WWA World Welterweight Championship Campeonato Mundial de Peso Welter WWA Details Promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA)Date established 1987 Current champion(s) Bandido Date won September 28, 2017 Statistics First champion(s) Negro Casas Most reigns El Hijo del Santo (10 reigns) Longest reign El Hijo del Santo (1,258 days) Shortest reign Tornado Negro(>1 day)
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
Key
No.
Overall reign number
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.
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
769+
^ 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).
^ a b c d e f 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.
^ a b 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 .
^ a b c "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–20. issue 2488.
^ a b "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.
^ a b "2005 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 3, 2006. issue 140.
^ a b "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008" . SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 6, 2008. issue 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009 .
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