USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship



In the Classic Era, the USWA Unified Heavyweight Championship was the top title in the Heavyweight class of the United States Wrestling Association.

History
The USWA was formed out of the closure of the World Class Wrestling Association in Dallas in 1989. Its premiere title would come from the now-former Championship Wrestling Association out of Memphis, the Unified World Heavyweight Championship with wrestlers from both the Dallas and Memphis sides competing over it. In 1991, the title would become Memphis exclusive with the Dallas void being filled by a new promotion, the Global Wrestling Federation.

The Unified title was formed in 1988 as a result of a unification bout between AWA World Heavyweight Jerry Lawler and WCWA Heavyweight Champion Kerry Von Erich in Chicago at AWA SuperClash. Lawler would emerge victorious on a technicality and roughly a month later in 1989, the alliance would fall apart with the AWA. While the AWA crowned a new World Heavyweight Champion, the CWA and WCWA would continue to recognize Lawler as their Champion. With the WCWA folding and being replaced in Dallas by the USWA, the CWA would cease as well, forming the Memphis division of the USWA.

The USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship would be vied for until the promotion's closure in 1997. Its final Champion was Dutch Mantel.

List of Champions
To Be Added