NWA World Midget's Championship

NWA World Midget's Championship
Details
Date established1949
Date retiredDecember, 2009
Other name(s)
  • NWA World Mini's Championship
  • PWR World Mini's Championship
Statistics
First champion(s)Sky Low Low
Most reignsLord Littlebrook/Little Tokyo (3 reigns)
Longest reign[Note 1]
Shortest reignFarmer Pete (7 days)
Oldest championLord Littlebrook (42 years, 363 days)[Note 2]
Youngest championCowboy Bradley (25 years, 111 days)[Note 3]
Heaviest championOctagoncito (101 lb (46 kg))[Note 4]
Lightest championLord Littlebrook (50 lb (23 kg))[Note 5]

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]

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]


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  1. ^ a b "NWA World Midgets' Title". Wrestling Titles. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "World Midget's Championship". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  3. ^ "Sky Low Low". Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Archived from the original on 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
  4. ^ Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works. Retrieved 2009-04-05.