NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

The masked wrestler Volador Jr. outside the ring, wearing golden trunks and a gold colored mask

Current, and two-time, 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). CMLL had held the NWA World Welterweight Championship for over 53 years,[4] 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 NWA-branded championships since CMLL was not part of the NWA.[5] NWA Mexico had previously tried to reclaim the three NWA-branded championships promoted by CMLL,[Note 1] but CMLL had not responded to prior requests. The promotion did not directly respond to the latest claim, either; the NWA Welterweight Champion, Mephisto, commented instead, simply stating that the championships belonged to CMLL.[6] 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 champion.[3] The championship was initially announced as the CMLL World Historic Welterweight Championship, but when the belt was unveiled, it was called the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship.[2]

As a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a predefined outcome of matches.[7] The official definition of the welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb), but the weight limits for the various divisions are not always strictly enforced. In the case of the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship, the first champion, Mephisto, was awarded the championship despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).[8][9] 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; he is the seventh overall champion, and his current reign is the longest of any champion at 641 days and counting. All title matches take place under best two-out-of-three falls rules when they take place in Mexico,[10] but the title has been defended under single fall rules in Japan.[11][12]

Title history

Key
# 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(s).
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 Sombra, LaLa Sombra 1 March 13, 2011 337 Mexico City Domingo Familiar   [13]
3 Casas, NegroNegro Casas 1 February 13, 2012 475 Puebla, Puebla CMLL Live event   [14]
4 Máscara Dorada 1 June 2, 2013 170 Mexico City Sin Salida (2013)   [15]
5 Volador Jr. 1 November 19, 2013 199 Mexico City Martes Popular   [16]
6 Sombra, LaLa Sombra 2 June 6, 2014 56 Mexico City Super Viernes This match was also for La Sombra's NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship. [17]
7 Volador Jr. 2 August 1, 2014 641+ Mexico City El Juicio Final (2014)   [1]

List of combined reigns

A picture of masked wrestler Mephisto in the ring. He is wearing a mask with a skull motive and horns.
Mephisto, who was the first NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion
Key
† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
days		 Ref(s).
1 Volador Jr.† 2 840+ [1][16][17]
2 Casas, NegroNegro Casas 1 475 [14][15]
3 Sombra, LaLa Sombra 2 393 [1][13][14][17]
4 Mephisto 1 213 [2][13]
5 Máscara Dorada 1 170 [15]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ This included, in addition to the Welterweight Champonship, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Middleweight Championship.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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 3 4 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". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  4. ↑ Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2006). "Mexico: EMLL NWA Welterweight Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. p. 390. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  5. ↑ Ruiz, Alex (March 4, 2010). "Blue Demon Jr. no reconoce los títulos de NWA que están en el CMLL- Realizará eliminatorias para sacar a los nuevos campeones" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?" and "El Médico Asasino"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperCollins. pp. 29–40 and 114–118. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  8. ↑ 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"
  9. ↑ "Statistics for Professional wrestlers". PWI Presents: 2007 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts (Kappa Publications). 2007 Edition.
  10. ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "Okay... what is Lucha Libre?". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  11. ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2012". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  12. ↑ Soy Rudo (January 22, 2012). "NJPW-CMLL: Resultados "Fantasticamanía 2012″ Día 2". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  13. 1 2 3 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.
  14. 1 2 3 Blanco, Alejandro (February 14, 2012). "Negro Casas Nuevo Campeón Mundial Welter". Cinco Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  15. 1 2 3 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.
  16. 1 2 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.
  17. 1 2 3 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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