The NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship is a

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for lighter wrestlers, board-controlled by the

National Wrestling Alliance The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling professional wrestling promotion, promotion and former professional wrestling governing body operated by its parent company Lightning One, Inc. Founded in 1948, the NWA ...

since December 1949. It originally was used by various promotions across the

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, most prevalently in

NWA Mid-America NWA Mid-America was a professional wrestling promotion territory under the umbrella of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that promoted shows in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama from the 1940s until 1981. The company was founded in the 1940s by ...

based

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. In August 1974, it was renamed the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship ''(Memphis version)''. The title was revived by the NWA in December 1999, and is used in the NWA Mid-South

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, based in

Humboldt, Tennessee Humboldt is a city in Gibson and Madison counties, Tennessee. The population was 8,452 at the 2010 census, a decline of 1,015 from 2000. It is the principal city of and is included in the Humboldt, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area, which i ...

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{{Southeastern Championship Wrestling Championships Junior heavyweight wrestling championships National Wrestling Alliance championships NWA Mid-America championships Regional professional wrestling championships

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