CWA Heavyweight Championship
The CWA Heavyweight Championship was a major professional wrestling title defended in the Championship Wrestling Association. It was created through the unification of the NWA Mid-America Heavyweight, AWA Southern Heavyweight and CWA/AWA International Heavyweight championships.
The title was thus considered the most important title in the promotion until Jerry Lawler won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship on May 5, 1988. On December 13, 1988, Lawler defeated Kerry Von Erich to win the World Class Heavyweight Championship and effectively rename the latter title the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship and make it the new top championship in Memphis. The CWA title continued as the secondary title until late 1989 when it was replaced with the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship.
Title history
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lawler, JerryJerry Lawler | 1 | December 7, 1987 | 63 | Memphis, TN | House show | Lawler, the reigning AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion, defeated Jeff Jarrett to win the NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship and Manny Fernandez to win the CWA/AWA International Heavyweight Championship. The titles are all unified, creating the new title. |
| 2 | Pain, MaxMax Pain | 1 | February 8, 1988 | 105 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 3 | Brown, BrickhouseBrickhouse Brown | 1 | May 23, 1988 | 35 | Memphis, TN | House show | Won by forfeit. |
| 4 | Pain, MaxMax Pain | 2 | June 27, 1988 | 13 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 5 | Hickerson, PhilPhil Hickerson | 1 | July 10, 1988 | 127 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| — | Vacated | 1 | November 14, 1988 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Vacated after a match with Brian Lee. |
| 6 | Lee, BrianBrian Lee | 1 | November 19, 1988 | 21 | Memphis, TN | TV Studio show | Defeated Mike Miller in a tournament final. |
| 7 | Vicious, SidSid Vicious | 1 | December 10, 1988 | 30 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 8 | Wendell Cooley | 1 | January 9, 1989 | ? | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 9 | Mantell, DutchDutch Mantell | 1 | January 1989 | ? | N/A | N/A | Awarded the title after Cooley left the company. |
| 10 | Jarrett, JeffJeff Jarrett | 1 | March 11, 1989 | 107 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 11 | Black Bart | 1 | June 26, 1989 | 70 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 12 | Texas Dirt (Dutch Mantell) |
2 | September 4, 1989 | 7 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 13 | Black Bart | 2 | September 11, 1989 | 7 | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| 14 | Texas Dirt | 3 | September 18, 1989 | ? | Memphis, TN | House show | |
| — | Vacated | 1 | September 1989 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| — | Retired | 1 | October 1989 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Retired in favor of the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship. |
References
- CWA Heavyweight Championship history – Wrestling-Titles.com
- 1988 and 1989 Mid-South Coliseum results – ProWrestlingHistory.com