WCWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

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WCWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
WCWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.png
The championship belt
Details
Promotion World Class Wrestling Association
Date established1987 [1] [2]
Date retired1989 [1] [2]
Statistics
First champion(s) Eric Embry [1] [2]
Most reignsEric Embry (5 reigns) [1] [2]
Longest reignEric Embry
(295 days) [1] [2]
Shortest reign Cactus Jack
(5 days) [1] [2]
Oldest championEric Embry (29 years, 311 days) [lower-alpha 1]
Youngest champion Jeff Jarrett (21 years, 93 days) [lower-alpha 1]

The WCWA Light Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area-based World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) promotion from September 13, 1987 until May 1989. The championship was for wrestlers under 230 pounds (100 kg) pounds, the maximum limit of the "Light Heavyweight" division at the time. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match. [lower-alpha 2]

Contents

According to WCWA, inaugural champion Eric Embry won the championship by defeating Peter Vander Graling (or "Vandergraling") on a show in South Africa on September 13, 1987, [2] however no sources have confirmed the validity of the claim, leading to the belief that this was simply a storyline by WCWA to explain how Embry became champion. [1] Embry won WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship on April 7, 1989, [8] followed by the WCWA World Light Heavyweight Championship being declared vacant in May, after which it was never promoted again. [1] [2] Embry holds the record for most championship reigns, with five in total, the longest individual reign (295 days) and the longest combined reigns (approximately 518 days). Cactus Jack's five day reign, from December 30, 1988 to January 4, 1989, is the shortest reign of any champion. [1] [2]

Title history

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
1 Eric Embry September 13, 1987 Live event South Africa173Supposedly defeated Peter Vander Graling, posibibly a fictitious match [1] [2]
2 Shaun Simpson November 25, 1987WCWA Live eventDallas, Texas130 [1] [2]
3 Eric Embry December 25, 1987 Christmas Star Wars Dallas, Texas2295 [1] [2] [9]
4 Jeff Jarrett October 15, 1988 5th Cotton Bowl Extravaganza Dallas, Texas127Highlights aired on the October 22 episode of WCCW's weekly television show (E356) [1] [2] [10] [11] [12]
5 Eric Embry November 11, 1988WCWA Live eventDallas, Texas313 [1] [2]
6 Jeff Jarrett November 24, 1988WCWA Live eventJackson, Tennessee219 [1] [2] [13]
7 Eric Embry December 13, 1988 SuperClash III Chicago, Illinois417 [1] [2] [14] [15]
8 Cactus Jack December 30, 1988WCWA Live eventDallas, Texas15 [1] [2] [16] [17]
9 Eric Embry January 4, 1989WCWA Live eventDallas, Texas5 [lower-alpha 3] [1] [2] [18]
—DeactivatedMay 1989————Embry won Texas Championship on April 7, 1989, [8] the light heavyweight championship was vacated in May 1989. [1] [2]

Reigns by combined length

Key
SymbolMeaning
¤The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
RankWrestlerNo. of ReignsCombined Days
1 Eric Embry 5518¤ [lower-alpha 3]
2 Jeff Jarrett 246
3 Shaun Simpson 130
4 Cactus Jack 15

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Wrestler's age when they won the championship:
    • Cactus Jack - 23 years, 206 days [3]
    • Eric Embry - First reign: 28 years, 197 days, last reign: 29 years, 311 days [4]
    • Jeff Jarrett - first reign: 21 years, 93 days, second reign 21 years, 133 days [5]
    • Shaun Simpson - 21 years, 126 days [6]
  2. ↑ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters" [7]
  3. 1 2 The exact date on which the championship was abandoned is uncertain, which means the title reign lasted between 117 and 147 days.

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