AAA Americas Heavyweight Championship

AAA Americas Heavyweight Championship
Details
PromotionAAA
Date establishedFebruary 2, 1996
Date retired2006
Statistics
First champion(s)Konnan
Final champion(s)Sangre Chicana
(won August 20, 2008)
Longest reignSangre Chicana (At least 794 days)
Shortest reignKonnan (242 days)

The AAA Americas Heavyweight Championship is a former championship contested for in the Mexican lucha libre promotion AAA, it was promoted as a secondary title to AAA's main "World" title.[1] Being a professional wrestling championship it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. Konnan was the first AAA Americas Heavyweight champion, a title he won by defeating the Killer at the end of a tournament. The title was originally intended to be the top heavyweight title in AAA but when Konnan left the promotion in 1996 to work exclusively for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and took the championship belt with him the title was quietly ignored by AAA.[1] Initially when Konnan joined WCW he would wear the Americas title with the commentators referring to it as "the Mexican Championship" but the belt was the AAA Americas title. The belt remained in Konnan's possession until he started working with AAA again around 2004, where he turned over the belt. Sangre Chicana became the second AAA Americas Heavyweight Champion after winning a tournament for the title in 2004, defeating Latin Lover. By 2006 Sangre Chicana went into semi-retirement and stopped working for AAA all together, when Sangre Chicana left AAA the title was once again quietly dropped.[2]

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
 1  Konnan  February 2, 1996  AAA Live event Querétaro, Querétaro  1  242 Defeated The Killer to become the first champion. [1]
— Vacated  October 1, 1996 — — — — Championship vacated when Konnan left AAA to exclusively wrestle for WCW. [1]
 2  Sangre Chicana  August 20, 2004  AAA Live event Puebla, Puebla  1  [Note 1] Defeated Latin Lover to win the vacant title. [3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Sangre Chicana left AAA sometime in 2006 but the exact date is not known, thus the exact length of Sangre Chicana's reign is undetermined but at least 794 days.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "MEXICO: AAA Americas title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 400. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  2. ^ Súper Luchas staff (December 23, 2006). "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). issue 192.
  3. ^ Súper Luchas staff (January 24, 2005). "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2004". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). issue 91.