Wrestlers With The Most World Titles (Across All Major Federations)

8 NWA Championships

1 PWF World Heavyweight Championship

Harley Race had been busy in the '60s, forming a tag team with Larry Hennig (Curtis Axel's grandpa) in the AWA and capturing the tag titles on three occasions, but it's his spell from 1973 to 1983 that would cement his place as one of the all-time greats of the business.

In 1973, Race defeated Dory Funk Jr. to win the NWA Championship in the upset of the century (Funk was in his 1,563rd day as a reigning champion, having won the title back in '69 and Race himself was still relatively unknown as a solo competitor). In 1983, Race lost to Ric Flair in a passing-of-the-torch match in the main event of the first Starrcade. In the meantime, he won seven more NWA Championships and faced some of the biggest names of that era, including Dusty Rhodes, Giant Baba, Billy Graham, Jack Brisco, Terry Funk and Bob Backlund.

Harley Race is possibly the greatest American wrestler of the '70s, which means his glory days came in great part before the 1980s wrestling boom and golden era of sports entertainment broadcasting. His legacy remains nonetheless intact through the lavishing praise he always received from his peers.