UWA World Heavyweight Championship

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

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 May 3, 2024.

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Lou Thesz	1	August 15, 1977		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		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
3	Tiger Jeet Singh	1	February 17, 1980		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
4	Antonio Inoki	1	April 13, 1980		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
5	Tiger Jeet Singh	2	October 24, 1980		Okinawa, Japan	Live event
6	El Canek	2	February 15, 1981		Naucalpan, México	Live event
7	Riki Choshu	1	July 23, 1982		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
8	El Canek	3	September 26, 1982		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
9	Tatsumi Fujinami	1	May 1, 1983		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
10	El Canek	4	June 12, 1983		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 Mexico. Tour is cut short and Canek returns in time for the tournament.
11	Enrique Vera	1	October 23, 1983		Toreo de 4 Caminos	Live event	Defeated El Canek and Dos Caras to win the vacant championship.
12	Dos Caras	1	February 26, 1984		Naucalpan, México	Live event
13	El Canek	5	June 24, 1984		Naucalpan, México	Live event
14	Scorpio	1	April 30, 1985		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
15	El Canek	6	June 30, 1985		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		N/A	Live event
21	El Canek	9	May 5, 1988		N/A	Live event
22	Big Van Vader	1	November 22, 1989		Naucalpan, México	Live event
23	El Canek	10	December 9, 1990		Naucalpan, México	Live event
24	Dos Caras	3	February 2, 1992		Naucalpan, México	Live event
25	El Canek	11	July 5, 1992		Naucalpan, México	Live event
26	Canadian Vampire Casanova	1	January 31, 1993		Naucalpan, México	Live event
27	El Canek	12	December 19, 1993		Naucalpan, México	Live event
28	Yamato	1	March 14, 1994		Puebla, Puebla	Live event
29	El Canek †	13	March 18, 1994		Nezahualcóyotl, México	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		Tehuacán, Puebla	Live event
31	El Canek †	14	September 6, 1999		Tehuacán, Puebla	Live event
32	Cibernético †	1	January 20, 2002		Salamanca, Guanajuato	Live event
33	El Canek †	15	November 15, 2002		Orizaba, Veracruz	Live event
34	Dr. Wagner, Jr. †	1	June 18, 2004	+	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event

References

General reference for title changes before 2000

Specific