Professional wrestling midget championship
CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship |
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The front plate of the championship |
Details |
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Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre |
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Date established | March 1, 1992[a] |
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Current champion(s) | Último Dragoncito |
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Date won | November 17, 2023 |
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Statistics |
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First champion(s) | Mascarita Sagrada[a] |
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Most reigns | Último Dragoncito (3 reigns) |
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Longest reign | Pequeño Olimpico (3 years, 346 days) |
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Shortest reign | Mascarita Sagrada (100 days) |
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Oldest champion | Pequeño Olímpico (37 years, 308 days) |
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Youngest champion | Último Dragoncito (20 years, 219 days) |
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Heaviest champion | Pequeño Damián 666 (80 kg (180 lb)) |
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Lightest champion | Mascarita Sagrada (42 kg (93 lb)) |
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The CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship (Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrellas de CMLL in Spanish), also known as the CMLL World Pequeño Estrellas Championship (Campeonato Mundial Pequeno Estrellas de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha libre wrestling-based promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The championship is exclusively competed for in the Mini-Estrellas, or Minis, division. A "Mini" is not necessarily a person with dwarfism, as in North American Midget wrestling; it can also be short wrestlers who work in the Mini-Estrellas division.[b] The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico;[c] both the Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship and the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) World Mini-Estrella Championship were introduced after CMLL created their Mini-Estrella championship.[d][4] 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.[e] All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.[f]
The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship was created in early 1992 to give CMLL's Mini-Estrellas division a championship as its focal point. The first champion was Mascarita Sagrada, who won a four-man tournament on March 1, 1992, by defeating Espectrito in the final.[a] When the creator of CMLL's Minis division, Antonio Peña, left CMLL to form his own promotion, AAA, Mascarita Sagrada and many other Minis left CMLL to join AAA.[g] After Mascarita Sagrada left the promotion, the title was vacant until September 1992, when Orito won the championship in a match against El Felinito.[h] In 1999, in a so-called "Phantom title switch", then-champion Damiancito el Guerrero had the championship stripped and given to Último Dragoncito without a match taking place. Damiancito had begun working under the ring name "Virus" in the "regular-sized" division for more than a year and thus no longer qualified as a Mini. Instead of vacating the title or making Virus lose it in a match, CMLL announced that Último Dragoncito had "won" the title on an undisclosed date in October 1999.[i]
In addition to being the first champion, Mascarita Sagrada is also the first wrestler to have vacated the title; he is also the wrestler to have held the title the shortest amount of time, at 110 days. Último Dragoncito is the current champion in his record-setting third reign. He defeated Mercurio on November 17, 2023, at Super Viernes. Pequeño Olímpico has held the title the longest of any champion, at 1,442 days for a single reign and 2,744 for his combined two reigns.[7]
1992 CMLL World Mini-Estrella tournament
CMLL held a tournament in early 1992 to determine the first CMLL World Mini-Estrella Champion; the semi-finals were held on February 23, 1992, and the finals on March 1, 1992.
Title history
Key No. | Overall reign number |
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. |
Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days |
1 | Mascarita Sagrada | March 1, 1992 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 110 | Defeated Espectrito in the finals of a four-man tournament | [a] |
— | Vacated | June 19, 1992 | — | — | — | — | Mascarita Sagrada left CMLL to join AAA | [g] |
2 | Orito | September 6, 1992 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 189 | | [h] |
3 | Último Dragoncito | March 14, 1993 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 181 | | [j] |
4 | Ultratumbita | September 11, 1993 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 520 | | [k] |
5 | Máscarita Mágica | February 13, 1995 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 379 | | [l] |
6 | Damiancito El Guerrero | February 27, 1996 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | [m] | | [n] |
7 | Último Dragoncito | October 1999 | N/A | N/A | 2 | [o] | Champion Damiancito El Guerrero had not worked in the minis division for over a year; the title was given to Último Dragoncito instead of vacating it. | [i] |
8 | Pierrothito | October 16, 2001 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 784 | | [7] |
9 | Pequeño Olimpico | December 9, 2003 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 1,442 | | [7] |
10 | Pequeño Damián 666 | November 20, 2007 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 250 | | [7] |
11 | Bam Bam | July 27, 2008 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 931 | | [7] |
12 | Pequeño Olímpico | February 13, 2011 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 2 | 1,302 | | [p] |
13 | Astral | September 7, 2014 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 864 | | [q] |
— | Vacated | January 18, 2017 | — | — | — | — | The championship was vacated when Astral moved into the regular division. He would no longer be considered a Mini-Estrella | [10] |
14 | Shockercito | March 5, 2017 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 1813 | | [r] |
15 | Mercurio | February 20, 2022 | CMLL Domingos Arena Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 932 | | [12] |
16 | Último Dragoncito | November 17, 2023 | Super Viernes | Mexico City, Mexico | 3 | 297 | | [13] |
Combined reigns
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Symbol | Meaning |
¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
† | Indicates the current champion |
- ^ a b c d e Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Mascarita Sagrada 1992/03/01 Mexico City"
- ^ Madigan (2007), pp.209: "They invited some of the wrestlers of smaller physical stature south of the border to work."
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397, chapter Mexico: EMLL CMLL World Midget (miniestrella) title
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000), chapter "Mexico: National Midget (miniestrella) title, p. 401 ""
- ^ 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"
- ^ Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre p. 44 "ARTICULO 258.- Cada combate de lucha libre tendrá como limite tres caídas; cada caída será sin limite de tiempo, ganará quien obtenga dos caídas de las tres en disputa" ("ARTICLE 258.- Each wrestling match shall have as limit three falls; Each fall will be without time limit. The winner will be the one to first obtain two of the three falls in the match")[6]
- ^ a b c Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Vacant on 92/06/19 after Sagrada justs to AAA in 92/05"
- ^ a b c Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Orito 1992/09/06 Mexico City"
- ^ a b c Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1997/10#"
- ^ a b Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1993/03/14 Mexico City"
- ^ a b Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultratumbita 1993/09/11 Mexico City"
- ^ a b c Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Mascarita Magica 1995/02"
- ^ a b The exact date of Damiancito's title loss is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1,312 and 1,339 days.
- ^ a b c Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Damiancito 1996/02/27 Mexico City"
- ^ a b The exact date of Último Dragoncito's title win is unknown, which means that his second title reign lasted between 716 and 746 days.
- ^ Súper Luchas (February 14, 2011): "El Pequeño Olímpico saco toda la experiencia y se llevo el campeonato mundial mini del CMLL ante Bam Bam" ("Pequeño Olímpico used his experience to take the CMLL World Mini Championship from Bam Bam") [8]
- ^ CMLL (September 8, 2014): "Astral es el nuevo Campeón de los Pequeños Estrellas. Después de reinar 3 años como monarca en esta división Olímpico dejo su cetro en manos de Astral." ("Astral is the new Mini-Estrellas Champion. After a 3 year reign as champion of the division, Olímpico left the crown in the hands of Astral")[9]
- ^ CMLL (March 5, 2017): "obligando a un tercer capítulo, que llegó a su fin con resultado favorable para SHOCKERCITO, que se coronó de esta forma, como el flamante Campeón de la división." ("which came to an end with a favorable result for Shockercito, who was crowned the brand new champion of the division.")[11]
References
- 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.
- 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. p. 550. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
- Madigan, Dan (2007). Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ^ "Verano de Escandalo 2008". Pro Wrestling History. 2008-09-15. Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ Arturo Montiel Rojas (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. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "CMLL World Mini Estrella Championship". CageMatch. Archived from the original on May 26, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
- ^ a b c d Ruiz Glez, Alex (February 14, 2011). "Arena México (resultados 13 de febrero) Pequeño Olímpico nuevo campeón mundial mini del CMLL" [Arena México (results for February 13) Pequeño Olímpico is the new CMLL World Mini Champion] (in Spanish). Súper Luchas. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
- ^ a b c Salguero, Ivan (September 8, 2014). "Resultados Arena Coliseo Domingo 7 de Septiembre '14" [Results from Arena Coliseo Sunday September 7 '14]. Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2014.
- ^ a b Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (January 18, 2017). "CMLL Informa 18 de Enero del 2017" [CMLL Informa from January 18, 2017] (in Spanish). YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ^ a b "Resultados Arena Mexico - Domingos Familares" [Results from Arena Mexico - Family Sunday] (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. March 5, 2017. Archived from the original on November 14, 2016. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship Title Reigns". Cagematch. Archived from the original on April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship Title Reigns". Cagematch. Archived from the original on April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship Title Reigns". Cagematch.net. Archived from the original on April 3, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
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