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Property	Value
rdf:type	Championship
rdfs:label	AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship
rdfs:comment	The Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship is a major professional wrestling title in the Memphis Wrestling promotion. The title is part of a long lineage that is best known while the title was named the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship for Continental Wrestling Association during the 1970s and 1980s.
dcterms:subject	Memphis Championship Wrestling championships Heavyweight championships Singles championships Mid-South Wrestling championships American Wrestling Association championships Continental Wrestling Association championships United States Wrestling Association championships
borderradius	6
altbackcolor	#FFFFFF
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BorderColor	silver
Promotion	Memphis Wrestling
won	April 2008
championshipname	Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship
backcolor	#FFE93E
Created	1974-07-27
Height	2.200000
currentholder	Jerry Lawler
maxwidth	20
TAB	General Champion history Champion gallery Title matches
firstchamp	Jerry Lawler
mostreigns	Jerry Lawler
pastnames	AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship MCW Southern Heavyweight Championship Mid-Southern Heavyweight Championship NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship USWA Heavyweight Championship USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship
abstract	The Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship is a major professional wrestling title in the Memphis Wrestling promotion. The title is part of a long lineage that is best known while the title was named the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship for Continental Wrestling Association during the 1970s and 1980s. It was made 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. 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, where it is still defended today.