The Crash Heavyweight Championship

The Crash Heavyweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato de Peso Completo de The Crash) is a professional wrestling championship used in the Mexican lucha libre promotion The Crash Lucha Libre based in Tijuana, Baja California. It is the top male championship of the promotion, with both The Crash Cruiserweight Championship and The Crash Junior Championship considered secondary. The first champion was Rey Mysterio, while Bandido is the current champion in his first reign.

Inaugural Champions Rey Mysterio
The Crash Heavyweight Championship
The championship belt, with depictions of Perro Aguayo Jr. and Eddie Guerrero on the left and right side plates respectively
Details
PromotionThe Crash Lucha Libre
Date establishedNovember 4, 2017[1]
Current champion(s)Bandido
Date wonNovember 23, 2019[2]

The championship is designated as a heavyweight title, which means that the championship can officially be competed for only by wrestlers weighing 105 kg (231 lb) and above, while in reality it has no lower weight limit.[7] As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 1] 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,[lower-alpha 2] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 3] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 4]

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 Rey Mysterio November 4, 2017 The Crash VI Aniversario Tijuana, Baja California 1 337 Defeated Penta el 0M, La Máscara and Rush in four-way match to become the inaugural champion. [1]
— Vacated October 7, 2018 — — — — Championship declared vacant after Rey Mysterio signed a full-time contract with WWE
2 Willie Mack November 3, 2018 The Crash VII Aniversario Tijuana, Baja California 1 119 Defeated Bárbaro Cavernario, Michael Elgin and El Mesías to win the vacant championship. [12]
3 Austin Theory March 2, 2019 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 63 This was a Four-way match, also involving Bárbaro Cavernario and Sansón. [3]
4 Rey Horus May 4, 2019 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 203 This was a Four-way match, also involving Adam Brooks and Maxwell Jacob Friedman. [4]
5 Bandido November 23, 2019 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 439+ This was a three-way match that also included Marty Scurll. [2]

Footnotes
  1. Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win/loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[8]
  2. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[9]
  3. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[10]
  4. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[11]

References
  • Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  1. "Rey Mysterio es Campeón en The Crash, Volador Jr. lo masacró". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). November 5, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  2. Bryant, Steve (November 24, 2019). "The Crash – 23 November 2019 – Results". So Cal Uncensored. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  3. Romero, Marcos (March 3, 2019). "The Crash tiene nuevo campeón" [The Crash has a new champion]. El Sol de Tijuana (in Spanish). Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  4. Romero, Marcos (May 5, 2019). "Rebelión Amarilla, por el título" [The Yellow Rebellion, title challengers]. El Sol de Tijuana (in Spanish). Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  5. "Rey Mysterio Bio". World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  6. "Roster". Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  7. Arturo Montiel Rojas (August 30, 2001). "Reglamento de Boy Y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico" (PDF) (in Spanish). Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2009. "Completo 105 kilos sin limite" ("Heavyweight 105 kilos with no upper limit")
  8. Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  9. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  10. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  11. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  12. +LuchaTV (November 3, 2018). "The Crash VII Aniversario". Mas Luchas (in Spanish). YouTube. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
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