WWA Light Heavyweight Championship
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The WWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial peso Semi Completo de WWA in Spanish) is a singles professional wrestling championship promoted by World Wrestling Association (WWA) in Mexico since 1987. The official definition of the Light Heavyweight weight class in Mexico is between 92 kg (203 lb) and 97 kg (214 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.
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. 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, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.
It was first won by El Cobarde II in 1987 and has since then been held by at least 9 wrestlers, although records for parts of the title history has not been found. The current champion is Atlantis, who won it in December 2014. 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.
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| N/A | Unknown information |
| † | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | El Cobarde II | 1987 | Live event | N/A | 1 | Records are not clear on who El Cobarde defeated to win the championship | ||
| 2 | Lizmark | April 1, 1988 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 1 | |||
| — | N/A | — | — | |||||
| 3 | Enrique Vera | Live event | N/A | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Lizmark | June 1990 | Live event | 2 | ||||
| 5 | La Parka | August 1993 | Live event | 1 | ||||
| 6 | Lizmark | September 1993 | Live event | 3 | ||||
| 7 | La Parka | June 20, 1994 | Live event | Monterrey, Mexico | 2 | |||
| — | N/A | — | — | |||||
| 8 | El Dandy | January 2001 | Live event | Nuevo Laredo, Mexico | 1 | |||
| 9 | Asterisco | June 17, 2001 | Live event | Reynosa, Mexico | 1 | |||
| — | N/A | — | — | |||||
| 10 | Kiss | January 17, 2003 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 1 | Defeated Rey Misterio Sr. to win the vacant title. | ||
| — | N/A | — | — | |||||
| 11 | Blue Demon Jr. | March 2008 | Live event | Oaxaca, Oaxaca | 1 | Won the vacant title in a one-night tournament. | ||
| — | Vacated | N/A | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated due to inactivity. | |
| 12 | Heddi Karaoui | November 30, 2013 | Live event | Mexico City | 1 | Won the vacant title against Negro Navarro. | ||
| — | Vacated | N/A | — | — | — | — | ||
| 13 | Atlantis | December 5, 2014 | Live event | Tijuana | 1 | 4,151+ | Won the vacant title against Negro Casas. |
Footnotes
See also
- NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, predecessor in Jim Crockett Promotions
- WCW Light Heavyweight Championship
- WWE Cruiserweight Championship (1996–2007)
- NXT Cruiserweight Championship
- WWF Light Heavyweight Championship
- Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
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