AWA_Light_Heavyweight_Championship

AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

Professional wrestling championship

The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1981 until it closed in 1991. In 1989, the Japan-based Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) promotion began billing Florida Championship Wrestling/Professional Wrestling Federation champion Jim Backlund as the AWA champion, something not acknowledged by the AWA; the title became FMW's lower weight division title. From 1988 through the closure of the AWA in 1991, there were two separate lineages, with the FMW version of the championship being sometimes referred to as the FMW World Light Heavyweight Championship. In 1992, FMW renamed the title to the WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship before retiring it in 1993.[1]

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Title history

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Footnotes

  1. [N 1]
    The location of the title change is not documented.
  2. [N 2]
    The date the title is changed is not documented making the championship reign too uncertain to calculate.
  3. [N 3]
    The exact date the championship was vacated is unknown, which means that the reign lasted between 215 and 244 days.
  4. [N 4]
    The length Graham's reign has not been verified by documentation, making the length of the actual reign too uncertain to calculate.
  5. [N 5]
    The exact date the AWA stops promoting on a regular basis is unknown making the length of the reign too uncertain to calculate.
  6. [N 6]
    The exact date the championship was vacated which means that the reign lasted between 518 and 542 days.
  7. [N 7]
    The date the title is abandoned is not documented making the championship reign too uncertain to calculate.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "American Wrestling Association World Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  2. [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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