{"id":24477,"date":"2018-08-24T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=24477"},"modified":"2018-08-24T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:02:25","slug":"andnew-caristico-wins-nwa-world-historic-middleweight-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/08\/24\/andnew-caristico-wins-nwa-world-historic-middleweight-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Caristico Wins NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>El Enmascarado de Plata<\/em>, <strong>Caristico <\/strong>defeated\u00a0Mexican legend <strong>Ultimo Guerrero<\/strong>\u00a0this week for the <strong>NWA<\/strong> World Historic Middleweight Championship.\u00a0Caristico, who is also known as the original <strong>Mistico<\/strong>, surprised everybody in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara when he ended Ultimo Guerrero&#8217;s 1,087 day-reign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8<br \/>DE \u00daLTIMA HORA:  Car\u00edstico ha derrotado al \u00daltimo Guerrero en la Arena Coliseo de Guadalajara y se convierte en el Nuevo Campe\u00f3n Mundial Hist\u00f3rico NWA de Peso Medio <br \/>\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b3O2taDtGx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/b3O2taDtGx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMLL_OFICIAL\/status\/1032108053271924747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The wins brings a lot of ramifications for <strong>Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)<\/strong>. For starters, as the lucha libre page <em>Lucha Blog<\/em> points out, with Caristico&#8217;s win, he enters this year&#8217;s CMLL <em>Campeonato Universal<\/em> tournament. You need to be a champion in CMLL to be able to participate in the historic tournament.\u00a0 The situation resulted in a Win\/Win for CMLL, since Ultimo Guerrero holds the CMLL World Trios Championship with <strong>Gran Guerrero<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Euforia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship is one of CMLL&#8217;s most prestigious prizes. Wrestlers like <strong>Andrade &#8220;Cien&#8221; Almas<\/strong>, <strong>Finn Balor<\/strong>, <strong>Volador Jr.<\/strong> and the former champion, Ultimo Guerrero, have won the championship in CMLL. Guerrero had the longest reign of them all. This is Caristico&#8217;s first reign as NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship and third if you count the original, <strong>National Wrestling Alliance<\/strong> sanction championship, that dates back to 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning in CMLL, this is Caristico&#8217;s first championship win. He previously had challenge <strong>Mephisto<\/strong>, Volador Jr. and even Ultimo Guerrero for their respective championships.<\/p>\n<p>Caristico is still a top draw in Mexico. He was bigger before going to WWE in 2011 (where he became the original <strong>Sin Cara<\/strong>), but still, in CMLL, he wrestles regularly in the main event or semi. Caristico&#8217;s drawing power was shown when, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/07\/01\/pentagon-jr-makes-his-suprise-debut-in-cmll\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a brief interaction with debuting Pentagon Jr.<\/a>, the crowd exploded for both gladiators battling in the square circle. Fans tend to confuse Caristico and the new Mistico &#8211; Misticio II &#8211; since both wrestlers tag regularly and wrestle some times against each other. With a championship win, Caristico could have a good position in the card ensured. Although rivalries against Mistico, Volador Jr. and Pentagon are evident, there&#8217;s still no sign of a Aniversario <em>lucha de apuestas<\/em> match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Enmascarado de Plata, Caristico defeated\u00a0Mexican legend Ultimo Guerrero\u00a0this week for the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship.\u00a0Caristico, who is also known as the original Mistico, surprised everybody in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara when he ended Ultimo Guerrero&#8217;s 1,087 day-reign. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8DE \u00daLTIMA HORA: Car\u00edstico ha derrotado al \u00daltimo Guerrero en la Arena Coliseo de Guadalajara y se [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":24613,"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":[17,6],"tags":[678,216,959,111,2440,1106,958,1985,47],"class_list":["post-24477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmll","category-north-america","tag-aaa","tag-andrade-cien-almas","tag-caristico","tag-finn-balor","tag-mephisto","tag-mistico","tag-ultimo-guerrero","tag-volador-jr","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477","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=24477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}