Standard Weight Limit:  152 pounds


*Gus Kallio of Omaha claimed the World Junior Middleweight Title while in Texas in February 1927.


*In June 1931, at San Antonio, Yaqui Joe was called the World Junior Middleweight Champion.  A report in May 1933, stated that Joe won this championship claim from Billy Romanoff at Jackson, Mississippi five years earlier.  Incidentally, Romanoff was a junior middleweight title claimant in Alabama in 1932 and Joe's weight was pushing 160 by the summer of 1933.  He likely dropped his claim of this title or was defeated.


*Promoter Ralph Hammonds and matchmaker Charley Wright in San Antonio were touting a World Junior Middleweight Tournament in San Antonio in November and December 1932, claiming that the National Wrestling Association would recognize the winner of the "new" division.  After weeks of matches, there still wasn't a champion declared, and Wright told the newspaper that he hoped that the winner of the Silent Rattan-Tsutao Higami match in late December 1932 would be given NWA support as titleholder.  Higami beat Rattan earlier in the month.


*In July 1933, Everett "Silent" Rattan entered San Antonio and was billed as the World Junior Middleweight Champion, having won a tournament "last March" in Detroit.  He was reportedly presented with a championship belt.  Rattan continued to claim this title while in Ohio in 1934.