PWA Light Heavyweight Championship

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PWA Light Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion Pro Wrestling America
Date establishedJanuary 15, 1985
Date retired1992
Statistics
First champion(s) Steve Regal
Final champion(s) Jerry Lynn
(won December 27, 1991)
Most reigns Jerry Lynn (3)
Longest reignTommy Ferrera (1,183 days)
Shortest reignMatt Derringer (8 days)

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.

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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
ReignThe reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
EventThe event in which the title was won
Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/AThe information is not available or is unknown
+Indicates the current reign is changing daily

Reigns

#WrestlersReignDateDays
held
LocationEventNotesRef.
1 Steve Regal 1January 15, 1985N/AN/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/AN/AN/A
2Tommy Ferrera1March 6, 1986N/A Coon Rapids, Minnesota Live event Ferrera defeated The Outpatient to win the vacant championship. [1]
Vacated June 1989N/AN/A
3Johnny Love1June 24, 1989214 Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event Love defeated Anthony Wright to win the vacant championship.
4 Jerry Lynn 1January 24, 199051 Red Wing, Minnesota Live event [2] [3]
5Matt Derringer1March 16, 199027 Hastings, Minnesota Live event
6 The Lightning Kid 1April 12, 199024 Fridley, Minnesota Live event [4] [5] [6]
7Matt Derringer2May 6, 19908 Barron, Wisconsin Live event [7]
8Tommy Ferrera2May 14, 1990N/A Fridley, Minnesota Live event
Vacated N/AN/AN/AThe championship is vacated when Tommy Ferrera is unable to defend the title due to a shoulder injury.
9Jerry Lynn2January 14, 199184 Fridley, Minnesota Live event Lynn defeated The Lightning Kid to win the vacant title. [2] [3] [8] [9]
10The Lightning Kid2April 8, 1991223 Fridley, Minnesota Live event [5] [6] [10]
11 Ricky Rice 1November 17, 1991N/A Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event [11]
Vacated December 1991N/AN/A
12Jerry Lynn3December 27, 1991N/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 1992N/AN/AThe title was abandoned.

List of combined reigns

Rank [N 1] Wrestler# of reignsCombined days
1Tommy Ferrera11,183(est.)
2 The Lightning Kid 2247
3Johnny Love1214
4 Jerry Lynn 3135
5Matt Derringer235
6 Ricky Rice 314(est.)

Footnotes

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

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