WWA World Welterweight Championship
WWA World Welterweight Championship Campeonato Mundial de Peso Welter WWA | |||||||||||
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Promotion | World Wrestling Association (WWA) | ||||||||||
Date established | 1987 | ||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Bandido | ||||||||||
Date won | September 28, 2017 | ||||||||||
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The WWA World Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial de Peso Welter WWA in Spanish) is a Mexican professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA) since 1987. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately: it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 77 kg (170 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[Note 1][1] Because Lucha Libre emphasizes the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of a promotion.[2]
It was first won by Negro Casas in 1987 and had been defended not only in Mexico but Europe, Japan and the United States as well. The title was held by many of the top cruiserweight wrestlers of the 1990s including Heavy Metal, Psicosis, Juventud Guerrera, Rey Misterio, Jr. and Eddie Guerrero. El Hijo del Santo holds the record for most title reigns with ten reigns. The current champion is El Hijo de Rey Misterio II.
Title history
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
N/A | Unknown information |
† | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
1 | Negro Casas | 1987 | Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 3] | ||||
2 | Tornado Negro | April 14, 1989 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 1 | 0 | ||||
3 | Negro Casas | April 14, 1989 | Live event | Apatlaco, Morelos | 2 | [Note 4] | ||||
4 | Fuerza Guerrera | [Note 5] | Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 6] | ||||
5 | Blue Demon Jr. | September 1989 | Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 7] | ||||
6 | Fuerza Guerrera | [Note 5] | Live event | N/A | 6 | [Note 8] | ||||
7 | El Hijo del Santo | June 7, 1990 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | [Note 9] | ||||
— | Vacated | November 1991 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for unknown reasons | |||
Championship history is unrecorded from November 1991 to 1992. | ||||||||||
8 | Eddie Guerrero | 1992 | Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 10] | ||||
9 | Piloto Suicida | August 29, 1992 | Live event | Los Angeles, California | 1 | 9 | ||||
10 | Espanto Jr. | September 7, 1992 | Live event | Querétaro, Mexico | 1 | 193 | ||||
11 | El Hijo del Santo | March 19, 1993 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 2 | 56 | ||||
12 | Heavy Metal | May 14, 1993 | Live event | Mexico City | 1 | [Note 11] | ||||
13 | El Hijo del Santo | June 1993 | Live event | [Note 2] | 3 | [Note 12] | ||||
14 | Psicosis | February 16, 1994 | Live event | Aguascalientes, Mexico | 1 | 583 | ||||
15 | Rey Misterio Jr. | September 22, 1995 | Live event | Mexico City | 1 | 6 | ||||
16 | Psicosis | September 28, 1995 | Live event | Mexicali, Mexico | 2 | 1 | ||||
17 | Rey Misterio Jr. | September 29, 1995 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 2 | 212 | ||||
18 | Juventud Guerrera | April 28, 1996 | Live event | Querétaro, Mexico | 1 | 83 | ||||
19 | Rey Misterio Jr. | July 20, 1996 | WAR's 4th Anniversary Show | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 216 | ||||
20 | El Hijo del Santo | February 21, 1997 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 4 | 133 | ||||
21 | El Felino | July 4, 1997 | Live event | Mexico City | 1 | 96 | ||||
22 | El Hijo del Santo | October 8, 1997 | Live event | Leon, Mexico | 5 | 115 | ||||
23 | El Felino | January 31, 1998 | Live event | Mexico City | 1 | 36 | ||||
— | Vacated | March 8, 1998 | — | — | — | — | Championship held up after inconclusive match between El Hijo del Santo and El Felino | |||
24 | El Hijo del Santo | July 13, 1998 | Live event | Puebla, Puebla | 6 | Defeated Felino in rematch. | ||||
Championship history is unrecorded from July 13, 1998 to April 9, 2000. | ||||||||||
25 | Blue Panther | April 9, 2000 | Live event | Monterrey, Mexico | 1 | [Note 13] | [3][4] | |||
26 | El Hijo del Santo | May 28, 2000 | Live event | [Note 2] | 7 | 179 | [3][4][5] | |||
27 | El Hijo del Diablo | November 23, 2000 | Live event | Iguala, Mexico | 1 | 707 | [3] | |||
28 | El Hijo del Santo | October 31, 2002 | Live event | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | 8 | 817 | [6] | |||
29 | El Cobarde | January 25, 2005 | Live event | Juarez, Mexico | 1 | 227 | [7] | |||
30 | El Hijo del Santo | September 9, 2005 | Live event | Ciudad Juarez, Mexico | 9 | [7] | ||||
Championship history is unrecorded from September 9, 2005 to July 2, 2008. | ||||||||||
31 | Blue Demon Jr. | Live event | Valencia, Spain | 2 | 3 | [8] | ||||
32 | El Hijo del Santo | July 5, 2008 | Live event | London, England | 10 | 1,258 | [8] | |||
— | Vacated | N/A | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons. | |||
33 | El Hijo de Rey Misterio II | May 27, 2011 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | |||||
34 | Ángel Blanco Jr. | Live event | N/A | 1 | ||||||
35 | Bandido | September 28, 2017 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 379+ |
Footnotes
- ↑ The most recent case of this is Mephisto holding the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 The location of the title change was not captured as part of the championship documentation.
- ↑ The exact date on which Negro Casas won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 470 and 834 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which Negro Casas lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 169 days.
- 1 2 The exact date Fuerza Guerrea won the championship has not been documented, only that he won the championship in this time period.
- ↑ The exact date on which Fuerza Guerrera won and lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 day and 168 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which Blue Demon Jr. won and lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 278 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which Fuerza Guerrero won and lost the title is unknown, placing the title reign between 1 and 249 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo vacated the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 512 and 541 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which Eddie Guerrero won the title is unknown, placing his title reigns between −181 and 59 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which Heavy Metal lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 277 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 47 and 276 days.
- ↑ The exact date on which Blue Panther lost the title is unknown, placing the title reign between 53 and 82 days.
References
- General source for title history before 2000
- Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: WWA Welterweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 400. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- Specific
- ↑ Arturo Montiel Rojas (2001-08-30). "Reglamento de Box y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico" (PDF). Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2006. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
Articulo 242: "Ligero 70 kilos / Welter 77 kilos"
- ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha A Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- 1 2 3 "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–20. issue 2488.
- 1 2 "SLAM! Wrestling International -- 2000: The Year-In-Review Mexico". Slam Wrestling!. Canoe.ca. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
- ↑ F4W Staff (May 28, 2015). "ON THIS DAY IN PRO WRESTLING HISTORY (MAY 28): HULK HOGAN VS. NICK BOCKWINKEL, BRUNO VS. SUPERSTAR GRAHAM DOUBLE DQ". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
- ↑ "2002: considerar detrás". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 19, 2003. issue 2593.
- 1 2 "2005 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 3, 2006. issue 140.
- 1 2 "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 6, 2008. issue 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009.