• Americas Wrestling Federation
  • AWF North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[7]
• Century Wrestling Alliance
  • CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[8]
• Eastern Wrestling Alliance
  • EWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[9]
• Georgia Championship Wrestling
  • NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[10]
  • NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Tommy Rich (1), Mr. Wrestling II (1), Thunderbolt Patterson (1), and Kevin Sullivan (1)[11]
• International World Class Championship Wrestling
  • IWCCW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[12][13]
• International Wrestling (Quebec)
  • WCWA Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)[14]
• Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
  • NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[15]
• NWA Tri-State1
  • NWA West Virginia/Ohio Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[16]
• New England Pro Wrestling
  • NEPW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[17]
• New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Class of 2009
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (1980)[18]
  • PWI ranked him #64 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year on the PWI 500 list in 1996[19]
  • PWI ranked him #171 of the top 500 wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003[20]
• Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling
  • SICW Tag Team Championship (1 time)- with Bob Orton Jr.[21]
• Southwest Championship Wrestling
  • SCW Southwest Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)[22]
• L&G Promotions
  • L&G Promotions Caribbean Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• Universal Superstars of America

• USA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with S. D. Jones[17]

• World Class Wrestling Association
  • WCWA Television Championship (1 time)[23][24]
  • WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Skip Young[25][26]
• World Wide Wrestling Alliance

• WWWA Intercontinental Championship (2 times)[17]

• World Wrestling Council
  • WWC North American Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Miguel Pérez, Jr.[27]
• World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment
  • WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rocky Johnson[28]
  • WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)[29]
• World Bodybuilding Guild
  • WBBG Hall Of Fame (Class of 2007)[30]

1This promotion is not to be confused with the NWA Tri–State promotion founded by Leroy McGuirk in the 1950s. This promotion would eventually be taken over by Bill Watts in 1979 and renamed Mid-South Wrestling Association. The promotion would eventually be renamed Universal Wrestling Federation.

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Strongest Wrestler (1981)