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CWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship#Title history

{{short description|Catch Wrestling Association championships}}

{{notability|1=Sport|date=January 2018}}

{{Infobox pro wrestling championship

|championshipname=CWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship

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|caption=

|promotion=Catch Wrestling Association
(1993–1999)
Athletik Championship Wrestling (1999–2000)

|created=July 3, 1993

|mostreigns=Michael Kovac
(3 reigns)

|firstchamp=Hiroyoshi Yamamoto

|finalchamp=Eric Schwarz

|longestreign=Karsten Kretschmer
(567 days)

|shortestreign=El Locco
(7 days)

|oldest=

|youngest=

|heaviest=

|lightest=

|pastnames=

|titleretired=September 1, 2000

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CWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling junior heavyweight world championship in Catch Wrestling Association (CWA). The title was established in 1993 as a weight-class title along with the CWA World Middleweight Championship. Bonecrusher Sileo was crowned the inaugural champion by defeating Lance Storm at Clash of the Champions event on July 3, 1993.{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=15198|title=CWA Clash Of The Champions 1993|publisher=Cagematch|language=German|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=July 3, 1993}} The title was defended in CWA until the promotion closed after holding its final event Euro Catch Festival on December 4, 1999. The champion Karsten Kretschmer then began defending the title in the German independent promotion Athletik Championship Wrestling (ACW), where he would lose the title to Eric Schwarz, who would retire the title in September 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/europe/germany/cwa/eu-cwa-j.html|title=CWA World Junior Heavyweight Title (Austria / Germany)|publisher=Wrestling-titles|accessdate=2018-01-06}} The championship was contested under 12 three-minute rounds.

Title history

class="wikitable"

|style="background: #f0f0f0;"|Symbol

|style="background: #f0f0f0;"|Meaning

No.

|The overall championship reign

Reign

|The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.

Event

|The event in which the championship changed hands

N/A

|The specific information is not known

—

|Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign

[Note #]

|Indicates that the exact length of the title reign is unknown, with a note providing more details.

class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="text-align: center"

!width=0 data-sort-type="number"|#

!style="width:23%"|Wrestler

!style="width:0%" |Reign

!style="width:15%"|Date

!style="width:5%" |Days held

!style="width:14%"|Location

!style="width:14%"|Event

!style="width:56%" class="unsortable"|Notes

1

|Bonecrusher Sileo

|1

|July 3, 1993

|{{age in days|July 3, 1993|July 13, 1993}}

|Graz, Austria

|Clash of the Champions

|Defeated Lance Storm to become the inaugural champion{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=1|title=Hiroyoshi Yamamoto's first reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

2

|Lance Storm

|1

|July 24, 1993

|{{age in days|July 24, 1993|October 1, 1993}}

|Vienna, Austria

|Catch Cup

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=2|title=Lance Storm's first reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

3

|Hiroyoshi Yamamoto

|2

|October 1, 1993

|{{age in days|October 1, 1993|October 24, 1993}}

|{{sort|1|Yamamoto has been recorded as having won the title twice but details are unknown when he defeated Storm for the title.}}

|{{sort|1|Yamamoto has been recorded as having won the title twice but details are unknown when he defeated Storm for the title.}}

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=3|title=Hiroyoshi Yamamoto's second reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

4

|Lance Storm

|2

|October 24, 1993

|{{age in days|October 24, 1993|October 31, 1993}}

|Hanover, Germany

|World Cup

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=50156|title=CWA World Cup 1993 - Tag 53|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=October 24, 1993|language=German}}

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|—

|Vacated

|—

|October 31, 1993

|—

|Hanover, Germany

|World Cup

|The title was vacated as Lance Storm left the promotion after the event.

5

|Michael Kovac

|1

|June 1, 1996

|{{age in days|June 1, 1996|September 21, 1996}}

|—

|—

|Kovac was awarded the title.{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=4|title=Michael Kovac's first reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

6

|Kendo Kashin

|1

|September 21, 1996

|{{age in days|September 21, 1996|December 21, 1996}}

|Hanover, Germany

|Catch World Cup

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=5|title=Kendo Kashin's first reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

7

|Michael Kovac

|2

|December 21, 1996

|{{age in days|December 21, 1996|July 5, 1997}}

|Bremen, Germany

|Euro Catch Festival

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=23213|title=CWA Euro Catch Festival|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=December 21, 1996|language=German}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=6|title=Michael Kovac's second reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

style="background: #e3e3e3;"

|—

|Vacated

|—

|July 5, 1997

|—

|Graz, Austria

|Euro Catch Festival

|The title was vacated for unknown reasons.

8

|Michael Kovac

|3

|July 5, 1997

|{{age in days|July 5, 1997|October 1, 1998}}

|Graz, Austria

|Euro Catch Festival

|Defeated Christian Eckstein to win the vacant title.{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=23212|title=CWA Euro Catch Festival|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=July 5, 1997|language=German}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=7|title=Michael Kovac's third reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

style="background: #e3e3e3;"

|—

|Vacated

|—

|October 1, 1998

|—

|—

|—

|The title was vacated as Michael Kovac left the promotion.

9

|Karsten Kretschmer

|1

|October 10, 1998

|{{age in days|October 10, 1998|December 12, 1998}}

|Hanover, Germany

|Catch World Cup

|Defeated Eric Schwarz to win the vacant title.{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=205|title=CWA Catch World Cup 1998 - Tag 31 Champions Night|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=October 10, 1998|language=German}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=8|title=Karsten Kretschmer's first reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

10

|El Locco

|1

|December 12, 1998

|{{age in days|December 12, 1998|December 19, 1998}}

|Bremen, Germany

|International Catch Cup

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=49960|title=CWA Internationaler Catch Cup '98 - Tag 31 Champions Night|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=December 12, 1998|language=German}}

11

|Karsten Kretschmer

|2

|December 19, 1998

|{{age in days|December 19, 1998|July 8, 2000}}

|Bremen, Germany

|Euro Catch Festival

|CWA closed in 1999 and Krestchmer began defending the title in Atlantik Championship Wrestling.{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=23251|title=CWA Euro Catch Festival|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=December 19, 1998|language=German}}

12

|Eric Schwarz

|1

|July 8, 2000

|{{age in days|July 8, 2000|September 1, 2000}}

|Weinheim, Germany

|Doomsday II

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=33|title=ACW Doomsday II - Tag 1|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06|date=July 8, 2000|language=German}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=57&page=5&reign=9|title=Eric Schwarz' first reign|publisher=Cagematch|accessdate=2018-01-06}}

style="background: #e3e3e3;"

|—

|Retired

|—

|September 1, 2000

|—

|—

|—

|Eric Schwarz retired the title.

Combined reigns

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"

!Rank

!Wrestler

!No. of
reigns

!Combined days

1

|Michael Kovac

|3

|761

2

|Karsten Kretschmer

|2

|630

3

|Kendo Kashin

|1

|91

4

|Lance Storm

|3

|76

5

|Eric Schwarz

|1

|55

6

|Hiroyoshi Yamamoto

|2

|44

7

|Bonecrusher Sileo

|1

|10

10

|El Locco

|1

|7

Footnotes

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References

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{{Catch Wrestling Association Championships}}

{{CWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship}}

Category:Catch Wrestling Association championships

Category:Junior heavyweight wrestling championships

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