CWA World Heavyweight Championship (Memphis)
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The CWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the American promotion, the Continental Wrestling Association. It existed from 1979 to 1981.[1][2]
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Promotion | Continental Wrestling Association | ||||||||||||
Date established | April 28, 1979[1][2] | ||||||||||||
Date retired | June 1981 | ||||||||||||
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Title history edit
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
1 | Thunderbolt Patterson | April 28, 1979 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | [Note 1] | This was the first date that Patterson was acknowledged as champion. He was said to have defeated Mark Lewin in January 1979 in Melbourne, Australia to become the first champion. | [1][2] |
— | Vacated | June 1979 | — | — | — | — | Thunderbolt Patterson left the CWA | [1][2] |
2 | Pat McGinnis | October 2, 1979 | House show | Louisville, Kentucky | 1 | 8 | Defeated Hector Guerrero. | [1][2] |
3 | "Superstar" Billy Graham | October 8, 1979 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 31 | [1][2] | |
4 | Jerry Lawler | November 8, 1979 | House show | Lexington, Kentucky | 1 | 74 | [1][2] | |
— | Vacated | January 21, 1980 | — | — | — | — | Vacated after a match against Bill Dundee | [1][2] |
5 | Billy Robinson | April 28, 1980 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 98 | Defeated The Masked Superstar. | [1][2] |
6 | Bill Dundee | August 4, 1980 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 7 | [1][2] | |
7 | Billy Robinson | August 11, 1980 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 2 | 56 | [1][2] | |
8 | Austin Idol | October 6, 1980 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 14 | [1][2] | |
9 | Bobby Eaton | October 20, 1980 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 7 | Won the title by forfeit. | [1][2] |
10 | Billy Robinson | October 27, 1980 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 3 | [Note 2] | [1][2] | |
11 | Dory Funk Jr. | April 1981 (NLT) | House show | [Note 3] | 1 | [Note 4] | [1][2] | |
— | Deactivated | 1981 | — | — | — | — | [1][2] |
Footnotes edit
- ^ The exact date Patterson won the championship and left the CWA are uncertain, which means the length of the reign is too uncertain to calculate.
- ^ The exact date that Robinson lost the championship is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 1 day and 185 days.
- ^ The location of the championship change has not been documented.
- ^ The exact date that Dory Funk Jr. won the championship and the championship was abandoned are unknown, which means the reign is too uncertain to calculate.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Will, Gary; Duncan, Royal (2000). "(Memphis) Tennessee: CWA World Heavyweight Title [Lawler & Jarrett]". Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. p. 195. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "CWA Singles Title Histories". ProWrestlingHistory.com. Retrieved April 4, 2017.