Championships and Accomplishments
- Maple Leaf Wrestling
- NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (1 time)1
- Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling / World Championship Wrestling
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Paul Jones (3) and Jay Youngblood (1)
- WCW World Television Championship (4 times)
- NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- WCW United States Championship (4 times)
- NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)2
- WCW World Tag Team Championship (8 times) – with Jay Youngblood (5), Paul Jones (1), Dustin Rhodes (1), and Shane Douglas (1)
- National Wrestling Alliance
- NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2012)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Match of the Year (1987)
- PWI Match of the Year (1989)
- PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (2009)
- PWI Rookie of the Year (1977)
- PWI Stanley Weston Award (1995)
- PWI Tag Team of the Year (1978)
- PWI ranked him #7 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 1991.
- PWI ranked him #13 of the Top 500 Singles Wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
- PWI ranked him #19 of the Top 100 Tag Teams of the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
- Class of 2002
- World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment
- WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2009)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
- Five Star Match (1989)
- Five Star Match (1989)
- Five Star Match (1989)
- Tag Team of the Year (1983)
- Match of the Year (1987)
- Match of the Year (1989)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
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