Championships and Accomplishments
- American Wrestling Association
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- AWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Brad Rheingans (1) and Jerry Blackwell (1)
- Cauliflower Alley Club
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- Other honoree (1999)
- Continental Wrestling Association
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- CWA International Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- Georgia Championship Wrestling
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- NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
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- NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with John Studd
- NWA Big Time Wrestling
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- NWA American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Tri-State
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- NWA Tri-State Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)
- NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Tri-State version) (1 time) – with Killer Karl Kox
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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- PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (1977, 1981)
- PWI ranked him # 75 of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" – with Jerry Blackwell in 2003.
- Southwest Championship Wrestling
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- SCW Southwest Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)
- St. Louis Wrestling Club
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- NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- Universal Wrestling Association
- UWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- World Wrestling Federation
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- WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
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- Match of the Year award in 1980 – vs. Bob Backlund (Texas Death match, May 19, 1980, New York City, New York)
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