List of CMLL World Middleweight Champions
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). As it is 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. El Cuatrero is the current CMLL World Middleweight Champion, having defeated Ángel de Oro for the championship on January 19, 2018.[3] He is the 19th overall champion and the 15th 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. Dragón Rojo Jr.'s single championship reign is the longest reign, at 1,954 days.
Title history
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
N/A | Unknown information |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
1 | Blue Panther | December 18, 1991 | Live event | Acapulco, Mexico | 1 | 184 | Defeated El Satánico in a tournament final. | |
— | Vacated | June 19, 1992 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated when Blue Panther left CMLL for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración | |
2 | El Dandy | July 3, 1992 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 1 | 63 | Defeated Negro Casas in a tournament finals. | |
3 | Bestia Salvaje | September 4, 1992 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 1 | 103 | ||
4 | El Dandy | December 16, 1992 | Live event | Naucalpan, Mexico | 2 | 147 | ||
5 | Emilio Charles Jr. | May 12, 1993 | Live event | Acapulco, Mexico | 1 | 146 | ||
6 | El Dandy | October 5, 1993 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 3 | 140 | ||
7 | Javier Llanes | February 22, 1994 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 1 | 201 | ||
8 | Apolo Dantés | September 11, 1994 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 1 | 77 | ||
9 | El Satánico | November 27, 1994 | Live event | Guadalajara, Mexico | 1 | 1,561 | ||
10 | Ringo Mendoza | March 7, 1999 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 1 | 742 | ||
11 | Emilio Charles, Jr. | March 18, 2001 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 2 | 1,135 | [4] | |
12 | Negro Casas | April 26, 2004 | Live event | Puebla, Mexico | 1 | 874 | [5] | |
13 | Averno | September 17, 2006 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 1 | 1,038 | [6] | |
14 | El Hijo del Fantasma | July 21, 2009 | Live event | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | 1 | 208 | [7] | |
15 | Negro Casas | February 14, 2010 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 2 | 78 | [8][9] | |
16 | Jushin Thunder Liger | May 3, 2010 | Wrestling Dontaku 2010 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | 1 | 564 | [10] | |
17 | Dragón Rojo Jr. | November 18, 2011 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 1,954 | [11] | |
18 | Ángel de Oro | March 25, 2017 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 300 | [12] | |
19 | El Cuatrero | January 19, 2018 | Fantastica Mania 2018 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 937+ | [3] |
Combined reigns
As of August 13, 2020.
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
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1 | Dragón Rojo Jr. | 1 | 1,954 |
2 | El Satánico | 1 | 1,561 |
3 | Emilio Charles, Jr. | 2 | 1,281 |
4 | Averno | 1 | 1,038 |
5 | Negro Casas | 1 | 879 |
6 | El Cuatrero † | 1 | 937+ |
7 | Ringo Mendoza | 1 | 742 |
8 | Jushin Thunder Liger | 1 | 564 |
9 | El Dandy | 3 | 350 |
10 | Ángel de Oro | 1 | 300 |
11 | El Hijo del Fantasma | 1 | 208 |
12 | Javier Llanes | 1 | 201 |
13 | Blue Panther | 1 | 184 |
14 | Bestia Salvaje | 1 | 103 |
15 | Apolo 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.
- "NJPW presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2018 CMLL世界ミドル級選手権試合" [NJPW presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2018 CMLL World Middleweight Championship] (in Japanese). New Japan Pro-Wrestling. January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
- "CMLL World Middleweight Championship > Title Reigns > 18.03.2001 - 26.04.2004: Emilio Charles Jr. (2)". CageMatch. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- "CMLL World Middleweight Championship > Title Reigns > 26.04.2004 - 17.09.2006: Averno". CageMatch. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- "CMLL World Middleweight Championship > Title Reigns > 17.09.2006 - 21.07.2009: El Hijo del Fantasma". CageMatch. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- "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.
- Centinela, Teddy (February 14, 2015). "En un día como hoy… 2010: Místico vence a Volador Jr… 1960: Duelo de regiomontanos y españoles". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 1, 2015.
- 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.
- González, Fernando (2011-11-19). "Dragón Rojo Jr., nuevo Campeón peso Medio del CMLL". Récord (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- "Resultados Sabado Aarena Coliseo: ¡Ángel de Oro Acabo con un historico reinado" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. March 26, 2017. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2017.