WWA Middleweight Championship | |||||||
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Olímpico held one of the disputed titles at one point
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Promotion |
Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) Mexican Independent circuit |
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Date established | 1987 | ||||||
Current champion(s) |
Averno (Main Branch) Ministro de la Muerte (Mexico City/Monterrey branch) |
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Date won | September 15, 2015 (Main Branch) September 28, 2014 (Mexico City/Monterrey branch) |
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Statistics | |
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First champion(s) | Super Muñeco |
Most reigns |
Mystico de Juarez, Nicho el Millonario (2 reigns) (Main Branch) Tigre Universitario (4 reigns) (Mexico City/Monterrey branch) |
The WWA Middleweight Championship (Campeonato de peso Medio WWA in Spanish) is a secondary professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling-based promotion World Wrestling Association (WWA) since 1987. 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 is not always strictly enforced.
Super Muñeco was the first Middleweight champion, winning it in 1987. It was defended throughout Mexico and Japan during the 1980s and 90s, but had been defended almost exclusively in Tijuana, Mexico since 2001. A separate version has been defended in the Mexico City-Monterrey area since 2002 when Blue Panther began defending a title labelled the WWA Middleweight Championship. Since the WWA titles have been largely unsanctioned since the late 1990s it means that they can be defended on any wrestling show, not just limited to WWA promoted shows.