CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship

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CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship
CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship.jpg
The front plate of the championship
Details
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date establishedMarch 1, 1992 [lower-alpha 1]
Current champion(s) Último Dragoncito
Date wonNovember 17, 2023
Statistics
First champion(s) Mascarita Sagrada [lower-alpha 1]
Most reigns Último Dragoncito (3 reigns)
Longest reign Pequeño Olimpico (3 years, 346 days)
Shortest reign Mascarita Sagrada (100 days)
Oldest champion Pequeño Olímpico (37 years, 308 days)
Youngest champion Último Dragoncito (20 years, 219 days)
Heaviest champion Pequeño Damián 666 (80 kg (180 lb))
Lightest champion Mascarita Sagrada (42 kg (93 lb))

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]

Contents

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 SagradaW
Espectrito  
Octagoncito  
Espectrito W

Title history

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
N/AUnknown information
+Current reign is changing daily
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
1 Mascarita Sagrada March 1, 1992 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1110Defeated Espectrito in the finals of a four-man tournament [lower-alpha 1]
Vacated June 19, 1992Mascarita Sagrada left CMLL to join AAA [lower-alpha 7]
2 Orito September 6, 1992 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1189  [lower-alpha 8]
3 Último Dragoncito March 14, 1993 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1181  [lower-alpha 10]
4 Ultratumbita September 11, 1993 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1520  [lower-alpha 11]
5 Máscarita Mágica February 13, 1995 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1379  [lower-alpha 12]
6 Damiancito El Guerrero February 27, 1996 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1 [lower-alpha 13]   [lower-alpha 14]
7 Último Dragoncito October 1999N/AN/A2 [lower-alpha 15] 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. [lower-alpha 9]
8 Pierrothito October 16, 2001 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1784  [7]
9 Pequeño Olimpico December 9, 2003 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 11,442  [7]
10 Pequeño Damián 666 November 20, 2007 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1250  [7]
11 Bam Bam July 27, 2008 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1931  [7]
12 Pequeño Olímpico February 13, 2011 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 21,302  [lower-alpha 16]
13 Astral September 7, 2014 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 1864  [lower-alpha 17]
Vacated January 18, 2017The championship was vacated when Astral moved into the regular division. He would no longer be considered a Mini-Estrella [10]
14ShockercitoMarch 5, 2017 Live event Mexico City, Mexico 11813  [lower-alpha 18]
15 Mercurio February 20, 2022CMLL Domingos Arena Mexico Mexico City, Mexico 1778  [12]
16 Último Dragoncito November 17, 2023 Super Viernes Mexico City, Mexico 3143  [13]

Combined reigns

Key
SymbolMeaning
¤The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
Indicates the current champion
RankWrestler# of reignsCombined daysRef(s).
1 Pequeño Olimpico 22,744
2 Shockercito 11813 [11]
3 Damiancito El Guerrero 11,312 [lower-alpha 13] [lower-alpha 14]
4 Último Dragoncito31038+ [lower-alpha 15] [lower-alpha 9] [7] [8] [9]
5 Bam Bam 1931 [7] [8]
6 Astral 1864 [9] [10]
7 Pierrothito 1784 [7]
8 Mercurio 1778 [14]
9 Ultratumbita 1520 [lower-alpha 11] [lower-alpha 12]
10 Mascarita Magica 1379 [lower-alpha 12] [lower-alpha 14]
11 Pequeño Damián 666 1250 [7]
12 Orito 1189 [lower-alpha 8] [lower-alpha 10]
13 Mascarita Sagrada 1110 [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 7]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 3 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Vacant on 92/06/19 after Sagrada justs to AAA in 92/05" [2]
  8. 1 2 3 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Orito 1992/09/06 Mexico City" [2]
  9. 1 2 3 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1997/10#" [2]
  10. 1 2 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1993/03/14 Mexico City" [2]
  11. 1 2 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultratumbita 1993/09/11 Mexico City" [2]
  12. 1 2 3 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Mascarita Magica 1995/02" [2]
  13. 1 2 The exact date of Damiancito's title loss is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1,312 and 1,339 days.
  14. 1 2 3 Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Damiancito 1996/02/27 Mexico City" [2]
  15. 1 2 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]

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