UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship
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The UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship that was defended in the Universal Wrestling Association, a Mexican lucha libre promotion. The title has also been used by New Japan Pro Wrestling, and was at one time part of its J-Crown Championship, following the breakup of the J-Crown, the championship made its way to Michinoku Pro Wrestling, and is now back in Mexico.
[edit] Title history
| Wrestler: | Reigns: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
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| Cesar Valentino | 1 | November 20, 1977 | Mexico City, Mexico | Defeated Anibal America Salvaje to become the first champion. |
| Gran Hamada | 1 | February 4, 1979 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Perro Aguayo | 1 | April 11, 1979 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Vacated | December 15, 1979 | Mexico City, Mexico | Title vacated after Aguayo is injured. | |
| El Solitario | 1 | January 27, 1980 | Mexico City, Mexico | Defeated Masanobu Kurisu to win the vacant title. |
| Eric Embry | 1 | March 30, 1981 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | |
| El Solitario | 2 | July 19, 1981 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| El Signo | 1 | June 10, 1983 | Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico | |
| Stripped | February 15, 1984 | Title stripped due to El Signo making an unauthorized title defense against Kato Kung Lee on January 27, 1984. |
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| Anibal | 1 | May 27, 1984 | Mexico City, Mexico | Defeated El Texano in a tournament final to win the vacant title. |
| Invader III | 1 | September 15, 1984 | San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
| Anibal | 2 | 1984 | ||
| Negro Navarro | 1 | January 6, 1985 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Mano Negra | 1 | February 25, 1985 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | |
| El Cobarde II | 1 | December 8, 1985 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Gran Hamada | 2 | March 4, 1986 | Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico | |
| Blue Panther | 1 | November 16, 1986 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Solar I | 1 | May 25, 1987 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | |
| Blue Panther | 2 | February 8, 1988 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | |
| Grand Cochise | 1 | September 16, 1988 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Ringo Mendoza | 1 | April 29, 1989 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Perro Aguayo | 2 | June 29, 1990 | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Stripped | January 1992 | Title stripped when Aguayo jumped to EMLL. | ||
| Gran Hamada | 3 | December 12, 1992 | Mexico City, Mexico | Defeated Black Power II in a tournament final to win the vacant title. |
| El Engendro | 1 | September 12, 1993 | Naucalpan, México, Mexico | |
| Gran Hamada | 4 | September 22, 1993 | Vachuca, Mexico | |
| Sabu | 1 | November 23, 1995 | Kawasaki, Japan | |
| El Samurai | 1 | December 1, 1995 | Niigata, Japan | |
| Kouji Kanemoto | 1 | March 17, 1996 | Amagasaki, Japan | |
| Vacated | May 1996 | Title vacated after Kanemoto is injured. | ||
| Shinjiro Ohtani | 1 | June 17, 1996 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Kazushi Sakuraba to win the vacant title. |
| Último Dragon | 1 | August 4, 1996 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Ohtani in the second round of the New Japan J-Crown Tournament. |
| The Great Sasuke | 1 | August 5, 1996 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Dragon in the finals of the J-Crown Tournament to become the first J-Crown Champion. |
| Último Dragón | 2 | October 11, 1996 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Jushin Liger | 1 | January 4, 1997 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| El Samurai | 2 | July 6, 1997 | Sapporo, Japan | |
| Shinjiro Otani | 2 | August 10, 1997 | Nagoya, Japan | |
| Vacated | October 5, 1997 | Otani vacated five of the six remaining J-Crown titles after being forced by the World Wrestling Federation to return their WWF Light Heavyweight Championship belt. This also ended the J-Crown Championship. |
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| Gran Hamada | 5 | July 30, 1998 | Ninohe, Japan | Defeated Convict I to win the vacant title. |
| El Cobarde | 1 | February 15, 1999 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
Defeated Perro Aguayo to win the title. |
| Heavy Metal | 1 | April 10, 2000 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
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| Title assumed missing, possibly passed onto Silver Star who defends it as the UWA Light Heavyweight Championship in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. [1] |
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