Our friend Libnan Ayoub notifies us that there is an update to the National Wrestling
Alliance World Heavyweight Title lineage.  It was only a handful of years ago that it became
generally accepted knowledge that during a tour of the South Pacific in 1984, the NWA
World Title was traded back and forth between Ric Flair and Harley Race.

Ayoub, one of the best researchers out there, confirmed the following information:

March 20, 1984. Wellington, NZ (NOT MARCH 21)
Harley Race def Ric Flair, WON NWA TITLE

March 25, 1984. Singapore (NOT MARCH 23 AND NOT IN KALLANG)
Ric Flair def Harley Race, FLAIR DEFENDED THE TITLE
(NO TITLE CHANGE)

In Wellington, The promoter Steve Rickard made a deal with Harley Race or vice versa to
do the switch. Flair went ahead with the switch and thought that it had been approved by
the NWA Board.

While in Singapore, they had been promoting Flair as the champion and spending a lot of
money on posters, advertising and TV promos of the forthcoming match. They could not
bring Race in as Champion after building Flair up, so they gave the belt back to Flair and
he defended it.
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These are major historical facts and we thank Libnan for providing the new information.
Update to NWA World Heavyweight Title Lineage