UWA World Featherweight Championship

The UWA World Featherweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial peso Pluma de UWA in Spanish) was a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) from 1983 until the promotion closed in 1995. The official definition of the Featherweight weight class in Mexico is between 57 kg (126 lb) and 63 kg (139 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[lower-alpha 1][1] the UWA World Featherweight Championship was not among the UWA titles that were kept active even after the UWA closed, like the UWA World Heavyweight Championship, but was abandoned when the UWA closed down.

UWA World Featherweight Championship
(Campeonato Mundial peso Pluma de UWA)
Details
PromotionUniversal Wrestling Association (UWA)
Date establishedApril 30, 1983
Date retired1995
Statistics
First champion(s)Pequeño Solin
Final champion(s)Coralillo
Longest reignFlama Dorada II (560 days)
Shortest reignSuper Archie (195 days)

As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 2] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[lower-alpha 3] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 4] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 5]

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
 1  Pequeño Solin  April 30, 1983  UWA Live event Apatlaco, Morelos  1  Unknown Defeated Lasser to become first champion. [lower-alpha 6]
— Vacated  1984 — — — — Championship vacated when Pequeño Solin failed to make the weight limit. [lower-alpha 6]
 2  Romano Garcia  October 17, 1987  UWA Live event Apatlaco, Morelos  1  301 Defeated Lasser in tournament final to win the vacant title. [lower-alpha 6]
 3  Flama Dorada II  August 13, 1988  UWA Live event Apatlaco, Morelos  1  560 [lower-alpha 6]
 4  Rodolfo Ruiz  February 24, 1990  UWA Live event Xochimilco, Mexico  1  323 [lower-alpha 6]
 5  Super Archie  January 13, 1991  UWA Live event Mexico City  1  195 [lower-alpha 6]
 6  Bird Boy  July 27, 1991  UWA Live event Apatlaco, Morelos  1  420 [lower-alpha 6]
 7  Coralillo  September 19, 1992  UWA Live event San Lorenzo, Oaxaca, Mexico  1  Unknown [lower-alpha 6]
— Deactivated  November 1995 — — — — Championship abandoned as the UWA Closes in November 1995

Footnotes
  1. The most recent case of this is Mephisto, holding the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
  2. Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[2]
  3. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[3]
  4. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[4]
  5. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[5]
  6. Duncan & Will (2000) pp. 398–399, Chapter: MEXICO: UWA World Featherweight Title [Flores, Mora] [6]

References
  • Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
  • Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  1. Arturo Montiel Rojas (2001-08-30). "Reglamento de Box y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico" (PDF). Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2006. Retrieved 2009-04-03. Articulo 242: "Gallo 57 kilos / Pluma 63 kilos"
  2. Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  3. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  4. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  5. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  6. Duncan & Will 2000, pp. 398–399.
  • UWA Featherweight Title history at:
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