UWA World Women's Championship

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UWA World Women's Championship
Campeonato Mundial Feminil de UWA
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Details
Promotion Universal Wrestling Association
Mexican independent circuit
Date establishedDecember 9, 1979
Date retired2003
Statistics
First champion(s) Vickie Williams
Most reigns Lola González (4 Times)
Longest reign Zuleyma (3,849 days)
Shortest reign Miss Janeth (0 days)

The UWA World Women's Championship (Campeonato Mundial Feminil de UWA in Spanish) was a singles women's professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) from 1975 until the UWA closed in 1995 and since then defended on the Mexican independent circuit. Zuleyma was the reigning champion when UWA closed and she sporadically defended the title over the next 10 years, often with over a year between title defenses. The last champion was Miss Janeth with no recorded title defenses after 2003.

Contents

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 1] 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 2] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, [lower-alpha 3] or leaving the company. [lower-alpha 4]

Reigns

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
N/AUnknown information
Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
 1  Vickie Williams  December 9, 1979 Live event Mexico City 1 14Defeated Irma González to become first champion. [lower-alpha 5]
 2  Estela Melina  December 23, 1979 Live event Mexico City 1  [lower-alpha 5]
 3  Vickie Williams  March 9, 1980 Live event Monterrey, Nuevo León 2 77 [lower-alpha 5]
 4  Irma González  May 25, 1980 Live event N/A 1 133 [lower-alpha 5] [6]
 5  Vickie Williams  October 5, 1980 Live event Mexico City 3 77 [lower-alpha 5]
 6  Chabela Romero  December 21, 1980 Live event Mexico City 1 119 [lower-alpha 5]
Vacated  April 19, 1981Championship was vacated for undocumented reasons. [lower-alpha 5]
 7  Lola González  August 16, 1981 Live event Mexico City 1 376Defeated Vickie Williams to win the vacant title. [lower-alpha 5]
 8  Irma González  August 27, 1982 Live event N/A 2 575 [lower-alpha 5]
 9  Lola González  March 25, 1983 Live event Puebla, Puebla 2 28 [lower-alpha 5]
 10  Irma Aguilar  April 22, 1983 Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico Live event  1 269 [lower-alpha 5]
 11 Pantera Sureña  December 27, 1983 Live event Puebla, Puebla 1 262 [lower-alpha 5]
 12  Jaguar Yokota  September 17, 1984 Live event Tokyo, Japan 1 209 [lower-alpha 5] [7]
 13  Lola González  April 14, 1985 Live event Mexico City 3 618 [lower-alpha 5]
 14  Shinobu Kandori  December 23, 1986 Live event Tokyo, Japan 1  [lower-alpha 5]
Vacated  July 1987Championship vacated when Shinobu Kandori left the promotion. [lower-alpha 5]
 15  Lola González  October 10, 1987 Live event Tokyo, Japan 4 1,232Defeated Harley Saito to win the vacant title. [lower-alpha 5]
 Zuleyma  February 23, 1991 Live event Mexico City 1 3,849 [lower-alpha 5]
 Miss Janeth  September 7, 2001 Live event Monterrey, Nuevo León 1 0 [lower-alpha 5]
  Ayako Hamada  September 7, 2001 Live event Monterrey, Nuevo León 1 
 Miss Janeth  2002 Live event Monterrey, Nuevo León 2 
 2003   Championship inactive from 2003 on

Footnotes

  1. 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" [1]
  2. 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" [2]
  3. 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" [3]
  4. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA." [4]
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 399, Chapter: MEXICO: UWA World Women's Title [Flores, Mora] [5]

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References

  1. Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  2. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  3. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  4. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  5. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 399.
  6. Centinela, Teddy (May 25, 2015). "En un día como hoy… 1980: Perro Aguayo destrona a Gran Hamada… Irma González se corona ante Vicky Williams". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 1, 2015.
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