CMLL World Women's Championship

CMLL World Women's Championship

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Ayumi, 14th and shortest reigning CMLL World Women's Champion.
Details
Current champion(s) Marcela
Date won April 10, 2015[1]
Date established June 12, 1992
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)

The CMLL World Women's Championship (Campeonato Mundial Femenil de CMLL in Spanish) is the female professional wrestling championship that is most highly promoted by the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The championship has existed since 1992 and is one of two women's championships currently recognized by CMLL; the other is the Mexican National Women's Championship. 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. All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.

Bull Nakano became the first CMLL World Women's Champion after winning a 12-woman battle royal to receive the title on June 12, 1992. Marcela is the current CMLL World Women's Champion, having defeated Syuri on April 10, 2015. This is her fourth reign with the title; she is the 17th overall champion.[1] La Amapola holds the record for the longest reign with 1,442 days. Marcela has had the most reigns, with four. Marcela has had the shortest title reign, at 29 days.

Title history

Key
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 daily
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes
1 Bull Nakano 1 June 12, 1992 282 Mexico City, D. F. Super Viernes Nakano defeated Lola González to become the first champion in the final of a 12-woman torneo cibernetico elimination match
2 Hamada, XóchitlXóchitl Hamada 1 March 21, 1993 203 Mexico City, D. F. Live event  
3 Diabólica, LaLa Diabólica 1 October 10, 1993 293 Mexico City, D. F. Live event  
4 Reina Jubuki 1 July 30, 1994 828 Puebla, Puebla Live event  
— Vacated — November 4, 1996 — N/A N/A CMLL stripped Reina Jubuki of the title for wrestling on WCW Monday Nitro.
5 Lady Apache 1 November 8, 1996 90 Mexico City, D. F. Super Viernes Lady Apache defeated Chaparita Asari in the finals of a four-woman tournament final to win the championship.
6 Mariko Yoshida 1 February 6, 1997 [Note 1] Tokyo, Japan Live event  
— Vacated — February 1999 — N/A N/A The championship was vacated due to inactivity in CMLL's women's division.
7 Lady Apache 2 May 15, 1999 461 Naucalpan, México Live event  
— Vacated — August 18, 2000 — N/A N/A The championship was vacated when Lady Apache left the promotion.[2]
8 Diabólica, LaLa Diabólica 2 2001 [Note 2] — N/A N/A La Diabólica was awarded the title by CMLL as she was the number one contender at that time.[3]
— Vacated — April 2003 — N/A N/A The championship was vacated when La Diabólica left the promotion.[4]
9 Marcela 1 September 16, 2005 266 Mexico City, D. F. CMLL 72nd Anniversary Show Marcela defeated Dark Angel to win the vacant title in the final of a 12-woman tournament.[5]
10 Hiroka 1 June 9, 2006 199 Mexico City, D. F. Super Viernes [6]
11 Lady Apache 3 December 25, 2006 326 Mexico City, D. F. Live event [6]
12 Amapola, LaLa Amapola 1 November 16, 2007 1,442 Mexico City, D. F. Super Viernes [7]
13 Marcela 2 October 28, 2011 29 Mexico City, D. F. Super Viernes [8]
14 Ayumi 1 November 26, 2011 104 Tokyo, Japan Live event [9]
15 Marcela 3 March 9, 2012 1,008 Mexico City, D. F. Super Viernes [10]
16 Syuri 1 December 12, 2014 119 Tokyo, Japan Reina Joshi Puroresu Shin-Kiba Tournament [11]
17 Marcela 4 April 10, 2015 20+ Mexico City, D. F. Super Viernes [1]

Combined reigns

Key
Symbol Meaning
† Indicates the current champion
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain; the shortest possible length is used.
Rank Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Amapola, LaLa Amapola 1 1,442
2 Marcela† 4 1,323+
3 Lady Apache 3 877
4 Reina Jubuki 1 828
5 Diabólica, LaLa Diabólica 2 749¤
6 Yoshida, MarikoMariko Yoshida 1 725¤
7 Bull Nakano 1 282
8 Hamada, XóchitlXóchitl Hamada 1 203
9 Hiroka 1 199
10 Syuri 1 119
11 Ayumi 1 104

Championship tournaments

1992 Championship tournament

CMLL held a 15 man torneo cibernetico elimination match on June 5, 1992 to determine the two women who would fight for the newly created CMLL World Women's champion the following week. La Diabólica was originally scheduled to work the match, but did not appear which led to the uneven sides in the elimination match. Several of the participants had recently joined CMLL, leaving the Universal Wrestling Association to join CMLL and it's recently restarted women's division. Zuleyma was the reigning UWA World Women's Championship going into the match and CMLL allowed her to keep and defend the UWA championship in the years following Zuleyma's jump to CMLL. The finals came down to Lola Gonzales, a pioneer for women's wrestling in Mexico, and Bull Nakano, a Japanese wrestler that worked regularly for CMLL. The following week, on June 12, 1993 Bull Nakano became the first CMLL World Women's Champion by virtue of her victory over Lola Gonzales.

# Eliminated Eliminated by
1 Guerrera Purpura Unknown
2 Selene Unknown
3 Atenas Unknown
4 Neftali Unknown
5 Wendy Unknown
6 Pantera Sureña Unknown
7 Zuleyma Unknown
8 Maria del Angel Unknown
9 La Sirenita Unknown
10 Kaoru Unknown
11 Lady Apache Unknown
12 Xochtil Hamada Unknown
13 Martha Villalobos Lola Gonzales
14 Lola Gonzales Winner
14 Bull Nakano Winner

1996 Championship tournament

On November 6, 1996 CMLL took the CMLL World Women's Championship away from then reigning champion Reina Jubuki because she had wrestled on a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) show in North America only a few days prior. At the time WCW had a working relationship with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), CMLL's main rival in Mexico and thus appearing for WCW was enough for CMLL to sever ties with Jubuki. CMLL held a tournament to crown a new champion only 2 days after announcing the title being vacated, choosing four of their top female competitors for a quick four-woman tournament.

semifinals Final
      
1 Xochitl Hamada  
4 Lady Apache W
Lady Apache W
Chaparita Asari  
3 La Diabólica  
2 Chaparita Asari W

2005 Championship tournament

The reigning champion, La Diabólica left CMLL to join rival Asistencia Asesoría y Administración on April 5, 2003 which forced CMLL to vacate the championship. This happened during a time of very low activity in CMLL's female division, which meant the title was inactive for over two years before CMLL held a tournament for the title starting on September 9, 2005. CMLL held a nine-woman torneo cibernetico elimination match to determine the two finalists that would face off the next week in a best two-out-of-three falls match. Dark Angel and Marcela survived the match and met on September 16, 2005 with Marcela winning the match and her first CMLL World Women's Championship.[5]

# Eliminated Eliminated by
X Hiroka Unknown
X India Sioux Unknown
X La Medusa Unknown
X La Nazi Unknown
X Linda Star Unknown
X Princesa Sujei Unknown
X Sahori Unknown
8 Dark Angel Winner
8 Marcela Winner

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The exact date on which the title was vacated is unknown, which means that the title reign lasted between 725 and 752 days.
  2. ↑ The exact date on which La Diabólica won the title, and the exact date on which the title was vacated is unknown, which means that the title reign lasted between 456 and 486 days.

References

General source for title history up until 2000
  • Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: EMLL CMLL Women's Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 397. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
Specific sources
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Barradas, Bibiana (April 12, 2015). "Resultados Arena México® Viernes 10 de Abril '15". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on April 12, 2015. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–30. Issue 2488.
  3. ↑ "2001: Los Campeones". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish) (2540). January 13, 2002. pp. 2–30.
  4. ↑ "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2003". Super Luchas (in Spanish). January 5, 2003. p. 23. Issue 40.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "2005 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 3, 2006. p. 25. Issue 140.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 23, 2006. pp. 22–23. Issue 192. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  7. ↑ "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. p. 25. Issue 244. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  8. ↑ Santamaría, Jorge (October 28, 2011). "Repiten la dosis". Récord (in Spanish). Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  9. ↑ 栗原あゆみＣＭＬＬ世界女子王座を初戴冠、１．８ブル中野引退興行へ出陣. Sports Navi (in Japanese). Yahoo!. November 26, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
  10. ↑ Salazar López, Alexis A. (March 9, 2012). "Marcela de nueva cuenta Monarca Mundial Femenil del CMLL.". Estrellas del Ring (in Spanish). Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  11. ↑ Dark Angelita (December 12, 2014). "CMLL / Reina: Resultados "Reina in Shin-Kiba 1sr Ring" – 12/12/2014 – Syuri vence a Marcela". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved December 12, 2014.