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Promotion | Pro Wrestling America | ||||||||||||
Date established | January 15, 1985 | ||||||||||||
Date retired | 1992 | ||||||||||||
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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.
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.
# | 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 |
# | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
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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. |
Rank [N 1] | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
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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.) |
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