• Central States Wrestling

• NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[3]

• Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling / Jim Crockett Promotions

• NWA National Heavyweight Championship (1 time)1[4]
• NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[5]
• NWA Television Championship (1 time)[1][6]
• NWA World Television Championship (3 times)[1][7]
• NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (2 times) - with Arn Anderson[1][8]

• National Wrestling Alliance

• NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2009)[9]

• NWA All-Star Wrestling (North Carolina)2

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Barry Windham[10]

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI Feud of the Year (1987) Four Horsemen vs. The Super Powers and The Road Warriors
  • PWI Tag Team of the Year (1989) with Arn Anderson
  • PWI ranked him #52 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003[11]
• Southwest Championship Wrestling

• SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship (6 times3)[1][12]
• SCW Southwest Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Gino Hernandez[13]
• SCW Southwest Television Championship (3 times)[1][12]
• SCW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Gino Hernandez[1][14]

• World Wrestling Federation/WWE

• WWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Arn Anderson[1][15]
• WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2012)[16]

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards

• Worst Feud of the Year (1988) vs. The Midnight Rider

1Typically defended in Georgia, the title was won after the Georgia Championship Wrestling was purchased by the then World Wrestling Federation.
2Not to be confused with the Vancouver, British Columbia based promotion that existed from the early '60s to the late '80s. This North Carolina promotion lasted from March 1998 until January 1999.
3The last TV title he won on January 12, 1979 was renamed to Heavyweight title on February 1979.