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{{TitleDefenseLine|1|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[1974]].[[04.16]]|[[Arena México]]|<ref>Halcon 103</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseLine|1|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[1974]].[[04.16]]|[[Arena México]]|<ref>Halcon 103</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|2|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1974]].[[06.25]]|[[Arena Aficion]]|<ref>Halcon 104</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseLine|2|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1974]].[[06.25]]|[[Arena Aficion]]|<ref>Halcon 104</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleHistorySpan|championship vacated 1974.07.17, officially due to a [[Ray Mendoza]] injury|<ref>[https://twitter.com/mattfarmer93/status/885143685779697664/photo/1 NWA letter]] confirming the title being stripped due to injury. Mendoza was injured but had to give up the title unusually quick. Mendoza did not return to EMLL when he returned from injury</ref> | {{TitleHistorySpan|championship vacated 1974.07.17, officially due to a [[Ray Mendoza]] injury|<ref>[https://twitter.com/mattfarmer93/status/885143685779697664/photo/1 NWA letter]] confirming the title being stripped due to injury. Mendoza was injured but had to give up the title unusually quick. Mendoza did not return to EMLL when he returned from injury</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleHistorySpan|'''[[NWA World Light Heavyweight Tournament, 1974|tournament for vacant title]]'''}} | {{TitleHistorySpan|'''[[NWA World Light Heavyweight Tournament, 1974|tournament for vacant title]]'''}} | ||
{{TitleHistoryLine|21|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[El Halcon]]|[[1974]].[[September 22|09.22]]|[[Arena Mexico]]|<Ref>Halcon 117</ref>}} | {{TitleHistoryLine|21|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[El Halcon]]|[[1974]].[[September 22|09.22]]|[[Arena Mexico]]|<Ref>Halcon 117</ref>}} | ||
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{{TitleDefenseLine|1|[[El Faraón]]|[[1977]].[[September 30|09.30]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}} | {{TitleDefenseLine|1|[[El Faraón]]|[[1977]].[[September 30|09.30]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy|2|[[El Faraón]]|[[1977]].[[12.25]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1977-12-25</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseIffy|2|[[El Faraón]]|[[1977]].[[12.25]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1977-12-25</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|3|[[El Faraón]]|[[1978]].[[03.11]]|[[Puebla]]|<ref>Halcon 347</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseLine|3|[[El Faraón]]|[[1978]].[[03.11]]|[[Puebla]]|<ref="halcon347">Halcon 347</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleHistoryLine|29|[[El Faraón]]|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1978]].[[04.07]]|[[Arena Mexico]]|<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/cmll.oficial/photos/a.352219088254374.1073741827.351036975039252/557413501068264/?type=1 CMLL - previously listed as 06/02, which may have been a title defense]</ref>}} | {{TitleHistoryLine|29|[[El Faraón]]|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1978]].[[04.07]]|[[Arena Mexico]]|<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/cmll.oficial/photos/a.352219088254374.1073741827.351036975039252/557413501068264/?type=1 CMLL - previously listed as 06/02, which may have been a title defense]</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|1|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1978]].[[04.26]]|[[Acapulco]]|<ref | {{TitleDefenseLine|1|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1978]].[[04.26]]|[[Acapulco]]|<ref name="halcon347" />}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|2|[[Perro Aguayo]]|[[1978]].[[05.14]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>[http://superluchas.com/2015/05/14/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1978-el-Faraón-vs-perro-aguayo-por-el-campeonato-mundial-semicompleto-nwa-la-ola-blanca-vs-fishman-y-el-cobarde/ SuperLuchas]</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseLine|2|[[Perro Aguayo]]|[[1978]].[[05.14]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>[http://superluchas.com/2015/05/14/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1978-el-Faraón-vs-perro-aguayo-por-el-campeonato-mundial-semicompleto-nwa-la-ola-blanca-vs-fishman-y-el-cobarde/ SuperLuchas]</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|3|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1978]].[[05.24]]|[[Acapulco]]|<ref | {{TitleDefenseLine|3|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1978]].[[05.24]]|[[Acapulco]]|<ref name="halcon347" />}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|4|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[1978]].[[06.16]]|[[Mexico City]]|<ref | {{TitleDefenseLine|4|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[1978]].[[06.16]]|[[Mexico City]]|<ref name="halcon347" />}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|5|[[El Nazi]]|[[1978]].[[07.02]]|[[Monterrey]]|<ref | {{TitleDefenseLine|5|[[El Nazi]]|[[1978]].[[07.02]]|[[Monterrey]]|<ref name="halcon347" />}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|6|[[Gemelo Diablo I]]|[[1978]].[[07.08]]|[[Puebla]]|<ref> | {{TitleDefenseLine|6|[[Gemelo Diablo I]]|[[1978]].[[07.08]]|[[Puebla]]|<ref name="halcon347" />}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy| | {{TitleDefenseLine|7|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[1978]].[[07.26]]|[[Acapulco]]|<ref name="halcon347" />}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy| | {{TitleDefenseIffy|8|[[Gemelo Diablo I|Gemelo Diablo]]|[[1978]].[[08.13]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1978-08-13</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy|9|[[Carlos Plata]]|[[1978]].[[11.26]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1978-11-26</ref>}} | |||
{{TitleHistoryLine|30|[[Kengo Kimura|Pak Choo]]|[[El Faraón]]|[[1978]].[[12.08]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}} | {{TitleHistoryLine|30|[[Kengo Kimura|Pak Choo]]|[[El Faraón]]|[[1978]].[[12.08]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy|1|[[El Faraón]]|[[1979]].[[01.21]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1979-01-21</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseIffy|1|[[El Faraón]]|[[1979]].[[01.21]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1979-01-21</ref>}} | ||
Revision as of 14:43, 18 September 2020
Current Champion
Súper Nova is the current champion. He defeated El Hijo de Rey Misterio II and Lizmark Jr. on May 19, 2013 in El Centenario Salon of Blackfoot, Idaho. The title was vacate.
History of Championship
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Connection with NWA
The NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship was created in the early 1950s. In it's first years, it was a United States title, but was given to EMLL in 1958, and has remained mostly in Mexico for it's lifespan. The NWA name and the long existence of the belt give it a lot of credibility in Mexico, but it's no different from other modern championships in it's many breaks between defenses.
The EMLL promotion broke from the NWA when it renamed itself CMLL in 1991 and declared new world championships for every division. CMLL appeared to plan on unifying the NWA championships, but the unification matches never took place. The NWA Light Heavyweight championship, with over thirty years of history as a major championship in Mexico, was continued to be treated as a major championship of another organization. Despite the NWA itself imploding and restarting multiple times, CMLL continued to act as if there was still an outside NWA governing body sanctioning this championship. CMLL referees would wear shirts with NWA logos for the title matches, as 'proof' of the championship's legitimacy.
In the late 2000, the current version of the NWA began to request CMLL return to this championship and the other related NWA titles. The NWA pointed out CMLL had not been a dues paying member of the NWA for decades. As a promotion, CMLL ignored the requests. When asked, the individual champions declared they'd only give up the belts if they lost them in the ring. The NWA became more insistent on the return of the belts when Blue Demon Jr. joined to start the NWA Mexico promotion. Demon first suggested matches between the CMLL NWA champions and his groups of wrestlers, then repeatedly demanded the belts be handed over. Since Demon was making these claims in Mexico directly, these claims got higher levels of attention.
Finally, on August 12, 2010, CMLL announced a change with the NWA group of championships. The current physical title belts were all retired, replaced by newly belts with a different design. The old belts are now part of CMLL's mobile museum, though copies of them have turned up elsewhere.
CMLL referred to the new championships as the CMLL Historic Championships and said the former NWA champions would be the first champions of the new belts. Outside not getting the physical belt back, that appeared to satisfy the NWA's complaints. However, since within weeks of that press conference, CMLL had changed course. The championships were referred to as NWA World Historic Championships, angering the NWA again.
Champions Listing
Sources:
- ↑ Lucha Libre 191; Bonales says he and Stojack went to a draw before the title was declared vacant and decided in Mexico. It's possible he was off a year.
- ↑ El Informador 1959-11-29
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ El Informador 1961.05.14
- ↑ Lucha Libre 104 details this situation as it stands in 1965, claiming EMLL had regularly attempting to get the NWA to order Guerrero to defend the title in Mexico or vacate it, and NWA siding with Guerrero. By 1965, if not earlier, it's clear EMLL wants Ray Mendoza to hold this championship instead
- ↑ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-lh.html - source for this title change and many of the dates on this page
- ↑ NWA may have stripped Guerrero for defending the title on non-NWA shows, the justification is unclear. Halcon 101 (1974) has Gory Guerrero showing the title and claiming he saw he was still listed as champion in the NWA record book at a recent meeting, though he's effectively retired
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ Lucha Libre 220
- ↑ El Informador 1967-10-01
- ↑ Lucha Libre 220
- ↑ Lucha Libre 220
- ↑ Lucha Libre 220
- ↑ Lucha Libre 231
- ↑ El Siglo de Torreon; typically listed as the 19th
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ El Informador 1968-10-27
- ↑ El Informador 1969-02-02
- ↑ Lucha Libre 323 year in review mentions the correct date repeatedly; previously listed as 1968.12.25
- ↑ Lucha Libre 285; Lucha Libre 323
- ↑ Teddy Centinela
- ↑ Teddy Centinela
- ↑ Lucha Libre 310; date is an estimate
- ↑ Lucha Libre 318
- ↑ a draw; Teddy Centinela, http://superluchas.net/2014/12/19/en-un-dia-como-hoy-anibal-destapa-red-terror-adrian-street-en-mexico/ SuperLuchas
- ↑ previously listed as 1969.12.19, but that was a title defense
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ date had been listed as 1970.03.20, but poster/recap lists correct date, Lucha Libre 341 confirms
- ↑ CMLL
- ↑ Box Y Lucha 967
- ↑ Box Y Lucha 967
- ↑ El Informador 1971-05-23
- ↑ El Informador 1972-01-01
- ↑ Halcon 1
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ Halcon 14
- ↑ El Informador 1972-12-03
- ↑ Halcon 29, Halcon 31
- ↑ Halcon 44, Halcon 63
- ↑ Halcon 46
- ↑ Box Y Lucha 1080, Box Y Lucha 1081
- ↑ Halcon 55, billed as first defense
- ↑ El Informador 1973-10-07
- ↑ Halcon 67, Halcon 68
- ↑ Lucha libre 531, Halcon 76
- ↑ Halcon 78
- ↑ Halcon 103
- ↑ Halcon 104
- ↑ NWA letter] confirming the title being stripped due to injury. Mendoza was injured but had to give up the title unusually quick. Mendoza did not return to EMLL when he returned from injury
- ↑ Halcon 117
- ↑ Halcon 120
- ↑ Halcon 128, KO 1133
- ↑ El Informador 1975-01-26
- ↑ Marty Jones
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ El Informador 1975-09-16
- ↑ draw (double pin in second fall); Lucha Libre 621
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ El Infomador 1976-03-21
- ↑ El Informador 1976-10-24
- ↑ El Informador 1977-12-25
- ↑ CMLL - previously listed as 06/02, which may have been a title defense
- ↑ Jump up to: 65.0 65.1 65.2 65.3 65.4 65.5 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedhalcon347 - ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ El Informador 1978-08-13
- ↑ El Informador 1978-11-26
- ↑ El Informador 1979-01-21
- ↑ El Informador 1979-03-11
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ El Informador 1979-06-03
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ El Informador 1979-07-01
- ↑ El Informador 1979-10-14
- ↑ ended in a double countout draw
- ↑ El Informador 1979-12-30
- ↑ El Informador 1980-01-20 lists the match
- ↑ ricardo aguilar hidalgo
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ El Informador 1980-11-02
- ↑ El Informador 1981-05-30
- ↑ Box y Lucha
- ↑ El Informador 1981-09-20
- ↑ CMLL
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ El Informador 1983-01-09
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ El Informador 1983-06-19
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ draw
- ↑ El Informador 1983-10-23
- ↑ draw with the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship also on the line, luchablog photolog (2013-09-16 01.46.51), Matt Farmer
- ↑ El Informador 1984-01-22
- ↑ El Informador 1984-07-29
- ↑ El Informador 1984-11-11
- ↑ luchablog photolog (2013-09-16 03.06.56)
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ El Informador 1985-06-30
- ↑ Luchas 2000 #574, p7
- ↑ SuperLuchas
- ↑ El Informador 1985-10-13
- ↑ http://youtu.be/eQk38De43C4
- ↑ luchablog photolog (2013-09-16 02.33.41)
- ↑ Matt Farmer
- ↑ luchablog photolog (2013-09-15 15.46.20)
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/cmll.oficial/photos/a.352219088254374.1073741827.351036975039252/679363095539970/?type=3 CMLL]
- ↑ luchablog photolog (2013-09-16 02.24.01)
- ↑ Roy Lucier
- ↑ luchablog photolog (2013-09-16 02.51.48)
- ↑ luchablog photolog (2013-09-16 02.51.48)
- ↑ draw in unification match with CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, luchablog photolog (2013-09-17 17.32.40)
- ↑ Billed as 8th defense - Lucha Libre Weekly 32
- ↑ Box Y Lucha
- ↑ http://youtu.be/9JW6z9v3EpE - date unclear
- ↑ http://h.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_ELSIGLO&Type=text/html&Locale=spanish-skin-custom&Path=EDT/1997/11/20&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar02304&PageLabel=23 El Siglo de Torreon]
- ↑ WON 1998-11-16
- ↑ luchablog photolog (2013-09-15 23.26.57)
- ↑ draw, El Siglo de Torreon 1999-09-18
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Gallery of Title Belts
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Sources
| V | National Wrestling Alliance Championships (with lucha libre history) | E |
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| World Welter (Akantus), NWA-Mexico: Mexico Light (Skayde), Mexico Welter (Vaquero Fantasma), Mexico Tag (Alpha Wolf and Dragón Bane) | ||
| Dragon Gym: International Junior Heavy (Último Dragón) | ||
| Defunct: Middle, Light Heavy, Americas Tag | ||
| Reference: Jr. Heavy, Heavy | ||
| CMLL established titles: Historic Welter (Volador Jr.), Historic Middle (Carístico), Historic LH (Stuka Jr.) | ||
