List of CMLL World Middleweight Champions
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The CMLL World Middleweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Peso Medio de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling world championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling-based promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). 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 official definition of the middleweight weight class in Mexico is between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[Note 1][1] Because Lucha Libre emphasizes the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of a promotion.[2] All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.
Blue Panther was officially recognized as the first champion in 1991, after winning a 16-man tournament. The championship's history was interrupted in 1992 with its only vacancy, when Blue Panther left CMLL to work for rival promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). El Dandy defeated Negro Casas in a singles match to decide the new champion. Dragón Rojo, Jr. is the current CMLL World Middleweight Champion, having defeated Jushin Thunder Liger for the championship on November 18, 2011.[3] He is the 17th overall champion and the 13th person to hold the championship. El Dandy has had the most reigns as champion, with three; he also has the shortest reign, at 63 days. El Satánico's single championship reign is the longest reign, at 1,563 days.
Title history
- Key
Symbol | Meaning |
---|---|
No. | The overall championship reign |
Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed. |
Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
N/A | The specific information has not been found |
— | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
+ | Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes every day. |
No. | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes |
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1 | Blue Panther | 1 | December 18, 1991 | 184 | Acapulco, Mexico | Live event | Defeated El Satánico in a tournament final |
— | Vacated | 1 | June 19, 1992 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Championship vacated when Blue Panther left CMLL for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración |
2 | Dandy, ElEl Dandy | 1 | July 3, 1992 | 63 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | Defeated Negro Casas |
3 | Bestia Salvaje | 1 | September 4, 1992 | 103 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | |
4 | Dandy, ElEl Dandy | 2 | December 16, 1992 | 147 | Naucalpan, Mexico | Live event | |
5 | Emilio Charles, Jr. | 1 | May 12, 1993 | 146 | Acapulco, Mexico | Live event | |
6 | Dandy, ElEl Dandy | 3 | October 5, 1993 | 140 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | |
7 | Llanes, JavierJavier Llanes | 1 | February 22, 1994 | 201 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | |
8 | Dantés, ApoloApolo Dantés | 1 | September 11, 1994 | 77 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | |
9 | Satánico, ElEl Satánico | 1 | November 27, 1994 | 1,561 | Guadalajara, Mexico | Live event | |
10 | Mendoza, RingoRingo Mendoza | 1 | March 7, 1999 | 742 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | |
11 | Emilio Charles, Jr. | 2 | March 18, 2001 | 1,135 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | [4] |
12 | Casas, NegroNegro Casas | 1 | April 26, 2004 | 874 | Puebla, Mexico | Live event | [5] |
13 | Averno | 1 | September 17, 2006 | 1,038 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | [6] |
14 | El Hijo del Fantasma | 1 | July 21, 2009 | 208 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | [7] |
15 | Negro Casas | 2 | February 14, 2010 | 78 | Mexico City, Mexico | Live event | [8] |
16 | Liger, Jushin ThunderJushin Thunder Liger | 1 | May 3, 2010 | 564 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | Wrestling Dontaku 2010 | [9] |
17 | Rojo, Jr., DragónDragón Rojo, Jr. | 1 | November 18, 2011 | 1,260+ | Mexico City, Mexico | Live event | [3] |
Reigns by combined length
- Key
Symbol | Meaning |
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† | Indicates the current champion |
+ | Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes every day. |
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Satánico, ElEl Satánico | 1 | 1,561 |
2 | Charles, Jr., EmilioEmilio Charles, Jr. | 2 | 1,281 |
3 | Rojo, Jr., DragónDragón Rojo, Jr. † | 1 | + 1,260 |
4 | Averno | 1 | 1,038 |
5 | Casas, NegroNegro Casas | 1 | 879 |
6 | Mendoza, RingoRingo Mendoza | 1 | 742 |
7 | Liger, Jushin ThunderJushin Thunder Liger | 1 | 564 |
8 | Dandy, ElEl Dandy | 3 | 350 |
9 | El Hijo del Fantasma | 1 | 208 |
10 | Llanes, JavierJavier Llanes | 1 | 201 |
11 | Blue Panther | 1 | 184 |
12 | Bestia Salvaje | 1 | 103 |
13 | Dantés, ApoloApolo Dantés | 1 | 77 |
Footnotes
- ↑ The most recent case of this is Mephisto holding the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit, despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
References
- General source for title changes before 2000
- Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: EMLL CMLL Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Middleweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 395. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- Specific
- ↑ Montiel Rojas, Arturo (August 30, 2001). "Reglamento de Box y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico" (PDF) (in Spanish). Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
Articulo 242: "Super welter 82 kilos / Medio 87 kilos"
- ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 González, Fernando (2011-11-19). "Dragón Rojo Jr., nuevo Campeón peso Medio del CMLL". Récord (in Spanish). Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ↑ "2001: Los Campeones". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 13, 2002. pp. 15–17. 2540.
- ↑ "Número Especial – Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2004". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. 91.
- ↑ Manuel Rivera (January 23, 2006). "Averno el Campeon!". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). pp. 10–11. 180.
- ↑ "Ahora es doble monarca" (in Spanish). Esto, OEM Online. July 22, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ↑ Ruiz Glez, Alex (February 15, 2010). "Negro Casas nuevo campeón Mundial Medio del CMLL". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2010.
- ↑ Flores, Manuel (May 3, 2010). "Jushin Liger, nuevo campeón mundial medio del CMLL – Nakamura pierde el título IWGP". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved May 3, 2010.
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