# AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1981 until it closed in 1991.

## Title history

Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| | American Wrestling Association (AWA) | American Wrestling Association (AWA) | American Wrestling Association (AWA) | American Wrestling Association (AWA) | American Wrestling Association (AWA) | American Wrestling Association (AWA) | American Wrestling Association (AWA) | American Wrestling Association (AWA) |
| 1 | Mike Graham | June 1981 | House show | | 1 | | Graham was awarded the title. | |
| 2 | Buck Zumhofe | June 19, 1983 | House show | Hamburg, Minnesota | 1 | 280 | | |
| 3 | Steve Regal | March 25, 1984 | House show | Saint Paul, Minnesota | 1 | 613 | | |
| 4 | Buck Zumhofe | November 28, 1985 | House show | Saint Paul, Minnesota | 2 | | | |
| — | Vacated | Earlier than April 20,1986 | — | — | — | — | Zumhofe was already mentioned as a former champion at Wrestle Rock '86 | |
| 5 | Mike Graham | December 13, 1988 | House show | Chicago, Illinois | 2 | | Records are unclear on how Graham won the championship. | |
| | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. | Championship history is unrecorded from December 13, 1988 to August 11, 1990. |
| † | Buck Zumhofe | August 11, 1990 | House show | Rochester, Minnesota | 3 | | Defeated Jonnie Stewart to win the title in AWA. AWA goes out of business on January 12, 1991. | |

## FMW version

In 1989, the Japan-based Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) began billing Florida Championship Wrestling/Professional Wrestling Federation champion Jim Backlund as the AWA champion. This eas never sanctioned by the AWA. FMW's claimed title became FMW's lower weight division title. In 1992, FMW renamed the title to the WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship before retiring it in 1993.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The location of the title change is not documented.
* ↑ The date the title is changed is not documented making the championship reign too uncertain to calculate.
* ↑ The exact date the championship was vacated is unknown, which means that the reign lasted between 215 and 244 days.
* ↑ The length Graham's reign has not been verified by documentation, making the length of the actual reign too uncertain to calculate.
* ↑ The exact date the AWA stops promoting on a regular basis is unknown making the length of the reign too uncertain to calculate.