NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship

NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship
Averno, the current NWA World Historic Middleweight Champion
Details
Current champion(s)	Averno
Date won	02010-08-12 August 12, 2010
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established	02010-08-12 August 12, 2010
Statistics First champion(s) Averno

The NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Historico de Peso Medio de la NWA in Spanish)^[1] is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The title, being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately: it is instead won via a scripted ending to a wrestling match. The official definition of the middleweight weight class in Mexico is between 82 kg (180 lb) and 87 kg (190 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.^{[Note 1][2]}

CMLL had held the NWA World Middleweight Championship for over 62 years, when the relationship between the promotion and National Wrestling Alliance broke down in March 2010, when Blue Demon, Jr., the president of NWA Mexico, sent letters to CMLL, telling them to stop promoting the NWA-branded championships since they were not part of the NWA. NWA Mexico had previously tried to reclaim the three NWA-branded championships promoted by CMLL, but was ignored by CMLL. The promotion did not directly respond to the latest claim either; the NWA Welterweight Champion, Mephisto, commented, simply stating that the titles belonged to CMLL.^[3] Finally, on August 12, 2010, CMLL debuted the new NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship belt and named Averno, the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Welterweight Champion, as the inaugural champion.^[1]

Title history

Key

Symbol	Meaning
#	The overall championship reign
Reign	The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
N/A	The specific information is not known
—	Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign

#	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
01 !1	Averno	01 !1	02010-08-12 August 12, 2010	&10000000000000468000000468+	— !N/A	— !N/A	Averno was the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Middleweight Champion and was thus named the first NWA World Historic Middleweight Champion.[4]

Footnotes

1. ^ The most recent case of this is Mephisto holding the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (170 lb) upper limit, despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Campeones" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. http://www.cmll.com/04_campeones/camp_nac_nwa.htm. Retrieved June 26, 2011. 
2. ^ Arturo Montiel Rojas (2001-08-30). "Reglamento de Box y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico" (in Spanish) (PDF). Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F.. http://www.ordenjuridico.gob.mx/Estatal/ESTADO%20DE%20MEXICO/Reglamentos/MEXREG004.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-03. "Articulo 242: "Super welter 82 kilos / Medio 87 kilos"" ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Ruiz Glez, Alex (March 12, 2010). "Mephisto responde a Blue Demon Jr.: “No tengo que entrar a ninguna eliminatoria porque yo soy el campeón…”" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. http://superluchas.net/2010/03/12/mephisto-responde-a-blue-demon-jr-%E2%80%9Cno-tengo-que-entrar-a-ninguna-eliminatoria-porque-yo-soy-el-campeon-%E2%80%9D/. Retrieved June 26, 2011. 
4. ^ Boutwell, Josh (August 20, 2010). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. http://vip.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1282333662. Retrieved June 26, 2011.