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NWA World Midget's Championship

NWA World Midget's Championship

Professional wrestling midget 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.[1][2] 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.[citation needed] 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.[1][2][3]

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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.[4]

Title history

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Footnotes

  1. [N 1]
    Championship history is too uncertain to determine.
  2. [N 2]
    Records in the birth dates of wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was an older champion.
  3. [N 3]
    Records in the birth dates of wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was a younger champion.
  4. [N 4]
    Records for the weight of some wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was a heavier champion.
  5. [N 5]
    Records for the weight of some wrestlers from early era are not complete, it is possible there was a lighter champion.
  6. [N 6]
    Records are unclear on most of the dates prior to 1998 making it impossible to correctly calculate the length of this reign
  7. [N 7]
    The location of the match was not captured as part of the championship documentation.
  8. [N 8]
    The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 24 days
  9. [N 9]
    The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 29 days
  10. [N 10]
    The date the PWR withdrew from the NWA has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 72 days and 102 days

References

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    "NWA World Midgets' Title". Wrestling Titles. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  2. [2]
    Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "World Midget's Championship". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  3. [3]
    "Sky Low Low". Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Archived from the original on 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
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    Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
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    Burke, Tom. "Little Beaver". Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Archived from the original on March 31, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
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    "SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Little Beaver". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    Oliver, Greg (2004-05-09). "Hall of Fame grows some more". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    Oliver, Greg (2011-09-06). "Little Tokyo remembered with laughter". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    Oliver, Greg (January 9, 2007). "Midget star Cowboy Lang dies". Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    Hoops, Brian (May 30, 2015). "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". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
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