The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (''Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrella de CMLL'' in

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) is a

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promoted by the Mexican

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wrestling-based

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Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Co., Ltd. (CMLL; , "World Wrestling Council") is a ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion was previously known as ''Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre'' (''EMLL'') (''Mexi ...

(CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The championship is exclusively competed for in the ''

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'', or Minis, division. A "Mini" is not necessarily a person with

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, as in North American

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; it can also be short wrestlers who work in the ''Mini-Estrellas'' division. The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico; both the

Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship The Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship (''Campeonato Nacional Mini-Estrella'' in Spanish), also referred to as the Mexican National Minis Championship, is an inactive professional wrestling championship sanctioned by ''Comisión de Box y ...

and the

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(AAA) World Mini-Estrella Championship were introduced after CMLL created their Mini-Estrella championship. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a

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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

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, who won a four-man tournament on March 1, 1992, by defeating

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in the final. When the creator of CMLL's Minis division,

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, left CMLL to form his own promotion, AAA, Mascarita Sagrada and many other Minis left CMLL to join AAA. After Mascarita Sagrada left the promotion, the title was

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until September 1992, when Orito won the championship in a match against El Felinito. In 1999, in a so-called "Phantom title switch", then-champion Damiancito el Guerrero had the championship stripped and given to

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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 also the first wrestler to have vacated the title; he is also the wrestler to have held the title the shortest amount of time, at 110 days.

Shockercito Javier Cortes Sánchez (born December 12, 1980) is a Mexican '' Luchador'', or professional wrestler who works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in their ''Mini-Estrella'' division. Cortés is better known under the ring name Shockercito, ...

is the champion, having defeated

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on March 5, 2017, to win the vacant championship. On January 18, 2017, the previous champion,

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, announced that he was moving into the regular sized division and thus had to give up the championship. Shockercito is the 14th overall champion in his first reign and he is the 12th person to hold the championship. Último Dragoncito and

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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.

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.

Title history

Combined reigns

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Footnotes

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References

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