UWA World Heavyweight Championship

UWA World Heavyweight Championship
El Canek the most prolific champion with 15 reigns.
Details
Promotion	Universal Wrestling Association Mexican independent circuit
Date established	August 15, 1977
Current champion(s)	Dr. Wagner, Jr.
Date won	June 18, 2004
Statistics First champion(s) Lou Thez Most reigns El Canek (15 reigns) Longest reign El Canek (1976 days) Shortest reign Yamato (4 days)

The UWA World Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial peso Completo de UWA in Spanish) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally promoted by Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) until it closed in 1995 and since then been defended on the Mexican independent circuit. In the past the title has been defended in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) when the champion worked for those companies. Lou Thez was the first UWA World Heavyweight champion, having been awarded the title after wrestling Mil Mascaras to a draw on the very first UWA show. El Canek has held the Championship the most times, 15 reigns all in all, 13 of those before the UWA closed. Canek is also the champion that kept the UWA World Heavyweight Championship active after the UWA closed. Dr. Wagner, Jr. is the current UWA World Heavyweight champion having defeated Canek on June 18, 2004. Dr. Wagner, Jr. currently works regularly for AAA and they acknowledge the title, having shown him with the belt on numerous occasions.^[1]

The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.

Title history

Key

Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won
N/A	The specific information is not known
—	Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
†	Indicates Championship reigns after the UWA closed down

As of December 17, 2016.

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Thesz, LouLou Thesz	1	August 15, 1977	377	N/A	Live event	Thesz was awarded the title after fighting Mil Máscaras to a time limit draw at the UWA's first event on July 26, 1976.
2	El Canek	1	August 27, 1978	539	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
3	Singh, Tiger JeetTiger Jeet Singh	1	February 17, 1980	56	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event		[2]
4	Inoki, AntonioAntonio Inoki	1	April 13, 1980	194	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event		[3]
5	Singh, Tiger JeetTiger Jeet Singh	2	October 24, 1980	114	Okinawa, Japan	Live event
6	El Canek	2	February 15, 1981	523	Naucalpan, México	Live event
7	Choshu, RikiRiki Choshu	1	July 23, 1982	65	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
8	El Canek	3	September 26, 1982	219	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
9	Fujinami, TatsumiTatsumi Fujinami	1	May 1, 1983	42	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
10	El Canek	4	June 12, 1983	252	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
—	Vacated	—	October 4, 1983	—	N/A	N/A	El Canek vacated the title to do an extended tour of wrestling in Japan. Tour is cut short and Canek returns in time for the tournament.
11	Enrique Vera	1	October 23, 1983	126	Naucalpan, México	Live event	Defeated El Canek and Dos Caras to win the vacant championship.
12	Dos Caras	1	February 26, 1984	119	Naucalpan, México	Live event
13	El Canek	5	June 24, 1984	310	Naucalpan, México	Live event
14	Scorpio	1	April 30, 1985	61	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
15	El Canek	6	June 30, 1985	548	N/A	Live event
16	Dos Caras	2	December 30, 1986	N/A	Naucalpan, México	Live event
17	El Canek	7	April 1987 (NLT)	Unknown	N/A	Live event
18	The Killer	1	1987	Unknown	N/A	Live event
19	El Canek	8	1987	Unknown	N/A	Live event
20	Perro Aguayo	1	March 4, 1988	62	N/A	Live event
21	El Canek	9	May 5, 1988	566	N/A	Live event
22	Big Van Vader	1	November 22, 1989	382	Naucalpan, México	Live event
23	El Canek	10	December 9, 1990	420	Naucalpan, México	Live event
24	Dos Caras	3	February 2, 1992	154	Naucalpan, México	Live event
25	El Canek	11	July 5, 1992	210	Naucalpan, México	Live event
26	Canadian Vampire Casanova	1	January 31, 1993	322	Naucalpan, México	Live event
27	El Canek	12	December 19, 1993	75	Naucalpan, México	Live event
28	Yamato	1	March 14, 1994	4	Puebla, Puebla	Live event
29	El Canek †	13	March 18, 1994	1976	Nezahualcóyotl, México	UWA Live event	The UWA closed in 1995, however the title continued to be defended in other promotions.
30	Cadaver de Ultratomba †	1	August 15, 1999	22	Tehuacán, Puebla	Live event
31	El Canek †	14	September 6, 1999	867	Tehuacán, Puebla	AAA TV Taping
32	Cibernético †	1	January 20, 2002	299	Salamanca, Guanajuato	AAA TV Taping		[4]
33	El Canek †	15	November 15, 2002	581	Orizaba, Veracruz	AAA TV Taping		[4]
34	Dr. Wagner, Jr. †	1	June 18, 2004	4565+	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	CMLL Infierno en el Ring (2004)		[1][5]

References

General reference for title changes before 2000

• Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "MEXICO: Universal Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 397. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.

Specific

1. "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2004". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. issue 91.
2. Centinela, Teddy (February 17, 2015). "En un día como hoy… 1980: Mil Máscaras y Canek exponen sus respectivas versiones del Campeonato Mundial de Peso Completo". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 1, 2015.
3. Centinela, Teddy (April 13, 2015). "En un día como hoy… 1980: Cartel súper internacional en El Toreo: Antonio Inoki vs. Tiger Jeet Singh — Fishman vs. Tatsumi Fujinami". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 1, 2015.
4. "2002: considerar detrás". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 19, 2003. issue 2593.
5. LuchaLibreDeMexico (2012-05-16), CMLL 6 18 2004 El Canek vs Dr Wagner, retrieved 2016-09-01