Mexican_National_Tag_Team_Championship

Mexican National Tag Team Championship

Mexican National Tag Team Championship

Professional wrestling championship


The Mexican National Tag Team Championship (Campeonato Nacional de Parejas) is a national Mexican professional wrestling championship controlled by the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission) and competed for by two-man tag teams. The championship was created in 1957, promoted regularly until 2003, and intermittently until 2011 when the last known defense took place. Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) had control of the championship from its creation until 1992,[lower-alpha 2] at which point it was transferred to AAA.[lower-alpha 3] The championship history up until 1982 is only partially known, with periods of times where it is unclear who held the championship, but it is generally accepted that the lineage began in 1957 when Los Hermanos Shadow (The Shadow Brothers; Blue Demon and Black Shadow) won an eight-team tournament to be crowned champions.[1] The championship was reintroduced in 2020 after previously being abandoned in 2011.

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In the mid-1990s there was confusion about who was recognized as champions for a period of time. In December 1995, one half of then-championship team Los Guerreras, Fuerza Guerrera, left AAA, which led to the promotion declaring the title vacant.[2] On January 12, 1996, new champions were crowned as Juventud Guerrera and Psicosis defeated Volador and El Mexicano to claim the titles.[3] When Juventud also left AAA, the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre decided that Los Guerreras were never officially stripped of the championship, refusing to recognize Juventud Guerrera and Psicosis as champions.[4] In August 1996, the commission finally declared the championship vacant and returned the championship belts to AAA for future use.[4]

The last championship team under AAA's control was Octagón and La Parka,[lower-alpha 4] who won the championship on June 20, 2003, when they defeated Electroshock and Chessman. In early 2009, AAA stopped promoting all Mexican National Championships, opting to focus on their AAA branded championships.[6] Octagón and La Parka were never stripped of the championship, but did not defend them on any AAA shows after late 2007. From that point on the championship was only defended twice on the Mexican independent circuit, in March 2009,[7] and then in December 2011.[lower-alpha 5] The championship was inactive after the last known defense.[lower-alpha 5] until February 19, 2020 when Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; formerly EMLL) announced that they were bringing the championship back.[9]

Los Depredadores (Magnus and Rugido) are the current champions. They defeated Esfinge and Fugaz on July 9, 2023. There have been at least 44 championship reigns since 1957. Los Destructores (Tony Arce and Vulcano) held the championship three times,[10][11][12] the most of all recognized champions, while Tony Arce holds the individual record with four reigns.[13] Los Metálicos (Oro and Plata) had the shortest verified reign, six days in December 1991.[14] Octagón and La Parka's reign lasted 3,110 days, the longest known reign of any champions.[15] As with all professional wrestling championships, matches for the Mexican National Tag Team Championship were not won or lost competitively, but by a pre-planned ending to a match, with the outcome determined by the CMLL bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 6] On occasion a promotion declared the championship vacant, which meant there was no champion at that point in time. This was either due to a storyline,[lower-alpha 7] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 8] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 9] All title matches took place under two out of three falls rules.[lower-alpha 10]

Tournaments

1997

In 1997, the then-reigning champions Fuerza Guerrera and Juventud Guerrera began working for different promotions, causing the championship to be vacated by AAA.[2] They held a one-night eight-team tournament on July 20, 1997, at the El Toreo de Naucalpan bullfighting arena in Naucalpan, Mexico State.[21] Some sources mistakenly list the AAA "Young Stars Tag Team" tournament held on May 15, 1997, and broadcast on June 7, as the championship tournament, which was won by the same team, but was not for the vacant championship.[22]

First round Semifinals Final
         
Dos Caras and Heavy Metal [21]
Fuerza Guerrera and Mosco de la Merced W
Fuerza Guerrera and Mosco de la Merced W
El Canek and El Hijo del Fantasma [21]
El Canek and El Hijo del Fantasma W
Cibernético and Shu el Guerrero [21]
Fuerza Guerrera and Mosco de la Merced W
Perro Aguayo and Perro Aguayo Jr. [21]
El Cobarde Jr. and Gran Markus Jr. W
Mil Máscaras and Kato Kung Lee [21]
El Cobarde Jr. and Gran Markus Jr. [21]
Perro Aguayo and Perro Aguayo Jr. W
Perro Aguayo and Perro Aguayo Jr. W
El Signo and Sangre Chicana [21]

2020

In 1992, then reigning Mexican National Tag Team Champions Los Destructores, left CMLL and doing so taking the championship with them to AAA.[11][23] The championship was defended in AAA from 1992 until 2007,[6] and subsequently only defended twice more on the independent circuit before becoming dormant.[7][lower-alpha 5] La Parka, one half of the last recognized championship team, died on January 11, 2020. A couple of weeks later CMLL officially announced that they had regained control of the Mexican National Tag Team Championship and would be holding a tournament for the championship in February and March.[9][24] The tournament ran from February 28 to March 13, and saw Atlantis Jr. and Flyer defeated El Hijo de Villano III and Templario to win the championship.[25]

Tournament brackets
Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Disturbio and Virus W
Pegasso and Stigma [26] Disturbio and Virus [26]
El Hijo del Villano III and Templario W El Hijo del Villano III and Templario W
Dulce Gardenia and Fuego [26] El Hijo del Villano III and Templario W
Black Panther and Blue Panther Jr. [26] Soberano Jr. and Titán [26]
Ephesto and Luciferno W Ephesto and Luciferno [26]
Misterioso and El Sagrado [26] Soberano Jr. and Titán W
Soberano Jr. and Titán W El Hijo del Villano III and Templario [25]
Rey Cometa and Star Jr. W Atlantis Jr. and Flyer W
Pólvora and Vangellys [27] Atlantis Jr. and Flyer W
Atlantis Jr. and Flyer W Rey Cometa and Star Jr. [27]
Cancerbero and Raziel [27] Atlantis Jr. and Flyer W
Audaz and Fugaz [27] El Felino and Tiger [27]
El Felino and Tiger W Rey Bucanero and Shocker [27]
Rey Bucanero and Shocker W El Felino and Tiger W
Esfinge and Drone [27]

Title history

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Combined reigns

Fuerza Guerrera, who held the championship with his son Juventud Guerrera and Mosco de la Merced.

By team

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Indicates the current champion
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain.
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By wrestler

Atlantis held the championship for 780 days with Ángel Azteca.
Máscara Año 2000 held the championship with his brother Cien Caras.
Héctor Garza (black shirt) was a one-time champion.
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Footnotes

  1. Statistics for longest and shortest reigns only count reigns where both the date the championship was won and lost are known.
  2. EMLL was renamed Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre; CMLL in late 1991
  3. In this, "control" refers to the everyday use of the title, determining which storylines the title is being used it, who gets to challenge for the title, how to use it in a public relations sense.
  4. Was referred to as La Parka Jr. at the time of their championship victory, but changed his name to simply "La Parka" in mid-2003[5]
  5. Last known championship defense[8]
  6. 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"[16]
  7. 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"[17]
  8. 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"[18]
  9. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[19]
  10. 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")[20]
  11. The length of the championship reign is too uncertain to calculate.
  12. La Magia del Ring magazine noted that Victoria and O'Borman defeated Los Villanos in 1972, but provided no details on whom Los Villanos defeated[32]
  13. The exact date Los Guerreras were stripped of the championship is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 71 and 104 days.

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