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The CMLL Universal Championship 2015 (Campeonato Universal in Spanish) is an ongoing professional wrestling tournament, originally announced by the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion as starting in August 2015. CMLL started the tournament in October, with no explanation for the change to the schedule. Traditionally the Universal Championship tournament takes place over three Super Viernes. The CMLL Universal Championship is an annual tournament of CMLL champions that was first held in 2009, making the 2015 version the seventh overall tournament. Being a professional wrestling tournament, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public.

Background[]

The tournament will feature 15 professional wrestling matches under single-elimination tournament rules, which means that wrestlers would be eliminated from the tournament when they lose a match. All male "non-regional" CMLL champions at the time of the tournament are eligible to participate in the tournament. The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship and Mexican National Lightweight Championship are both exclusively for CMLL's Mini-Estrella division and thus not eligible for the tournament. Regionally promoted championships such as the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship and the Occidente championships promoted in Guadalajara, Jalisco have not been included in the tournament in the past; only titles that have been defended in CMLL's main venue Arena Mexico were included, although exceptions have been made to allow New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) champions to compete if they were in Mexico at the time. At the time of the tournament being announced CMLL World Welterweight Champion Máscara Dorada was working full-time for NJPW, which meant he would not participate in the tournament.

2015 Universal Championship tournament[]

Block A (October 2, 2015)
Participant Championship held
Ángel de Oro CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship
Bárbaro Cavernario Mexican National Welterweight Championship
Dragon Lee CMLL World Lightweight Championship
Dragón Rojo, Jr. CMLL World Middleweight Championship
Luciferno Mexican National Trios Championship
Rey Bucanero NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship
Shocker CMLL World Tag Team Championship
Último Guerrero NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship
Block B (October 9, 2015)
Participant Championship held
Atlantis Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship
Negro Casas CMLL World Tag Team Championship
Ephesto Mexican National Trios Championship
Máximo CMLL World Heavyweight Championship
Mephisto Mexican National Trios Championship
Místico CMLL World Trios Championship
Valiente CMLL World Trios Championship
Volador Jr. CMLL World Trios Championship
NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

Tournament brackets[]

Block A
  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                           
   Último Guerrero Pin  
 Rey Bucanero  
   Último Guerrero Pin  
   Bárbaro Cavernario  
 Dragón Rojo Jr.
   Bárbaro Cavernario Pin  
     Último Guerrero Pin
   Shocker
   Dragon Lee Pin  
 Luciferno  
   Luciferno
   Shocker Pin  
 Ángel de Oro Pin
   Shocker  


Block B
  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                           
   Ephesto Pin  
 Mephisto  
   Mephisto Pin  
   Místico  
 Místico Pin
   Valiente  
     Mephisto
   Atlantis Pin
   Volador Jr. Pin  
 Maximo  
   Volador Jr.
   Atlantis Pin  
 Negro Casas
   Atlantis Pin  


Atlantis defeated Ultimo Guerrero in the Finals to win the Tournament.

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