CMLL World Welterweight Championship
| CMLL World Welterweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Record four-time champion Máscara Dorada with the title belt in August 2015
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | February 15, 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Mephisto | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | May 3, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | Fuerza Guerrera |
| Most reigns | Máscara Dorada (4 times) |
| Longest reign | Mephisto (3 years, 45 days) |
| Shortest reign | Fuerza Guerrera (15 days) |
| Oldest winner | Negro Casas (49 years, 69 days) |
| Youngest winner | Místico (21 years, 190 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Olímpico (92 kg (203 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Místico (76 kg (168 lb)) |
The CMLL World Welterweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Peso Welter del CMLL) is a professional wrestling championship in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The official definition of the welterweight division in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb) but the official weight limits are not always adhered to. As with other professional wrestling championships, it is not won or lost competitively but is instead scripted by the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded after the chosen wrestler "wins" a match.
Overall there have been a total of 32 official championship reigns, shared between 20 different wrestlers. Mephisto is the current and 32nd champion, having won the championship on May 3, 2016. Máscara Dorada is the first and only wrestler to hold the championship four times. Mephisto's first reign was the longest individual reign, for 1,141 days from 2004 to 2007. The championship has been defended in Mexico and Japan, with three title changes in Japan. The championship has been vacated twice, and CMLL has held three tournaments for the championship.
In the late 1980s CMLL left the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), but retained control of the NWA World Welterweight Championship as their main championship of the welterweight division. They also promoted the Mexican National Welterweight Championship as a secondary title in the Welterweight division. In 1991 they decided to create a series of CMLL-branded world championships, one of which was for the welterweight division. They held a four-man tournament on February 15, 1992, to crown the first welterweight champion. The participants were Fuerza Guerrera, El Felino, América and El Khalifa; in the finals, Fuerza Guerrera defeated El Khalifa to become the first champion. On July 16, 1992, the Mexican National Welterweight Champion defeated CMLL Welterweight Champion América, vacating the Mexican National Welterweight Championship. In 1993 control of the Mexican National Welterweight Championship was transferred from CMLL to rival promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).
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