AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion	NWA Mid-America (1974–1977) Continental Wrestling Association (1977–1987) United States Wrestling Association (1990–1997) Memphis Championship Wrestling (2000–2001) Memphis Wrestling (2004–2010)
Date established	July 27, 1974
Date retired	2010[1]
Other name(s)
NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Mid-America version) NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Memphis version) Mid-Southern Heavyweight Championship AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship USWA Heavyweight Championship MCW Southern Heavyweight Championship Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship
Statistics First champion(s) Jerry Lawler Final champion(s) Brian Christopher[2] Most reigns Jerry Lawler (58 reigns[Note 1]) Shortest reign Jerry Lawler (1 hour)

The AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship was a major professional wrestling title in the Continental Wrestling Association during the 1970s and 1980s. The title is part of a long lineage that was started when the NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship, in use since 1939, was renamed the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Memphis version) in 1974. The title's name changed again in 1978, when it was renamed the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship due to a partnership with the American Wrestling Association. It was also called the Mid-Southern Heavyweight Championship in Pro Wrestling Illustrated and its sister publications, in order for this title to not be confused with Championship Wrestling from Florida's version of the title.

The title was revived in the United States Wrestling Association from 1989 until 1997 when the USWA closed. It was known as the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship and later simply the USWA Heavyweight Championship during that time; however, unlike the previous Southern title in Memphis, this one played a secondary role to the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship. It was revived in Memphis Championship Wrestling as the MCW Southern Heavyweight Championship in 2000 and 2001. It was later revived and renamed in 2004 for use in Memphis Wrestling as the Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship, where the last recorded champion was Brian Christopher, winning the championship on November 4, 2010, but with no recorded championship matches since then.^[1] Memphis Wrestling held their last regular in 2009.^[3]

Title history

Key

No.	Overall reign number
Reign	Reign number for the specific champion
Days	Number of days held

Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Memphis_Wrestling_Southern_Heavyweight_Championship
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No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics		Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days
	NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship
1	Jerry Lawler	July 27, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Chattanooga, Tennessee	1	88	Defeated Jackie Fargo for the NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship. The title was then renamed the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Mid-America version) in August 1974.	[4][5]
2	Robert Fuller	October 23, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Nashville, Tennessee	1	7		[4][5]
3	Jerry Lawler	October 30, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Nashville, Tennessee	2	61		[4][5]
—	Vacated	December 1974	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated for undocumented reasons	[4][5]
2	Ron Fuller	December 29, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	162	Won an eight-man tournament.	[4][5]
5	The Mongolian Stomper	June 9, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	35		[4][5]
6	Jerry Lawler	July 14, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	3	[Note 2]		[4][5]
7	The Mongolian Stomper	July 28, 1975 (NLT)	Mid-Am Show	[Note 3]	2	[Note 4]		[4][5]
—	Vacated	August 9, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	—	—	Championship vacated after a match against Bob Armstrong.	[4][5]
8	Bob Armstrong	September 29, 1975 (NLT)	Mid-Am Show	[Note 3]	1	[Note 5]	Defeated The Mongolian Stomper in a rematch. The title change may have been repeated on October 7, 1975 in Louisville, Kentucky.	[4][5]
9	Jerry Lawler	October 20, 1975 (NLT)	Mid-Am Show	Huntsville, Alabama	4	[Note 6]		[4][5]
10	Bob Armstrong	November 24, 1975 (NLT)	Mid-Am Show	[Note 3]	2	[Note 7]		[4][5]
	Vacated	November 1975		N/A			Championship vacated for undocumented reasons	[4][5]
11	Jerry Lawler	December 15, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	5	[Note 8]	Defeated Ron Fuller in a tournament final.	[4][5]
—	Vacated	January 1976	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated after a match against Ricky Gibson	[4][5]
12	Jerry Lawler	January 19, 1976	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	6	34	Defeated Ricky Gibson in a rematch.	[4][5][6]
13	Tommy Rich	February 22, 1976	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	[Note 9]		[4][5][7]
14	Jerry Lawler	April 5, 1976 (NLT)	Mid-Am Show	[Note 3]	7	[Note 10]		[4][5]
15	Jack Brisco	August 9, 1976	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	10		[4][5]
16	Jerry Lawler	August 19, 1976	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	8	26		[4][5]
17	Tommy Rich	September 14, 1976	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	2	[Note 11]		[4][5]
18	Jerry Lawler	October 4, 1976 (NLT)	Mid-Am Show	[Note 3]	9	[Note 12]		[4][5]
19	Jackie Fargo	October 4, 1976	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	[Note 13]		[4][5]
20	Jerry Lawler	October 1976	Mid-Am Show	[Note 3]	10	[Note 14]		[4][5]
21	Rocky Johnson	November 1, 1976	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	161	The championship moved from NWA Mid-America to the Continental Wrestling Association on March 20, 1977	[4][5]
	NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship / Mid-Southern Heavyweight Championship
22	Jerry Lawler	April 11, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	11	17		[4][5]
23	Bob Armstrong	April 28, 1977	CWA Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	3	3		[4][5]
24	Jerry Lawler	May 1, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	12	28		[4][5]
25	Paul Orndorff	May 29, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	50		[4][5]
26	Jerry Lawler	July 18, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	13	7		[4][5]
27	Bill Dundee	July 25, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	7		[4][5]
28	Jerry Lawler	August 1, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	14	21		[4][5]
29	Bill Dundee	August 22, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	2	7		[4][5]
30	Jerry Lawler	August 29, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	15	15		[4][5]
—	Vacated	September 13, 1977	—	—	—	—	Lawler retired after a match against Bill Dundee, but later returned to the ring	[4][5]
31	Jimmy Valiant	September 25, 1977	CWA Show	Louisville, Kentucky	1	15	Defeated Mr. Wrestling in the finals of a six-man one-night tournament.	[4][5]
32	Jerry Lawler	October 10, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	16	49		[4][5]
33	Jimmy Valiant	November 28, 1977	CWA Show	Memphis, Tennessee	2	7		[4][5]
34	Jerry Lawler	December 5, 1977	Memphis, Tennessee	CWA Show