NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

Two-time and current champion, Volador Jr.
Details
Current champion(s) Volador Jr.
Date won August 1, 2014[1]
Date established August 12, 2010
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Other name(s)
CMLL Historic Welterweight Championship[2]

The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Historico de Peso Welter de la NWA in Spanish)[3] is a professional wrestling championship governed by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to matches. The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[Note 1][4] All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.

CMLL had held the NWA World Welterweight Championship for over 53 years, when the relationship between the promotion and National Wrestling Alliance broke down in March 2010, when Blue Demon Jr., the president of NWA Mexico, sent letters to CMLL, telling them to stop promoting the NWA-branded championships since they were not part of the NWA. NWA Mexico had previously tried to reclaim the three NWA-branded championships promoted by CMLL, but was ignored by CMLL. The promotion did not directly respond to the latest claim either; the NWA Welterweight Champion, Mephisto, commented, simply stating that the titles belonged to CMLL.[5] Finally, on August 12, 2010, CMLL debuted the new NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship belt and named Mephisto, the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Welterweight Champion, as the inaugural NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion.[3]

Volador Jr. is the current NWA World Historic Welterweight champion, having defeated La Sombra on August 1, 2014.[1] This is Volador Jr.'s second run with the title and he is the seventh overall champion.

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed
Location The city in which the title was won
Event The event in which the title was won
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Reign Date Days held Location Event Notes Ref.
1 Mephisto 1 August 12, 2010 213 Mexico City Press conference at Arena México Mephisto was the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Welterweight Champion and was thus named the first NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion. [2]
2 La Sombra 1 March 13, 2011 337 Mexico City Domingo Familiar   [6]
3 Negro Casas 1 February 13, 2012 475 Puebla, Puebla CMLL Live event   [7]
4 Máscara Dorada 1 June 2, 2013 170 Mexico City Sin Salida (2013)   [8]
5 Volador Jr. 1 November 19, 2013 199 Mexico City Martes Popular   [9]
6 La Sombra 2 June 6, 2014 56 Mexico City Viernes Espectacular This match was also for La Sombra's NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship. [10]
7 Volador Jr. 1 August 1, 2014 557+ Mexico City El Juicio Final (2014) [1]

List of combined reigns

The Masked Máscara Dorada prior to a match.
Máscara Dorada, whose 170 day reign is the shortest in the championship's history
† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
days
1 Volador Jr.† 2 756+
2 Casas, NegroNegro Casas 1 475
3 Sombra, LaLa Sombra 2 393
4 Mephisto 1 213
5 Máscara Dorada 1 170

Footnotes

  1. ↑ One of the most obvious cases of the weight limit not being enforced was Mephisto holding the NWA World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit, despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Reducindo, Miguel (August 2, 2014). "Resultados Arena México Viernes 1º de Agosto '14". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on August 2, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Boutwell, Josh (August 20, 2010). "Viva la Raza! Lucha Weekly". Wrestleview. Archived from the original on August 23, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Campeones" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  4. ↑ Arturo Montiel Rojas (2001-08-30). "Reglamento de Box y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico" (PDF) (in Spanish). 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"
  5. ↑ Ruiz Glez, Alex (March 12, 2010). "Mephisto responde a Blue Demon Jr.: "No tengo que entrar a ninguna eliminatoria porque yo soy el campeón..."". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved March 14, 2010.
  6. ↑ Ruiz Glez, Alex (March 14, 2011). "Arena México (resultados 13 de Marzo) ¡La Sombra nuevo campeón mundial histórico NWA de peso Welter!". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  7. ↑ Blanco, Alejandro (February 14, 2012). "Negro Casas Nuevo Campeón Mundial Welter". Cinco Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  8. ↑ Salazar López, Alexis A. (June 3, 2013). "Resultados Arena México Domingo 2 de Junio '13". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  9. ↑ Salazar López, Alexis A. (November 20, 2013). "Resultados Arena México Martes 19 de Noviembre '13". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on November 20, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  10. ↑ Salazar López, Alexis A. (June 6, 2014). "Resultados Arena México Viernes 6 de Junio '14". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
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