Spanish Title Histories (1943-1983)

Lineages of the championship titles in Spanish pro wrestling from 1943 to 1983.

Here I’ve put together all the information I've been able to find about the championship titles that were active in Spanish professional wrestling in the 1943-1983 period. Before that, however, a few important notes.

- From 1943, when the Spanish pro wrestling scene rose again, to 1984, when a second governing body was established, pro wrestling in Spain was governed by Federación Española de Lucha (the Spanish Wrestling Federation). Technically, that was the amateur wrestling federation, but it also ruled over pro wrestling in the country. If a promoter wanted to promote a pro wrestling show in Spain they needed the approval of the Federation, wrestlers needed a license issued by the Federation in order to wrestle in Spain, etc. The Spanish Federation sanctioned all the Spanish championship titles too.

- In addition to the national federation, which set the direction on the national level, there were also regional federations that handled wrestling in their region. They were subordinated to the national federation. The regional federations sanctioned all the regional championships. In terms of regional titles, below I've only listed the titles from the Catalonia region (Barcelona being the main city there), because I have done the most research on the Catalan regional titles.

- The European and World Championships were sanctioned by what was referred to in the Spanish press as Federación Internacional de Lucha (International Wrestling Federation). This part has always been a bit confusing to me, and it was a similar deal in France for a while too, but I think that was supposed to be the amateur federation FILA (UWW today) or some professional section within it. I have my doubts as to whether this pro wrestling connection to FILA really existed. I think there’s a good chance it was just a made-up thing they were using to justify having World and European Championships.

- Because of everything explained above, in Spain it was very rare to see multiple claimants to the same championship at the same time, i.e. there wouldn’t be two guys claiming to be the heavyweight champion (or some other weight class) at the same time like it would often happen in many other countries. A promotion couldn’t just randomly decide to crown its own World/European/Spanish/regional champion if that same title was already held by someone else in the country who was working for another company. There seem to have been a few odd exceptions here and there, but for the most part things were pretty straight forward and official.

- Initially the Spanish (national) titles were the top titles in Spain, and eventually European and World titles were introduced too so then they became more important. Almost all of the World and European title lineages in Spain started by a foreign wrestler all of a sudden being recognized as the champion in Spain and then the new Spanish lineage was developed from there. Most often these first World and European champions were from the French territory. Some were already the champions in France at the time when Spain gave them the recognition too, some were not. The governing bodies in France and Spain had a working relationship at times and would on occasion recognize each other’s World and European champions so the Spanish and French lineages intersected at certain points.

- Unlike the United States and other places, Spain wasn't really a heavyweight territory so don't think of the heavyweight titles as always being the most important ones. At different times the middleweight, mid-heavyweight and light heavyweight titles were considered the most important in the country. It more or less depended on who held the title.

- The original Spanish names of the titles and the translations I went it: peso pesado = heavyweight, peso pesado ligero = light heavyweight, peso semipesado = mid-heavyweight, peso medio = middleweight, peso semimedio = welterweight, peso ligero = lightweight. A few of the titles could be translated a bit differently, but for reasons I won’t go into here these were the translations I went with.

- The light heavyweight division, and therefore the light heavyweight titles, was introduced in the early 1950s. It was the middle ground between mid-heavyweight and heavyweight. Tag team wrestling arrived in Spain in 1960, but it took almost a decade for tag team titles to be introduced.

- The title lineages below are for sure not complete, especially the later years. There could definitely be some mistakes as well, particularly because the Spanish press often mixed up the weight classes when reporting on the matches, reported late on title changes, confused national and European champions, etc. Putting the history of the titles together was sort of like untangling a web of conflicting information and trying to make it all make sense. It's not perfect and it will never be perfect.

- Jose Tarres (1xWorld, 7xEuropean, 4xSpanish); Jesus Chausson (2xWorld, 5xEuropean, 4xSpanish); Pedro Bengoechea (3xWorld, 2xEuropean, 4xSpanish); Felix Lamban (1xWorld, 1xEuropean, 5xSpanish); Victorio Ochoa (1xEuropean, 4xSpanish)
- Gilbert Leduc (3xWorld, 3xEuropean); Eduardo Castillo (1xWorld, 1xEuropean, 1xSpanish); Modesto Aledo (5xWorld, 3xEuropean, 2xSpanish); Nino Pizarro (1xWorld, 5xEuropean, 5xSpanish); Rafael Blasco (2xEuropean, 5xSpanish)
- Jose Marques (1xEuropean, 5xSpanish); Jose Brunet (2xEuropean, 3xSpanish); Gabriel Laguna (1xWorld, 1xEuropean, 2xSpanish); Antonio Montoro (4xSpanish); Vicente Febrer (1xWorld, 2xSpanish)

Heavyweight Championships

World Heavyweight Championship:
= 1 May 1952: Frank Sexton was the recognized champion and defended the title in Barcelona on 9 May. His only match in Spain. By that point Sexton had already lost his AWA (Boston) World Heavyweight in the United States, but was the recognized World champion in France. As of 26 March 1954 Sexton was still the recognized champion in Spain. By August 1956 Sexton was no longer the recognized champion in Spain and the title effectively became vacant.
= late May 1957: Primo Carnera was now the recognized champion and defended the title in Madrid on 15 June. Carnera’s last matches in Spain were in July 1960. Despite being retired by that point, Carnera was still the recognized champion in Spain as of 1 February 1964.
= mid June 1964: Lino Di Santo was now the recognized champion in Spain.
= 24 June 1964: Hercules Cortez defeated Di Santo for the title in Madrid. Cortez was also one of the champions in France at the same time. Cortez passed away on 24 July 1971 - he was still the champion at the time of his death.
- On 24 July 1975 El Guajiro was to wrestle Goyo Neches in Zaragoza and the winner was to wrestle the Spanish Heavyweight champion Vicente Calvo Bielsa on the next show to determine a new World Heavyweight champion, but I haven’t been able to find anything else about that.
= 6 November 1975: Conde Maximiliano was the recognized champion. The claim in Spain was that he had won the title in June from an English wrestler in Germany (not true).
= 11 February 1978: Vicente Febrer defeated Maximiliano for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 17 August 1981.

European Heavyweight Championship:
= 1 February 1957: Lino Di Santo was the recognized champion. He wasn’t wrestling in Spain at the time. Di Santo was also the champion in France at the same time.
= 5 July 1957: Felix Miquet was now the recognized champion and he wrestled in Spain.
= 1 February 1963: Lino Di Santo was the recognized champion. He was still the recognized champion as of 1 February 1964, but by June they started recognizing him as the World champion instead.

Spanish Heavyweight Championship:
= prior to 27 August 1950: Tomas Grau was the champion.
= 27 August 1950: Joaquin Saludes was declared the new champion. The public story was that Saludes was to face the champion Grau in a private match behind closed doors, but Grau no-showed and so Saludes was given the title as a result of that. By 12 January 1952 Saludes was no longer champion.
= 25 January 1953: Felix Lamban was the champion. Lamban was also the European Middleweight champion at the same time - I don’t think he was defending the European Title in matches by this point, but he was still technically the champion, despite no longer being in the weight class.
= 23 August 1957: Rafvela defeated Lamban for the title in Barcelona.
= 25 August 1958: Felix Lamban defeated Rafvela for the title in Barcelona.
= 9 September 1961: Carlos Moll defeated Lamban for the title in Madrid.
= 7 March 1962: Antionio Morlans defeated Moll for the title in Madrid. He was still the champion as of 17 July 1962.
= 24 August 1962: Mariano Yugueros was the champion. He most likely defeated Morlans for the title on 17 July 1962 in Zaragoza.
= 8 January 1964: Jesus Chausson defeated Yugueros for the title in Madrid. He was still the champion as of 4 August 1964.
= 17 July 1965: Vicente Calvo Bielsa was the champion. He was still the champion as of 20 December 1965.
- The title eventually became vacant when Calvo Bielsa left Spain to tour South America.
= 1 March 1967: Mariano Yugueros defeated Carlos Moll in Madrid to win the vacant title.
= 15 June 1968: Felix Lamban defeated Yugueros for the title in Zaragoza.
- At some point in 1973 the title became vacant when Felix Lamban retired from the ring.
= 9 June 1973: Vicente Calvo Bielsa defeated Rino Sangil in Zaragoza to win the vacant title. He was still the champion as of 11 July 1975.

Catalan Heavyweight Championship:
= 22 April 1949: Tomas Grau defeated Salvador Font to win the vacant title in Barcelona.
- The title became vacant at some point before March 1954.
= 21 March 1954: Royo defeated Casanovas in Barcelona to win the vacant title.
= 21 November 1954: Salvador Font defeated Royo for the title in Barcelona.
= 18 August 1956: Pablo Bernaus defeated Font for the title in Barcelona.
= 29 December 1957: Antonio Peral defeated Bernaus for the title in Barcelona.
= 28 December 1958: Victor Castilla defeated Peral for the title in Barcelona. He was still the recognized champion as of 1 February 1964, despite not having defended the title in more than four years.

Light Heavyweight Championships

World Light Heavyweight Championship:
= 21 November 1952: Francois Miquet was the recognized champion. The claim was that he had won the title in 1950 in North America (not true). Up until mid September 1952 Miquet was also the champion in France (in France he relinquished the title to move up a weight class).
= 4 June 1954: Felix Lamban defeated Miquet for the title in Barcelona.
= 11 February 1955: Rudi Saturski defeated Lamban for the title in Barcelona.
= 25 March 1955: Eduardo Castillo defeated Saturski for the title in Barcelona. Castillo was also the European Light Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 26 October 1956: Liano Pellacani defeated Castillo for the title in Barcelona.
= 30 November 1956: Pedro Bengoechea was the champion. It was reported in the Spanish press that Bengoechea had just defeated Pellacani for the title in Paris.
= 13 April 1960: Jack Lasartesse (Rene Lasartesse) defeated Bengoechea for the title in Madrid.
= 16 September 1960: Jesus Chausson defeated Lasartesse for the title in Madrid.
- Chausson went to the United States in early 1961 and was stripped of the title.
= 19 August 1961: Pedro Bengoechea was the champion. Bengoechea was also the Spanish Light Heavyweight champion at the same time.
- Something weird went on here. On 17 July 1961 Bengoechea defeated Gilbert Leduc, the recognized champion, in Madrid for what was reported as the World Mid-Heavyweight Championship, but then a month later Bengoechea was being billed as the World Light Heavyweight champion. I highly doubt he won two different World Titles in a short span so I think what most likely happened is they had him win the Mid-Heavyweight Title, but then decided to quietly switch it and recognize him as the Light Heavyweight champion instead.
= 3 July 1963: Johnny Kostolias defeated Bengoechea for the title in Madrid.
= 11 August 1963: Jose Tarres defeated Kostolias for the title in Barcelona. Tarres was also the European Light Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 6 March 1964: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 20 December 1970: Jesus Chausson defeated Bengoechea for the title in Madrid.
- Toward the end of his run a few articles referred to him as the heavyweight champion, but I think those were most likely a mistake.
- Chausson retired in late 1974 and the title became vacant.

European Light Heavyweight Championship:
= 14 June 1953: Jacques Ducrez was the recognized champion. Ducrez was also the champion in France at the same time.
= 1 July 1954: Roger Guettier was the recognized champion. Guettier was also the champion in France at the same time.
= 4 March 1955: Eduardo Castillo defeated Guettier for the title in Barcelona.
= 22 June 1955: Gilbert Leduc was the champion. Leduc was also the champion in France at the same time.
- There was something weird going on here. It appears for a while there were two simultaneous title lineages of the title - one backed by Empresa del Gran Price in Barcelona and one backed by Organizaciones Bamala in Madrid.
= 2 July 1955: Victorio Ochoa defeated Leduc for the title in Madrid. He was still champion as of 22 January 1956.
= 15 July 1955: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Castillo for the title in Barcelona.
= 19 July 1957: Liano Pellacani defeated Bengoechea for the title in Barcelona.
= 14 November 1957: Jose Tarres defeated Pellacani for the title in Barcelona.
= 26 September 1958: Jesus Chausson defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 31 October 1959: Remy Bayle was the champion. The press referred to him as the new champion so him being the champion was a recent development.
= 4 November 1959: Gustavo Blanchs defeated Bayle for the title in Madrid.
= 5 February 1960: Rafael Blasco defeated Gustavo for the title in Barcelona. Blasco was also the Spanish Light Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 19 January 1962: Carlos Moll defeated Blasco for the title in Barcelona.
= 22 September 1962: Jose Tarres defeated Moll for the title in Barcelona.
= 21 April 1967: Angelo Giusto defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 16 July 1967.
= 2 June 1968: Fernando Descamps was the champion.
= 11 June 1968: Tony Oliver defeated Descamps for the title in Palma de Mallorca.
= 13 December 1975: Miguel Galarza was the champion.
- This could have been the European Mid-Heavyweight Title. I’ve seen conflicting information about it. He was possibly the champion as early as 13 September 1974.
= 1 July 1981: Jose Peyron was the champion. He was still the champion as of 23 September 1982.

Spanish Light Heavyweight Championship:
= 5 September 1955: Felix Lamban was the champion.
- Something weird was going on here, because Lamban was, by the looks of it, the Spanish Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 17 February 1956: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Lamban for the title in Barcelona. Bengoechea was also the European Light Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 13 April 1956: Jose Tarres defeated Bengoechea for the title in Barcelona.
= 7 November 1958: Rafael Blasco defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona. Blasco was also the Spanish Mid-Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 3 July 1960: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Blasco for the title in Barcelona.
= 8 July 1962: Rafael Blasco defeated Bengoechea for the title in Barcelona.
= 12 June 1963: Jesus Chausson defeated Blasco for the title in Madrid.
= 8 August 1963: Jose Marques defeated Chausson for the title in Murcia.
= 1 February 1964: Rafael Blasco was champion. He was still the champion as of 4 June 1964.
= 11 June 1964: Jose Marques was the champion. By 1 July 1965 he was no longer champion.
= 3 September 1965: Rafael Blasco was the champion.
= 18 August 1966: Eduardo Castillo defeated Blasco for the title in Barcelona.
- 20 August 1966: Rafael Blasco was the champion, according to the press in Murcia. He had lost the title two days prior in Barcelona, but for some reason he continued to be billed as the champion in Murcia and Cartagena. By 19 August 1967 Blasco was no longer champion according to the Murcia press, but was the champion as of 2 September 1967 according to the Cartagena press. It's confusing.
- 9 February 1968: Eduardo Castillo was the champion, according to the Barcelona press. No idea when he won the title or maybe he never even lost it in the first place. Castillo was still the champion as of 17 May 1968.
= 1 September 1968: Jose Marques was the champion. He had recently won the title. He was still the champion as of 11 August 1973.
= 23 September 1982: Ricardo Moyan was the champion.

Catalan Light Heavyweight Championship:
= 20 September 1956: Jose Tarres defeated Jim Oliver in Barcelona to become the first champion. Tarres was also the Catalan Mid-Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 20 October 1961: Angelo defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona. He was still the recognized champion as of 1 February 1964, despite not having defended the title in two and a half years.

Mid-Heavyweight Championships

World Mid-Heavyweight Championship:
= September 1948: Stan Karolyi was the recognized champion. Karolyi was also the champion in France at the same time. He was still the champion as of 28 August 1958.
= 4 July 1961: Gilbert Leduc was the champion. The claim in Spain was that he had defeated Karolyi for the title (I don’t think that was true). In France Leduc was the World Light Heavyweight champion at the same time, not the Mid-Heavyweight one.
= 17 July 1961: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Leduc for the title in Madrid.
- About a month later Bengoechea began to be billed as World Light Heavyweight champion instead so I think what likely happened is they decided to quietly switch his recognition from mid-heavyweight to light heavyweight.
- 1 February 1964: In an article listing all the champions recognized in Spain at the moment, Stan Karolyi was listed as the champion, but I think this was either a mistake by the newspaper or the recognition was quietly put back on him to fill in the void left by Bengoechea’s recognition being switched. Karolyi was retired by this point.
= 9 September 1964: Gilbert Leduc was the champion. Same as above, in France Leduc was the World Light Heavyweight champion at the same time, not the Mid-Heavyweight one. Leduc was still the champion as of 24 August 1966.
= 5 October 1977: Ignacio Bengoechea was the champion. He was still the champion as of 6 June 1981.
- I’ve seen conflicting information. This could’ve been the World Light Heavyweight Title instead.

European Mid-Heavyweight Championship:
= 12 March 1951: Rene Bukovac was the recognized champion. In an interview Bukovac explained that Stan Karolyi had been the champion since 1945, but Karolyi went to wrestle in the United States, the title became vacant, and in 1949 at Salle Wagram in Paris Bukovac won a tournament to be crowned the new champion. That’s all true.
= 17 March 1951: Jose Tarres defeated Bukovac for the title in Valencia. Tarres was also the Spanish Mid-Heavyweight and Catalan Mid-Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 31 May 1951: Jim Oliver defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 2 August 1951: Jose Tarres defeated Oliver for the title in Barcelona.
= 14 December 1951: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona. Bengoechea was also the Spanish Mid-Heavyweight and Catalan Mid-Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 23 August 1952: Jules Delmee defeated Bengoechea for the title in Valencia.
= 19 September 1952: Jose Tarres defeated Delmee for the title in Barcelona.
= right before 4 December 1953: Rene Bukovac defeated Tarres for the title in Toulouse, France.
= 21 August 1954: Jesus Chausson defeated Bukovac for the title in Madrid.
= 12 October 1954: Raymond Bukovac defeated Chausson for the title in Zaragoza.
= 8 November 1954: Jesus Chausson was the champion. By 22 June 1955 he was no longer champion.
= 10 July 1955: Jean Bout was the champion.
= 20 August 1955: Jesus Chausson defeated Bout for the title in Madrid.
= 10 July 1958: Dr. Adolf Kaiser defeated Chausson for the title in Barcelona.
= 5 September 1958: Jose Tarres defeated Kaiser for the title in Barcelona.
= 12 July 1962: Angelo (Jose Villaverde) defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 14 February 1964: Rafael Blasco defeated Angelo for the title in Barcelona.
= 15 January 1965: Manuel Polman defeated Blasco for the title in Barcelona.
= 12 March 1966: Jesus Chausson defeated Polman for the title in Madrid.
= 10 August 1968: L'Ange Blanc (Francisco Pino) defeated Chausson for the title in Madrid.
= 6 September 1969: Mariano Yugueros defeated L'Ange for the title in Madrid. He was still the champion as of 27 June 1970.
= 13 September 1974: Miguel Galarza was the champion.
- This could have been the European Light Heavyweight Title. I’ve seen conflicting information about it. He was possibly still the champion as of 13 December 1975.

Spanish Mid-Heavyweight Championship:
= 17 August 1948: Victorio Ochoa was the champion.
= 23 September 1950: Felix Lamban defeated Ochoa for the title in Zaragoza.
= 10 February 1951: Victorio Ochoa defeated Lamban for the title in Zaragoza.
= 2 March 1951: Jose Tarres defeated Ochoa for the title in Barcelona.
= 8 July 1951: Victorio Ochoa was the champion.
= 16 November 1951: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Ochoa for the title in Barcelona. Bengoechea was also the Catalan Mid-Heavyweight champion at the same time.
= 9 May 1952: Jim Oliver defeated Bengoechea for the title in Barcelona. Oliver was also the Catalan Mid-Heavyweight champion at the same time.
- 13 October 1952: The title became vacant when Oliver got suspended for six months due to his actions in a recent match in Barcelona.
= 28 November 1952: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Joaquin Saludes in Barcelona to win the vacant title. Bengoechea was also the Catalan Mid-Heavyweight champion at the same time. He was still the champion as of 28 July 1953.
= 11 June 1954: Jesus Chausson was the champion.
= 1 February 1957: Jose Tarres was the champion.
= 1 August 1958: Rafael Blasco was the champion. He had recently defeated Tarres for the title in Valencia.
= 6 February 1959: Victor Castilla defeated Blasco for the title in Barcelona.
= 8 June 1961: Miguel Galarza defeated Castilla for the title in Barcelona. Galarza was still the champion as of 20 June 1963.
= 4 July 1963: Braulio Veliz was the champion.
= 4 October 1963: Guti defeated Braulio for the title in Barcelona.
= 17 July 1964: Manuel Polman defeated Guti for the title in Barcelona.
= 29 July 1965: Vicente Febrer defeated Polman for the title in Barcelona.
= 17 October 1966: Tony Oliver was the champion. Oliver was still the champion as of 31 August 1968.
= 11 December 1969: Julian Pizarro was the champion.
= 13 December 1969: Vicente Febrer defeated Pizarro for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 19 June 1970.
= 13 June 1970: Gabriel Laguna was the champion.
= 10 September 1971: Antonio Montoro was the champion.

Catalan Mid-Heavyweight Championship:
= 26 July 1946: Tomas Grau defeated Marco in Barcelona to become the champion.
- April 1949: Grau had to relinquish the title because he moved up a weight class.
= 29 January 1950: Tabola (Francisco Sole) was the champion.
= 5 October 1950: Jose Tarres defeated Tabola for the title in Barcelona.
= 27 October 1950: Gregorio Jarque defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 14 December 1950: Salvador Font defeated Jarque for the title in Barcelona.
= 19 January 1951: Jose Tarres defeated Font for the title in Barcelona.
= 20 April 1951: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 22 February 1952: Jim Oliver defeated Bengoechea for the title in Barcelona.
- 23 October 1952: The title became vacant when Oliver got suspended for six months due to his actions in a recent match in Barcelona.
= 7 November 1952: Pedro Bengoechea defeated Campo in Barcelona to win the vacant title.
- 11 January 1954: Bengoechea was stripped of the title due to not having wrestled in Catalonia for a number of months.
= 29 January 1954: Jose Tarres defeated Manolo Moza in a tournament final in Barcelona to win the vacant title.
= 21 May 1954: Manolo Moza defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 1 October 1954: Jose Tarres defeated Moza for the title in Barcelona.
= 3 December 1954: Felix Uzcudun defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 4 November 1955: Jose Tarres defeated Uzcudun for the title in Barcelona.
= 11 December 1959: Gustavo Blanchs defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona. He was still the recognized champion as of 11 February 1964, despite not having defended the title in almost 4 years.
= 9 December 1967: Guti was the champion.
= 13 January 1968: Pons was the champion. He most likely defeated Guti for the title on 9 December 1967 in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 19 October 1968.

Middleweight Championships

World Middleweight Championship:
= June 1956: Roger Laroche was the recognized champion. Laroche was also the champion in France at the same time.
= 5 December 1956: Gabriel Laguna defeated Laroche for the title in Madrid.
- 11 November 1958: Laguna had to vacate the title due to a very serious recent injury.
= 19 November 1958: Pedro Catarecha defeated Achim Chall in Madrid to win the vacant title.
= 16 July 1964: Gilbert Cesca defeated Catarecha for the title in Madrid.
= 5 March 1965: Alan Miquet was the champion.
= 31 July 1965: Pedro Catarecha defeated Miquet for the title in Zaragoza.
= 18 June 1966: Jean Corne defeated Catarecha for the title in Madrid.
= 9 September 1967: Modesto Aledo defeated Corne for the title in Murcia. Aledo was also the European Middleweight champion at the same time. He was still the champion as of 22 July 1970.
= 21 August 1970: Walter Bordes was the champion. The claim in Spain was that Bordes had defeated Aledo for the title. He was still the champion as of 2 March 1972.

European Middleweight Championship:
= 16 August 1948: Jack Dale was the recognized champion. Dale was the European Middleweight champion in the UK at the same time. He had also carried over the claim to France the year prior where he lost to the European Middleweight champion (French version) Albert Arnaud in a title unification match.
= 20 August 1948: Jose Tarres defeated Dale for the title in Barcelona. Tarres was also the European Middleweight and Catalan Middleweight champion at the same time.
= 5 September 1950: Mike Brendel was declared the new champion. The story was that Tarres was stripped of the title due a non-appearance and Brendel was then awarded the title.
= 30 December 1950: Felix Lamban defeated Brendel for the title in Zaragoza. Lamban was still the champion as of 20 April 1953, despite already being the Spanish Heavyweight champion. He was no longer champion by 22 May 1953.
= 19 September 1953: Gilbert Leduc was the champion. Leduc was also the champion in France at the same time.
= 27 November 1953: Celso Sotelo defeated Leduc for the title in Barcelona. Sotelo was also the Spanish Middleweight champion at the same time.
= 23 July 1956: Claude Montourcy was the champion. Montourcy was also the champion in France at the same time. He was still the champion as of 1 February 1957.
= 2 August 1957: Jose Marques was the champion. Marques was also the Spanish Middleweight champion at the same time.
= 19 December 1958: Juan Bengoechea defeated Marques for the title in Barcelona.
= 7 September 1962: Braulio Veliz defeated Bengoechea for the title in Murcia.
= 16 November 1962: Manuel Polman defeated Braulio for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 24 August 1963.
= 8 November 1963: Gabriel Laguna was the champion. He had defeated Polman for the title in Bilbao.
= 7 June 1964: Gilbert Cesca defeated Laguna for the title in Barcelona.
= 8 August 1964: Nino Pizarro defeated Cesca for the title in Zaragoza.
= 2 October 1964: Jose Brunet defeated Pizarro for the title in Barcelona. Brunet was also the Spanish Middleweight champion at the same time.
- Things get confusing from here on out. It’s possible there may have been two lineages at the same time, or the newspapers mixed up the weight classes. I have mentions of Brunet as the champion as of 18 Dec 1964 / 18 Jul 1965 / 21 Jan 1966 / 27 Jan 1967 / 3 Aug 1967 / 17 Aug 1967 / 17 Jul 1968 / 19 Oct 1968 / 17 Apr 1969 / 26 Jul 1969 / 8 Oct 1969.
= 10 August 1965: Bruno Asquini was the champion. He had recently defeated Pizarro for the title in Valencia. He was still the champion as of 1 September 1965.
= 3 September 1966: Steve Clements was the champion.
= 17 September 1966: Modesto Aledo was the champion. He most likely defeated Clements for the title on 3 September 1966 in Murcia. Aledo was still the recognized champion in Murcia as of 9 September 1967 (while Brunet was the recognized champion in Barcelona).
= 18 October 1969: Fran Valero was the champion. He most likely defeated Brunet for the title on 8 October 1969 in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 26 August 1971.
= 12 September 1971: Bernard Caclard was the champion.
= 12 September 1971: Nino Pizarro defeated Caclard for the title in Murcia. He was no longer champion by 2 September 1972.
= 27 December 1972: Jose Peyron defeated Valero for the title in Lleida..
= 3 March 1973: Luc Bejar defeated Peyron for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 29 December 1973.
= 3 October 1975: Fred Turner was the champion. Turner was still the champion as of 12 August 1976.
= 18 September 1976: Jose Antonio Feo vs. Fran Valero was to take place in Zaragoza to determine a new champion. It seems the title was vacant.

Spanish Middleweight Championship:
= 30 July 1945: Jose Legido was the champion.
= 19 February 1946: Victorio Ochoa was the champion. He most likely defeated Legido for the title on 18 January 1946 in Madrid.
= 14 August 1948: Jose Tarres defeated Ochoa for the title in Valencia. Tarres was also the Catalan Middleweight champion at the same time. He was still the champion as of 10 June 1949.
= 24 September 1949: Felix Mouchet was the champion. As of 9 August 1949 he hadn’t won the title yet.
= 11 December 1952: Jesus Chausson defeated Mouchet for the title in Bilbao.
= 25 July 1953: Rafael Echevarria defeated Chausson for the title in Zaragoza.
= 30 October 1953: Celso Sotelo defeated Echevarria for the title in Barcelona.
= 26 March 1954: Rafael Echevarria defeated Sotelo for the title in Barcelona.
= 1 October 1954: Guti defeated Echevarria for the title in Barcelona.
= 13 May 1955: Celso Sotelo defeated Guti for the title in Barcelona.
= 10 August 1955: Tony Oliver defeated Sotelo for the title in Palma de Mallorca.
= 19 October 1956: Gustavo Blanchs defeated Oliver for the title in Barcelona.
= 18 January 1957: Rafael Echevarria defeated Gustavo for the title in Barcelona.
= 23 July 1957: Jose Marques was the champion.
= 26 September 1957: Juan Bengoechea defeated Marques for the title in Barcelona.
= 9 August 1959: Gustavo Blanchs defeated Bengoechea for the title in Barcelona.
= 2 December 1959: Henry Plata defeated Gustavo for the title in Madrid. He was still the champion as of 6 August 1960.
= 1 February 1961: Juan Bengoechea was the champion.
= 13 July 1961: Antonio Montoro was the champion.
= 31 January 1963: Juan Bengoechea was the champion.
= 8 January 1964: Manuel Polman defeated Bengoechea for the title in Madrid.
= 21 February 1964: Jose Brunet defeated Polman for the title in Barcelona.
= 18 September 1964: Gabriel Laguna was the champion. He was still the champion as of 10 November 1967.
= 22 March 1968: Nino Pizarro was the champion. He was still the champion as of 25 June 1968.
- Around this time there's a lot of conflicting information about the Spanish Middleweight and Welterweight Titles. I've listed the lineages that make the most sense to me based on everything I found.
= 12 February 1969: Jose Catarecha was the champion. He was still the champion as of 6 February 1970.
= 29 June 1970: Willy Roy was the champion. Roy was still the champion as of 14 August 1971.
= 2 September 1972: Nino Pizarro defeated Roy for the title in Murcia.
= 30 July 1973: Luc Bejar was the champion.
= 4 June 1976: Jose Antonio Feo was the champion. He was still the champion as of 16 September 1976.

Catalan Middleweight Championship:
= 20 February 1944: Marco defeated Salvador Font in Barcelona to become the champion.
= 21 July 1944: Saturio defeated Salvador Font in Barcelona to become the champion. For some reason Marco wasn't the recognized champion anymore and they crowned a new one here.
= 27 July 1945: Tabola (Francisco Sole) defeated Saturio for the title in Barcelona.
= 11 April 1947: Saturio defeated Tabola for the title in Barcelona.
= 26 September 1947: Jose Tarres defeated Saturio for the title in Barcelona.
= 8 April 1949: Juan Salesa defeated Tarres for the title in Barcelona.
= 1 December 1950: Jim Oliver defeated Salesa for the title in Barcelona.
= 6 April 1951: Juan Salesa defeated Oliver for the Title in Barcelona.
- 11 January 1954: Salesa was stripped of the title due to not having wrestled in Catalonia for a number of months.
= 22 January 1954: Celso Sotelo defeated Eusebio Lacoma in a tournament final in Barcelona to win the vacant title. Sotelo was also the European Middleweight and Spanish Middleweight champion at the same time.
= 20 September 1956: Victor Castilla defeated Sotelo for the title in Barcelona.
= 11 January 1957: Arnau defeated Castilla for the title in Barcelona.
= 1 June 1958: Mike was the champion.
= 25 December 1958: Eusebio Lacoma defeated Mike for the title in Barcelona.
= 26 December 1959: Simon defeated Lacoma for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 16 October 1960.
= 1 February 1963: Manuel Polman was the champion. He was still the champion as of 1 February 1964.
= 20 September 1969: Fran Valero was the champion.

Welterweight Championships

World Welterweight Championship:
= 15 April 1950: Gilbert Leduc was the recognized champion. Leduc was also the champion in France at the same time. He was also the European Welterweight champion at the same time (in both France and Spain).
- Leduc lost the World Title to Cliff Taylor on 22 December 1952 in Paris. When he returned to Spain in March 1953 he was no longer officially the champion, but in some cities (e.g. Palma de Mallorca) he kept being advertised as the champion.
= 1 February 1957: Cliff Taylor (Cliff Belshaw) was the champion. He was also the champion in France at the same time.
= 22 June 1957: Rene Ben Chemoul was the champion. He was also the champion in France at the same time. Chemoul was still the recognized champion as of 1 February 1964.
= 15 June 1966: Modesto Aledo was the champion.
- Things get weird here. Some reports call him World Welterweight champion while others call him World Middleweight champion and this confusion went on for the whole summer. I think it was Welterweight, because the Middleweight Title was with someone else.
= 30 March 1983: Santi Rico was the champion.

European Welterweight Championship:
= 29 July 1949: Gilbert Leduc was the recognized champion. He was also the champion in France at the same time. He was still the champion in Spain as of 13 July 1952.
= 31 July 1954: Rene Asselin was the recognized champion.
= 6 March 1955: Guy Robin was the recognized champion.
= 6 March 1955: Manuel Rillos defeated Robin for the title in Barcelona.
= 24 March 1957: Antonio Aranda defeated Rillos for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 17 October 1957.
= 5 July 1958: Fran Valero was the champion.
= 20 March 1959: Jose Brunet defeated Valero for the title in Barcelona.
= 22 February 1961: Nino Pizarro defeated Brunet for the title in Madrid. He was also the Spanish Lightweight champion at the same time.
= 31 October 1963: Joe Rodri defeated Pizarro for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 24 April 1964.
= 3 September 1965: Salvador Vento was the champion. He was still the champion as of 8 November 1966.
= 27 January 1967: Nino Pizarro was the champion. He was still the champion as of 17 August 1967.
= 12 January 1968: Salvador Vento was the champion. He was still the champion as of 28 March 1969.
= 6 July 1970: Nino Pizarro was the champion. He was still the champion as of 2 October 1970.
= 27 January 1976: Bru Mont was the champion. He was still the champion as of 7 September 1981.

Spanish Welterweight Championship:
= 30 July 1945: Francisco Grifol was the champion. He was still the champion as of 15 January 1947.
= 15 March 1947: Julio Soria was the champion. He was still the champion as of 15 December 1951.
= 3 February 1952: Muro was the champion. He had defeated Soria for the title in Zaragoza.
= 16 February 1952: Julio Soria defeated Muro for the title in Murcia.
= 24 May 1952: Kid Fer defeated Soria for the title in Murcia. He was still the champion as of 24 January 1953, but by 4 June 1953 he was no longer champion.
= 31 October 1953: Esteban Cabadas was the champion.
= 8 November 1953: Kid Fer defeated Cabadas for the title in Cartagena. He was still the champion as of 1 May 1955, but by 13 May 1955 he was no longer champion.
= 2 September 1955: Antonio Montoro was the champion. He was still the champion as of 14 December 1955.
= 27 April 1956: Manuel Rillos was the champion. Rillos was also the European Welterweight champion at the same time.
= 6 August 1956: Lucon was the champion.
= 25 December 1961: Jose Brunet defeated Lucon for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 8 March 1963.
= 1 February 1964: Salvador Vento was the champion.
= 8 September 1964: Nino Pizarro defeated Vento for the title in Murcia. He was still the champion as of 17 September 1966.
= 26 January 1968: Chato Pastor was the champion.
= 26 July 1968: Jose Catarecha was the champion. He had recently won the title.
- On 11 October 1968 Salvador Vento defended what the local press in Barcelona reported as the Spanish Welterweight Title. However, I think that was a mistake and it was in fact the European Welterweight Title.
= 20 October 1968: Jose Gavalda defeated Catarecha for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 27 March 1969.
= 7 October 1971: Jose Antonio Feo was the champion. He was still the champion as of 17 September 1976.

Catalan Welterweight Championship:
= 24 November 1944: Francisco Grifol defeated Jaime Heras in Barcelona to become the champion.
= 25 April 1945: Oscar was the champion.
= 1 June 1945: Jaime Heras defeated Oscar for the title in Barcelona.
= 4 October 1946: Juan Salesa defeated Heras for the title in Barcelona.
= 2 April 1948: Simarro defeated Heras for the title in Barcelona.
= 26 March 1949: Benavent defeated Simarro for the title in Barcelona.
= 25 June 1949: Simarro defeated Benavent for the title in Barcelona.
= 12 November 1949: Eusebio Lacoma defeated Simarro for the title in Barcelona.
= 25 April 1953: Vicente Febrer defeated Lacoma for the title in Barcelona.
= 26 December 1953: Villagrasa defeated Febrer for the title in Barcelona.
= 23 November 1954: Eusebio Lacoma defeated Villagrasa for the title in Barcelona.
= 16 January 1955: Manuel Rillos defeated Lacoma for the title in Barcelona. He was still the recognized champion as of 1 February 1964, despite not having defended the title in seven years.
= 13 January 1968: Fran Valero was the champion. He was still the champion as of 27 March 1969.

Lightweight Championships

World Lightweight Championship:
= 14 June 1955: Modesto Aledo was the champion. He was still the champion as of 1 February 1964.
- Over the years there were three different claims in the Spanish press as to how Aledo became the champion: by defeating Julien Moriss in France, by defeating Billy Catanzaro in Munich, and by defeating Catanzaro in Milan. By 1956 Aledo was also the World champion in France as well.
= 14 August 1964: Owen Sullivan (Leon Fortuna) was the champion.
= 14 August 1964: Modesto Aledo defeated Sullivan for the title in Valencia.
= 10 September 1964: Nino Pizarro defeated Aledo for the title in Barcelona.
= 17 August 1965: Modesto Aledo was the champion.

European Lightweight Championship:
= 28 July 1954: Julien Moriss (Julien Morice) was the recognized champion. He was most likely also the champion in France at the same time.
= 5 August 1954: Modesto Aledo was the champion. The week prior he had defeated Moriss for the title in Valencia. Aledo was still the champion as of 23 September 1954.
= 11 August 1955: Julien Moriss was the champion. He was still the champion as of 4 July 1956.
= late August 1956: Modesto Aledo was the champion. Aledo was also World Lightweight champion at the same time. He was still the recognized champion as of 1 February 1964.

Spanish Lightweight Championship:
= 25 October 1944: Mariano Ochoa Garcia was the champion. He may have won the title in Madrid in March 1944. Another claim was that he had won it in June 1943 in Barcelona by defeating Cataluña.
= 24 September 1948: Julio Soria was awarded the title. Ochoa Garcia didn't show up for their scheduled match, therefore he was stripped of the title and the title was awarded to Soria. Soria was also the Spanish Welterweight champion at the same time.
= 10 September 1949: Jaime Heras defeated Soria for the title in Valencia.
= 20 September 1952: Modesto Aledo defeated Heras for the title in Valencia.
= 26 December 1952: Jaime Heras defeated Aledo for the title in Barcelona.
= 7 November 1954: Antonio Aranda defeated Heras for the title in Barcelona. Aranda was also the Catalan Lightweight champion at the same time.
= 14 October 1956: Fran Valero defeated Aranda for the title in Barcelona.
= 28 December 1958: Jose Brunet defeated Valero for the title in Barcelona.
= 15 May 1959: Benny defeated Brunet for the title in Barcelona. He was also the Catalan Lightweight champion at the same time.
= 22 September 1959: Nino Pizarro was the champion. He was still the champion as of 13 July 1961
= 20 June 1962: Benny was the champion. He was still the champion as of 1 February 1964.
= 11 September 1965: Chato Pastor was the champion. He was still the champion as of 1 July 1967.
- There’s a lot of conflicting information in the press as to which title Pastor held - it would get reported as lightweight, welterweight and even middleweight. I’m reasonably certain it was the lightweight title at this point.
- Pastor possibly lost the title to Jose Catarecha on 1 July 1967 in Madrid. It was also reported that Catarecha had briefly held the title in 1965.
= 21 July 1971: Jose Gavalda was the champion.
= 22 July 1971: Pedro Cabrera defeated Gavalda in Zaragoza for the title.
= 3 July 1981: Peyron Jr. was the champion.

Catalan Lightweight Championship:
= 27 June 1945: Cataluña was the champion.
= 9 November 1946: Jaime Heras defeated Cataluña for the title in Barcelona. He was still the champion as of 14 May 1949.
= 28 May 1950: Francisco Jareño was the champion. He was still the champion as of 26 November 1950.
= 24 December 1950: Jaime Heras was the champion. It's possible the newspaper listing him as the champion may have made a mistake and Heras actually won the title on that date. He was still the champion as of 30 December 1951.
= 9 March 1952: Francisco Jareño was the champion.
= 25 January 1953: Jose Brunet defeated Jareño for the title in Barcelona.
= 16 May 1954: Antonio Aranda defeated Brunet for the title in Barcelona.
= 19 March 1955: Jaime Heras defeated Aranda for the title in Barcelona.
= 24 February 1956: Fran Valero defeated Heras for the title in Barcelona.
= 21 December 1957: Mateu defeated Valero for the title in Barcelona.
= 27 December 1958: Benny defeated Mateu for the title in Barcelona. He was still the recognized champion as of 1 February 1964, despite not having defended the title in two and a half years.

Other Very Short-lived Championships

Spanish Super Heavyweight Championship:
= 11 September 1965: Juan Botana defeated Jose Garcia Arroyo in Murcia to become the first champion.

European Junior Middleweight Championship:
= 6 June 1969: Clayton Thompson was the champion.

European Women’s Middleweight Championship:
= 16 July 1975: Lina Magnani was the champion.

Tag Team Championships

European Light Heavyweight Tag Team Championship:
= 22 August 1974: Mel Stuart & Johnny Yearsley were the champions.

Spanish Light Heavyweight Tag Team Championship:
= 22 August 1974: Jose Marques & Antonio Montoro were the champions. They were still the champions as of 3 September 1977.

Spanish Middleweight Tag Team Championship:
= 3 July 1968: The Pizarro Brothers (Julian Pizarro & Nino Pizarro) were the champions. They were still the champions as of 9 June 1973.

Spanish Welterweight Tag Team Championship:
= 19 August 1970: Modesto Aledo & Pedro Cabrera were the champions. They were still the champions as of 15 July 1971.