UWA World Lightweight Championship

UWA World Lightweight Championship
Campeonato Mundial de Peso Ligero UWA
Details
Current champion(s) Kato Kung Lee, Jr.
Date won May 9, 1997
Date established December 21, 1975
Promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA)

The UWA World Lightweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial de Peso Ligero UWA in Spanish) is an inactive professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) from 1975 until some time around 2000 when Kato Kung Lee, Jr. stopped defending it. Being a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately; it was instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. The official definition of the lightweight weight class in Mexico is between 63 kg (139 lb) and 70 kg (150 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered to.[Note 1][1] The first champion was El Matematico, winning the title in December 1975. When the UWA closed in 1995 the title was vacated, but 2 years later it was brought back as an Independent circuit title when Kato Kung Lee, Jr. won it.

Title history

Key
Symbol Meaning
# The overall championship reign
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
N/A The specific information has not been found
— Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
+ Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes everyday.
† Indicates Championship reigns after the UWA closed down
# Wrestler name Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes
1 Matematico, ElEl Matematico 1 December 21, 1975 373 Pachuca, Mexico Live event Defeated Hashi Masataka to become first champion.
2 Signo, ElEl Signo 1 December 28, 1976 436 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
— Vacated — March 19, 1978 — N/A N/A Championship vacated for unknown reasons
3 Black Man 1 September 10, 1978 1,116 Mexico City, Mexico Live event Defeated El Matematico to win the title.
4 Black Terry 1 September 30, 1981 [Note 2] Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
5 Casas, NegroNegro Casas 1 January 1984 [Note 3] Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
6 El Hijo del Santo 1 October 28, 1984 249 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
7 Aristotle I 1 July 14, 1985 49 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
8 El Hijo del Santo 2 September 1, 1985 693 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
9 Espanto, Jr. 1 July 26, 1987 280 Torreon, Mexico Live event  
10 El Hijo del Santo 3 May 1, 1988 [Note 4] Naucalpan, Mexico Live event  
— Vacated — January 1991 — N/A N/A Championship vacated when El Hijo del Santo moves up to the Welterweight division
11 Lasser 1 February 5, 1991 579 Puebla, Puebla, Mexico Live event Defeated El Khalifa in the finals of a 24-man championship tournament to win the vacant title.
12 Santana, RockyRocky Santana 1 September 6, 1992 7 Tokyo, Japan Live event The first major title defence ever held outside Mexico.
13 Lasser 2 September 9, 1992 50 Sapporo, Japan Live event  
14 Cassandro 1 October 29, 1992 593 Toluca, Mexico Live event  
15 Semanarista 1 June 14, 1994 100 Querétaro, Mexico Live event  
16 Loco Valentino 1 September 22, 1994 [Note 5] Tulancingo, Mexico Live event  
— Vacated — 1995 — N/A N/A Championship vacated the UWA Closes
17 Kung Lee, Jr., KatoKato Kung Lee, Jr. 1 May 9, 1997 967 Tulancingo, Mexico Live event Kato Kung Lee, Jr. wins the vacant title which had been inactive for two years.
18 Inactive — 2000 — N/A N/A Kato Kung Lee, Jr. has not defended the title since.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The most recent case of this is Mephisto, who holds the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
  2. ↑ The exact date on which Black Terry lost the championship is unknown, placing the title reign between 823 and 853 days.
  3. ↑ The exact date on which negro Casas won the championship is unknown, placing the title reign between 271 and 301 days.
  4. ↑ The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo vacated the championship is unknown, placing the title reign between 975 and 1,005 days.
  5. ↑ The exact date on which the championship was is unknown, placing the title reign between 101 and 465 days.

References

General source for title history up until 2000
  • Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: UWA Lightweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 400. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
Specific
  1. ↑ Arturo Montiel Rojas (August 30, 2001). "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 April 3, 2009. Articulo 242: "Pluma 63 kilos / Ligero 70 kilos"

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