CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship

CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion United States Wrestling Association
World Class Wrestling Association
Date established September 1989
Date retired August 1990

The CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship was a short-lived professional wrestling title defended in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA, formerly the Championship Wrestling Association, hence the CWA name) and the World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) during their joint promotion in 1989 and 1990. The title was abandoned when the two companies split.

The CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship is often mistakenly listed as being part of the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship history.

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
 1  The Dirty White Boy  October 2, 1989  House show Memphis, Tennessee  1  48 Defeated Dustin Rhodes in a tournament final to become the first champion. [1]
 2  Bill Dundee  November 19, 1989  House show Memphis, Tennessee  1  165 [1]
 3  John Tatum  May 3, 1990  House show Dallas, Texas  1  15 [1]
 4  Bill Dundee  May 18, 1990  House show Dallas, Texas  2  28 [1]
 5  John Tatum  June 15, 1990  House show Dallas, Texas  2  7 [1]
 6  Bill Dundee  June 22, 1990  House show Dallas, Texas  3  12 [1][2]
 7  John Tatum  July 4, 1990  House show Dallas, Texas  3  [Note 1] [1]
— Deactivated  August 1990 — — — — Abandoned when World Class seceded from the USWA. [1]

List of combined reigns

Key
Symbol Meaning
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
Rank Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Bill Dundee3205
2 John Tatum350¤[Note 1]
3 The Dirty White Boy148

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 The exact date the championship was abandoned is uncertain, which means that this reign lasted between 28 and 58 days.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "CWA Southwestern Title". ProWrestlingHistory.com. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hoops, Brian (June 22, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (June 22): Ric Flair vs. Wahoo, Stan Hansen vs. Nick Bockwinkel cage match, Chris Jericho wins ECW gold". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 19, 2017.

See also

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