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AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship
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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
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 Most reigns Jerry Lawler (58 reigns) 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. Memphis Wrestling held their last regular in 2009.

Title history

United States Wrestling Association

Memphis Championship Wrestling

Memphis Wrestling

Footnotes

1. Lawler held the NWA/AWA version 52 times, the USWA version 2 times, the MCW version 2 times and the MW version 2 times.
2. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 14 days.
3. ^ The location of the match was not captured as part of the documentation.
4. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 12 and 25 days.
5. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 72 days.
6. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 55 days.
7. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 71 days.
8. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 17 and 35 days.
9. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 43 days.
10. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 126 and 168 days.
11. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 20 days.
12. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 19 days.
13. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 27 days.
14. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 27 days.
15. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 63 days.
16. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 14 and 77 days.
17. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 25 days.
18. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 25 days.
19. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 2 and 26 days.
20. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 27 days.
21. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 52 and 55 days.
22. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 4 and 22 days.
23. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 17 and 41 days.
24. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 25 days.
25. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 33 and 55 days.
26. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and −1,073 days.
27. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 11 and 13 days.
28. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 4 days.
29. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 59 and 67 days.
30. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 20 days.
31. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 19 days.
32. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 22 and 51 days.
33. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 152 and 181 days.
34. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 11 days.
35. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 14 days.
36. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 20 days.
37. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 20 days.
38. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 30 days.
39. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 33 and 63 days.
40. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 15} days.
41. The exact date the championship was abandoned is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 56 and 85 days.
42. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 18 days.
43. The exact date the championship was abandoned is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 14 and 44 days.
44. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 360 and 390 days.
45. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 92 and 152 days.
46. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 578 and 638 days.
47. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 367 and 426 days.
48. The exact date the championship change took place is uncertain, which means the reign lasted between 1 and 245 days.

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• 1974 establishments in Tennessee
• American Wrestling Association championships
• Continental Wrestling Association championships
• Heavyweight wrestling championships
• Memphis Championship Wrestling championships
• National Wrestling Alliance championships
• NWA Mid-America championships
• Regional professional wrestling championships
• United States Wrestling Association championships