WWA World Heavyweight Championship (Mexico)
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The WWA World Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Peso Completo WWA in Spanish) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA) since 1986. As the Championship was designated as a heavyweight title, the Championship can only officially be competed for by wrestlers weighing at least 105 kg (231 lb). However, as with most heavyweight titles the "minimum" weight requirement is often ignored.
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.
Bill Anderson was the first champion, defeating Tinieblas in the finals of a tournament on October 4, 1986. Perro Aguayo is the wrestler that has held the championship the most times, three, Mil Mascaras is the only other wrestler to have won the title more than once. The current champion is Rayo de Jalisco, Jr., having defeated Rey Misterio, Sr. in a tournament final on March 21, 2003. 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 | Bill Anderson | October 4, 1986 | Live event | 1 | 119 | Defeated Tinieblas to become first champion. | ||
| 2 | Tinieblas | January 31, 1987 | Live event | Los Angeles, California | 1 | |||
| 3 | Super Halcón | August 1987 | Live event | Los Angeles, California | 1 | |||
| — | N/A | — | — | WWA stops promoting in Los Angeles area in 1988 and moves across the border to Tijuana. | ||||
| 4 | Dos Caras | 1989 | Live event | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Scorpio Jr. | September 19, 1990 | Live event | Naucalpan, Mexico | 1 | 36 | ||
| 6 | Mil Máscaras | October 25, 1991 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 1 | |||
| — | Vacated | 1994 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for unknown reasons | |
| 7 | Perro Aguayo | September 18, 1994 | Live event | Nuevo Laredo, Mexico | 1 | Defeated Cien Caras to win the vacant title. | ||
| 8 | Cien Caras | 1995 | Live event | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Perro Aguayo | October 4, 1995 | Live event | Aguascalientes, Mexico | 2 | 23 | ||
| 10 | Cibernético | October 27, 1995 | Live event | Tehuacan, Mexico | 1 | 49 | ||
| 11 | Perro Aguayo | December 15, 1995 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 3 | 560 | ||
| 12 | Cobarde Jr. | June 27, 1997 | Live event | Tala, Mexico | 1 | |||
| 13 | Mil Máscaras | 1999 | Live event | 2 | ||||
| — | Vacated | N/A | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for unknown reasons | |
| 14 | Rayo de Jalisco Jr. | March 21, 2003 | Live event | Tijuana, Mexico | 1 | 1800 | Defeated Rey Misterio, Sr. to win the vacant title. | |
| — | Vacated | February 23, 2008 | — | — | — | — | WWA stripped Jalisco of the title after no-showing a title defense. |
Footnotes
- 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.
- Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.