AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

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

FMW version

In 1989, the Japan-based Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling began billing Florida Championship Wrestling/Professional Wrestling Federation champion Jimmy [Del Ray|Jim Backlund] as the AWA champion. This was 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.