AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
The AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was a title in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1981 until it closed in 1991. In 1989, the Japan-based Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) promotion began billing Florida Championship Wrestling/Professional Wrestling Federation champion Jim Backlund as the AWA champion, something not acknowledged by the AWA; the title became FMW's lower weight division title. From 1988 through the closure of the AWA in 1991, there were two separate lineages, with the FMW version of the championship being sometimes referred to as the FMW World Light Heavyweight Championship. In 1992, FMW renamed the title to the WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship before retiring it in 1993.
| AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | American Wrestling Association Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling | ||||||||||
| Date established | June 1981 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | 1993 | ||||||||||
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