UWA World Lightweight Championship

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UWA World Lightweight Championship
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The original championship belt
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Promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA)
Date establishedDecember 21, 1975
Current champion(s) Kato Kung Lee, Jr.
Date wonMay 9, 1997

The UWA World Lightweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial de Peso Ligero UWA in Spanish) is an inactive professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) from 1975 until some time around 2000 when Kato Kung Lee, Jr. stopped defending it. The official definition of the lightweight weight class in Mexico is between 63 kg (139 lb) and 70 kg (150 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered to. [lower-alpha 1] [1] The first champion was El Matematico, winning the title in December 1975. When the UWA closed in 1995 the title was vacated, but 2 years later it was brought back as an Independent circuit title when Kato Kung Lee, Jr. won it.

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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. [lower-alpha 2] 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, [lower-alpha 3] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, [lower-alpha 4] or leaving the company. [lower-alpha 5]

Title history

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
 1  El Matematico  December 21, 1975 UWA Show Pachuca, Mexico 1 373Defeated Hashi Masataka to become first champion. [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 2  El Signo  December 28, 1976 UWA Show Mexico City 1 436 [lower-alpha 6] [7]
— Vacated  March 19, 1978————Championship vacated for undocumented reasons [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 3 Black Man  September 10, 1978 UWA Show Mexico City 1 1,116Defeated El Matematico to win the title. [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 4 Black Terry  September 30, 1981 UWA Show Mexico City 1  [lower-alpha 7] [lower-alpha 6] [7] [8]
 5  Negro Casas  January 1984 UWA Show Mexico City 1  [lower-alpha 8] [lower-alpha 6] /> [7]
 6  El Hijo del Santo  October 28, 1984 UWA Show Mexico City 1 249 [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 7 Aristotle I July 14, 1985 UWA Show Mexico City 1 49 [lower-alpha 6] [7] [9]
 8  El Hijo del Santo  September 1, 1985 UWA Show Mexico City 2 693 [lower-alpha 6] [7] [9]
 9 Espanto Jr.  July 26, 1987 UWA Show Torreon, Mexico 1 280 [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 10  El Hijo del Santo  May 1, 1988 UWA Show Naucalpan, State of Mexico 3  [lower-alpha 9] [lower-alpha 6] [7]
— Vacated  January 1991————Championship vacated when El Hijo del Santo moves up to the Welterweight division [lower-alpha 6] [7] [10]
 11 Lasser February 5, 1991 UWA Show Puebla, Puebla 1 579Defeated El Khalifa in the finals of a 24-man championship tournament to win the vacant title. [lower-alpha 6] [7] [10]
 12  Rocky Santana  September 6, 1992 UWA Show Tokyo, Japan 1 7The first major title defence ever held outside Mexico. [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 13 Lasser September 9, 1992 UWA Show Sapporo, Japan 2 50 [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 14 Cassandro  October 29, 1992 UWA Show Toluca, Mexico 1 593 [lower-alpha 6] [7]
 15  Semanarista  June 14, 1994 UWA Show Querétaro, Mexico 1 100 [lower-alpha 6] [7] [11]
 16  Loco Valentino  September 22, 1994 UWA Show Tulancingo, Mexico 1  [lower-alpha 10] [lower-alpha 6] [7] [11]
— Vacated  1995————Championship vacated when the UWA Closes [lower-alpha 6] [7] [12]
 17  Kato Kung Lee Jr.  May 9, 1997 Live event Tulancingo, Mexico  1 967+Kato Kung Lee Jr. wins the vacant title which had been inactive for two years.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The most recent case of this is Mephisto, who holds 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" [2]
  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" [3]
  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" [4]
  5. ↑ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA." [5]
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 398, Chapter: MEXICO: UWA World Lightweight Title [Flores, Mora] [6]
  7. ↑ The exact date on which Black Terry lost the championship is unknown, placing the title reign between 823 and 853 days.
  8. ↑ The exact date on which negro Casas won the championship is unknown, placing the title reign between 271 and 301 days.
  9. ↑ The exact date on which El Hijo del Santo vacated the championship is unknown, placing the title reign between 975 and 1,005 days.
  10. ↑ The exact date on which the championship was is unknown, placing the title reign between 101 and 465 days.

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References

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  2. ↑ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  3. ↑ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  4. ↑ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  5. ↑ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  6. ↑ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 398.
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  8. ↑ "1981 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 7, 1981. pp. 2–28. issue 1501.
  9. 1 2 "1985 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 7, 1985. pp. 2–28. issue 17080.
  10. 1 2 "1991 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 1991. pp. 2–28. issue 2020.
  11. 1 2 "1994 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 8, 1994. pp. 2–28. issue 2176.
  12. ↑ "1995 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 1995. pp. 2–28. issue 2228.
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