WCW Light Heavyweight Championship
| WCW Light Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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The championship belt | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | October 27, 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | September 2, 1992 | ||||||||||||
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The WCW Light Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship that was contested in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) between 1991 and 1992. Conceived in 1991, the championship was first awarded as the result of a single-elimination tournament; its subsequent lineage ended when the final champion Brad Armstrong was stripped of the title due to injury. A second tournament to decide Armstrong's successor was announced, but never took place. The title was held by four different champions; the inaugural champion Brian Pillman was the only wrestler to win it on more than one occasion.