{"id":23160,"date":"2018-08-06T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=23160"},"modified":"2018-08-25T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T01:57:41","slug":"star-rogers-reign-will-break-a-33-year-record-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/08\/06\/star-rogers-reign-will-break-a-33-year-record-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Roger&#8217;s Reign Will Break a 33 Year Record in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Championship Wrestling Association (CWA)<\/strong> Heavyweight Champion <strong>Star Roger<\/strong> is on the process of breaking the record for the longest championship reign in Puerto Rico.\u00a0The record dates back to 1983, when <strong>WWE<\/strong> Hall of Famer <strong>Carlos Colon<\/strong> won the World Wrestling Council &#8211; those times <strong>Capitol Sports Promotion<\/strong> or <strong>CSP<\/strong> &#8211; Universal Championship when he defeated <strong>Ric Flair<\/strong> in a unification bout and combined the CSP World Championship with the <strong>NWA<\/strong> World Championship. In the process, Carlos Colon would go on to have a 655 days championship reign.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>No Longer A Shadow of Colon\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In 2016, Star Roger &#8211; then <strong>Sensacional Carlitos<\/strong> &#8211; won the CWA Heavyweight Championship in a match of the year against 2-times <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong> World Champion &#8211; and then champion &#8211; <strong>Jay Lethal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"El Sensacional Carlitos vs. Jay Lethal - CWA World Title Match\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VP-sEkP1-6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/06\/16\/how-star-roger-is-getting-out-of-the-shadow-of-carlos-colon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It was the start of a transformation for Roger, who started as a parody of the Colon family.<\/a> Roger started to defend the title consistently in the island and outside of it. Challengers like\u00a0 <strong>Mike Mendoza<\/strong>, <strong>Mecha Wolf 450<\/strong>, <strong>Cuervo<\/strong>, <strong>DJZ<\/strong>, <strong>Aeroboy<\/strong>, among others, fell short to the a new and evolved Roger. The title defenses, the quality of matches and the aura that was created around Roger made it one of the most memorable championship reigns in the last 20 years. The reign went as far to break Carlos Colon 495-days as WWC Universal Champion that dates back to 1994.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Mendoza vs (c)El Sensacional Star Roger- CWA Championship Match (CKCW New World RIsing 2018)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wyej0W5RKOs?start=53&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Going Further\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HIGHLIGHTS: &quot;El Sensacional&quot; Star Roger vs &quot;El Mas Extremo&quot; El Cuervo en IMPLANTANDO RESPETO 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sUHvMFrcnoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Roger continued his reign, this time as a heel champion &#8211; he has been a supreme babyface all of his life &#8211; and now passing 600 days. In the next 50+ days, the man that once was deem as to short, no charismatic and that couldn&#8217;t be the face of a wrestling company is now on the edge of breaking a 33 year record and in the process, has helped make CWA the number two company in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the man that he was set to portray as a parody, Carlos Colon, is now in the number three spot of best wrestling company in Puerto Rico and his 33 year record is going to be broken by the man his company never gave a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Championship Wrestling Association (CWA) Heavyweight Champion Star Roger is on the process of breaking the record for the longest championship reign in Puerto Rico.\u00a0The record dates back to 1983, when WWE Hall of Famer Carlos Colon won the World Wrestling Council &#8211; those times Capitol Sports Promotion or CSP &#8211; Universal Championship when he defeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":23427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3318],"tags":[2475,1026,1211,1022,2944,1098,1845,1236,1023,991,989,47],"class_list":["post-23160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-puerto-rico","tag-aeroboy","tag-carlos-colon","tag-cuervo","tag-cwa","tag-djz","tag-justin-dynamite","tag-maxx-stardom","tag-mecha-wolf-450","tag-mike-mendoza","tag-star-roger","tag-wwc","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}