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NWA World Midget's Championship
Professional wrestling midget championship
Professional wrestling midget championship
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | NWA World Midget's Championship |
| created | 1949 |
| retired | December, 2009 |
| mostreigns | Lord Littlebrook/Little Tokyo (3 reigns) |
| firstchamp | Sky Low Low |
| longestreign | Championship history is too uncertain to determine. |
| shortestreign | Farmer Pete (7 days) |
| youngest | Cowboy Bradley ()Records in the birth dates of wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was a younger champion. |
| oldest | Lord Littlebrook ()Records in the birth dates of wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was an older champion. |
| lightest | Lord Littlebrook (50 lb)Records for the weight of some wrestlers from early era are not complete, it is possible there was a lighter champion. |
| heaviest | Octagoncito (101 lb)Records for the weight of some wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was a heavier champion. |
| pastnames | *NWA World Mini's Championship |
- PWR World Mini's Championship The NWA World Midget's Championship was the National Wrestling Alliance's midget wrestling singles championship. Large parts of the championship history is undocumented due to lack of documentation of Midget wrestling for large periods of time from the 1950s to the 1980s. In that period of time, there were two touring groups of midget wrestlers in the United States, both had a "World Champion", leading to some uncertainty as to who was the NWA World Midget's Champion, often based on if the champion was booked as defending the championship in an NWA territory. The first wrestler to lay claim to the Midget's World Championship was Sky Low Low after he won a 30-man tournament in Paris, France. The tournament was either fictitious or not an NWA sanctioned event as it took place in Europe. But at some point after 1949 the NWA recognized Sky Low Low as their champion.
It is impossible to determine who held the championship the longest, but it is plausible that Farmer Pete's 7 day title reign in 1957 was the shortest of all the reigns. Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo are both credited with three championship reigns, but due to incomplete records it is possible that either had more reigns or someone else had more than three reigns in total. Because the championship was a professional wrestling championship, it was not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The championship was awarded after the chosen participant "won" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.
Title history
;Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| # | The overall championship reign |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed. |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
| N/A | The specific information has not been found |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
| (nlt) | Indicates that a title change took place "no later than" a certain date. Often because the date of a title change is not found but a date of a title defense by the champions is found. |
| Title history is uncertain in that time period. |
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| held | Location | Event | Notes | ||||||||||||||
| Sky Low Low | 1 | Paris, France | Live event | Won a 30-man tournament to become the first World Midget champion, but the title may not be recognized by the NWA. | |||||||||||||
| 1 | The location of the match was not captured as part of the championship documentation. | Live event | title=Little Beaver | work=Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum | url=http://www.pwhf.org/halloffamers/bios/littlebeaver.asp | accessdate=April 5, 2015 | last=Burke | first=Tom | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331230154/http://www.pwhf.org/halloffamers/bios/littlebeaver.asp | archivedate=March 31, 2015}} | ||||||
| Sonny Boy Cassidy | 1 | (NLT) | Live event | Was recognized as the World champion by non-NWA promoter in Dallas, TX as of June 1953; recognized in Memphis, Tennessee as of September 1957 and Florence, Alabama as of October 1957. | |||||||||||||
| Farmer Pete | 1 | Florence, Alabama | Live event | ||||||||||||||
| Sonny Boy Cassidy | 2 | Florence, Alabama | Live event | ||||||||||||||
| Cowboy Bradley | 1 | Live event | Recognized as champion in Georgia. | ||||||||||||||
| Lord Littlebrook | 1 | Live event | title=Hall of Fame grows some more | date=2004-05-09 | work=SLAM! Wrestling | url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2004/05/09/453302.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714081826/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2004/05/09/453302.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=July 14, 2012 | last=Oliver | first=Greg | accessdate=April 5, 2015}} | |||||
| Sky Low Low | 2 | (NLT) | Live event | ||||||||||||||
| Lord Littlebrook | 2 | (NLT) | Live event | Recognized in St. Joseph, Missouri; Still billed as champion on January 31, 1969. | |||||||||||||
| 10 | Lord Littlebrook | 3 | (NLT) | Live event | Recognized in Los Angeles, California in 1972. | ||||||||||||
| 11 | 2 | (NLT) | Live event | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | Little Tokyo | 1 | Live event | url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2011/09/06/18648776.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115084852/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2011/09/06/18648776.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=January 15, 2013 | title=Little Tokyo remembered with laughter | last=Oliver | first=Greg | date=2011-09-06 | work=Slam! Sports | publisher=Canadian Online Explorer | accessdate=April 5, 2015}} | |||
| 13 | Cowboy Lang | 1 | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Live event | url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/08/3236476.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715143438/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/08/3236476.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=July 15, 2012 | title=Midget star Cowboy Lang dies | publisher=Canadian Online Explorer | last=Oliver | first=Greg | date=January 9, 2007 | accessdate=April 5, 2015}} | |||
| 14 | Little Tokyo | 2 | Live event | ||||||||||||||
| 15 | Tiny Tom | 1 | Dallas, Texas | Live event | |||||||||||||
| 16 | Cowboy Lang | 2 | Live event | ||||||||||||||
| 17 | Little Tokyo | 3 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Live event | url=https://www.f4wonline.com/daily-updates/day-pro-wrestling-history-may-30-inoki-beats-andre-win-msg-league-garea-calhoun-win | title=On this day in pro wrestling history (May 30): Inoki beats Andre to win MSG league, Garea & calhoun win WWWF Tag titles, Gagne vs. Funk Jr., UFC booker wins title | date=May 30, 2015 | accessdate=March 21, 2020 | work=Wrestling Observer Newsletter | first=Brian | last=Hoops}} | ||||||
| 18 | Little Mr. T | 1 | St. Joseph, Missouri | Live event | |||||||||||||
| 19 | Tiny the Terrible | 1 | Terryville, Connecticut | Live event | Defeated Half Nelson for the championship. | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Little Killer | 1 | Thomaston, Connecticut | Live event | |||||||||||||
| 21 | Jinx | 1 | Monroe, Connecticut | Live event | |||||||||||||
| 22 | Octagoncito | 1 | Santa Cruz, California | PWR Live event | Defeated El Espantito to become the Pro Wrestling Revolution (PWR) Mini's champion, which was also acknowledged as the NWA World champion at the time |
Footnotes
References
References
- "NWA World Midgets' Title". Wrestling Titles.
- Royal Duncan & Gary Will. (2006). "Wrestling Title Histories". Archeus Communications.
- "Sky Low Low". [[Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum]].
- Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works.
- "SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Little Beaver". SLAM! Wrestling.
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