NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

This article is about the current NWA welterweight title that CMLL introduced in 2010. For the original NWA welterweight title created in 1946, see NWA World Welterweight Championship.
NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

Professional wrestler Volador Jr. standing in a ring

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

The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Historico de Peso Welter de la NWA in Spanish) 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 even after leaving the NWA in 1989. In 2010 the National Wrestling Alliance, represented by 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 any longer. 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. The championship was initially announced as the CMLL Historic Welterweight Championship, but when the belt was unveiled, it was labelled the "NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship".

In Mexico, the lucha libre commission's definition of the welterweight weight class is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb). Volador Jr. is the current NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion, having defeated La Sombra on August 1, 2014. 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 868 days and counting. All title matches take place under best two-out-of-three falls rules when they take place in Mexico, but has been defended in single fall matches in Japan.

History

The masked wrestler Mephisto in the ring during a match.
Mephisto, the last NWA World Welterweight Champion

In 1948 the Mexican lucha libre or professional wrestling promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL; Spanish for "Mexican Wrestling Enterprise") created the World Welterweight Championship.[8] When EMLL became a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1952 the championship was given the "NWA" prefix and became known as the NWA World Welterweight Championship.[9] In the late 1980s, EMLL left the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) to avoid the politics of the NWA.[9] While they left the NWA they did retain control of the NWA World Welterweight Championship as their main championship of the welterweight division.[8] They also promoted the Mexican National Welterweight Championship as a secondary title in the Welterweight division.[10] In 1992 EMLL changed their name and became Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; "World Wrestling Council") to rebrand themselves as a separate entity after leaving the NWA.[11] They added a third welterweight championship to the promotion when they created the CMLL World Welterweight Championship on February 15, 1992.[12]

After the introduction of the CMLL championship, the then-reigning NWA World Welterweight Championship Misterioso left CMLL, vacating the championship.[8] For the subsequent three years, CMLL did not promote the NWA World Welterweight Championship until bringing it back in the winter of 1995. Negro Casas won the championship, holding it until August 1996 where he lost it as part of a tournament to create the J-Crown, eight championships unified as one.[8] from 1996 through 2007 the championship was promoted in Japan, but on November 27, 2007, La Sombra defeated Hajime Ohara to bring the championship back to CMLL.[8][13]

In 2010 the NWA, represented by NWA Mexico president Blue Demon Jr., reached out to CMLL and asked them to stop using the NWA-branded championships since they were not part of the NWA. Blue Demon Jr. was in the process of establishing NWA Mexico as a promotion and wanted to use the championship.[14] There had been previous attempts by the NWA to gain back control of the three NWA-branded championships that CMLL used, the welterweight championship as well as the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Middleweight Championship, but in those instances, CMLL had not responded to those requests at all.[15] The promotion did not directly respond to the latest claim; the NWA Welterweight Champion, Mephisto, commented instead, simply stating that the championships belonged to CMLL.[16] 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.[1] The championship was initially announced as the CMLL Historic Welterweight Championship,[1] but when the belt was unveiled, it was called the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship.[1]

Reigns

Masked wrestler La Sombra posing on the ropes during an outdoor wrestling event
La Sombra, the youngest wrestler to win the championship

Volador Jr. is the current NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion, having won the title on August 1, 2014, defeating La Sombra in one of the featured matches on the 2014 El Juicio Final ("Final Judgement") show.[2] He is the seventh overall champion and previously held the championship from November 19, 2013 to June 6, 2014. Volador Jr. and La Sombra are the only two wrestlers to hold the championship twice. Volador Jr's current reign is the longest individual reign while La Sombra's 56-day reign in 2014 is the shortest of all championship reigns.[3][2] On January 22, 2012, La Sombra became the first champion to defend the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship outside of Mexico as he defeated Volador Jr. during the CMLL/New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) co-promoted Fantastica Mania 2012 in Tokyo, Japan.[17][18]

At the age of 21 years, 130 days when he won the championship the first time, La Sombra is the youngest wrestler to win the championship.[5] At 52 years,  34 days at the time of his title win, Negro Casas is the oldest wrestler to win the championship.[4]

Rules

As a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a predefined outcome of matches.[19] The Championship is designated as a welterweight title, which means that the championship can officially only be competed for by wrestlers weighing between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb).[20] In the 20th century Mexican wrestling enforced the weight divisions more strictly, but in the 21st century the rules have occasionally been ignored for some of the weight divisions. The heaviest welterweight champion on record is Mephisto who was announced as weighing 90 kg (200 lb), 12 kg (26 lb) above the official maximum weight limit.[6] While the heavyweight championship is traditionally considered the most prestigious weight division in professional wrestling, CMLL places more emphasis on the lower weight divisions.[19] All title matches promoted in Mexico take place under best two-out-of-three falls rules, while championship matches promoted in Japan followed the local custom and were only one fall matches.[17][18]

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. [1]
2 Sombra, LaLa Sombra 1 March 13, 2011 337 Mexico City Domingo Familiar   [21]
3 Casas, NegroNegro Casas 1 February 13, 2012 475 Puebla, Puebla CMLL Live event   [22]
4 Máscara Dorada 1 June 2, 2013 170 Mexico City Sin Salida (2013)   [23]
5 Volador Jr. 1 November 19, 2013 199 Mexico City Martes Popular   [24]
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. [3]
7 Volador Jr. 2 August 1, 2014 868+ Mexico City El Juicio Final (2014)   [2]

List of combined reigns

Mexican wrestler Negro Casas in the ring during an outdoor wrestling event.
Negro Casas, the oldest wrestler to win the championship
Key
† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
days		 Ref(s).
1 Volador Jr.† 2 1067+ [2][3][24]
2 Casas, NegroNegro Casas 1 475 [22][23]
3 Sombra, LaLa Sombra 2 393 [2][3][21][22]
4 Mephisto 1 213 [1][21]
5 Máscara Dorada 1 170 [23]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Boutwell, Josh (August 20, 2010). "Viva la Raza! Lucha Weekly". Wrestleview. Archived from the original on August 23, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 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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  5. 1 2 "Tecnicos – La Sombra". Fuego en el ring (in Spanish). Retrieved October 17, 2009.
  6. 1 2 "Statistics for Professional wrestlers". PWI Presents: 2007 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts. Kappa Publications. 2007 Edition.
  7. ↑ マスカラ・ドラダ. New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  9. 1 2 Hornbaker, Tim (2007). "International Expansion". National Wrestling Alliance: the untold story of the monopoly that strangled pro wrestling. ECW Press. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-1-55022-741-3.
  10. ↑ Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: National Welterweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 392. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  11. ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "The start of the journey". Mondo Lucha a Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 15–28. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  12. ↑ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "MEXICO: EMLL CMLL Welterweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 396. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  13. ↑ "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. issue 244. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2009". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 8, 2010. 348.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. 1 2 "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2012". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  18. 1 2 Soy Rudo (January 22, 2012). "NJPW-CMLL: Resultados "Fantasticamanía 2012″ Día 2". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  19. 1 2 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.
  20. ↑ Arturo Montiel Rojas (2001-08-30). "Reglamento de Boy 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. Welter77 kilos
  21. 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.
  22. 1 2 3 Blanco, Alejandro (February 14, 2012). "Negro Casas Nuevo Campeón Mundial Welter". Cinco Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
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