• Championship Wrestling from Florida
  • NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Sweet Brown Sugar (1) and Dusty Rhodes (1)[6]
• Eastern Sports Association
  • ESA North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
• Japan Wrestling Association
  • NWA International Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[2]
• Maple Leaf Wrestling
  • NWA Canadian Open Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Whipper Billy Watson[2]
  • NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version) (1 time)[7]
• Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
  • NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (1 time)[8]
• Midwest Wrestling Association (Ohio)
  • MWA Ohio Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
  • MWA Ohio Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Frankie Talaber[2]
• National Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2013)[9]
• NWA Detroit
  • NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version) (9 times)[10]
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version) (8 times) – with Art Thomas (1), Bill Miller (1), Athol Layton (1), The Stomper (1), Tony Marino (3) and Fred Curry (1)[2]
• NWA Hollywood Wrestling
  • NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[11]
• NWA Los Angeles
  • NWA "Beat the Champ" Television Championship (1 time)[12]
  • NWA International Television Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Wilbur Snyder (2), Sandor Szabo (1), and Primo Carnera (1)[13]
  • NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Championship (Los Angeles version) (1 time)[14]
• NWA San Francisco
  • NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (San Francisco version) (1 time)[15]
• Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Television Era (Class of 2008)[1]
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI Editor's Award (1998)[16]
• Superstars of Wrestling
  • SoW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• World Wrestling Association (Indianapolis)
  • WWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[2]
  • WWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chris Carter[17]
• Worldwide Wrestling Associates
  • WWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[2]
• World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation
  • WWWF United States Heavyweight Championship (7 times)[3]
  • WWF Hall of Fame (Class of 1994)[3][18]
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

1 Not officially recognised as champion because conflicting interests