CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship

CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship
Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrella de CMLL

Mascarita Sagrada, the first CMLL World Mini-Estrella champion
Details
Current champion(s) Pequeño Olímpico
Date won 02011-02-13 February 13, 2011
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
Date established 01992-03-01 March 1, 1992

The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrella de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha libre wrestling-based promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The championship is exclusively competed for in the Mini-Estrellas, or Minis, division. A "Mini" is not necessarily a person with dwarfism, as in North American midget professional wrestling; it can also be very short wrestlers who work in the Mini division.[1] The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico; both the Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship and the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) World Mini-Estrella Championship were introduced after CMLL created their Mini-Estrella championship.[2] Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship was created in early 1992 to give CMLL's Mini-Estrellas division a championship as its focal point. The first champion was Mascarita Sagrada, who won a four-man tournament on March 1, 1992 by defeating Espectrito in the final. When the creator of CMLL's Minis division, Antonio Peña, left CMLL to form his own promotion, AAA, Mascarita Sagrada and a large number of other Minis left CMLL to join AAA. After Mascarita Sagrada left the promotion, the title was vacant until September 1992, when Orito won the championship in a match against El Felinito. Since then, the title has not been vacated. In 1999, in a so-called "Phantom title switch", then-champion Damiancito el Guerrero had the championship stripped and given to Último Dragóncito without a match taking place. Damiancito had begun working under the ring name "Virus" in the "regular-sized" division for more than a year and thus no longer qualified as a Mini. Instead of vacating the title or making Virus lose it in a match, CMLL announced that Último Dragóncito had "won" the title on an undisclosed date in October 1999.

In addition to being the first champion, Mascarita Sagrada is the only wrestler to have vacated the title; he is also the wrestler to have held the title the shortest amount of time, at 110 days. The current champion is Pequeño Olímpico, who defeated Bam Bam for the title on February 13, 2011.[3] It is Olímpico's second championship reign; he is the 12th overall champion and the 10th person to hold the championship. Último Dragóncito is the only wrestler to hold the title twice, while Pequeño Olímpico has held the title the longest of any champion, at 1,442 days.[4][5]

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Title history

Key
Symbol Meaning
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won.
N/A The specific information is not known.
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign.
+ Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes everyday.
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes
1 Mascarita Sagrada 1 01992-03-01 March 1, 1992 &10000000000000110000000110 Mexico City, Mexico Live event Defeated Espectrito in the finals of a four-man tournament
— Vacated — 01992-06-19 June 19, 1992 — N/A N/A Mascarita Sagrada left CMLL to join AAA
2 Orito 1 01992-09-06 September 6, 1992 &10000000000000189000000189 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
3 Último Dragóncito 1 01993-03-14 March 14, 1993 &10000000000000181000000181 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
4 Ultratumbita 1 01993-09-11 September 11, 1993 &10000000000000520000000520 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
5 Máscarita Mágica 1 01995-02-13 February 13, 1995 &10000000000000379000000379 Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
6 Damiancito El Guerrero 1 01996-02-27 February 27, 1996 [Note 1] Mexico City, Mexico Live event  
7 Último Dragóncito 2 01999-10 October 1999 [Note 2] N/A N/A Champion Damiancito El Guerrero had not worked in the minis division for over a year; the title was given to Último Dragóncito instead of vacating it.
8 Pierrothito 1 02001-10-16 October 16, 2001 &10000000000000784000000784 Mexico City, Mexico Live event [6]
9 Pequeño Olimpico 1 02003-12-09 December 9, 2003 &100000000000014420000001,442 Mexico City, Mexico Live event [4]
10 Pequeño Damián 666 1 02007-11-20 November 20, 2007 &10000000000000250000000250 Mexico City, Mexico Live event [5]
11 Bam Bam 1 02008-07-27 July 27, 2008 &10000000000000931000000931 Mexico City, Mexico Live event [7]
12 Pequeño Olímpico 2 02011-02-13 February 13, 2011 &10000000000000380000000380+ Mexico City, Mexico Live event [3]

Reigns by combined length

Key
Symbol Meaning
† Indicates the current champion.
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
Rank Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Pequeño Olimpico † 2 1822+
2 Damiancito El Guerrero 1 1,312¤
[Note 1]
3 Último Dragóncito 2 897¤
[Note 2]
4 Bam Bam 1 931
5 Pierrothito 1 784
6 Ultratumbita 1 520
7 Mascarita Magica 1 379
8 Pequeño Damián 666 1 250
9 Orito 1 189
10 Mascarita Sagrada 1 110

1992 CMLL World Mini-Estrella tournament

CMLL held a tournament in early 1992 to determine the first CMLL World Mini-Estrella Champion; the semi-finals were held on February 23, 1992 and the finals on March 1, 1992.

  Semifinals Finals
                 
 Mascarita Sagrada W  
 Aguilata Solitaria    
     Mascarita Sagrada W
   Espectrito  
 Octagóncito  
 Espectrito W  

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b The exact date of Damiancito's title loss is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between &100000000000013120000001,312 and &100000000000013390000001,339 days.
  2. ^ a b The exact date of Último Dragóncito's title win is unknown, which means that his second title reign lasted between &10000000000000716000000716 and &10000000000000746000000746 days.

References

General source on the title until 2000
  • Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: EMLL CMLL Midget (miniestrella) Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 396. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. 
Specific sources
  1. ^ Madigan, Dan (2007). "You ain't seen nothing yet: the minis". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 209–212. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3. 
  2. ^ Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: Mexican National Minis Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 397. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. 
  3. ^ a b Ruiz Glez, Alex (February 14, 2011). "Arena México (resultados 13 de febrero) Pequeño Olímpico nuevo campeón mundial mini del CMLL" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. http://superluchas.net/2011/02/14/arena-mexico-resultados-13-de-febrero-pequeno-olimpico-nuevo-campeon-mundial-mini-del-cmll/. Retrieved February 14, 2011. 
  4. ^ a b SuperLuchas staff (January 5, 2003). "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2003" (in Spanish). Super Luchas: pp. 10–12. issue 40. 
  5. ^ a b SuperLuchas staff (December 26, 2007). "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas: pp. 16–18. issue 244. http://superluchas.net/?p=1491. Retrieved July 11, 2009. 
  6. ^ Box y Lucha staff (January 13, 2002). "2001: Los Campeones" (in Spanish). Box y Lucha Magazine: pp. 12–13. issue 2540. 
  7. ^ SuperLuchas staff (January 6, 2009). "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas: pp. 14–16. issue 296. http://superluchas.net/?p=11145. Retrieved July 11, 2009. 
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