NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship | |
Created: | May 25, 1939 |
Titleretired: | July 27, 1974 |
Promotion: | NWA Mid-America |
Firstchamp: | Joe Gunther |
Mostreigns: | Len Rossi (7 reign) |
Longestreign: | Tojo Yamamoto (512 days) |
Shortestreign: | Siki Samara (<1 day) |
The NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title for lighter wrestlers, board-controlled by the National Wrestling Alliance since December 1949.
It originally was used by various promotions across the Southeastern United States, most prevalently in NWA Mid-America based Tennessee. In August 1974, it was renamed the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Memphis version).
The title was revived by the NWA in December 1999, and is used in the NWA Mid-South promotion, based in Humboldt, Tennessee.[1]