CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship
| CMLL World Lightweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Máscara Dorada, the 11th over-all Champion
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | February 27, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Dragon Lee | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | March 4, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
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CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Championship (1999 - 2000)
CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship (2003 - 2012) |
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| First champion(s) | Masatu Yakushiji |
| Most reigns | Virus (4 reigns) |
| Longest reign | Virus (3 years, 302 days) |
| Shortest reign | Ricky Marvin (between 1 day and 32 days) |
| Oldest winner | Virus (42 years, 170 days) |
| Youngest winner | Dragon Lee (19 years, 335 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Tommy Williams (84 kg (185 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Dragon Lee (75 kg (165 lb)) |
The CMLL World Lightweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Peso Ligero del CMLL) is a professional wrestling world championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling-based promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Originally CMLL promoted the "Super Lightweight" division as part of their expansion into Japan from 1999 until 2000 and later reintroduced the division in 2003 as the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship was used by CMLL in Mexico. During Máscara Dorada reign with the title between 2009 and 2011 the name was changed to be the CMLL Lightweight Championship instead.
Dragon Lee is the current CMLL World Lightweight Champion after defeating Kamaitachi for the championship on March 4, 2016. Dragon Lee is the 15th overall champion and is a two-time champion. The first CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Champion was Masatu Yakushiji, who won it on February 27. 1999.
In 1999 CMLL began to tour Japan, promoting a series of wrestling shows under the name "CMLL Japan". The shows featured a mixture of CMLL and native Japanese wrestlers On February 27, 1999, they held a one night tournament to determine who would be the first ever CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Championship, making the first time in the history of CMLL that they had a championship specifically for that weight class. The tournament finale saw the Japanese Masato Yakushiji defeat CMLL wrestler Rencor Latino to become the first ever champion. Over the following year CMLL promoted additional shows in Japan and had CMLL wrestler Virus win the championship from Yakushiji. Subsequently Virus and Mexican Ricky Marvin, who worked for a number of Japanese promotions at the time, exchanged the title over the fall of 2000, the last title change taking place in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico after the final CMLL Japan tour had ended. The championship was discontinued by the end of 2000 as CMLL abandoned future plans to promote shows in Japan.
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