NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de NWA
Shocker, the 58th and 62nd NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion
Details
Current champion(s)	El Texano, Jr.
Date won	02009-04-05 April 5, 2009
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
Date established	01952-11-06 November 6, 1952
Statistics Most reigns Ray Mendoza (6 reigns) First champion(s) Gypsy Joe Longest reign Frank Stojack (1,573 days) Shortest reign Roddy Piper (2 days) Oldest champion Frank Stojack (41 years, 182 days) Youngest champion 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 (Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de NWA in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship currently promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). It began as an official National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) title and title was given to the NWA's Mexican affiliate, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) to control. The title was also promoted in the National Wrestling Alliance's Los Angeles, California circuit until its closure in 1981. 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 (CMLL). Due to its history, it has been considered the most important title in EMLL/CMLL. 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 light heavyweight weight class in Mexico is between 92 kg (200 lb) and 97 kg (210 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.^{[Note 1][1]}

The first champion was Gypsy Joe who won the title on November 6, 1952. In 1957 the NWA stripped Al Kashley of the title for lack of NWA mandated title defenses, but Kashley kept the physical belt and defended the title for over a year until the NWA regained possession of the actual Championship belt. After Kashley was stripped of the title the NWA Executive board decided to give Salvador Lutteroth and Empressa Mexican de Lucha Libre (later renamed CMLL) the booking rights to the championship from 1958.^[2] 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 it closed in the early 1980s; From then on the title has only been defended in Mexico.

Ray Mendoza has held the Championship the highest number of times with six title reigns; Gory Guerrero's two reigns combined come to 1,963 days, the higest total of any champion. Roddy Piper is the champion with the shortest reign, 2 days; while the longest title reign belongs to Frank Stojack with 1,573 days. The current champion is El Texano, Jr., having defeated Atlantis on April 5, 2009.^[3] This is El Texano, Jr's first title reign; he is the 65th overall champion and the 40th person to hold it.

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[edit] Footnotes

• The NWA endorced another NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship in New Jersey in 1997 and 1998, referred to as the "New Jersey version"; this shortlived title was not connected to the CMLL version.

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[edit] External links

Professional wrestling portal

• Official CMLL Website
• Wrestling-Titles.com: NWA World Light Heavyweight Title