NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship
The current champion La Sombra
Details
Current champion(s)	La Sombra
Date won	02011-03-13 March 13, 2011
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established	02010-08-12 August 12, 2010
Statistics First champion(s) Mephisto Longest reign Mephisto (213 days)

The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Historico de Peso Welter de la NWA in Spanish)^[1] is a professional wrestling championship governed by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). CMLL had held the NWA World Welterweight Championship for over 53 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.^[2] Finally, on August 12, 2010, CMLL debuted the new NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship belt and named Mephisto, the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Welterweight Champion, as the inaugural champion.^[1] Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to matches. The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (170 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.^{[Note 1][3]} La Sombra is the current NWA World Historic Welterweight champion having defeated Mephisto for the title on March 13, 2011.^[4] This is La Sombra's first run with the title and he is the second overall champion.

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	Mephisto	01 !1	02010-08-12 August 12, 2010	&10000000000000213000000213	— !N/A	— !N/A	Mephisto was the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Welterweight Champion and was thus named the first NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion.[5]
02 !2	Sombra !La Sombra	02 !2	02011-03-13 March 13, 2011	&10000000000000255000000255+	Mexico City	CMLL show	[4]

Footnotes

1. ^ The most recent case of this is Mephisto holding the NWA 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. ^ 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. 
3. ^ 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: "Ligero 70 kilos / Welter 77 kilos"" ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ ^{a b} Ruiz Glez, Alex (March 14, 2011). "Arena México (resultados 13 de Marzo) ¡La Sombra nuevo campeón mundial histórico NWA de peso Welter!" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. http://superluchas.net/2011/03/14/arena-mexico-resultados-13-de-marzo-%C2%A1la-sombra-nuevo-campeon-mundial-historico-nwa-de-peso-welter/. Retrieved June 26, 2011. 
5. ^ Boutwell, Josh (August 20, 2010). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. http://vip.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1282333662. Retrieved June 26, 2011.