CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship

CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship
Mascarita Sagrada, the first CMLL World Mini-Estrella champion
Details
Current champion(s)	Astral
Date won	September 7, 2014
Date established	March 1, 1992
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
Statistics First champion(s) Mascarita Sagrada Most reigns Último Dragoncito and Pequeño Olímpico (2 reigns) Longest reign Pequeño Olimpico (1,442 days) Shortest reign Mascarita Sagrada (110 days) Oldest winner Pequeño Olimpico límpico (40 years, 213 days) Youngest winner Último Dragoncito (26 years, 218 days) Heaviest champion Pequeño Damián 666 (80 kg (180 lb)) Lightest champion Mascarita Sagrada (42 kg (93 lb))

The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrella 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 professional wrestling; it can also be very short wrestlers who work in the Mini division. The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico; 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. Being 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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Mascarita Sagrada	1	March 1, 1992		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event	Defeated Espectrito in the finals of a four-man tournament
–	Vacated	–	June 19, 1992	–	N/A	N/A	Mascarita Sagrada left CMLL to join AAA
2	Orito	1	September 6, 1992		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
3	Último Dragoncito	1	March 14, 1993		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
4	Ultratumbita	1	September 11, 1993		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
5	Máscarita Mágica	1	February 13, 1995		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
6	Damiancito El Guerrero	1	February 27, 1996		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
7	Último Dragoncito	2	October 1999		N/A	N/A	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.
8	Pierrothito	1	October 16, 2001		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
9	Pequeño Olimpico	1	December 9, 2003		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
10	Pequeño Damián 666	1	November 20, 2007		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
11	Bam Bam	1	July 27, 2008		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
12	Pequeño Olímpico	2	February 13, 2011		Mexico City, Mexico	Live event
13	Astral	1	September 7, 2014	+	Mexico City, Mexico	Live event

Reigns by combined length

Key

Symbol	Meaning
†	Indicates the current champion.
¤	The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.

Rank	Wrestler	# of reigns	Combined days
1	Pequeño Olimpico	2	2,744
2	Damiancito El Guerrero	1	1,312¤
3	Último Dragoncito	2	897¤
4	Bam Bam	1	931
5	Pierrothito	1	784
6	Ultratumbita	1	520
7	Mascarita Magica	1	379
8	Astral †	1	+
9	Pequeño Damián 666	1	250
10	Orito	1	189
11	Mascarita Sagrada	1	110

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					Finals
	Mascarita Sagrada		W
	Aguilita Solitaria
						Mascarita Sagrada		W
						Espectrito
	Octagoncito
	Espectrito		W

References

General source on the title until 2000

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