Mexican National Middleweight Championship

Mexican National Middleweight Championship
Octagón, the most recent champion
Details
Date established	1933
Date retired	December 8, 2008
Promotion	Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Statistics First champion(s) Yaqui Joe Final champion(s) Octagón Most reigns El Santo, Octagón (4 reigns)

The Mexican National Middleweight Championship (Campeonato National Medio in Spanish) was a national Mexican professional wrestling championship controlled by a "National title" controlled by the "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission), which regulates all matches where the title is defended. The title has been in use since at least 1933 until December 8, 2008. It was defended in the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion since AAA's inception in 1992. Since it is a National title endorsed by the Comisión it could technically be defended in various Mexican promotions, but in reality was promoted mainly by AAA from 1992 until 2008.

Championship history

The Championship dates back to 1933, making it one of the oldest professional wrestling champions still in use today predating all active titles in both North America and Japan. Records of how the first champion, Yaqui Joe, are unclear due to minimal written documentation from that period. No documentation exists that the championship was created for Empressa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL, later renamed CMLL) but during the 1930s and '40s the promotion was granted control of the title by the Comisión. In 1992 Antonio Peña founded Asistencia Asesoría y Administración taking a number of CMLL wrestlers with him. One of these wrestlers was the then reigning National Middleweight Champion Octagón who took the championship with him. When Blue Panther won the championship in on July 27, 1992 it was officially acknowledged by the Commission that AAA controlled the booking of the championship from that point forward.

Octagón was the most recent Mexican National Middleweight Champion. His last reign was his fourth title reign and the 60th overall champion. Octagón was also the 45th, 57th and 51st champion. The status of Octagón's title reign is unclear after AAA announced that they would not publicly recognize any titles without the AAA name. El Santo and Octagón are tied for the most reigns with four each. El Santo has held the title for the most days, accumulating 4 reigns that add up to a minimum of 3256 days in total. Perro Aguayo has held the title the shortest length of time with 11 days.

Championship rules

The title is a "National" title which means that non-Mexican citizens are prohibited from challenging or holding the championship. 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. 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.

The championship is generally not allowed to be defended in any other type of match than a regular match, as is the case for all the Mexican National titles. The commission has been inconsistent on enforcing the rules, in one case they stripped Psicosis II of the championship for defending it in a hardcore match, in another case they allowed the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship to change hands in a Steel cage match.

Title history

Key

No.	The overall championship reign
Reign	The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
N/A	The specific information is not known
—	Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
	Indicates that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation on wrestling in Mexico from the 1920s to 1940s.

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Yaqui Joe	1	1933	N/A	N/A	Live event
2	Octavio Gaona	1	February 6, 1937		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event	Defeated Black Guzmán
3	Firpo Segura	1	September 2, 1938	N/A	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
4	Octavio Gaona	2	January 1, 1939N/A	N/A	N/A	Live event
5	Tarzán López	1	February 9, 1939		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
6	Black Guzmán	1	May 12, 1941		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
—	Vacated	1	December 16, 1941	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated after Guzman won the NWA World Middleweight Championship, defeating Tarzán López in Mexico City
7	Murciélago Velázquez	1	May 24, 1942		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event	Defeated Octavio Gaona to win the championship.
8	El Santo	1	March 19, 1943		N/A	Live event
9	Bobby Bonales	1	June 1, 1943	N/A	N/A	Live event
10	Tarzán López	2	1943	N/A	N/A	Live event
11	Bobby Bonales	2	January 1, 1944	N/A	N/A	Live event
12	Gory Guerrero	1	September 25, 1945	N/A	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	EMLL 12th Anniversary Show
—	Vacated	1	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated for unknown reasons
13	El Santo	2	May 31, 1946	N/A	N/A	Live event	Defeated Tuffy Truesdale
14	El Gladiador	1	Unknown	N/A	N/A	Live event
15	El Santo	3	May 31, 1956		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
16	Karloff Lagarde	1	March 24, 1961		N/A	Live event
17	El Santo	4	June 28, 1963		N/A	Live event
18	René Guajardo	1	June 22, 1967		N/A	Live event
19	Alberto Muñoz	1	March 9, 1968		N/A	Live event
20	René Guajardo	2	November 20, 1969		N/A	Live event
21	Humberto Gárza	1	May 13, 1970		Monterrey, Nuevo León	Live event
22	Ciclón Veloz Jr.	1	April 6, 1971		Monterrey, Nuevo León	Live event
23	Adorable Rubí	1	December 14, 1973		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
25	Aníbal	1	June 28, 1974		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
25	Ringo Mendoza	1	November 29, 1974		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
26	Perro Aguayo	1	February 28, 1977		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
—	Vacated	1	March 11, 1977	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated after Perro Aguayo won the NWA World Middleweight Championship, defeating El Faraón in Mexico City
27	José Luis Mendieta	1	April 14, 1977		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
28	Sangre Chicana	1	November 19, 1977	N/A	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
—	Vacated	-	1978/1979	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated for unknown reasons
29	Cachorro Mendoza	1	June 8, 1979		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
30	El Satánico	1	October 19, 1979		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
31	Ringo Mendoza	2	June 6, 1980		N/A	Live event
32	El Faraón	1	December 5, 1980	N/A	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
—	Vacated	1	1980/1981	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated for unknown reasons
33	El Solar	1	May 29, 1981		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event	Defeated Cachorro Mendoza
34	El Satánico	2	October 23, 1981		N/A	Live event
35	Lizmark	1	February 19, 1982		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
36	Espectro Jr. (II)	1	March 3, 1983		Cuernavaca, Morelos	Live event
37	Lizmark	2	May 28, 1983	N/A	Puebla, Puebla	Live event
—	Vacated	1	1983	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated for unknown reasons
38	Ultraman	1	August 12, 1983		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event	Defeated Águila Solitaria in a tournament final
39	Jerry Estrada	1	March 4, 1984		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
40	Atlantis	1	November 30, 1984		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
41	Talismán	1	March 2, 1986		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
42	Mogur	1	November 30, 1986		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
43	El Satánico	3	January 31, 1988	N/A	Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
44	El Dandy	1	1989	N/A	N/A	Live event
45	Javier Cruz	1	July 26, 1990		Cuernavaca, Morelos	Live event
46	Emilio Charles Jr.	1	August 30, 1990		Cuernavaca, Morelos	Live event
47	Octagón	1	November 20, 1990		Mexico City, Distrito Federal	Live event
48	Blue Panther	1	July 24, 1992		León, Guanajuato	Live event
49	Octagón	2	April 30, 1994		Veracruz, Veracruz	Live event
50	Blue Panther	2	May 27, 1994		Tijuana, Baja California	Live event	Awarded the title by default when Octagón was unable to defend due to injury
51	El Hijo del Santo	1	January 26, 1996		Tijuana, Baja California	Live event
52	Fuerza Guerrera	1	September 15, 1996		Saltillo, Coahuila	Live event
53	Octagón	3	January 29, 1997		Naucalpan, Mexico	Live event
54	Pentagón (II)	1	March 28, 1997		Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico	Live event
55	Abismo Negro	1	May 19, 1998		Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico	Live event
56	Espectro Jr. (II)	2	January 27, 1999		Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico	Live event
57	Máscara Sagrada Jr.	1	June 17, 1999		Toluca, Mexico	Live event
58	Espectro Jr. (II)	3	July 8, 1999		Toluca, Mexico	Live event
59	Pimpinela Escarlata	1	April 27, 2001}		Querétaro, Querétaro	Live event
60	Psicosis II	1	August 13, 2002		Huamantla, Tlaxcala	Live event
—	Vacated	1	August 3, 2005	N/A	N/A	N/A	Psicosis was stripped of the title for defending the title in a hardcore match against Histeria.
61	Zumbido	1	January 29, 2006		Salamanca, Guanajuato	Live event	Defeated Histeria in a tournament final to win the championship.
62	Octagón	4	July 15, 2006		Torreón, Coahuila	Live event
—	Abandoned	1	December 8, 2008	N/A	N/A	N/A	AAA stopped using all of the Mexican National championships around this time, focusing on AAA branded championships instead.

List of Championship reigns by combined length

Championships without a specific start or end date are not included as it is not possible to calculate the specific number of dates for a reign.

Rank	Wrestler	# Of Reigns	Combined Days
1	El Santo	4	3,256 ¤
2	Lizmark	1	2,204
3	Octagón	4	1,574
4	Blue Panther	2	1,274
5	Psicosis (II)	1	1,086
6	Ringo Mendoza	2	1,004
7	Ciclón Veloz Jr.	1	983
8	Espectro Jr. (II)	3	886
9	Fuerza Guerrera	1	867
10	Karloff Lagarde	1	826
11	Tarzán López	1	823
12	Alberto Muñoz	1	621
13	Octavio Gaona	1	573
14	Pimpinela Escarlata	1	473
15	Atlantis	1	457
16	René Guajardo	2	435
17	Mogur	1	427
18	Pentagón (II)	1	417
19	Satánico	2	350
20	Humberto Gárza	1	328
21	Murciélago Velázquez	1	299
22	Talismán	1	273
23	Jerry Estrada	1	271
24	Abismo Negro	1	253
25	El Hijo del Santo	1	233
26	José Luis Mendieta	1	219
27	Black Guzmán	1	218
28	Ultraman	1	205
29	Adorable Rubí	1	196
30	Zumbido	1	167
31	Aníbal	1	154
32	El Solar	1	147
33	Cachorro Mendoza	1	133
34	Emilio Charles Jr.	1	82
35	Javier Cruz	1	35
36	Máscara Sagrada Jr.	1	21
37	Perro Aguayo	1	11

2006 Mexican Middleweight Title Tournament

The tournament ran from October 14, 2005 – January 29, 2006. Records are not clear on who Histeria and Psicosis II defeated to qualify for the semi-finals.

First Round

Second Round

Semi-Final

Finals

1

El Ángel

W

16

Gran Apache

L

El Ángel

L

El Hijo del Fantasma

W

8

El Hijo del Fantasma

W

9

Hator

L

El Hijo del Fantasma

L

Zumbido

W

5

Audaz II Jr.

L

12

Charly Manson

W

Charly Manson

L

Zumbido

W

4

El Oriental

L

13

Zumbido

W

Zumbido

W

Psicosis II

L

6

bye

n/a

11

bye

n/a

bye

n/a

bye

n/a

3

bye

n/a

14

bye

n/a

Histeria

L

Psicosis II

W

7

bye

n/a

10

bye

n/a

bye

n/a

bye

n/a

2

bye

n/a

15

bye

n/a

References

General source for title history before 2000

General source for title history before December 2004

Specific sources

External links

• Official AAA website