The Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship (''Campeonato Nacional Mini-Estrella'' in Spanish), also referred to as the Mexican National Minis Championship, is an inactive

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sanctioned by ''Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F.'' (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission). While the commission sanctioned the title, it did not promote the events at which the championship was defended.

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración Antonio Peña Promotions, S.A. de C.V. d/b/a Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide is a Mexican Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) promotion based in Mexico City, Mexico. Commonly referred to as simply AAA (pronounced "triple A"; an abbreviation of its o ...

(AAA) promoted the events and had the everyday control of the championship. The championship was exclusively for wrestlers in the ''

Mini-Estrellas The term ''Mini-Estrella'' (Spanish for "Mini-Star") is used in lucha libre to describe a division of short professional wrestlers or ''luchadors'', some of whom have dwarfism. The Mexican ''Mini-Estrellas'' is comparable to Midget wrestling prac ...

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

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, as in North American

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; wrestlers who do not have dwarfism but are very short also work in the Mini-Estrellas division. As it was a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately; it was instead won via a scripted ending to a

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or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. All title matches took place under two out of three falls rules. The championship was introduced in January 1993, to be used as the top championship in AAA's newly created Mini-Estrella division.

Espectrito Mario Pérez Jiménez (December 18, 1966 – January 23, 2016) was a Mexican Mini-Estrella luchador, or Mini professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Espectrito. Jiménez worked for the World Wrestling Federation as "Mini Vader ...

won a match against

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; Mascarita Sagrada had been the CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Champion when

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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) to create AAA and was initially offered the championship without a match; Sagrada declined, opting to face Espectrito in a match to decide who would become the first champion instead. In 1995 then-reigning champion

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defeated Espectrito to win the IWC World Mini-Estrella Championship, merging it with the Mexican National title. In 1997 then-reigning champion Mascarita Sagrada Jr. left AAA to work for ''

Promo Azteca ''Promo Azteca'' (AZTECA, originally known as ''Promotora Mexicana de Lucha Libre'', PROMELL) was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Tijuana, Mexico, by Fuerza Guerrera in 1995. It was taken over by Konnan and Jorge Rojas the ...

''; he vacated the title and changed his name to "Tzuki". Octagoncito II defeated Pentagoncito to win the vacant title. In 2007, Mascarita Sagrada 2000 left AAA for rival promotion CMLL, while still holding the championship. AAA replaced the championship with the

AAA World Mini-Estrella Championship The AAA World Mini-Estrella Championship (''Campeonato Mundial Mini AAA'' in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). The championship is exclusively compete ...

in 2008. The first Mini-Estrella champion, Espectrito, was one of three wrestlers to hold the championship twice, the others being Octagoncito II and Mascarada Sagrada 2000. There was a total of 15 championship reigns shared by 11 wrestlers. Mascarita Sagrada 2000 has the longest individual championship reign at 958 days, as well the longest combined reigns at 1,867 days. Jerrito Estrada's 26-day reign was the shortest.

Title history

Reigns by combined length

Footnotes

References

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