AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

Details

Promotion

Date established

June 1981

Date retired

1993

Other name(s)

WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship

The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association from 1981 until it closed in 1991. It was also a title in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling from 1989 to 1993.

Title history

Champions recognized by the American Wrestling Association.

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
Mike Graham	1	June 1981		Graham was awarded the title.
Buck Zumhofe	1	June 19, 1983	Hamburg, Minnesota	Bobby Heenan defeated Zumhofe several times but was over the Light Heavyweight weight limit.
Steve Regal	1	March 25, 1984	St. Paul, Minnesota
Buck Zumhofe	2	November 28, 1985	St. Paul, Minnesota
Title vacated		July 1986		The title was vacated when Zumhofe was sent to prison.
Mike Graham	2	1988		Graham was awarded the title.
Title vacated		1990
Buck Zumhofe	3	August 11, 1990	Rochester, Minnesota	Defeated Jonnie Stewart to win the vacant title.
Title retired		January 1991

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
Mike Graham		1988		Graham was awarded the title.
Jimmy Backlund	1	December 1988	Tampa, Florida	Recognized as the sixth champion by FMW, but not by AWA; may have defeated Graham for the title.
Lee Gak-Soo	1	April 1, 1990	Tokyo, Japan
Title vacated		September 1990		Vacated when Lee Gak-Soo quit FMW.
Katsuji Ueda	1	September 25, 1990	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Jimmy Backlund for the vacant title.
Jimmy Backlund	2	November 5, 1990	Tokyo, Japan
Ricky Fuji	1	May 29, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Mark Starr	1	August 24, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Katsuji Ueda	2	August 31, 1991	Chiba, Japan
Dr. Luther	1	March 23, 1992	Saitama, Japan	The championship is renamed the WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship in April 1992.
Katsuji Ueda	3	September 7, 1992	Saitama, Japan
Title abandoned		1993		The title was abandoned for the FMW Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship, which would be unveiled in August 1993.