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CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship

CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship

Professional wrestling midget championship

The CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship (Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrellas de CMLL in Spanish), also known as the CMLL World Pequeno 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.[lower-alpha 2] The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico;[lower-alpha 3] 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.[lower-alpha 4][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.[lower-alpha 5] All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.[lower-alpha 6]

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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.[lower-alpha 1] 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.[lower-alpha 7] After Mascarita Sagrada left the promotion, the title was vacant until September 1992, when Orito won the championship in a match against El Felinito.[lower-alpha 8] 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.[lower-alpha 9]

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.

Semifinals Final
      
Mascarita Sagrada W
Aguilita Solitaria  
Mascarita Sagrada W
Espectrito  
Octagoncito  
Espectrito W

Title history

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Combined reigns

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Footnotes

  1. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Mascarita Sagrada 1992/03/01 Mexico City" [2]
  2. Madigan (2007), pp.209: "They invited some of the wrestlers of smaller physical stature south of the border to work."[1]
  3. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397, chapter Mexico: EMLL CMLL World Midget (miniestrella) title[2]
  4. Duncan & Will (2000), chapter "Mexico: National Midget (miniestrella) title, p. 401 ""[3]
  5. 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"[5]
  6. 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]
  7. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Vacant on 92/06/19 after Sagrada justs to AAA in 92/05" [2]
  8. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Orito 1992/09/06 Mexico City" [2]
  9. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1997/10#" [2]
  10. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1993/03/14 Mexico City" [2]
  11. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultratumbita 1993/09/11 Mexico City" [2]
  12. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Mascarita Magica 1995/02" [2]
  13. The exact date of Damiancito's title loss is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1,312 and 1,339 days.
  14. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Damiancito 1996/02/27 Mexico City" [2]
  15. The exact date of Último Dragoncito's title win is unknown, which means that his second title reign lasted between 716 and 746 days.
  16. 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]
  17. 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]
  18. 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.
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