10 Worst Final Champions In Wrestling History
6. Jerry Lawler - WCWA World Heavyweight Championship
The WCWA World Heavyweight Championship, the main title of the promotion once known as World Class Championship Wrestling, suffered a very odd death.
It was unified with the AWA World Heavyweight Championship at SuperClash III in 1988, after Jerry Lawler defeated Kerry Von Erich under dubious circumstances. The belt was held up as a result, only for Lawler to beat Von Erich for it again in April 1989. The King would hold onto the title until September of 1990, when it was formally deactivated.
Confused? So is everyone else.
This was a very ignoble end, and one that the championship did not deserve. It had been held by the likes of Bruiser Brody, Ken Patera, Rick Rude, and Tatsumi Fujinami, as well as four different members of the vaunted Von Erich family - patriarch Fritz had been the inaugural champion back in 1966.
For a Memphis icon like Lawler to retire a distinctly Texas-themed belt felt like a massive injustice, especially because of the screwy way in which the WCWA title met its end. Nobody was happy with how this all went down - well, except for Jerry. He was probably ecstatic.