AWA African Heavyweight Championship
Encyclopedia
The AWA African Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling
heavyweight championship owned by the Africa Wrestling Alliance
(AWA) promotion
. It was created in January 1990.
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
heavyweight championship owned by the Africa Wrestling Alliance
Africa Wrestling Alliance
Africa Wrestling Alliance, formerly known as Africa Wrestling Federation, is a South African professional wrestling promotion founded in 1995 . The regionally-based company is owned by Shaun Koen and Koos Rossouw, and is a traditionally-styled promotion influenced by the international wrestling...
(AWA) promotion
Professional wrestling promotion
A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...
. It was created in January 1990.
Title history
| # | Order in reign history |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Mike Zuma | 1 | January, 1990 | Cape Town, South Africa Cape Town Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality... |
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| 2 | Shaun Koen Shaun Koen Shaun Koen is a South African professional wrestler. He is the owner and promoter of the Africa Wrestling Alliance and is the promotion's current African Heavyweight Champion... |
1 | January, 1992 | Johannesburg, South Africa Johannesburg Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa... |
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| 3 | King Jacob | 1 | January, 1996 | Nairobi, Kenya Nairobi Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is... |
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| 4 | Shaun Koen | 2 | February, 1996 | Nairobi, Kenya | |
| 5 | Terry Middoux | 1 | June, 2004 | Cape Town, South Africa | |
| 6 | Shaun Koen | 3 | December 11, 2004 | North West, South Africa North West (South African province) North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.-History:... |
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| 7 | The Missing Link | 1 | April 30, 2008 | Cape Town, South Africa | |
| 8 | Shaun Koen | 4 | December 9, 2009 | Cape Town, South Africa |