Date established June 14, 1981 First champion(s) Mike Graham | Date retired 1993 Longest reign Steve Regal (613 days) | |
Promotion American Wrestling Association
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Most reigns Buck Zumhofe and Katsuji Ueda (3 reigns) | ||
The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association from 1981 until it closed in 1991. In 1988 Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling claimed that Jim Backlund won the championship, something not officially acknowledged by the AWA. From 1988 through the closure of the AWA in 1991 there were two separate lineages, with the championship recognized by FMW being renamed in 1991 to become the FMW World Light Heavyweight Championship and then later on the WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship before being abandoned altogether in 1993.
Title history
References
AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA