WWA World Welterweight Championship (Redirected from WWA Welterweight Championship)

WWA World Welterweight Championship
Campeonato Mundial de Peso Welter WWA
Details
PromotionWorld Wrestling Association (WWA)
Date established1987
Current champion(s)Bandido
Date wonSeptember 28, 2017

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+

Footnotes

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ a b c d e f The location of the title change was not captured as part of the championship documentation.
  3. ^ The exact date on which Negro Casas won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 470 and 834 days.
  4. ^ The exact date on which Negro Casas lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 169 days.
  5. ^ a b The exact date Fuerza Guerrea won the championship has not been documented, only that he won the championship in this time period.
  6. ^ The exact date on which Fuerza Guerrera won and lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 day and 168 days.
  7. ^ The exact date on which Blue Demon Jr. won and lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 278 days.
  8. ^ The exact date on which Fuerza Guerrero won and lost the title is unknown, placing the title reign between 1 and 249 days.
  9. ^ The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo vacated the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 512 and 541 days.
  10. ^ The exact date on which Eddie Guerrero won the title is unknown, placing his title reigns between −181 and 59 days.
  11. ^ The exact date on which Heavy Metal lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 277 days.
  12. ^ The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 47 and 276 days.
  13. ^ 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
  1. ^ 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"
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–20. issue 2488.
  4. ^ a b "SLAM! Wrestling International -- 2000: The Year-In-Review Mexico". Slam Wrestling!. Canoe.ca. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "2002: considerar detrás". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 19, 2003. issue 2593.
  7. ^ a b "2005 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 3, 2006. issue 140.
  8. ^ 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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