Pacific Coast Junior Heavyweight Championship

Pacific Coast Junior Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion Pacific Northwest
Date established December 25, 1940
Date retired May 15, 1957

The Pacific Coast Junior Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship that was contended for in the Pacific Northwest from the early 1940s until 1957.[1] When the title was retired in 1957, it was the top singles title in the Pacific Northwest area.

Title history

Key
Symbol Meaning
No. The overall championship reign
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event The event in which the championship changed hands
N/A The specific information is not known
— Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
[Note #] Indicates that the exact length of the title reign is unknown, with a note providing more details.
# Wrestler Reign Date Days held Location Event Notes Ref.
1 Billy McEuin 1 December 25, 1940 151 Eugene, Oregon House show Defeated Billy Raeborn  
2 Herb Parks 1 May 22, 1941 21 Eugene, Oregon House show    
3 Billy McEuin 2 June 12, 1941 84 Eugene, Oregon House show    
4 Wagner, GeorgeGeorge Wagner 1 September 4, 1941 [Note 1] Eugene, Oregon House show    
 
5 Gust Johnson 1 N/A [Note 1] N/A House show    
6 George Dussette 1 March 26, 1945 126 N/A House show    
7 Jack Lipscomb 1 July 30, 1945 133 N/A House show    
8 Joe Lynam 1 December 10, 1945 113 N/A House show    
9 Bruno Angelo 1 April 2, 1946 86 N/A House show    
10 George Dussette 2 June 27, 1946 74 N/A House show    
11 Pete Belacastro 1 September 9, 1946 [Note 1] N/A House show    
12 Herb Parks 2 N/A [Note 1] N/A House show    
13 Jackie Nichols 1 August 28, 1947 108 N/A House show    
14 Frank Stojack 1 December 14, 1947 136 Yakima, Washington House show    
15 Gordon Hessell 1 April 28, 1948 [Note 2] N/A House show    
16 Frank Stojack 2 May 1948 [Note 3] N/A House show    
17 Jack McLaughlin 1 June 8, 1949 [Note 1] Vancouver, British Columbia House show    
- Vacated - 1949 N/A N/A N/A Vacated for undocumented reasons  
18 Tony Ross 1 August 21, 1949 50 Vancouver, British Columbia House show Defeated Leo Kirikeno  
19 Buck Weaver 1
10
 31 N/A House show    
20 Al Szasz 1 November 10, 1949 66 N/A House show    
21 Bob Cummings 1 January 15, 1950 167 N/A House show    
22 Leo Wallick 1 July 1, 1950 174 N/A House show    
23 Frank Stojack 3 December 22, 1950 94 Tacoma, Washington House show    
24 Andy Tremaine * 1 March 26, 1951 94 Portland, Oregon House show    
25 Dale Haddock * 1 June 28, 1951 51 Portland, Oregon House show    
26 Frenchy Roy * 1 August 18, 1951 [Note 4] Portland, Oregon House show    
27 Frank Stojack 4 1951 [Note 5] N/A House show    
28 Masked Marvel[Note 6] 1 December 1951 [Note 7] Seattle, Washington House show    
29 Roger Mackay 1 May 16, 1952 211 Tacoma, Washington House show    
30 Frank Stojack 5 December 13, 1952 369 Roseburg, Oregon House show    
31 Roger Mackay 2 December 17, 1953 [Note 1] N/A House show    
32 Carl Engstrom 1 1954 [Note 1] N/A House show    
- Vacated - 1954 N/A N/A N/A Vacated for undocumented reasons  
33 Tommy Martindale 1 May 14, 1954 18 Portland, Oregon House show Won tournament; Roger Mackey defeats Martindale, but Martindale refuses to hand over the belt and later loses it to Kurt Von Poppenheim  
34 Kurt Von Poppenheim 1 June 11, 1954 153 Longview, Washington House show    
35 Luigi Macera 1 November 11, 1954 29 N/A House show    
36 Kurt Von Poppenheim 2 December 10, 1954 76 N/A House show    
36 Pepper Gomez 1 February 24, 1955 [Note 1] N/A House show    
- Vacated - 1955 N/A N/A N/A Vacated for undocumented reasons  
37 Larry Chene 1 February 24, 1956 84 N/A House show    
38 Bull Montana 1 May 18, 1956 21 N/A House show    
39 Kurt Von Poppenheim 3 June 8, 1956 212 N/A House show    
40 Bastien, RedRed Bastien 1 January 6, 1957 12 N/A House show    
41 Kurt Von Poppenheim 4 January 18, 1957 38 N/A House show    
42 Luigi Macera 2 February 25, 1957 79 N/A House show    
43 Ed Francis 1 May 15, 1957 [Note 8] N/A House show    
- Abandoned - May 1957 N/A N/A N/A Title abandoned  

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The length of the title reign is too uncertain to calculate
  2. ↑ The exact date that Hessell lost the championship is uncertain, which puts his title reign at between 3 and 33 days.
  3. ↑ The exact date that Stojack won the championship is uncertain, which means that the title reign lasted between 8 and 38 days.
  4. ↑ The date French Roy lost the championship is uncertain, which means that the title reign lasted between 1 day and −6,464,659 days.
  5. ↑ The date Stojack won and lost the championship is uncertain, which means that the title reign lasted between 1 day and −6,464,659 days.
  6. ↑ The Masked Marvel was Buddy Knox.
  7. ↑ The exact date that the Masked Marvel won the championship is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 137 and 167 days.
  8. ↑ The exact date that the championship was abandoned is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 0 days ad 16 days.

References

  1. ↑ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
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