NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship: Difference between revisions
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{{TitleDefenseLine|2|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[1974]].[[10.27]]|[[Arena Coliseo Monterrey]]|<ref>Halcon 128, KO 1133</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseLine|2|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[1974]].[[10.27]]|[[Arena Coliseo Monterrey]]|<ref>Halcon 128, KO 1133</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy|3|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[1975]].[[01.26]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1975-01-26</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseIffy|3|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[1975]].[[01.26]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1975-01-26</ref>}} | ||
{{ | {{TitleDefenseLine|4|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1975]].[[03.07]]|[[Arena México]]|<ref>Box Y Lucha 1212</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine| | {{TitleDefenseLine|5|[[Goro Tanaka]]|[[1975]].[[05.08]]|[[Arena Isabel, Cuernavaca, Morelos]]|<ref>KO 1152, Halcon 150</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine| | {{TitleDefenseIffy|6|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1975]].[[06.13]]|[[Arena Mexico]]|<ref>Halcon 155</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine| | {{TitleDefenseLine|7|[[Gemelo Diablo I]]|[[1975]].[[08.01]]|[[Arena Mexico]]|<ref>[http://superluchas.com/2015/08/01/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1967-fallece-carlos-gorila-ramos-1975-dr-wagner-expone-el-titulo-semicompleto-nwa-ante-gemelo-diablo-i/ SuperLuchas]</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine| | {{TitleDefenseLine|8|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1975]].[[09.16]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Informador 1975-09-16, KO 1170</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy| | {{TitleDefenseLine|9|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[1975]].[[09.19]]|[[Arena Mexico]]|<ref>draw (double pin in second fall); Lucha Libre 621</ref>}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseLine|10|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[1975]].[[10.20]]|[[Nuevo Laredo]]|<ref>Halcon 174</ref>}} | |||
{{TitleDefenseIffy|11|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[1975]].[[12.05]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}} | |||
{{TitleHistoryLine|22|[[Adorable Rubi]]|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[1976]].[[02.27]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}} | {{TitleHistoryLine|22|[[Adorable Rubi]]|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[1976]].[[02.27]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}} | ||
{{TitleDefenseIffy|1|[[El Santo]]|[[1976]].[[03.21]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Infomador 1976-03-21</ref>}} | {{TitleDefenseIffy|1|[[El Santo]]|[[1976]].[[03.21]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]|<ref>El Infomador 1976-03-21</ref>}} | ||
Revision as of 15:53, 3 November 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
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Ray Mendoza branch
Ray Mendoza suffered an injury (or maybe the latest in a series) in mid-1974. EMLL quickly used this as a pretense to appeal to the NWA to strip Mendoza of the championship, perhaps to prevent him from leaving with a belt as Rene Guajardo had decided to do at that time. It didn't work; Mendoza kept the title (or a version of it) and defended it when he returned in 1975.
This championship was not recognized by the NWA, though it was the same physical belt. It was generally referred to as the "World Light Heavyweight Championship", with abbreviations including AIL, AIP and IWA occasionally affixed to it.
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| 20 | Ray Mendoza | ||||
| 3 | Ángel Blanco | 1975.05.12 | Nuevo Laredo | [1] | |
| 4 | Ángel Blanco | 1975.05.23 | Monterrey | [2] | |
| 5 | Sugi Sito | 1975.07.13 | Arena Raff | [3] | |
| 6 | Dory Dixon | 1975.08.10 | Monterrey | [4] | |
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The championship was quietly dropped upon the announcement of the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship. Ray Mendoza became the first champion, implicitly continuing the legacy of this championship.
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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.) | ||
