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]
Super Muñeco was the first Middleweight champion, winning it in 1987. It was defended throughout Mexico and Japan during the 1980s and 90s, but had been defended almost exclusively in Tijuana, Mexico since 2001. A separate version has been defended in the Mexico City-Monterrey area since 2002 when Blue Panther began defending a title labelled the WWA Middleweight Championship. Since the WWA titles have been largely unsanctioned since the late 1990s it means that they can be defended on any wrestling show, not just limited to WWA promoted shows.[6]
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
^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]
^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]
^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]
^Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[5]
^ abcdefghijklmnDuncan & Will (2000) p. 400, Chapter: "Mexico: WWA Middleweight Title" [7]
^ abcdefThe location of the title change has not been captured as part of the documentation.
^The exact date on which Super Astro won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 115 and 145 days.
^The exact date on which Blue Demon Jr. vacated the championship is unknown, placing his reign between 190 and 219 days.
^The exact date on which Ultraman 2000 won, and vacated the title is unknown, placing the reign between 92 and 147 days.
^The exact date on which Piloto Suicida won the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 and 25 days.
^Records do not indicate when Psicosis won the title, just that he did.
^The exact date on which El Solar won and lost the title is unknown, placing his reign between 1 and 364 days.
^The exact date on which Mystico de Juarez was stripped of the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 day and 284 days.
^The exact date on which Mystico de Juarez vacated the title is unknown, placing the title reign between 313 and 362 days.
^The exact date on which Toxico lost the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 24 days.
^The exact date on which Blue Panther started to defend the title is unknown, placing his title reign between 1 day and 8 days.
^The exact date on which Tigre Universitario won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 372 days.
^The exact date on which Silver Star won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 557 days.
^The exact date on which Potro Jr. won the championship is unknown, placing the reign between 1 day and 83 days.
References
Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
^Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: World Wrestling Association (Benjamin Mora)". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. pp. 399–400. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
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