CMLL World Trios Champions

CMLL World Trios Championship
Místico, part of the 27th CMLL World Trios Championship team
Details
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established	November 1991
Current champion(s)	Sky Team (Místico, Valiente and Volador Jr.)
Date won	February 13, 2015
Statistics First champion(s) Los Infernales Most reigns Team: Los Infernales (MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico) / El Hijo del Fantasma, Héctor Garza and La Máscara (2 times) Individual: Héctor Garza (5 times) Longest reign Black Warrior, Blue Panther and Dr. Wagner Jr. (App. 7003114100000000000♠3 years, 45 days) Shortest reign La Ola Amarilla (Hiroshi Tanahashi, Okumura and Taichi) (7001140000000000000♠14 days) Oldest winner Canek (7004190130000000000♠52 years, 20 days) Youngest winner La Sombra (7003750400000000000♠20 years, 199 days) Heaviest champion Brazo de Plata (135 kg (298 lb)) Lightest champion Perro Aguayo Jr. (75 kg (165 lb))

The CMLL World Trios Championship (Spanish: "Campeonato Mundial de Trios") is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico. The title has existed since 1993 and is contested for by teams of three wrestlers. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded to the chosen team after they "win" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.

The first champions were Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones"; MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico) who won a tournament on November 22, 1991. Since then a total of 25 different trios have held the championship. The current champions are Sky Team (Místico, Valiente and Volador Jr.) who have been champions since February 13, 2015. The championship has been vacated on four different occasions, each time leading to CMLL holding a tournament to determine new champions. Only two teams have held the title on more than one occasion, Los Infernales and the trio of Héctor Garza, Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara.

With the emergence of trios (tag teams consisting of three people) such as Los Misioneros de la Muerte, Los Brazos and more, the six-man tag team match became increasingly popular in the early 1980s. Its popularity led to the trios format becoming the most prevalent match format in Lucha libre to this day. In 1985, the Mexican lucha libre, or professional wrestling, promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ("Mexican Wrestling Enterprise"; EMLL) was given control of the newly created Mexican National Trios Championship. Over the subsequent six years, that championship became the focal point of the very popular trios division, serving as the highest honor EMLL could bestow on a trio at the time. In 1991, EMLL changed their name to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ("World Wrestling Council") and began to establish a series of CMLL-branded world championships, relegating the Mexican National championships to being a secondary level of championships within the company. In 1991, CMLL added a CMLL-branded world championship for the trios division. They held a 16-team tournament to crown the first champions, a tournament that saw "Los Infernales" ("The Infernal Ones"; MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico) defeat "Los Brazos" ("The Arms"; El Brazo, Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) to become the first CMLL World Trios Champions. Over the next couple of years, the championship would be held by such teams as "Los Intocables" ("The Untouchables" Jaque Mate, Masakre and Pierroth Jr.) and "La Ola Blanca" ("The White Wave"; Gran Markus Jr., El Hijo del Gladiador and Dr. Wagner Jr.). In 1993, the then-reigning Mexican National Trios Champions left CMLL, and the Mexico City Boxing and wrestling commission allowed the champions to take the Mexican National Trios Championship with them. From 1993 through 2001, when the Mexican National Trios Championship returned to CMLL, the CMLL World Trios Championship was the only championship for the division.