Following the name of the champion(s): Indicates the number of times the wrestler has held that title at that point.
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Indicates a gap in the listing where title changes are not known.
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If used next to the names of the wrestlers, they may, in fact, not have held the title in the period indicated. If used next to the dates or places, either they are possibly wrong or the title changes are fictitious.
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Title was held or changed hands no later than this. In these cases, it is known that a wrestler held the title at a certain time but not when he/she won it.
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Broadcast date; the actual recording date is unknown.
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Order uncertain. Different titleholders may be known for the same year, for example, but it is not known who held the title before whom.
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Unofficial or disputable claims. These are usually matches that certainly took place, but where there is doubt that the wrestler shown should be recognized as a true title holder. These listings are also italicized in HTML files
Southern Light Heavyweight Title [Tennessee & Arkansas & Kentucky]
Hugh Winn
1934-05-08<
Holds Georgia version, also billed as champion in Chattanooga, TN.
Johnny Marrs
1936-07-20<
Holds Georgia version, also billed as champion in Arkansas and Southeastern Missouri; still champion in the area as of 36-09-01.
Roy Welch
1937-08-17
Nashville, TN
Defeats Raoul Lopez in tournament final.
Neejab Rabban
1937-08-24
Nashville, TN
Roy Welch [2]
1937-10-05
Nashville, TN
Joe Dillman
1938-01-18
Nashville, TN
Roy Welch [3]
1938-04-26
Nashville, TN
Sam Curry
1938-05-10
Nashville, TN
Roy Welch [4]
1938-05-21<
Still champion as of 38-06-17.
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Bull Curry
1938-07<
Claims the title in Nashville, TN (The Tennessean, 38-07-10).
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Tiger Long
1939-05-27<
Billed as champion in Blytheville, AR; still champion as of 39-08-21.
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Lon Chaney
1940 *
Billed as having held the title "two years ago before outgrowing the division" (The Tennessean, Nashville, TN, 42-01-15).
Buck Lawson
1937-12-22<
Claims the title in Knoxville, TN; has previously claimed the middleweight title; still champion as of 38-05-23.
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Tony Papalino
1940-02<
Billed as champion in Knoxville, TN based on his reign of the Georgia version (The Knoxville Journal, 40-02-22), in spite of having lost it to The Skull on 39-12-23; still champion as of 40-03-05.
