The
CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship (
Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrellas de CMLL in
Spanish), also known as the
CMLL World Pequeño Estrellas Championship (
Campeonato Mundial Pequeno Estrellas 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 wrestling; 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 and the
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (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
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 many 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. 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 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. Último Dragoncito is the current champion in his record-setting third reign. He defeated Mercurio on November 17, 2023, at Super Viernes. 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
Key
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Overall reign number
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| Reign
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Reign number for the specific champion
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| Days
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Number of days held
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| N/A
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Unknown information
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| +
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Current reign is changing daily
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Combined reigns
- Key
| Symbol
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Meaning
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| ¤
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The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
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| †
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Indicates the current champion
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- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Mascarita Sagrada 1992/03/01 Mexico City"
- ^ Madigan (2007), pp.209: "They invited some of the wrestlers of smaller physical stature south of the border to work."
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397, chapter Mexico: EMLL CMLL World Midget (miniestrella) title
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000), chapter "Mexico: National Midget (miniestrella) title, p. 401 ""
- ^ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities - but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"
- ^ Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre p. 44 "ARTICULO 258.- Cada combate de lucha libre tendrá como limite tres caídas; cada caída será sin limite de tiempo, ganará quien obtenga dos caídas de las tres en disputa" ("ARTICLE 258.- Each wrestling match shall have as limit three falls; Each fall will be without time limit. The winner will be the one to first obtain two of the three falls in the match")
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Vacant on 92/06/19 after Sagrada justs to AAA in 92/05"
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Orito 1992/09/06 Mexico City"
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1997/10#"
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultimo Dragoncito 1993/03/14 Mexico City"
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Ultratumbita 1993/09/11 Mexico City"
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Mascarita Magica 1995/02"
- ^ The exact date of Damiancito's title loss is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1,312 and 1,339 days.
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 397 "Damiancito 1996/02/27 Mexico City"
- ^ The exact date of Último Dragoncito's title win is unknown, which means that his second title reign lasted between 716 and 746 days.
- ^ Súper Luchas (February 14, 2011): "El Pequeño Olímpico saco toda la experiencia y se llevo el campeonato mundial mini del CMLL ante Bam Bam" ("Pequeño Olímpico used his experience to take the CMLL World Mini Championship from Bam Bam")
- ^ CMLL (September 8, 2014): "Astral es el nuevo Campeón de los Pequeños Estrellas. Después de reinar 3 años como monarca en esta división Olímpico dejo su cetro en manos de Astral." ("Astral is the new Mini-Estrellas Champion. After a 3 year reign as champion of the division, Olímpico left the crown in the hands of Astral")
- ^ CMLL (March 5, 2017): "obligando a un tercer capítulo, que llegó a su fin con resultado favorable para SHOCKERCITO, que se coronó de esta forma, como el flamante Campeón de la división." ("which came to an end with a favorable result for Shockercito, who was crowned the brand new champion of the division.")