UWA of Mexico

[Guest razazteca]

I was looking at that site which contains championship title reigns and notice that UWA had some big shows which featured some international talent on the Anniversity shows, so what happen down there in the late 80s to early 90s?

 

Chris Benoit vs Villano 3 for the WWF Lightweight title!?!?! early 90s before the TAKA revival of course. I also saw that alot of japanese talent did tours there such as big names from NJPW.

 

Also there was a wrestler named Hijo de Gladitor, was this Mike Awesome?

 

any info would be greatly accepted.

[Guest Jake the Muss]

From what I can remember from back in the day -I've been watching lucha all my life, I just don't remember all the details-, belts from the organizations such as the UWA, WWF, NWA, etc., were defended regularly.

However -and I could be wrong-, those belts were not the ones that we are accustomed to. I can't really say if those straps were "official" at one time, but I do remeber watching title defenses for the WWF Welterweight title, NWA junior heavyweight, and so on -just like in boxing-.

CMLL is a relatively new promotion -last 15-20 years- that was created by the Comisión de Box y Lucha del Distrito Federal, or Mexico City Boxing ad Wrestling Commission to gather up all of the talent regular to the Arena México, Arena Coliseo and Toreo de Cuatro Caminos. Before then, the CMLL was known as the EMLL (Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre). This change was brought upon by the growing popularity of AAA during de early 90s. EMLL was basically the same thing as CMLL, but without their own title belts and champions. The belts used for contention were the ones mentioned above and some others.

Before then, there were no "House Shows", like the ones AAA puts up. Local promotions use to call up the Big Names to appear in places other than the Mexico City arenas. Such Big Names could only be seen on T.V., local promotions could make a bundle by bringing them in.

As far as El Hijo del Gladiador is concerned, he is the son of an old-time Luchador named "El Gladiador", who had is heyday during the 60s.

I don't know if this information is accurate, since I did not pay much attention to the inner workings of the business at the time -i.e., I was a young mark-, but this is what I know to some extent.

If you have any other questions on Old-time wrestlers, just let me know and I'll see what I can do for you.

[Guest Jake the Muss]

Here's a pic of Gladiador Sr. -Luis Ramírez Romero-. He died in 1965 and lost his mask to the original Santo.

[Guest razazteca]

well that makes some sense

 

THANK YOU