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CMLL World Middleweight Championship Campeonato Mundial de Peso Medio del CMLL
Blue Panther, the first CMLL World Middleweight Champion
Details
Current champion(s)	Hijo del Fantasma
Date won	02009-07-21 July 21, 2009
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established	01991-12-18 December 18, 1991
Statistics Most reigns El Dandy (3 times) First champion(s) Blue Panther Longest reign Satanico (1561 days) Shortest reign El Dandy (63 days) Heaviest champion Apolo Dantes (230 lb (100 kg)) Lightest champion Averno (170 lb (77 kg))

The CMLL World Middleweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial peso Medio de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). While weight classes are regularly ignored in wrestling promotions in the United States, with most emphasis placed on "heavyweights", more emphasis is placed on weight classes in Mexican companies who still maintain many weight classes. The official definition of a Middleweight in Mexico is a person under 87 kg (190 lb), but is not strictly adhered to these days.

Because the championship is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded after the chosen champion "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.

Championship history

In the late 1980s CMLL left the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) to avoid the politics of the NWA. In 1991, CMLL decided to create a series of World Championships, one of which was the for the Middleweight division. They use a one night, eight man tournament to determine the first Middleweight Champion. The tournament final saw Blue Panther defeat Satánico to become the first CMLL World Middleweight Champion. The title has not been vacated at any time since it was first created and is current held by the 10th overall champion on the 13th title reign.

Reigns

Hijo del Fantasma is the current champion having won the title on July 21, 2009 from Averno. This is Hijo del Fantasma's first reign as Middleweight Champion and he is the 14th over all champion.^[1] El Dandy holds the record for most World Middleweight Championship reigns with three and is one of only two wrestlers to hold the title more than once, the other being Emilio Charles, Jr. Satánico holds the record for longest individual reign, with 1,561 days. Apolo Dantés has held the title the shortest with 77 days.

Title tournaments

1991 CMLL World Middleweight Championship Tournament

In 1991, CMLL held an eight man, one night tournament to crown the first ever CMLL World Middleweight champion.

References

External links

• Official CMLL Website