The Crash Junior Championship
The Crash Junior Championship (Spanish: Campeonato de Peso Junior de The Crash) is a professional wrestling championship contested for in the Mexican lucha libre promotion The Crash Lucha Libre based in Tijuana, Baja California. The junior championship is a secondary championship, behind both The Crash Heavyweight Championship and The Crash Cruiserweight Championship, primarily for lower ranked, younger wrestlers. As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 1] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[lower-alpha 2] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 3] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 4]
The Crash Junior Championship | |||||||||||
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The championship belt | |||||||||||
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Promotion | The Crash Lucha Libre Lucha Libre Tijuanese | ||||||||||
Date established | July 3, 2015[1] | ||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Terror Azteca[2] | ||||||||||
Date won | November 1, 2019[2] | ||||||||||
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The first junior champion was Star Dragón, which he became by winning a five-way elimination match over Black Boy, Destroyer, Enigma, Mirage and Mosco Negro.[7] Terror Azteca is the current junior champion, having defeated Toto, Próximo, Baby Xtreme, and Soldado del Invierno to win the vacant championship at The Crash VIII Aniversario on November 1, 2019.[2] This is Terror Azteca's first reign as a champion. Overall ten wrestlers share eleven championship reigns, with only one wrestler, Black Boy, holding the championship twice. Astrolux's 64-day reign is the shortest in the championship's history, while Arkángel Divino 338-day reign from January 21 to December 25, 2017, is the longest reign so far.[1]
Title history
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
1 | Star Dragón | July 3, 2015 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 100 | Defeated Black Boy, Destroyer, Enigma, Mirage and Mosco Negro in five-way elimination match to become the inaugural champion. | [7] |
2 | Mirage | October 11, 2015 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 124 | This was a best two-out-of-three falls match. | [8] |
3 | Black Boy | February 12, 2016 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 163 | This was a five-way elimination match also involving Jinzo and Proximo and Septimo Dragon | [9] |
4 | Black Danger | July 24, 2016 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 181 | [10] | |
5 | Arkángel Divino | January 21, 2017 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 338 | [11] | |
6 | Black Boy | December 25, 2017 | Team 19/27 Promotions Live event | Mexicali, Baja California | 2 | 82 | [12][13] | |
— | Vacated | March 17, 2018 | — | — | — | — | Declared vacant when Black Boy did not show up for a scheduled championship defense. | |
7 | Astrolux | March 17, 2018 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 64 | Won a six-way elimination match over Tiago, Latigo, Rayo Star and Torito Negro to win the vacant championship | [14] |
8 | Torito Negro | May 20, 2018 | The Crash show | Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala | 1 | 167 | ||
9 | Xperia | November 3, 2018 | The Crash VII Aniversario | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 202 | Match also included Tiago, Baby Star and Rayo Star | [15][16] |
10 | Tiago | May 24, 2019 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 139 | Match also included Torito Negro | [17] |
— | Vacated | October 10, 2019 | — | — | — | — | The Crash announced a match for the vacant championship at The Crash VIII Aniversario | [18] |
11 | Terro Azteca | November 1, 2019 | The Crash VIII Aniversario | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 288+ | Won the vacant championship in a match against Toto, Próximo, Baby Xtreme, and Soldado del Invierno | [2] |
Combined reigns
As of August 15, 2020.
† | Indicates the current champion |
+ | Indicates that the date changes daily for the current champion. |
Rank | Wrestler | No.of reigns |
Combined days |
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1 | Arkángel Divino | 1 | 338 |
2 | Black Boy | 2 | 245 |
3 | Terror Azteca † | 1 | 288+ |
4 | Xperia | 1 | 202 |
5 | Black Danger | 1 | 181 |
6 | Torito Negro | 1 | 167 |
7 | Tiago | 1 | 137 |
8 | Mirage | 1 | 124 |
9 | Star Dragón | 1 | 100 |
10 | Astrolux | 1 | 64 |
Footnotes
- Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win/loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[3]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[4]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[5]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[6]
References
- Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "The Crash Junior Championship" (in German). Cagematch.net. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- "The Crash 8. Aniversario". CageMatch. November 1, 2019. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
- Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
- Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
- Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
- Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
- "The Crash Junior Championship >> Title history >> 03.07.2015 - 11.10.2015: Star Dragon". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- "The Crash Junior Championship >> Title history >> 11.10.2015 - 12.02.2016: Mirage". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- "The Crash Junior Championship >> Title history >> 12.02.2016 - 24.07.2016: Black Boy". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- "The Crash Junior Championship >> Title history >> 24.07.2016 - 21.01.2017: Black Danger". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- "The Crash Junior Championship >> Title history >> 21.01.2017 - 25.12.2017: Arkangel Divino". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- "The Crash Junior Championship >> Title history >> 25.12.2017 - 17.03.2018: Black Boy (2)". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- Perez, Samuel (December 26, 2017). "¡Black Boy se corona campeón Crucero Jr!". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- "The Crash Junior Championship >> Title history >> 17.03.2018 - Today: Astrolux". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
- Esparza, Alfredo (November 4, 2018). "Lucha Report for 11/4/18". Lucha World. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
- Peña, Miguel (November 3, 2018). "¡Resultados Aniversario VII The Crash !" [Results of the Crash VII Anniversary! Spanish]. Lucha Central (in Spanish). Retrieved November 4, 2018.
- #Tr3sCaidas (May 27, 2019). "Xperia vs Tiago vs Torito Negro" (in Spanish). YouTube. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- The Crash Lucha Libre (October 10, 2019). "Octavio aniverasario Por The Crash | POR EL CAMPEONATO THE CRASH CRUCERO JR VACANTE EN SILLAS, MESAS & ESCALERAS | Toto vs Próximo vs Baby Xtreme vs Soldado del Invierno vs Terror Azteca" (in Spanish). Twitter. Retrieved October 10, 2019.