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The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrella de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestlingchampionship promoted by the Mexican Lucha libre wrestling-based promotionConsejo 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 professional wrestling; it can also be very short wrestlers who work in the Mini division.[2] The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico;[G] both the Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship and the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) World Mini-Estrella Championship were introduced after CMLL created their Mini-Estrella championship.[3] 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. All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.
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.[G] When the creator of CMLL's Minis division, Antonio Peña, left CMLL to form his own promotion, AAA, Mascarita Sagrada and a large number of other Minis left CMLL to join AAA. After Mascarita Sagrada left the promotion, the title was vacant until September 1992, when Orito won the championship in a match against El Felinito.[G] Since then, the title has not been vacated. 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.
In addition to being the first champion, Mascarita Sagrada is the only wrestler to have vacated the title; he is also the wrestler to have held the title the shortest amount of time, at 110 days. The current champion is Astral, who defeated Pequeño Olímpico for the title on September 7, 2014.[1] It is Astral's first championship reign; he is the 13th overall champion and the 11th person to hold the championship. Último Dragoncito and Pequeño Olímpico are the only wrestlers to hold the title twice, and 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.[4][5]
Title history
Key
Symbol
Meaning
Reign
The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.
Event
The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won.
N/A
The specific information is not known.
–
Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign.
+
Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes every day.
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.
^ abThe exact date of Damiancito's title loss is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1,312 and 1,339 days.
^ abThe exact date of Último Dragoncito's title win is unknown, which means that his second title reign lasted between 716 and 746 days.
References
General sources
[G] - Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: EMLL CMLL Midget (miniestrella) Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 396. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.
^Madigan, Dan (2007). "You ain't seen nothing yet: the minis". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 209–212. ISBN978-0-06-085583-3.
^Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: Mexican National Minis Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 397. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.
^ abcdSuperLuchas staff (January 5, 2003). "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2003". Super Luchas (in Spanish). pp. 10–12. issue 40.
