NWA World Middleweight Championship

For most of its existence, it was defended in the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), who called it the Campeonato Mundial Peso Medio de NWA.

The National Wrestling Association title was retired in 1940, to give prominence to Lutteroth's creation.

[6] In the late 1980s, EMLL withdrew from the NWA and in the early 1990s changed its name to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

In 1994, Último Dragón bought the NWA World Middleweight Championship and its booking rights from CMLL.

[G] He chose to make himself first champion, and won it in a match with Corazón de León at a Wrestle and Romance (WAR) show on November 8, 1994, in Korakuen Hall.

In 2003, after ending The Great Sasuke's long reign, Dragón signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and returned the championship to CMLL who he worked with off and on until that point.

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The Great Sasuke , who had the longest individual reign of any NWA World Middleweight Champion.
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Último Dragón , brought the championship to Japan
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Chris Jericho , as Corazón de León, lost the championship in Japan to signal the transition from CMLL's control.