PWA Light Heavyweight Championship

The PWA Light Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling light heavyweight championship in Pro Wrestling America (PWA). It remained active until 1992 when the title was abandoned.

PWA Light Heavyweight Championship
Details
PromotionPro Wrestling America
Date establishedJanuary 15, 1985
Date retired1992

The inaugural champion was "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal, the then reigning AWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, who was billed as the first PWA Light Heavyweight Champion upon his arrival in the promotion in January 1985. Jerry Lynn holds the record for most reigns, with three. At an estimated 1,183 days, Tommy Ferrera's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Matt Derringer's second reign was the shortest in the history of the title lasting 8 days. Overall, there have been 12 reigns shared between 7 wrestlers, with four vacancies, and 1 deactivation.

Title history
Key
# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event The event in which the title was won
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily

Reigns
# Wrestlers Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes Ref.
1 Steve Regal 1 January 15, 1985 N/A N/A Live event Regal was then the reigning AWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion and billed as champion upon his arrival in the promotion.
— Vacated — N/A — N/A N/A
2 Tommy Ferrera 1 March 6, 1986 N/A Coon Rapids, Minnesota Live event Ferrera defeated The Outpatient to win the vacant championship. [1]
— Vacated — June 1989 — N/A N/A
3 Johnny Love 1 June 24, 1989 214 Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event Love defeated Anthony Wright to win the vacant championship.
4 Jerry Lynn 1 January 24, 1990 51 Red Wing, Minnesota Live event [2][3]
5 Matt Derringer 1 March 16, 1990 27 Hastings, Minnesota Live event
6 The Lightning Kid 1 April 12, 1990 24 Fridley, Minnesota Live event [4][5][6]
7 Matt Derringer 2 May 6, 1990 8 Barron, Wisconsin Live event [7]
8 Tommy Ferrera 2 May 14, 1990 N/A Fridley, Minnesota Live event
— Vacated — N/A — N/A N/A The championship is vacated when Tommy Ferrera is unable to defend the title due to a shoulder injury.
9 Jerry Lynn 2 January 14, 1991 84 Fridley, Minnesota Live event Lynn defeated The Lightning Kid to win the vacant title. [2][3][8][9]
10 The Lightning Kid 2 April 8, 1991 223 Fridley, Minnesota Live event [5][6][10]
11 Ricky Rice 1 November 17, 1991 N/A Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event [11]
— Vacated — December 1991 — N/A N/A
12 Jerry Lynn 3 December 27, 1991 N/A Dallas, Texas Live event Lynn defeated The Lightning Kid to win the vacant title. This was at a Global Wrestling Federation event. [2][3]
— Deactivated — 1992 — N/A N/A The title was abandoned.

List of combined reigns
Rank[N 1] Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Tommy Ferrera 1 1,183 (est.)
2 The Lightning Kid 2 247
3 Johnny Love 1 214
4 Jerry Lynn 3 135
5 Matt Derringer 2 35
6 Ricky Rice 3 14 (est.)

Footnotes
  1. Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.

References
General
  • "P.W.A. Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Puroresu Dojo. 2003. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  • Palma, Richard. "PWA Light Heavyweight Title History". Wrestling Title Histories by Gary Will and Royal Duncan. Solie.org. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
  • Gary Will and Royal Duncan (2000). "(Minnesota) PWA Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
Specific
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  7. F4W Staff (May 6, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (May 6): Verne Gagne Vs. Danny Hodge, 1st Annual Von Erich Parade of Champions show". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  8. Hoops, Brian (January 14, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/14): Christian wins NWA World Title". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  9. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "PWA (14.01.1991)". Event. Cagematch.de. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  10. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "PWA (08.04.1991)". Event. Cagematch.de. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
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