# CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship

The CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship was a short-lived professional wrestling championship defended in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA, formerly the Championship Wrestling Association, hence the CWA name) and the World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) during their joint promotion in 1989 and 1990. The title was abandoned when the two companies split.
The Dirty White Boy defeated Dustin Rhodes in the finals of a tournament to become the first CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Champion, records are unclear on who else competed in the tournament. Three wrestlers in total have shared seven total reigns, with Bill Dundee and John Tatum tied for most with three each. Dundee held the championship for a combined 205 days, longer than anyone else. His first reign, from November 19, 1989, to May 3, 1990, is the longest of any individual reign at 165 days.
The CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship is often mistakenly listed as being part of the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship history. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match.

## 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. |
| 1 | The Dirty White Boy | October 2, 1989 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 48 | Defeated Dustin Rhodes in a tournament final to become the first champion. | |
| 2 | Bill Dundee | November 19, 1989 | House show | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 165 | | |
| 3 | John Tatum | May 3, 1990 | House show | Dallas, Texas | 1 | 15 | | |
| 4 | Bill Dundee | May 18, 1990 | House show | Dallas, Texas | 2 | 28 | | |
| 5 | John Tatum | June 15, 1990 | House show | Dallas, Texas | 2 | 7 | | |
| 6 | Bill Dundee | June 22, 1990 | House show | Dallas, Texas | 3 | 12 | | |
| 7 | John Tatum | July 4, 1990 | House show | Dallas, Texas | 3 | | | |
| — | Deactivated | August 1990 | — | — | — | — | Abandoned when World Class seceded from the USWA. | |

## List of combined reigns
### Key

| Symbol | Meaning |
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Bill Dundee | 3 | 205 |
| 2 | John Tatum | 3 | 50¤ |
| 3 | The Dirty White Boy | 1 | 48 |

## Footnotes

* 1 2 Wrestlers' ages they won the championship: Dirty White Boy - 29 years, 173 days Bill Dundee - first:46 years, 26 days, third: 46 years, 241 days John Tatum - first: 30 years, 194 days, third: 30 years, 256 days
* 1 2 Wrestlers' weight when: Dirty White Boy - 211 lb (96 kg) Bill Dundee - 214 lb (97 kg) John Tatum - 233 lb (106 kg)
* ↑ 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"
* 1 2 The exact date the championship was abandoned is uncertain, which means that this reign lasted between 28 and 58 days.