | 5 | Ted Blassie | August 27, 1964 | N/A | N/A | 1 | 35 | | |
  | 6 | Jackie Fargo | October 1, 1964 | N/A | Boston, Massachusetts | 1 | N/A | Vacant in 1966 when Fargo left the area. | |
  | 7 | Buddy Fuller | 1966 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 8 | Frank Scarpa | April 27, 1967 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | Title was vacated in January 1969 when Scarpa died in the ring. | |
  | 9 | Gypsy Joe Gonzales | 1969 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | Wins tournament; vacated the title when the promotion closed in 1975. | |
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  * ↑ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"
  