IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship

Professional wrestling championship by International Wrestling Revolution Group

IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship

Shiima Nobunaga, the second ever Welterweight champion

Details
Promotion| International Wrestling Revolution Group
Date established| March 1, 1998[1]
Current champion(s)| Tonalli
Date won| December 25, 2022
| Statistics

First champion(s)| Dr. Cerebro[1]
Most reigns| Cerebro Negro (7 reigns)
Longest reign| Dr. Cerebro (788 days)
Shortest reign| Cerebro Negro (11 days)

The IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental Welter IWRG in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since 1998.[1] The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered to.[a][2] Because Lucha Libre puts more emphasis on the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of the promotion.[3]

The first Welterweight champion was Dr. Cerebro, winning the title on March 1, 1998, in a tournament final against Shiima Nobunaga.[1] Tonalli is the current champion, having defeated Jessy Ventura for the title on December 25, 2022. Tonalli is the 39th overall champion and the 21st person to have held the championship. Cerebro Negro is the person with most title reigns, a total of seven. He also has the distinction of having the shortest reign (at seven days) and the longest reign (1,246 days).

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]

## Title history[edit]

Key  No.  | Overall reign number

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Reign  | Reign number for the specific champion
Days  | Number of days held
N/A  | Unknown information
(NLT) | Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed
†  | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
\+  | Current reign is changing daily
No. | Champion  | Championship change  | Reign statistics  | Notes  | Ref.

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Date  | Event  | Location  | Reign  | Days
1  |  Dr. Cerebro |  March 1, 1998 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  287  | Defeated Shiima Nobunaga in the finals of a 16-man tournament.  | [1]
2  |  Shiima Nobunaga |  December 13, 1998 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  175  |  | [1]
3  |  Último Vampiro |  June 6, 1999 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  340  |  | [1]
4  |  Dr. Cerebro |  May 11, 2000 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  49  |  | [8][9]
5  |  Ciclón Ramírez |  June 29, 2000 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  45  |  | [8][9]
6  |  Dr. Cerebro |  August 13, 2000 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  3  |  788  |  | [8][9]
7  |  Cerebro Negro |  October 10, 2002 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  17  |  | [10]
8  |  Fantasy |  October 27, 2002 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  301  |  | [10]
9  |  Cerebro Negro |  August 24, 2003 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  105  |  | [11]
10  |  Avisman |  December 7, 2003 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  497  |  | [11]
11  |  Cerebro Negro |  April 17, 2005 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  3  |  7  |  | [12]
12  |  Avisman |  April 24, 2005 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  287  |  | [12]
13  |  Fantasma de la Ópera |  February 5, 2006 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  175  |  | [13]
14  |  Panterita / Freelance |  July 30, 2006 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  210  | Panterita changed his ring persona to Freelance during the title reign.  | [13]
15  |  Cerebro Negro |  February 25, 2007 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  4  |  21  |  | [14]
16  |  Fantasma de la Ópera |  March 18, 2007 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  123  | Defeated Cerebro Negro in a 10-man steel cage match.  | [14]
17  |  Black Terry |  July 19, 2007 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  94  |  | [14]
18  |  Cerebro Negro |  October 21, 2007 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  5  |  11  |  | [14]
19  |  Fantasma de la Ópera |  November 1, 2007 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  3  |  45  | Defeated Cerebro Negro and Black Terry in a three-way elimination title vs. mask vs. hair match. Ópera's mask, Negro's title and Terry's hair were at stake. Negro was the last to be pinned, so he lost the title.  | [14]
20  |  Black Terry |  December 16, 2007 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  98  |  | [14]
21  |  Multifacético |  March 23, 2008 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  67  |  | [15]
22  |  Fuerza Guerrera |  May 29, 2008 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  101  |  | [15]
23  |  Black Terry |  September 7, 2008 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  3  |  70  | Defeated Multifacético and Fuerza Guerrera in a three-way elimination title vs. mask vs. hair match. Multifacético's mask, Guerrera's title and Terry's hair were at stake. Guerrera was the last to be pinned, so he lost the title  | [15]
24  |  Fuerza Guerrera |  November 16, 2008 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  553  | Defeated Black Terry in a match with Guerrera's mask and Terry's hair and title on the line.  | [15]
25  |  Dr. Cerebro |  May 23, 2010 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  4  |  14  |  | [16]
26  |  CIMA |  June 6, 2010 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  448  |  | [16]
—  | Vacated |  August 28, 2011 | —  | —  | —  | —  | Vacated when CIMA did not return to Mexico to defend the championship.  |
27  |  Golden Magic |  September 8, 2011 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  105  | Defeated Bestia 666 in a tournament final to win the vacant title.  | [16]
28  |  Eterno |  December 22, 2011 |  | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  290  | Eterno's WWS Welterweight Championship was also on the line in the match.  | [17]
29  |  Oficial Rayan |  October 7, 2012 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  140  |  | [18]
30  |  Dinamic Black |  February 24, 2013 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  210  |  | [19]
—  | Vacated |  September 22, 2013 | —  | —  | —  | —  | Vacated when Dinamic Black left IWRG.  |
31  |  Canis Lupus |  September 29, 2013 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  67  |  |
32  |  Golden Magic |  December 5, 2013 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  346  |  |
33  |  Canis Lupus |  November 16, 2014 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  2  |  519  | This was a "Mask. vs Title" match.  |
—  | Vacated |  April 18, 2016 | —  | —  | —  | —  | IWRG announced a tournament for the championship, but did not explain why Canis Lupus was not defending the championship  | [20]
34  |  Cerebro Negro |  April 20, 2016 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  6  |  291  | Defeated Mike Segura in the finals of a tournament for the vacant championship.  | [21]
35  |  La Mosca |  February 5, 2017 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  133  |  | [22]
36  |  Emperador Azteca |  June 18, 2017 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  371  |  | [23]
37  |  Cerebro Negro |  June 24, 2018 |  IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  7  |  1,246  |  | [24]
38  |  Jessy Ventura  |  November 21, 2021 |  Mas Lucha Torneo Suprema Mas Luchas  | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  |  1  |  399  |  | [25]
39  | Tonalli  | December 25, 2022 |  IWRG Ruleta De La Murte  | Naucalpan, State of Mexico  | 1  | 340+  |  | [26]

## Combined reigns[edit]

† | Indicates the current champion

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Rank  | Wrestler  | No. of
reigns  | Combined days

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1  | Cerebro Negro | 7 | 1,698
2  | Dr. Cerebro | 4 | 1,138
3  | Avisman | 2 | 785
4  | Fuerza Guerrera | 2 | 654
5  | Shiima Nobunaga / CIMA | 2 | 623
6  | Canis Lupus | 2 | 587
7  | Golden Magic | 2 | 451
8  | Jessy Ventura | 1 | 399
9  | Emperador Azteca | 1 | 371
10  | Fantasma de la Ópera | 3 | 343
11  | Tonalli † | 1 | 340+[27]
12  | Último Vampiro | 1 | 340
13  | Fantasy | 1 | 301
14  | Eterno | 1 | 290
15  | Black Terry | 3 | 262
16  | Dinamic Black | 1 | 210
Panterita / Freelance | 1 | 210
18  | Oficial Rayan | 1 | 140
19  | Mosca | 1 | 133
20  | Multifacético | 1 | 67
21  | Ciclón Ramírez | 1 | 45

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ^ 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).
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"[4]
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"[5]
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"[6]
5. ^ 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[edit]

* 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. ^ a b c d e f g Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2006). "(Mexico) Mexico: IWRG Welterweight title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. p. 402\. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
2. ^ 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: "Ligero 70 kilos / Welter 78 kilos""
3. ^ Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperCollins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
4. ^ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
5. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
6. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
7. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
8. ^ a b c "2000 Especial". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–20. issue 2488.
9. ^ a b c "SLAM Wrestling International -- 2000: The Year-In-Review Mexico". Slam Wrestling. Canoe.ca. Archived from the original on February 24, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
10. ^ a b Box y Lucha staff (January 19, 2003). "2002: considerar detrás". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). 2593.
11. ^ a b "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana durante el 2003". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). January 5, 2003. 40.
12. ^ a b "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana durante el 2004". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. 91.
13. ^ a b "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). December 23, 2006. issue 192. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
14. ^ a b c d e f "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. issue 244. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
15. ^ a b c d "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). January 6, 2008. issue 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
16. ^ a b c "International Wrestling Revolution Group Intercontienental Welterweight Title". Wrestling-titles.com. October 8, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
17. ^ Mejía Eguiluz, Diego (December 23, 2011). "Trauma I desenmascara al Oficial AK-47". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved December 23, 2011.
18. ^ "El Ángel, nuevo campeón de peso medio". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). October 8, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
19. ^ Acosta, Hugo (February 24, 2013). "Dinamik Black Nuevo Monarca Intercontinental Welter IWRG". Estrellas del Ring (in Spanish). Blogger. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
20. ^ Black Terry Jr. (April 18, 2016). "20 de Abril Arena Naucalpan" (in Spanish). Twitter. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
21. ^ Lizarraga, Alfonso (April 21, 2016). "En sangriento combate Canis Lupus vence a Trauma I". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved April 21, 2016.
22. ^ "Pirata Morgan Jr. en busca de la revancha contra Golden Magic". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). February 6, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
23. ^ "Oficiales contra Piratas, peligrosa rivalidad y Emperador Azteca nuevo Campeón Intercontinental de peso Welter" [Los Oficiales versus Piratas in a dangerou rivalry and Emperador Azteca new Intercontinental Welterweight Champion]. The Gladiatores (in Spanish). June 18, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
24. ^ Lizarraga, Alfonso (June 25, 2018). "Cerebro Negro nuevo monarca Intercontinental Welter" [Cerebro Negro the new Intercontinental Welterweight king]. The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved April 14, 2019.
25. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Mas Lucha Torneo Suprema Mas Luchas". cagematch.net. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
26. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "IWRG Ruleta De La Murte". cagematch.net. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
27. ^ As of November 30, 2023.

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* Intercontinental Middleweight Championship
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* Intercontinental Trios Championship
* Intercontinental Welterweight Championship
* Junior de Juniors Championship
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* Intercontinental Super Welterweight Championship
* Intercontinental Women's Championship

Tournaments|

* Copa Higher Power
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IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Champions

1990s|

* Dr. Cerebro
* Shiima Nobunaga / CIMA
* Último Vampiro

2000s|

* Ciclón Ramírez
* Cerebro Negro
* Fantasy
* Avisman
* Fantasma de la Ópera
* Panterita / Freelance
* Black Terry
* Multifacético
* Fuerza Guerrera

2010s|

* Golden Magic
* Eterno
* Oficial Rayan
* Dinamic Black
* Canis Lupus

2020s|

* Jessy Ventura
* Tonalli (current)

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