NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship
NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

The current champion La Sombra
Details
Current champion(s) La Sombra
Date won 02011-03-13 March 13, 2011
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established 02010-08-12 August 12, 2010

The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Historico de Peso Welter de la NWA in Spanish)[1] 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, when the relationship between the promotion and National Wrestling Alliance broke down in March 2010, when Blue Demon, Jr., the president of NWA Mexico, sent letters to CMLL, telling them to stop promoting the NWA-branded championships since they were not part of the NWA. NWA Mexico had previously tried to reclaim the three NWA-branded championships promoted by CMLL, but was ignored by CMLL. The promotion did not directly respond to the latest claim either; the NWA Welterweight Champion, Mephisto, commented, simply stating that the titles belonged to CMLL.[2] 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] Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to matches. The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (170 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[Note 1][3] La Sombra is the current NWA World Historic Welterweight champion having defeated Mephisto for the title on March 13, 2011.[4] This is La Sombra's first run with the title and he is the second overall champion.

Title history

Key
Symbol Meaning
# The overall championship reign
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
N/A The specific information is not known
Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held
Location Event Notes
1 Mephisto 1 02010-08-12 August 12, 2010 &10000000000000213000000213 N/A N/A Mephisto was the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Welterweight Champion and was thus named the first NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion.[5]
2 La Sombra 2 02011-03-13 March 13, 2011 &10000000000000255000000255+ Mexico City CMLL show [4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ The most recent case of this is Mephisto holding the NWA World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (170 lb) upper limit, despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).

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