WWA World Welterweight Championship

The WWA World Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial de Peso Welter WWA in Spanish) is a Mexican professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA) since 1987. The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 77 kg (170 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.^[a][1] Because Lucha Libre emphasizes the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of a promotion.^[2]

WWA World Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial de Peso Welter WWA)
Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Association (WWA)
Date established	1987
Current champion(s)	Bandido
Date won	September 28, 2017
Statistics First champion(s) Negro Casas Most reigns El Hijo del Santo (10 reigns) Longest reign Bandido (2238+ days) Shortest reign Tornado Negro(>1 day)

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.^[b] 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,^[c] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,^[d] or leaving the company.^[e]

It was first won by Negro Casas in 1987 and had been defended not only in Mexico but Europe, Japan and the United States as well. The title was held by many of the top cruiserweight wrestlers of the 1990s including Heavy Metal, Psicosis, Juventud Guerrera, Rey Misterio, Jr. and Eddie Guerrero. El Hijo del Santo holds the record for most title reigns with ten reigns. The current champion is El Hijo de Rey Misterio II.

Title history

Key

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
+	Current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics		Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days
1	Negro Casas	1987	Live event	[f]	1	[g]		[h]
2	Tornado Negro	April 14, 1989	Live event	Tijuana, Mexico	1	0		[h]
3	Negro Casas	April 14, 1989	Live event	Apatlaco, Morelos	2	[i]		[h]
4	Fuerza Guerrera	[j]	Live event	[f]	1	[k]		[h]
5	Blue Demon Jr.	September 1989	Live event	[f]	1	[l]		[h]
6	Fuerza Guerrera	[j]	Live event	N/A	6	[m]		[h]
7	El Hijo del Santo	June 7, 1990	Live event	Tokyo, Japan	1	[n]		[h]
—	Vacated	November 1991	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated for unknown reasons
	Championship history is unrecorded from November 1991 to 1992.
8	Eddie Guerrero	1992	Live event	[f]	1	[o]		[h]
9	Piloto Suicida	August 29, 1992	Live event	Los Angeles, California	1	9		[h]
10	Espanto Jr.	September 7, 1992	Live event	Querétaro, Mexico	1	193		[h]
11	El Hijo del Santo	March 19, 1993	Live event	Tijuana, Mexico	2	56		[h]
12	Heavy Metal	May 14, 1993	Live event	Mexico City	1	[p]	[h]
13	El Hijo del Santo	June 1993	Live event	[f]	3	[q]		[h]
14	Psicosis	February 16, 1994	Live event	Aguascalientes, Mexico	1	583		[h]
15	Rey Misterio Jr.	September 22, 1995	Live event	Mexico City	1	6		[h]
16	Psicosis	September 28, 1995	Live event	Mexicali, Mexico	2	1		[h]
17	Rey Misterio Jr.	September 29, 1995	Live event	Tijuana, Mexico	2	212		[h]
18	Juventud Guerrera	April 28, 1996	Live event	Querétaro, Mexico	1	83		[h]
19	Rey Misterio Jr.	July 20, 1996	WAR's 4th Anniversary Show	Tokyo, Japan	3	216		[h]
20	El Hijo del Santo	February 21, 1997	Live event	Tijuana, Mexico	4	133	[h]
21	El Felino	July 4, 1997	Live event	Mexico City	1	96		[h]
22	El Hijo del Santo	October 8, 1997	Live event	Leon, Mexico	5	115		[h]
23	El Felino	January 31, 1998	Live event	Mexico City	1	36		[h]
—	Vacated	March 8, 1998	—	—	—	—	Championship held up after inconclusive match between El Hijo del Santo and El Felino	[h]
24	El Hijo del Santo	July 13, 1998	Live event	Puebla, Puebla	6		Defeated Felino in rematch.	[h]
	Championship history is unrecorded from July 13, 1998 to April 9, 2000.
25	Blue Panther	April 9, 2000	Live event	Monterrey, Mexico	1	[r]		[8][9]
26	El Hijo del Santo	May 28, 2000	Live event	[f]	7	179		[8][9][10]
27	El Hijo del Diablo	November 23, 2000	Live event	Iguala, Mexico	1	707		[8]
28	El Hijo del Santo	October 31, 2002	Live event	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	8	817		[11]
29	El Cobarde	January 25, 2005	Live event	Juarez, Mexico	1	227		[12]
30	El Hijo del Santo	September 9, 2005	Live event	Ciudad Juarez, Mexico	9			[12]
	Championship history is unrecorded from September 9, 2005 to July 2, 2008.
31	Blue Demon Jr.		Live event	Valencia, Spain	2	3		[13]
32	El Hijo del Santo	July 5, 2008	Live event	London, England	10	1,258		[13]
—	Vacated	N/A	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated for undocumented reasons.
33	El Hijo de Rey Misterio II	May 27, 2011	Live event	Mexico City, Mexico	1
34	Ángel Blanco Jr.	December 15, 2011	Live event	Mexico City, Mexcico	1	2,114
35	Bandido	September 28, 2017	TxT show	Tulancingo, Hidalgo	1	2,982+		[14]

Footnotes

1. The most recent case of this is Mephisto holding the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
2. Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"^[3]
3. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"^[4]
4. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"^[5]
5. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."^[6]
6. The location of the title change was not captured as part of the championship documentation.
7. The exact date on which Negro Casas won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 470 and 834 days.
8. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 400, Chapter: "Mexico: WWA Welterweight Title" ^[7]
9. The exact date on which Negro Casas lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 169 days.
10. The exact date Fuerza Guerrea won the championship has not been documented, only that he won the championship in this time period.
11. The exact date on which Fuerza Guerrera won and lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 day and 168 days.
12. The exact date on which Blue Demon Jr. won and lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 278 days.
13. The exact date on which Fuerza Guerrero won and lost the title is unknown, placing the title reign between 1 and 249 days.
14. The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo vacated the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 512 and 541 days.
15. The exact date on which Eddie Guerrero won the title is unknown, placing his title reigns between −181 and 59 days.
16. The exact date on which Heavy Metal lost the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 277 days.
17. The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 47 and 276 days.
18. The exact date on which Blue Panther lost the title is unknown, placing the title reign between 53 and 82 days.