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CMLL World Heavyweight Championship

CMLL World Heavyweight Championship
A picture of the championship belt
The design used for most of the CMLL World Championship belts
(no weight division indicated)
Details
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established June 9, 1991
Current champion(s) Máximo Sexy
Date won January 30, 2015

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), who introduced the championship to signal their independence from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), whose titles they had still been promoting after they left the alliance in the late 1980s. As part of the move away from the NWA, CMLL established a number of championships designated as "CMLL World Championships" for a variety of 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. The current champion is Máximo Sexy, the fifteenth overall person to hold the championship and the eighteenth overall champion.

In most professional wrestling promotions around the world, the "world heavyweight" designation is normally 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, and began promoting title matches for the NWA in Mexico on occasion.


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