Pacific Coast Junior Heavyweight Championship

Professional wrestling championship

Pacific Coast Junior Heavyweight Championship

Details
Promotion| Pacific Northwest
Date established| December 25, 1940
Date retired| May 15, 1957
| Statistics

First champion| Billy McEuin
Final champion| Ed Francis
Most reigns| Frank Stojack (5 reigns)

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

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Key
Symbol | Meaning

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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.

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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  | George 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  | October 10, 1949 | 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 |   | [2]
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 |   | [3]
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  | Red Bastien | 1  | January 6, 1957 | 12  | N/A  | House show |   |
41  | Kurt Von Poppenheim | 4  | January 18, 1957 | 38  | N/A  | House show |   | [4]
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

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h 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 134 days.
5. ^ The date Stojack won and lost the championship is uncertain, which means that the title reign lasted between 1 day and 134 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

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1. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
2. ^ Hoops, Brian (July 1, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (July 1): Ric Flair stripped of WCW title, Von Erich win WCCW Tag titles". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
3. ^ Hoops, Brian (August 18, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (August 18): Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk, Daniel Bryan vs. John Cena at WWE SummerSlam 2014". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
4. ^ Hoops, Brian (January 18, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/18): Ivan Koloff defeats Bruno Sammartino for WWWF title". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved January 18, 2019.

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