# IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship

The IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental Welter IWRG in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since 1998. The official definition of the Welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered to. Because Lucha Libre puts more emphasis on the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of the promotion.
The first Welterweight champion was Dr. Cerebro, winning the title on March 1, 1998, in a tournament final against Shiima Nobunaga. Dr. Cerebro Jr. is the current champion, having defeated Puma de Oro and then-champion Tonali for the title on January 1, 2024. Dr. Cerebro Jr. is the 40th overall champion and the 22nd person to have held the championship. Cerebro Negro is the person with most title reigns, a total of seven. He also has the distinction of having the shortest reign (at seven days) and the longest reign (1,246 days).
As it is 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. 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, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

## Title history

Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| N/A | Unknown information |
| (NLT) | Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed |
| † | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Dr. Cerebro | March 1, 1998 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 287 | Defeated Shiima Nobunaga in the finals of a 16-man tournament. | |
| 2 | Shiima Nobunaga | December 13, 1998 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 175 | | |
| 3 | Último Vampiro | June 6, 1999 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 340 | | |
| 4 | Dr. Cerebro | May 11, 2000 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 49 | | |
| 5 | Ciclón Ramírez | June 29, 2000 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 45 | | |
| 6 | Dr. Cerebro | August 13, 2000 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 3 | 788 | | |
| 7 | Cerebro Negro | October 10, 2002 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 17 | | |
| 8 | Fantasy | October 27, 2002 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 301 | | |
| 9 | Cerebro Negro | August 24, 2003 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 105 | | |
| 10 | Avisman | December 7, 2003 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 497 | | |
| 11 | Cerebro Negro | April 17, 2005 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 3 | 7 | | |
| 12 | Avisman | April 24, 2005 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 287 | | |
| 13 | Fantasma de la Ópera | February 5, 2006 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 175 | | |
| 14 | Panterita/Freelance | July 30, 2006 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 210 | Panterita changed his ring persona to Freelance during the title reign. | |
| 15 | Cerebro Negro | February 25, 2007 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 4 | 21 | | |
| 16 | Fantasma de la Ópera | March 18, 2007 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 123 | Defeated Cerebro Negro in a 10-man steel cage match. | |
| 17 | Black Terry | July 19, 2007 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 94 | | |
| 18 | Cerebro Negro | October 21, 2007 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 5 | 11 | | |
| 19 | Fantasma de la Ópera | November 1, 2007 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 3 | 45 | Defeated Cerebro Negro and Black Terry in a three-way elimination title vs. mask vs. hair match. Ópera's mask, Negro's title and Terry's hair were at stake. Negro was the last to be pinned, so he lost the title. | |
| 20 | Black Terry | December 16, 2007 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 98 | | |
| 21 | Multifacético | March 23, 2008 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 67 | | |
| 22 | Fuerza Guerrera | May 29, 2008 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 101 | | |
| 23 | Black Terry | September 7, 2008 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 3 | 70 | Defeated Multifacético and Fuerza Guerrera in a three-way elimination title vs. mask vs. hair match. Multifacético's mask, Guerrera's title and Terry's hair were at stake. Guerrera was the last to be pinned, so he lost the title | |
| 24 | Fuerza Guerrera | November 16, 2008 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 553 | Defeated Black Terry in a match with Guerrera's mask and Terry's hair and title on the line. | |
| 25 | Dr. Cerebro | May 23, 2010 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 4 | 14 | | |
| 26 | CIMA | June 6, 2010 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 448 | | |
| — | Vacated | August 28, 2011 | — | — | — | — | Vacated when CIMA did not return to Mexico to defend the championship. | |
| 27 | Golden Magic | September 8, 2011 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 105 | Defeated Bestia 666 in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | |
| 28 | Eterno | December 22, 2011 | | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 290 | Eterno's WWS Welterweight Championship was also on the line in the match. | |
| 29 | Oficial Rayan | October 7, 2012 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 140 | | |
| 30 | Dinamic Black | February 24, 2013 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 210 | | |
| — | Vacated | September 22, 2013 | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Dinamic Black left IWRG. | |
| 31 | Canis Lupus | September 29, 2013 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 67 | | |
| 32 | Golden Magic | December 5, 2013 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 346 | | |
| 33 | Canis Lupus | November 16, 2014 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 2 | 519 | This was a "Mask. vs Title" match. | |
| — | Vacated | April 18, 2016 | — | — | — | — | IWRG announced a tournament for the championship, but did not explain why Canis Lupus was not defending the championship | |
| 34 | Cerebro Negro | April 20, 2016 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 6 | 291 | Defeated Mike Segura in the finals of a tournament for the vacant championship. | |
| 35 | La Mosca | February 5, 2017 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 133 | | |
| 36 | Emperador Azteca | June 18, 2017 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 371 | | |
| 37 | Cerebro Negro | June 24, 2018 | IWRG show | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 7 | 1,246 | | |
| 38 | Jessy Ventura | November 21, 2021 | Mas Lucha Torneo Suprema Mas Luchas | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 399 | | |
| 39 | Tonalli | December 25, 2022 | IWRG Ruleta De La Murte | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 372 | | |
| 40 | Dr. Cerebro Jr. | January 1, 2024 | IWRG Guerreros De Acero 2024 | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | 1 | 401+ | | |

## Combined reigns

| † | Indicates the current champion |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Cerebro Negro | 7 | 1,698 |
| 2 | Dr. Cerebro | 4 | 1,138 |
| 3 | Avisman | 2 | 784 |
| 4 | Fuerza Guerrera | 2 | 654 |
| 5 | Shiima Nobunaga / CIMA | 2 | 623 |
| 6 | Canis Lupus | 2 | 587 |
| 7 | Golden Magic | 2 | 451 |
| 8 | Dr. Cerebro Jr. † | 1 | 401+ |
| 9 | Jessy Ventura | 1 | 399 |
| 10 | Tonalli | 1 | 372 |
| 11 | Emperador Azteca | 1 | 371 |
| 12 | Fantasma de la Ópera | 3 | 343 |
| 13 | Último Vampiro | 1 | 340 |
| 14 | Fantasy | 1 | 301 |
| 15 | Eterno | 1 | 290 |
| 16 | Black Terry | 3 | 262 |
| 17 | Dinamic Black | 1 | 210 |
| 17 | Panterita/Freelance | 1 | 210 |
| 19 | Oficial Rayan | 1 | 140 |
| 20 | Mosca | 1 | 133 |
| 21 | Multifacético | 1 | 67 |
| 22 | Ciclón Ramírez | 1 | 45 |

## Footnotes

* ↑ One example the weightlimits not being strictly enforced is Mephisto winning the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a championship with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
* ↑ 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"
* ↑ 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"
* ↑ 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"
* ↑ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."