CMLL World Middleweight Championship

CMLL World Middleweight Championship
Former champion El Cuatrero, displaying the championship belt
Details
PromotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date establishedDecember 18, 1991[2]
Current champion(s)Templario[1]
Date wonMay 12, 2023
Statistics
First champion(s)Blue Panther[2]
Most reignsEl Dandy (3 times)[2]
Longest reignDragón Rojo Jr. (5 years, 127 days days)[3][4][a]
Shortest reignEl Dandy (63 days)
Oldest championRingo Mendoza (49 years, 169 days)
Youngest championEl Hijo del Fantasma (25 years, 82 days)
Heaviest championApolo Dantés (104 kg (229 lb))
Lightest championAverno (79 kg (174 lb))

The CMLL World Middleweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Peso Medio del CMLL) is a professional wrestling world championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). While lighter weight classes are regularly ignored in wrestling promotions in the United States, with most emphasis placed on "heavyweights", more emphasis is placed on the lighter classes in Mexican companies. The official definition of the middleweight division in Mexico is a person between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but the weight limits are not strictly adhered to. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won via legitimate competition; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or on occasion awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.[6]

The championship is currently held by Templario, who defeated Dragón Rojo, Jr. for the title on May 12, 2023. Dragón Rojo Jr. is the longest reigning champion in the history of the championship. Since its creation in 1991, there have been 22 individual championship reigns shared between 11 wrestlers. El Dandy is the only three-time champion; he also has the shortest reign of any champion at 63 days.

  1. ^ "CMLL World Middleweight Championship - Templario". Cagematch. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference CMLLMiddleCage was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference DragonRojoJr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Boutwell, Josh (June 29, 2013). "Feature: Viva la Raza!: Lucha Weekly for 6/29/2012". Wrestleview.com. Retrieved August 24, 2016. CMLL World Middleweight Champion: Dragon Rojo Jr. (since November 18, 2011)
  5. ^ "Resultados Sabado Aarena Coliseo: ¡Ángel de Oro Acabo con un historico reinado!" [Results from Saturday in Arena Coliseo:Ángel de Oro ends a historic reign] (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. March 26, 2017. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
  6. ^ Mazer, Sharon (February 1, 1998). Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 18–19. ISBN 1-57806-021-4.


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