NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
Shocker, the 57th and 61st NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion
Details
Promotion	National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
Date established	000000001952-11-06-0000November 6, 1952
Current champion(s)	Super Nova
Date won	000000002013-05-19-0000May 19, 2013
Statistics First champion(s) Gypsy Joe Most reigns Ray Mendoza (6 reigns) Longest reign Frank Stojack (1,573 days) Shortest reign Roddy Piper (2 days) Oldest winner Frank Stojack (41 years, 182 days) Youngest winner Gypsy Joe (18 years, 341 days) Heaviest champion Vampiro (260 lb (120 kg)) Lightest champion Tarzan Boy (190 lb (86 kg))

The NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and currently promoted by NWA Mexico. For the majority of its existence was promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where it was known as the Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de NWA. It began as an official National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) title and was given to the NWA's Mexican affiliate, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), to control. The title was also promoted in NWA Hollywood Wrestling until its closure in 1982. The title remained under the control of EMLL even after EMLL pulled out of the Alliance and changed its name to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Due to its history, it was considered the most important title in EMLL/CMLL. As it is 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 light heavyweight weight class in Mexico is between 92 kg (203 lb) and 97 kg (214 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.

The first champion was Gypsy Joe, who won the title on November 6, 1952. In 1957 the NWA stripped Frank Stojack of the title for lack of NWA-mandated title defenses, but Stojack kept the physical belt and defended the title for over a year until the NWA regained possession of the actual Championship belt. After Stojack was stripped of the title, the NWA Executive board decided to give Salvador Lutteroth and Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre control of the championship in 1958. The first champion under Lutteroth's authority was Dory Dixon, who had worked for EMLL for many years. During the late 1970s and early 1980s the title was also defended in the Los Angeles area until that promotion closed in the early 1980s; from then on the title has only been defended in Mexico.