CMLL World Middleweight Championship
| CMLL World Middleweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Negro Casas, the 12th and 15th champion
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | December 18, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Dragón Rojo Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | November 18, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | Blue Panther |
| Most reigns | El Dandy (3 times) |
| Longest reign | Dragón Rojo Jr. (5 years, 119 days) |
| Shortest reign | El Dandy (63 days) |
| Oldest winner | Ringo Mendoza (49 years, 169 days) |
| Youngest winner | El Hijo del Fantasma (25 years, 82 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Averno (105 kg (231 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Apolo Dantés (92 kg (203 lb)) |
The CMLL World Middleweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Peso Medio del CMLL) is a professional wrestling world championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). While lighter weight classes are regularly ignored in wrestling promotions in the United States, with most emphasis placed on "heavyweights", more emphasis is placed on the lighter classes in Mexican companies. The official definition of the middleweight division in Mexico is a person between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but the weight limits are not strictly adhered to. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won via legitimate competition; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or on occasion awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.
The CMLL World Middleweight Champion since November 11, 2011, has been Dragón Rojo Jr., the longest reigning champion in the history of the championship. Since its creation in 1991, there have been 17 individual championship reigns shared between 12 wrestlers. El Dandy is the only three-time champion; Apolo Dantés had the shortest reign of any champion, 77 days.
The middleweight division was one of the first weight divisions in Mexican lucha libre to have a specific championship as the Mexican National Middleweight Championship was created in 1933. When the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ("Mexican Wrestling Enterprise"; EMLL) was founded in September 1933, they became one of several Mexican promotions to promote the championship. EMLL later created the World Middleweight Championship to represent the highest level prize of the middleweight division, higher than the Mexican National Middleweight Championship. In 1952, EMLL joined the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and changed the title to the NWA World Middleweight Championship.
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