NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship
| NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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Último Guerrero, the current NWA World Historic Middleweight Champion (before he lost his mask in 2014)
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | August 12, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Último Guerrero | ||||||||||||||||
| Date won | August 31, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||
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CMLL Historic Middleweight Championship
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| First champion(s) | Averno |
| Longest reign | La Sombra (2 years, 223 days) |
| Shortest reign | Volador Jr. (45 days) |
| Oldest winner | Último Guerrero (43 years, 183 days) |
| Youngest winner | La Sombra (23 years, 78 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Último Guerrero (93 kg (205 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Averno (73 kg (161 lb)) |
The NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Historico de Peso Medio de la NWA in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The title, being a professional wrestling championship, 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 (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but is not always strictly enforced. For example, the current NWA World Historic Middleweight Champion Último Guerrero is billed as weighing 95 kg (209 lb).
For over 62 years CMLL controlled NWA World Middleweight Championship, even after leaving the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in the late 1980s. Up until 2010 the NWA more or less ignored CMLL's use of the championship, but in March 2010 Blue Demon Jr., the president of the newly formed NWA Mexico, sent letters to CMLL, demanding that they stop promoting the NWA-branded championships since they were not part of the organization. NWA Mexico had previously tried to reclaim the three NWA-branded championships promoted by CMLL, but was ignored by CMLL. Finally, on August 12, 2010, CMLL debuted the new NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship belt and named Averno, the final CMLL-recognized NWA World Middleweight Champion, as the inaugural champion.
In 1933 the Mexican National Middleweight Championship was introduced as Yaqui Joe won it in a tournament. The same year Salvador Lutteroth founded Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL; "Mexican Wrestling Enterprise") and would later be allowed to host matches for the Mexican National Middleweight Championship although they did not have exclusive rights to the championship.
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