CMLL World Heavyweight Champion
| CMLL World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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The design used for most of the CMLL World Championship belts
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | June 9, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Marco Corleone | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | June 6, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | Konnan el Bárbaro |
| Most reigns | Universo 2000 (3 times) |
| Longest reign | Universo 2000 (1225 days) |
| Shortest reign | Konnan el Bárbaro (70 days) |
| Oldest winner | Cien Caras (43 years, 305 days) |
| Youngest winner | Steel (26 years, 43 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Brazo de Plata (135 kg (298 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Máximo Sexy (92 kg (203 lb)) |
The CMLL World Heavyweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Peso Completo del CMLL) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship established in 1991 and promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). CMLL introduced the championship to signal their independence from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), whose titles they had continued to promote after leaving the alliance in the late 1980s. As part of the move away from the NWA, CMLL established championships designated as "CMLL World Championships" for several weight divisions. The Heavyweight Championship was the first CMLL title to be created, and the inaugural champion was Konnan el Bárbaro, who won the title on June 9, 1991. Marco Corleone is the current CMLL World Heavyweight Champion, having won a tournament for the vacant championship on June 6, 2017. Sixteen different wrestlers have held the championship, split over nineteen separate championship reigns.
In most professional wrestling promotions around the world, the "world heavyweight" designation is used to indicate the highest-ranking championship instead of an actual weight division. Traditionally, however, lucha libre has used multiple weight divisions, often with the lower weight classes receiving more attention from the promoters. CMLL carries on this tradition. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match.
The Mexican professional wrestling promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) was founded in 1933 and initially recognized a series of "Mexican National" wrestling championships, endorsed by the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission). The Mexican National Heavyweight Championship was created in 1926, and over time, EMLL began promoting matches for that championship with the approval and oversight of the wrestling commission. In the 1950s, EMLL became a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), recognized the NWA World Heavyweight Championship as the highest ranking championship, and began promoting title matches for the NWA in Mexico on occasion.
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