NWA World Midget's Championship

{{Infobox pro wrestling championship

| name = NWA World Midget's Championship

| image =

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| created =1949

| retired=December, 2009

| mostreigns =Lord Littlebrook/Little Tokyo (3 reigns)

| firstchamp =Sky Low Low

| longestreign = Championship history is too uncertain to determine.

| shortestreign =Farmer Pete (7 days)

| youngest= Cowboy Bradley ({{age in years and days|1935|2|11|1960|6|1}})Records in the birth dates of wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was a younger champion.

| oldest= Lord Littlebrook ({{age in years and days|1929|1|3|1972|1|1}})Records in the birth dates of wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was an older champion.

| lightest= Lord Littlebrook ({{convert|50|lb|abbr=on}})Records for the weight of some wrestlers from early era are not complete, it is possible there was a lighter champion.

| heaviest= Octagoncito ({{convert|101|lb|abbr=on}})Records for the weight of some wrestlers from this era are not complete, it is possible there was a heavier champion.

|pastnames=*NWA World Mini's Championship

PWR World Mini's Championship

}}

The NWA World Midget's Championship was the National Wrestling Alliance's midget wrestling singles championship. Large parts of the championship history is undocumented due to lack of documentation of Midget wrestling for large periods of time from the 1950s to the 1980s. In that period of time, there were two touring groups of midget wrestlers in the United States, both had a "World Champion", leading to some uncertainty as to who was the NWA World Midget's Champion, often based on if the champion was booked as defending the championship in an NWA territory.{{cite web | title=NWA World Midgets' Title |publisher=Wrestling Titles | url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-mg.html | accessdate=April 5, 2015}}{{cite book | author=Royal Duncan & Gary Will | title=Wrestling Title Histories | chapter=World Midget's Championship | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=2006|edition=4th | isbn=0-9698161-5-4 }} The first wrestler to lay claim to the Midget's World Championship was Sky Low Low after he won a 30-man tournament in Paris, France.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} The tournament was either fictitious or not an NWA sanctioned event as it took place in Europe. But at some point after 1949 the NWA recognized Sky Low Low as their champion.{{cite web|url=http://www.pwhf.org/halloffamers/bios/skylowlow.asp|title=Sky Low Low|publisher=Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum|accessdate=2009-03-04|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303135829/http://pwhf.org/halloffamers/bios/skylowlow.asp|archivedate=2009-03-03}}

It is impossible to determine who held the championship the longest, but it is plausible that Farmer Pete's 7 day title reign in 1957 was the shortest of all the reigns. Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo are both credited with three championship reigns, but due to incomplete records it is possible that either had more reigns or someone else had more than three reigns in total. Because the championship was a professional wrestling championship, it was not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The championship was awarded after the chosen participant "won" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.{{cite web| url= http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm | title= How Pro Wrestling Works | author= Ed Grabianowski | publisher= How Stuff Works | accessdate= 2009-04-05}}

Title history

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!Meaning

|The overall championship reign

Reign

|The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.

Event

|The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands

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|The specific information has not been found

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|Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign

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|Indicates that a title change took place "no later than" a certain date. Often because the date of a title change is not found but a date of a title defense by the champions is found.

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|Title history is uncertain in that time period.

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|Sky Low Low

|align="center"|1

|{{dts|1949}}

|align="center"|{{sort|000|Records are unclear on most of the dates prior to 1998 making it impossible to correctly calculate the length of this reign}}

NWA World Midget's Championship

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