Saving the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship.

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Everyone knows why the discontinuation of the title was stupid and short-sighted. No need to explain that. But it obviously could have been saved-- the top rope ban was going to be gone soon and Watts had brought in an absurd collection of super-heavies to dominate the heavyweight title. Theoretically, that SHOULD make the LHW title the second most important in the promotion, and the other singles divisions had a good number of heavy workers to sustain the US/TV titles.

 

So let's go from the first bump in the road-- the title reign of Scotty Flamingo. All dates listed are air dates.

 

 

1992

SATURDAY NIGHT (7/4): Brian Pillman defeats Scotty Flamingo in a 2/3 falls match when Flamingo gets himself disqualified in the third fall to retain the title (17:48).

SATURDAY NIGHT (7/11): Johnny B. Badd defeats Tracy Smothers to earn a title shot the next night at the Great American Bash (4:35).

GREAT AMERICAN BASH (7/12): Scotty Flamingo defeats Johnny B. Badd to retain the title after a small package roll-up (8:29).

SATURDAY NIGHT (7/25): Brad Armstrong and Scotty Flamingo compete to a time-limit draw (10:00).

MAIN EVENT (8/9): Brad Armstrong defeats Scotty Flamingo when Flamingo is disqualified (6:18).
SATURDAY NIGHT (8/9): Scotty Flamingo defeats Marcus Bagwell to retain the title (7:09), and issues an open challenge for a match at the Clash of the Champions XX.

WORLDWIDE (8/29): Scotty Flamingo defeats Tracy Smothers to retain the title (4:12), and mocks any other wrestler who will attempt a challenge.

CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS (9/2): Ricky Steamboat defeats Scotty Flamingo to win the title (2:55) after answering Flamingo's challenge. After the match, Brian Pillman comes down to the ring and congratulates Steamboat, saying that he knows that Ricky will bring prestige back to the title, like when he had been champion.