IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship
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| IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | International Wrestling Revolution Group | ||||||||||
| Date established | May 29, 2008[1] | ||||||||||
| Current champion | Aguila Roja | ||||||||||
| Date won | October 29, 2023 | ||||||||||
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The IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship is a singles professional wrestling championship promoted by International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since May 2008. The official definition of the Lightweight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 77 kg (170 lb), but are not always strictly enforced.[a][2]
The Lightweight Championship is considered a secondary championship in IWRG, with the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship being considered the primary championship of the promotion. Aguila Roja is the current champion, having defeated Spider Fly on October 29, 2023 at an IWRG show. Roja is the 19th overall champion and the 18th person to have held the championship. The Lightweight Championship was first won by Freelance in Naucalpan, Mexico when he won a 10-man elimination match.[1] The championship has only changed hands in Arena Naucalpan on IWRG promoted shows. Only Tetsuya/Tetsuya Bushi has held the title twice, he is also the person with the shortest reign, 35 days, while Impossible has the record for the longest reign so far, 1,142 days in total.[3]
As it is 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.[b] 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,[c] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[d] or leaving the company.[e]
Tournaments
[edit | edit source]November 2016
[edit | edit source]| First round | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||
| Astro | W | ||||||||||
| Black Dragon | Astro | ||||||||||
| Pantera I | W | Pantera I | W | ||||||||
| Demonio Infernal | Pantera I | W | |||||||||
| Diablo Jr. | W | Diablo Jr. | |||||||||
| Omega | Diablo Jr. | W | |||||||||
| Dragón Fly | W | Dragón Fly | |||||||||
| Cadillac | |||||||||||
Title history
[edit | edit source]| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
| Days | Number of days held |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Freelance | May 29, 2008 | Caravana de Campeones | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 255 | Defeated Areoman as the last man in a 10-man elimination match. | [1] |
| 2 | Tetsuya | February 8, 2009 | Revolucionarios de IWRG | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 35 | Defeated Freelance and Dr. Cerebro in 3-way match. | [3] |
| 3 | Zatura | March 13, 2009 | Caravana de Campeones | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 95 | [8] | |
| 4 | Trauma II | June 18, 2009 | Revolucionarios de IWRG | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 59 | [9] | |
| 5 | Avisman | August 16, 2009 | Guerra Revolucionaria | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 102 | [10] | |
| 6 | Tetsuya Bushi | November 26, 2009 | IWRG Homenaje a El Pantera | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 45 | [11] | |
| 7 | Dr. Cerebro | January 10, 2010 | Revolucionarios de IWRG | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 385 | [12] | |
| 8 | Comando Negro | January 30, 2011 | Caravana de Campeones | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 277 | [13] | |
| 9 | Dinamic Black | November 3, 2011 | El Castillo del Terror | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 49 | [14] | |
| 10 | Carta Brava Jr. | December 22, 2011 | Arena Naucalpan 34th Anniversary Show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 192 | [15] | |
| 11 | Chicano | July 1, 2012 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 365 | [16] | |
| 12 | Imposible | July 7, 2013 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 1,142 | ||
| — | Vacated | August 22, 2016 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | — | — | Imposible declared that he was moving up to the middleweight division | [17] |
| 13 | Pantera I | November 13, 2016 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 630 | Defeated Diablo Jr. in the finals of a sixteen-man tournament | [18] |
| — | Vacated | August 5, 2018 | — | — | — | — | Vacated after Pantera had not defended the championship since January 2018 | |
| 14 | Redimido | November 15, 2018 | IWRG Cabelleras Vs. Cabelleras | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 21 | Defeated Atomic Star, Baby Extreme, Baby Star, Mr. Puma, Puma de Oro and Sobredosis in a battle royal for the vacant title | [19] |
| — | Vacated | December 6, 2020 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 15 | Baby Extreme | December 6, 2020 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 218 | Defeated Puma de Oro for the vacant title | [20] |
| — | Vacated | July 12, 2021 | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Baby Extreme left the promotion | |
| 16 | Puma de Oro | July 15, 2021 | IWRG Thursday Night Wrestling | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 107 | Defeated Aster Boy, Baby Star Jr., Lunatic Xtreme, Mr. Puma, Noicy Boy, Redimido and Sobredosis in an eight-way elimination match for the vacant title | [21] |
| 17 | Aster Boy | October 30, 2021 | IWRG Castillo Del Terror 2021 | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 389 | [22] | |
| 18 | Spider Fly | November 24, 2022 | 101. Torneo Fill | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 339 | [23] | |
| 19 | Aguila Roja | October 29, 2023 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 924+ | [24] | |
Combined reigns
[edit | edit source]As of May 10, 2026
| † | Indicates the current champion |
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
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| 1 | Imposible | 1 | 1,142 |
| 2 | Aguila Roja † | 1 | 924+ |
| 3 | Pantera I | 1 | 630 |
| 4 | Aster Boy | 1 | 389 |
| 5 | Dr. Cerebro | 1 | 385 |
| 6 | Chicano | 1 | 365 |
| 7 | Spider Fly | 1 | 339 |
| 8 | Comando Negro | 1 | 277 |
| 9 | Freelance | 1 | 255 |
| 10 | Baby Extreme | 1 | 218 |
| 11 | Carta Brava Jr. | 1 | 192 |
| 12 | Puma de Oro | 1 | 107 |
| 13 | Avisman | 1 | 102 |
| 14 | Zatura | 1 | 95 |
| 15 | Tetsuya Bushi | 2 | 80 |
| 16 | Trauma II | 1 | 59 |
| 17 | Dinamic Black | 1 | 49 |
| 18 | Redimido | 1 | 21 |
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ One example the weightlimits not being strictly enforced is Mephisto winning the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a championship with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
- ^ 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"[4]
- ^ 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"[5]
- ^ 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"[6]
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[7]
References
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- ^ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
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- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Title History at Cagematch.net