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WWA Middleweight Championship

The WWA World Middleweight Championship (Campeonato de peso Medio WWA in Spanish) is a secondary professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling-based promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA) since 1987. The official definition of the middleweight weight class in Mexico is between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[a][1]

As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[b] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[c] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[d] or leaving the company.[e]

Super Muñeco was the first Middleweight champion, winning it in 1987. It was defended throughout Mexico and Japan during the 1980s and 90s, but had been defended almost exclusively in Tijuana, Mexico since 2001. A separate version has been defended in the Mexico City-Monterrey area since 2002 when Blue Panther began defending a title labelled the WWA Middleweight Championship. Since the WWA titles have been largely unsanctioned since the late 1990s it means that they can be defended on any wrestling show, not just limited to WWA promoted shows.[6]

Title history

Mexico City/Monterrey version

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. ^ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[2]
  3. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[3]
  4. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[4]
  5. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[5]
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Duncan & Will (2000) p. 400, Chapter: "Mexico: WWA Middleweight Title" [7]
  7. ^ a b c d e f The location of the title change has not been captured as part of the documentation.
  8. ^ The exact date on which Super Astro won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 115 and 145 days.
  9. ^ The exact date on which Blue Demon Jr. vacated the championship is unknown, placing his reign between 190 and 219 days.
  10. ^ The exact date on which Ultraman 2000 won, and vacated the title is unknown, placing the reign between 92 and 147 days.
  11. ^ The exact date on which Piloto Suicida won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 25 days.
  12. ^ Records do not indicate when Psicosis won the title, just that he did.
  13. ^ The exact date on which El Solar won and lost the title is unknown, placing his reign between 1 and 364 days.
  14. ^ The exact date on which Mystico de Juarez was stripped of the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 day and 284 days.
  15. ^ The exact date on which Mystico de Juarez vacated the title is unknown, placing the title reign between 313 and 362 days.
  16. ^ The exact date on which Toxico lost the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 24 days.
  17. ^ The exact date on which Blue Panther started to defend the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 day and 8 days.
  18. ^ The exact date on which Tigre Universitario won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 372 days.
  19. ^ The exact date on which Silver Star won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 557 days.
  20. ^ The exact date on which Potro Jr. won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 83 days.

References

  1. ^ Arturo Montiel Rojas (August 30, 2001). "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 April 3, 2009. Articulo 242: "Super welter 82 kilos / Medio 87 kilos"
  2. ^ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  3. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  4. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  5. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  6. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: World Wrestling Association (Benjamin Mora)". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. pp. 399–400. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  7. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 400.
  8. ^ a b "2001: Los Campeones". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 13, 2002. pp. 15–17. issue 2540.
  9. ^ a b "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2003". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 5, 2003. issue 40.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2004". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. issue 91.
  11. ^ "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 23, 2006. issue 192. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  12. ^ a b "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 6, 2008. issue 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  13. ^ a b "Guerreros del Ring". Entrevista por Olímpico (in Spanish). Mexico City. March 16, 2009. pp. 22–24. 182.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "WWA World Middleweight Championship". www.thecubsfan.com. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  15. ^ "2002: considerar detrás". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 19, 2003. issue 2593.
  16. ^ a b "2005 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 3, 2006. issue 140.
  17. ^ "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. issue 244. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  18. ^ José de Jesús Lazcano Rodríguez (August 15, 2009). "Resultados Lucha Unida de Monterrey, Sexto Aniversario". Estrellas del Ring (in Spanish). Retrieved August 29, 2009.

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