IWRG Intercontinental Middleweight Championship
| IWRG Intercontinental Middleweight Championship | |||||||||||
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Negro Casas, Middleweight Champion when IWRG worked with CMLL
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| Promotion | International Wrestling Revolution Group | ||||||||||
| Date established | July 27, 1997 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Relámpago | ||||||||||
| Date won | January 22, 2017 | ||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | El Pantera |
| Most reigns | Bombero Infernal (6 reigns) |
| Longest reign |
Pentagón Black (At least 351 days) (Individual) Bombero Infernal (At least 488 days) (Combined) |
| Shortest reign | Nitro (6 days) (Confirmed) |
The IWRG Intercontinental Middleweight Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental de Peso Medio IWRGL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately: it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. The official definition of the Middleweight weight class in Mexico is between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered to. Because Lucha Libre puts more emphasis on the lower weightclasses, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of the promotion.
The current champion is Relámpago, having defeated Imposible on January 22, 2017 to win the championship. Relámpago is the 37th overall champion, the 22nd person to win the championship, and he is on his first reign. The first champion was Pantera, who defeated Tony Rivera in Naucalpan, Mexico on July 27, 1997 in the finals of a tournament. It has since been defended throughout Mexico, but primarily in Naucalpan which is the IWRG's "home ground". In November 2007 Negro Casas, who was under contract with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) but worked for IWRG under a talent sharing agreement between IWRG and CMLL, won the title. The talent sharing agreement ended in 2008 but the Middleweight championship was not declared vacant even though Negro Casas was not able to defend it. After four years of inactivity, the title was vacated and put up in a tournament in May 2012 and has been active in IWRG since.
Details of the initial tournament in July 1997 has not been verified only that Pantera II defeated Tony Rivera in the finals of an eight-man tournament.
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