The UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: UWA世界ジュニアヘビー級王座, Hepburn: UWA Sekai Junia Hebī-kyū Ōza) is a title that was originally promoted by the Mexican lucha libre promotion Universal Wrestling Association.
[1] After the UWA closed in 1995 the title was defended on the Mexican independent circuit and in the Puerto Rican promotion World Wrestling Council.
In 2014, the title was revived by Japanese promotion Tenryu Project.
[a] 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,[b] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[c] or leaving the company.