Mexican National Trios Championship

Mexican National Trios Championship

The masked wrestler Mephisto during a wrestling match.

Mephisto, one-third of the current champions alongside Ephesto and Luciferno.
Details
Current champion(s) Los Hijos del Infierno (Ephesto, Luciferno and Mephisto)[1]
Date won August 9, 2015[1]
Date established March 10, 1985
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

The Mexican National Trios Championship (Campeonato National Trios in Spanish) is a three-man tag team professional wrestling championship, sanctioned by the "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission), which oversees all matches where the championship is defended. Since it's creation in 1985 the championship has been promoted by several major Mexican wrestling promotions, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and is currently promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL, formerly EMLL). The change from promotion to promotion was approved by the commission if the trios champions left one promotion to work for the other. Because the championship is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded after the chosen champion "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport. All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.

In the early 1980s the six-man tag team match became very popular in Mexico, to the point where that match format is the most prevalent format in Lucha Libre today. The Universal Wrestling Association created the UWA World Trios Championship in 1984 and the Boxing and Wrestling Commission created the Mexican National Trios Championship in 1985, making it only the second Trios championship in Mexico. Control of the championship was given to EMLL, the UWA's main rival at the time, with the commission retaining oversight and approval of the championship matches. In 1993 then champions Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones"; MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico) left EMLL to join AAA, taking the trios championship with them after approval by the commission. In the late 1990s the championship was not promoted on a regular basis by AAA and appeared inactive until the champions, Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo, joined CMLL in 2001 and lost the championship to a CMLL team. From that point forward the championship has been controlled by CMLL once more.

The current Mexican National Trios Champions is the team known as Los Hijos del Infierno ("The Sons of the Inferno"; Ephesto, Luciferno and Mephisto), who won the championship on August 9, 2015 when they defeated previous champions Los Reyes de la Atlantida ("The Kings of the Atlantis"; Atlantis, Delta and Guerrero Maya Jr.) This is the team's first reign as a team and they are the 39th overall champions. Los Reyes de la Atlantida hold the record for most reigns as a team, with three reigns in total, while Atlantis, Delta and Volador Jr. holds the individual record with four reigns each.

History

With the emergence of trios (tag teams consisting of three people) such as Los Misioneros de la Muerte, Los Brazos and more the six-man tag team match became increasingly popular in the early 1980s. This led to the creation of the first ever Trios championship in Mexico when the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) created the UWA World Trios Championship in 1984.[2] The Trios Championship was created in 1985,[3][4][5] endorsed by the Comisión and controlled by CMLL, which means that CMLL has control over the everyday use of the championship, determining which storylines the title is being used in, who gets to challenge for the title, how to use it in a public relations sense. The Commission mainly oversees the rule and approves any championship change that CMLL proposes.[4]

The finals of the tournament to crown the first champions saw Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones"; the team of MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico) defeat Los Brazos ("The Arms"; El Brazo, Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) to become the first champions.[3][4] Los Brazos would win the championship 9 months later but only hold them for a short while. In February 1986 Los Brazos became the first team to hold the title twice as they defeated Dos Caras, Villano III and Villano IV for the Championship.[3][4] In 1992 Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) was formed by a group of officials and wrestlers who broke away from CMLL. The then reigning champions Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000 and Universo 2000 left CMLL to join AAA and brought the Mexican National Trios Championship with them as it was not a CMLL owned title. AAA were granted the right to control the title from 1992 on, later on when AAA began working with Promotora Mexicana de Lucha Libre (PROMELL) both promotions used the Trios title. In 1996 AAA and PROMELL stopped working together and the title was vacated. PROMELL was granted the right to promote the title from that point on and held a tournament to crown new champions. Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo won the tournament and would go on to hold the titles for 1,728 days, although for the majority of the time the three did not team up and the Trios championship was inactive.[3][4] In 2001 the trio worked a couple of matches for CMLL, just long enough for them to lose the championship to Mr. Niebla, Olímpico and Safari, bringing the championship back under CMLL's control, where it has remained ever since.[4][6]

Wrestler Nicho el Millonario posing on the ring ropes prior to a match.
Nicho el Millonario, part of the 22nd team of Mexican National Trios Champions along with Halloween and Damián 666

On June 13, 2003 a championship match between champions La Familia de Tijuana (Nicho el Millonario, Damián 666 and Halloween) get disqualified in a match against Los Nuevo Infernales (Sátanico, Averno and Mephisto), the disqualification meant that the titles would change hands, but Los Nuevo Infernales refused to win the championship in such a manner. A rematch was set up for June 20, but Nicho el Millonario did not show up for the match.[7] CMLL held an eight-team tournament to determine the next championship trio, ending with El Felino, Safari and Volador, Jr. become the 23rd Trios champions.[7] In 2010 Máscara Dorada teamed up with Stuka Jr. and Metro to win the Trios championship, making Dorada a quadruple champion as he also held the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship, CMLL World Trios Championship and the CMLL World Welterweight Championship.[8] In November, 2010 Dorada suffered a knee injury and relinquished his portion of the Mexican National Trios Championship. Delta was selected as his replacement via a fan vote, but the team lost the Trios title in the first defense against the team of Ángel de Oro, Diamante (who were the other two options for Dorada's replacement) and Rush.[9]

Rules

The title is a "National" title which means that non-Mexican citizens are prohibited from challenging or holding the championship. The fact that the championship is an "Trios" championship means that it's restricted to Tag teams with three members. The championship is generally not allowed to be defended in any other type of match than a regular match, as is the case for all the Mexican National titles. The commission has been inconsistent on enforcing the rules, in one case they stripped Psicosis (the AAA version) of the Mexican National Middleweight Championship for defending it in a hardcore match, in another case they allowed the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship to change hands in a Steel cage match.[10] On occasion single fall title matches have taken place, for example when promoting CMLL title matches in Japan, conforming to the traditions of the local promotion.[Note 1][11]

Reigns

Los Hijos del Infierno ("The Sons of the Inferno"; Ephesto, Luciferno and Mephisto) are the current champions, after defeating the trio known as Los Reyes de la Atlantida ("The Kings of the Atlantis"; Atlantis, Delta and Guerrero Maya Jr.) for the title on August 9, 2015.[1] It is the team's first reign as a team and they are the 39th overall champions. Los Reyes de la Atlantida hold the record for most reigns as a team, with three, while Atlantis, Delta and Volador Jr. have all held the championship on four separate occasions. Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo are the team with the longest reign of 1,728 days while Los Payasos and the trio of Dos Caras, Villano III and Villano IV both held the title for only 26 days, which is the shortest time of any championship team.

Several championship teams have lost the championship in their first defence, while the teams of Sagrado, La Sombra, Volador Jr. and El Felino, Safari, Volador Jr. both are credited with six successful title defenses before losing the championship, the most of any of the 39 championship teams.[7][12][13][14][15] In 1991 the Commission allowed El Ninja to replace the injured Leono during a championship defense, helping Los Thundercats retain the title against the team of Rocky Santana, El Gallego and Romano Garcia.[16]

Tournaments

1985

Records from 1985 are not clear on which trios teams participated in the tournament to determine the first ever Mexican National Trios Championship, only a few matches were clearly identified as part of the tournament, the earliest of which was a January 25, 1985 match in Arena Coliseo that saw Los Infernales (MS-1, Pirata Morgan, Satánico) defeate El Enfermero Jr., Herodes and Jerry Estrada to advance in the tournament. Records also indicate that trios consisting of Popitekus, Panico and Zorro de Oro; Talisman, La Fiera and Mocho Cota; Atlantis, Stuka and Acertijo; Chamaco Valaguez, Impacto and Águila Solitaria, but were all eliminated before the finals.[17] On February 10, 1985 Los Infernales defeated Los Brazo to win the championship.[3][4][5]

2003

Masked wrestler Averno during a wrestling match in 2006.
Averno, part of Los Infernales who competed in the tournament.

After Nicho el Millonario did not show up for a scheduled title match CMLL decided to vacate the championship and left it vacant for approximately five months. In late November, 2003 CMLL held an eight-team, three week tournament to crown new champions. Most of the teams in the tournament had not teamed together on a regular basis prior to the show, except for Los Nuevo Infernales. In the end the team of El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr., who was paired up for the tournament, defeated Alan Stone, Super Crazy and Zumbido to win the titles.

Tournament brackets[4][7]
Semi-finals   Final   Final
                   
 El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr. W  
 Black Warrior, Doctor X and Olímpico        El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr. W  
 Ricky Marvin, Sagrado and Virus W    Ricky Marvin, Sagrado and Virus    
 La Alianza
(Hooligan, Ramstein and Sangre Azteca)		          El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr. W
 Blue Panther, Tigre Blanco and Tony Rivera          Alan Stone, Super Crazy and Zumbido  
 Alan Stone, Super Crazy and Zumbido W      Alan Stone, Super Crazy and Zumbido W
 Los Infernales
(Averno, Mephisto, El Satánico)		 W    Los Infernales
(Averno, Mephisto, El Satánico)		    
 Loco Max, Nitro and Violencia)    

2009

Máscara Dorada, wearing his trademark black and gold mask that covers his entire face except his eyes.
Máscara Dorada, part of the trio that won the 2009 championship tournament.

On December 19, 2009 it was announced by the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. that Poder Mexica had been stripped of the Mexican National Trios title because Black Warrior had left CMLL, breaking up the team. At the same time they announced an eight team tournament to crown a new trios champion. The top half of the bracket took place on December 22, 2009 and the bottom half of the bracket took place on December 29. In the top bracket the team of Máscara Dorada, Stuka, Jr. and Metro defeated Guerreros Tuareg (Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max and Skándalo) in the first round and Los Cancerberos del Infierno (Virus, Euforia and Pólvora) in the second round to qualify for the finals.[18] The bottom bracket took place on December 29, 2009 and saw the team of Poder Mexica (Sangre Azteca, Dragón Rojo, Jr. and Misterioso, Jr.) defeat Fabian El Gitano, Máximo and Rouge and then Delta, Leono and Valiente to qualify for the final.[19] On January 6, 2010 Máscara Dorada, Stuka, Jr. and Metro defeated Poder Mexica to become the new Mexican National Trios Champions.

Semi-finals   Final   Final
                   
 Máscara Dorada, Stuka, Jr. and Metro W  
 Los Guerreros de Tuareg
(Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max and Skándalo )		 [18]      Máscara Dorada, Stuka, Jr. and Metro W  
 Los Ángles
(Ángel Azteca, Jr., Ángel de Oro and Ángel de Plata)		 [18]    Los Cancerebros del Infierno [18]  
 Los Cancerberos del Infierno
(Virus, and Euforia and Polvora)		 W        Máscara Dorada, Stuka, Jr. and Metro W
 Delta, Leono and Valiente W        Poder Mexica
 Pegasso, Rey Cometa and Diamante [19]      Delta, Leono and Valiente [19]
 Poder Mexica
(Sangre Azteca, Dragón Rojo, Jr. and Misterioso, Jr.) 		W    Poder Mexica W  
 Fabian El Gitano, Máximo and Rouge [19]  

2010

Much like the previous year, one third of the reigning Mexican National Trios Champions was unable to further help defend the title. This year, CMLL resolved the situation differently, but still managed to wedge in a tournament. The champions, Mascara Dorada, Stuka Jr., and Metro, successfully defended their championship on November 15, 2010 in Arena Puebla. Dorada suffered an ankle injury during the course of the match. Citing both the injury (which would keep him out a month) and, more so, the demands of his other three championships, Mascara Dorada vacated his share of the titles three days later. CMLL broke with the precedent of forcing the entire team to vacate the titles and instead declared a web poll would determine a replacement for Mascara Dorada. Voting was held for over two weeks on CMLL.com. 41.52% Delta 39.20% Angel de Oro 19.28% Diamante CMLL appeared to waver about the winner becoming the champion or just joining Stuka and Metro for a title match. CMLL's website indicated Delta won the championship, but Delta's teams did not appear to be champions at the title match. Concurrent with the poll, CMLL started running an eight team, three week tournament to find new challengers for the new champions. Guadalajara regulars Palacio Negro & Metal Blanco made their Mexico City debuts in a surprise bid for the finals, but the team of Rush and the two poll losers were the obvious favorites as soon as their team was announced, and won the tournament on the first Sunday show of 2011. Tournament Bracket[edit]

Tournament brackets
Semi-finals   Final   Final
                   
 Rey Cometa, Molotov and Fuego    
 Nosferatu, Euforia and Pólvora W      Nosferatu, Euforia and Pólvora    
 Los Guerreros Tuareg
(Loco Max, Skandalo, Arkangel de la Muerte)		      Sagrado, Palacio Negro and Metal Blanco W  
 Sagrad, Palacio Negro and Metal Blanco W        Sagrado, Palacio Negro and Metal Blanco  
 Los Cancerberos del Infierno
(Virus, Raziel and Cancerbero)		 W        Rush, Diamante and Ángel de Oro W
 Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Plata and Guerrero Maya Jr.        Los Cancerberos del Infierno
(Virus, Raziel and Cancerbero)		  
 Rush, Diamante and Ángel de Oro W    Rush, Diamante and Ángel de Oro W  
 Durango Kid, Puma King and Tiger Kid    

Footnotes

  1. ↑ An example of this was Bushi winning the CMLL World Welterweight Championship in a one-fall match on a New Japan Pro Wrestling show.

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  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "MEXICO: National Trios Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 393. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
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  7. 1 2 3 4 "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2003". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 5, 2003. Issue 40.
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  17. ↑ "1985 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 7, 1986. pp. 2–28. issue 17080.
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