List of CMLL World Middleweight Champions

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Averno, the 13th CMLL World Middleweightweight Champion

The CMLL World Middleweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Peso Medio de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling world championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling-based promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). 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. The official definition of the middleweight weight class in Mexico is between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[Note 1][1] Because Lucha Libre emphasizes the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of a promotion.[2] All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.

Blue Panther was officially recognized as the first champion in 1991, after winning a 16-man tournament. The championship's history was interrupted in 1992 with its only vacancy, when Blue Panther left CMLL to work for rival promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). El Dandy defeated Negro Casas in a singles match to decide the new champion. El Cuatrero is the current CMLL World Middleweight Champion, having defeated Ángel de Oro for the championship on January 19, 2018.[3] He is the 19th overall champion and the 15th person to hold the championship. El Dandy has had the most reigns as champion, with three; he also has the shortest reign, at 63 days. Dragón Rojo Jr.'s single championship reign is the longest reign, at 1,954 days.

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  Blue Panther  December 18, 1991  Live event Acapulco, Mexico  1  184  Defeated El Satánico in a tournament final.  
— Vacated  June 19, 1992 — — — —  Championship vacated when Blue Panther left CMLL for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración  
 2  El Dandy  July 3, 1992  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  1  63  Defeated Negro Casas in a tournament finals.  
 3  Bestia Salvaje  September 4, 1992  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  1  103     
 4  El Dandy  December 16, 1992  Live event Naucalpan, Mexico  2  147     
 5  Emilio Charles Jr.  May 12, 1993  Live event Acapulco, Mexico  1  146     
 6  El Dandy  October 5, 1993  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  3  140     
 7  Javier Llanes  February 22, 1994  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  1  201     
 8  Apolo Dantés  September 11, 1994  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  1  77     
 9  El Satánico  November 27, 1994  Live event Guadalajara, Mexico  1  1,561     
 10  Ringo Mendoza  March 7, 1999  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  1  742     
 11  Emilio Charles, Jr.  March 18, 2001  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  2  1,135    [4]
 12  Negro Casas  April 26, 2004  Live event Puebla, Mexico  1  874    [5]
 13  Averno  September 17, 2006  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  1  1,038    [6]
 14  El Hijo del Fantasma  July 21, 2009  Live event Mexico City, Distrito Federal  1  208    [7]
 15  Negro Casas  February 14, 2010  Live event Mexico City, Mexico  2  78    [8][9]
 16  Jushin Thunder Liger  May 3, 2010  Wrestling Dontaku 2010 Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan  1  564    [10]
 17  Dragón Rojo Jr.  November 18, 2011  Live event Mexico City, Mexico  1  1,954    [11]
 18  Ángel de Oro  March 25, 2017  Live event Mexico City, Mexico  1  300    [12]
 19  El Cuatrero  January 19, 2018  Fantastica Mania 2018 Tokyo, Japan  1  271+    [3]

Reigns by combined length

Key
Symbol Meaning
† Indicates the current champion
+ Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes every day.
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined days
1 Dragón Rojo Jr. 1 1,954
2 El Satánico 1 1,561
3 Emilio Charles, Jr. 2 1,281
4 Averno 1 1,038
5 Negro Casas 1 879
6 Ringo Mendoza 1 742
7 Jushin Thunder Liger 1 564
8 El Dandy 3 350
9 Ángel de Oro 1 300
10 El Cuatrero † 1 271+
11 El Hijo del Fantasma 1 208
12 Javier Llanes 1 201
13 Blue Panther 1 184
14 Bestia Salvaje 1 103
15 Apolo Dantés 1 77

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The most recent case of this is Mephisto holding the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a belt with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit, despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).

References

General source for title changes before 2000
  • Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: EMLL CMLL Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Middleweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 395. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
Specific
  1. ↑ Montiel Rojas, Arturo (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. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2009. Articulo 242: "Super welter 82 kilos / Medio 87 kilos"
  2. ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  3. 1 2 "NJPW PRESENTS CMLL FANTASTICA MANIA 2018 CMLL世界ミドル級選手権試合" [NJPW PRESENTS CMLL FANTASTICA MANIA 2018 CMLL World Middleweight Championship] (in Japanese). New Japan Pro-Wrestling. January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ "CMLL World Middleweight Championship > Title Reigns > 18.03.2001 - 26.04.2004: Emilio Charles Jr. (2)". CageMatch. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ "CMLL World Middleweight Championship > Title Reigns > 26.04.2004 - 17.09.2006: Averno". CageMatch. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ "CMLL World Middleweight Championship > Title Reigns > 17.09.2006 - 21.07.2009: El Hijo del Fantasma". CageMatch. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Ahora es doble monarca" (in Spanish). Esto, OEM Online. July 22, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  8. ↑ Ruiz Glez, Alex (February 15, 2010). "Negro Casas nuevo campeón Mundial Medio del CMLL". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved February 16, 2010.
  9. ↑ Centinela, Teddy (February 14, 2015). "En un día como hoy… 2010: Místico vence a Volador Jr… 1960: Duelo de regiomontanos y españoles". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  10. ↑ Flores, Manuel (May 3, 2010). "Jushin Liger, nuevo campeón mundial medio del CMLL – Nakamura pierde el título IWGP". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved May 3, 2010.
  11. ↑ González, Fernando (2011-11-19). "Dragón Rojo Jr., nuevo Campeón peso Medio del CMLL". Récord (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  12. ↑ "Resultados Sabado Aarena Coliseo: ¡Ángel de Oro Acabo con un historico reinado" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. March 26, 2017. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2017.

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