Universal Wrestling Association

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Universal Wrestling Association
AcronymUWA
FoundedJanuary 29, 1975
Defunct1995
Style Lucha Libre
Headquarters Naucalpan
Founder(s) Francisco Flores
Ray Mendoza
Benjamín Mora, Jr.
Owner(s)Francisco Flores
Ray Mendoza
Benjamín Mora, Jr.

The Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) was a Mexican Lucha Libre or professional wrestling promotion based in Naucalpan, Mexico State that operated from 1975 until 1995. The name of the actual promotion was Promociones Mora y Asociados and later Lucha Libre Internacional (LLI) ("International wrestling") but outside of Mexico it is generally referred to as the UWA as it was the name of the fictional international sanctioning body that in storyline terms oversaw all championships promoted by LLI. The company was founded by wrestler and trainer Ray Mendoza, promoter Francisco Flores and investor Benjamín Mora, Jr. as when they broke away from Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre to form their own promotion. The company had working agreements with wrestling promotions both in the United States and Japan as they worked with Lou Thesz's American-based Universal Wrestling Association, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Universal Lucha Libre (UWF), and Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP) amongst other promotions.

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History

In 1974, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL, later CMLL) founder and owner Salvador Lutteroth González brought his son into the promotion, grooming him to take over when the aging Lutteroth, Sr. eventually had to retire. This action combined with a very rigid and conservative promotional philosophy led EMLL's promoter in Naucalpan, Mexico State, Francisco Flores, EMLL wrestler and trainer Ray Mendoza and investor Benjamin Mora, Jr. to break away from EMLL to form their own company and challenge EMLL's dominance in Mexico. [1] With the impending change of management in EMLL many wrestlers who had previously been loyal to Lutteroth decided to leave with Flores, Mendoza and Mora including Mendoza's close friends Rene Guajardo and Karloff Lagarde and a number of young wrestles, frustrated with the lack of opportunities in EMLL. They formed the company Promociones Mora y Asociados (later Lucha Libre Internacional (LLI)), which would later become widely known as the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), the name of its fictional governing body which was adopted from the short-lived American-based UWA promotion ran by Lou Thesz, and held their first show on January 29, 1975, creating the first true rival for EMLL in decades. [1]

To some the promotion was known as "Lucha Libre from El Toreo de Naucalpan" (simply "El Toreo"), after the promotion's home base, El Toreo de Naucalpan, which was a building Flores had promoted wrestling in for years before the split. El Toreo de Naucalpan (a former bullring turned into an arena in 1968, now demolished and formerly located near Metro Cuatro Caminos station) became UWA's main venue, used for major title matches, their anniversary shows and significant Lucha de Apuesta (bet matches) events.

UWA's more relaxed approach to wrestling, combined with their willingness to promote younger wrestlers made the promotion a quick success as they drew repeated sell-out crowds at El Toreo de Naucalpan. The promotion was the first to elevate wrestlers such as El Canek, Dos Caras, Fishman, Villano III to main event status. El Canek became the "face of the UWA", holding the UWA World Heavyweight Championship no less than 13 times during the promotion's life span, [2] drawing full houses when he "defended Mexico's honor" against foreign wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan, Tatsumi Fujinami and Big Van Vader. [3] [4]

The UWA also reached out to promotions around the globe and forged working relationships with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the United States and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling in Japan. This working relationship resulted in a larger influx of foreign wrestlers than EMLL was ever able to produce and also led to the UWA actually gaining exclusive rights to promote a WWF branded championship, the WWF World Light Heavyweight Championship in the early 1980s, even if the promotion does not acknowledge this lineage in their official title history today. [5]

The UWA even began working with EMLL in the 1980s, co-promoting shows and allowing EMLL to book UWA wrestlers on their shows. By the early 1990s UWA began to struggle financially as several of their top wrestlers left the company to work for EMLL who could offer them more money.

In 1992 Antonio Peña broke away from EMLL, much like the UWA had 18 years earlier, and formed a new company called Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) further affecting the UWA's finances. As the peso devaluated sharply in the mid-1990s, the UWA was forced to close its doors in 1995. [6]

Legacy

The UWA is remembered as the place where a lot of the main event wrestlers of the 1980s and 1990s for both CMLL and AAA got their starts, including El Canek, now considered a legend in lucha libre. [4] The UWA also helped popularize the match format that is now the most common in Mexico, the Best two out of three falls six-man tag team match, or trios match when they put together the rudo (bad guy) trio Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Negro Navarro, El Signo and El Texano) and matched them up against trios of popular tecnicos (good guys) and drew so many sell-crowds that other promotions began to heavily promote the trios format as well. [1]

Los Misionares de la Muerte were originally workhorse midcarders in the UWA, but their stock rose immediately in a UWA match on November 2, 1980 in a match where the three faced Huracan Ramirez, Black Shadow, and the legendary El Santo. Santo, 63 years old at the time, suffered a legitimate heart attack during the match, which ended in a no contest while he was rushed to the hospital. The three were then re-cast as fallen angels sent to Earth to take out Santo, and were programmed against trios of other tecnicos. [7]

Championships

The Universal Wrestling Association promoted a large number of wrestling championships, spread out over several weight classes like in professional boxing and even co-promoted championships with the WWF in the United States and with the UWF and JWP in Japan. Some UWA titles are still being used today, some in Japanese promotions who bought the rights to the belts and the name to give them a lucha libre link, others are considered more "vanity" championships, personally owned by whoever holds them and are often used more as a storyline prop, although they are at times defended and even change hands. In some cases the UWA championship belts are bought and sold by the champions. [8] At times both CMLL and AAA have acknowledged and promoted UWA championships. This has occurred as recently as 2011.

Universal Wrestling Association championships
ChampionshipLast official champion(s)Date wonCurrent/last champion(s)Date wonPromotion(s)Active?
UWA World Heavyweight Championship El Canek March 18, 1994 [2] Dr. Wagner, Jr. June 18, 2004 [9] PersonalNo
UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship Aero FlashSeptember 1995 [10] The WolfApril 14, 2024Fight of the RingYes
UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship Villano V January 1, 1994 [11] Chessman August 18, 2007 [12] AAANo
UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship Gran Hamada September 22, 1993 [13] Súper Nova May 17, 2013PersonalNo
UWA World Middleweight Championship El Texano February 12, 1995 [14] Kyu MogamiJune 20, 2019 Active Advance Pro Wrestling Yes
UWA World Welterweight Championship Shinjiro Otani December 13, 1994 [15] ———No
UWA World Lightweight Championship Loco Valentino September 22, 1994 [16] Kancho NagaseSeptember 3, 2015 [17] Fight of the RingYes
UWA World Featherweight Championship CoralilloAugust 25, 1992 [18] ———No
UWA World Tag Team Championship Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		March 1993 [19] Yapper Man #1 and Yapper Man #2 October 19, 2019 [20] Michinoku Pro Wrestling Yes
UWA World Trios Championship Los Misionares de la Muerte
(Negro Navarro, Rocky Santana and El Signo)		October 9, 1994 [21] Aagan Iisou
(Shuji Kondo, Takuya Sugawara and Toru Owashi)		October 21, 2021 [22] Big Japan Pro Wrestling
Pro-Wrestling Basara 		Yes
UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship Gran Hamada and Great Sasuke November 20, 1992 Kazma and Kengo Mashimo March 6, 2005 [23] Michinoku Pro Wrestling No
UWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship—— Kenichiro Arai and The WolfMay 8, 2023 [24] Fight of the RingYes
UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship —— Shogun Okamoto April 22, 2021 [25] Strong Style Pro-Wrestling Yes
UWA World Women's Championship Zuleyma February 23, 1991 [26] Miss Janeth 2002 [27] PersonalNo
UWA World Women's Tag Team Championship Yumiko Hotta and Takako Inoue September 5, 1993 [28] ———No
UWA Women's International Championship Harley Saito February 11, 1991———No
UWA Women's Junior Championship Cutie Suzuki October 10, 1991 [29] ———No
WWF Light Heavyweight Championship Aero FlashJune 15, 1995———No

Shows

EventDateCityVenueMain Event
UWA Debut Show January 29, 1975 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan Aníbal defeated Rene Guajardo [30]
UWA 1st Anniversary Show1976 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 2nd Anniversary Show1977 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 3rd Anniversary Show1978 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 4th Anniversary Show1979 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 5th Anniversary Show1980 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 6h Anniversary Show February 7, 1981 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan El Solitario wrestled Villano III to a time-limit draw. [31]
UWA 7th Anniversary Show February 14, 1982 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan Abdullah the Butcher and Perro Aguayo defeated Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami [32]
UWA 8th Anniversary Show1983 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 9th Anniversary Show January 29, 1984 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan El Canek defeated André the Giant [33]
UWA 10th Anniversary Show1985 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 11th Anniversary Show1986 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 12th Anniversary Show1987 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 13th Anniversary Show1988 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 14th Anniversary Show January 29, 1989 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan El Canek defeated Konnan [34]
UWA 15th Anniversary Show1990 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de NaucalpanNo record found for match results
UWA 16th Anniversary Show January 27, 1991 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan El Canek, Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras defeated The Hawaiian Beasts (Fatu, Great Kokina and The Samoan Savage) [35]
UWA 17th Anniversary Show January 26, 1992 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan Chris Benoit defeated Villano III [36]
UWA 18th Anniversary Show January 31, 1993 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan Vampiro defeated El Canek [37]
UWA 19th Anniversary Show January 30, 1994 Naucalpan, Mexico State El Toreo de Naucalpan Yamato, Villano III and Villano V defeated El Canek, Gran Hamada and Transformer [38]

Former personnel

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