AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
Details
PromotionAmerican Wrestling Association
Date establishedJune 1981
Date retired1993
Statistics
First championMike Graham
Most reignsBuck Zumhofe (3 reigns)
Longest reignSteve Regal (613 days)

The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1981 until it closed in 1991.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
American Wrestling Association (AWA)
 1  Mike Graham  June 1981  House show [Note 1]  1  [Note 2] Graham was awarded the title. [1]
 2  Buck Zumhofe  June 19, 1983  House show Hamburg, Minnesota  1  280 [1]
 3  Steve Regal  March 25, 1984  House show Saint Paul, Minnesota  1  613 [1]
 4  Buck Zumhofe  November 28, 1985  House show Saint Paul, Minnesota  2  [Note 3] [1]
— Vacated Earlier than April 20,1986 — — — — Zumhofe was already mentioned as a former champion at Wrestle Rock '86
 5  Mike Graham  December 13, 1988  House show Chicago, Illinois  2  [Note 4] Records are unclear on how Graham won the championship. [1]
Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990.
†  Buck Zumhofe  August 11, 1990  House show Rochester, Minnesota  3  [Note 5] Defeated Jonnie Stewart to win the title in AWA.
AWA goes out of business on January 12, 1991. 		[1][2]

FMW version

In 1989, the Japan-based Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) began billing Florida Championship Wrestling/Professional Wrestling Federation champion Jim Backlund as the AWA champion. This was never sanctioned by the AWA. FMW's claimed title became FMW's lower weight division title. In 1992, FMW renamed the title to the WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship before retiring it in 1993.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ The location of the title change is not documented.
  2. ^ The date the title is changed is not documented making the championship reign too uncertain to calculate.
  3. ^ The exact date the championship was vacated is unknown, which means that the reign lasted between 215 and 244 days.
  4. ^ The length Graham's reign has not been verified by documentation, making the length of the actual reign too uncertain to calculate.
  5. ^ The exact date the AWA stops promoting on a regular basis is unknown making the length of the reign too uncertain to calculate.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "American Wrestling Association World Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  2. ^ Hoops, Brian (August 11, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (August 11): Verne Gagne vs. Lou Thesz for AWA title, first ever G1 final". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
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