On August 12, 2010, in response to incessant complaints from NWA Mexico president Blue Demon Jr., CMLL announced a change with the NWA group of championships. The current physical title belts were all retired, replaced by new belts with a different design. The old belts are now part of CMLL's mobile museum, though copies of them have turned up elsewhere.
CMLL referred to the new championships as the CMLL Historic Championships and said the former NWA champions would be the first champions of the new belts. Outside not getting the physical belt back, that appeared to satisfy the NWA's complaints about using their trademarks. However, within weeks of that press conference, CMLL had changed course. The championships were called NWA World Historic Championships. It's even been casually referred to by it's old name by the promotion, but is now considered a separate championship with NWA Mexico reviving the original named championships (before closing itself in 2013, thus rendering them all inactive anyway by 2017).
The name further changed to only "World Historic Welterweight Championship" in early 2022; company officials just stopped using the NWA name with no explanation. The championship lineage itself did not change. (We're leaving the name of the page as is for the time being.)
