The CMLL World Middleweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial peso Medio de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). While weight classes are regularly ignored in wrestling promotions in the, with most emphasis placed on "heavyweights", more emphasis is placed on weight classes in Mexico companies who still maintain many weight classes. The official definition of a Middleweight in Mexico is a person under 87 kg (190 lb), but is not strictly adhered to these days.
History[]
In 1991, CMLL decided to create a series of World Championships, one of which was for the Middleweight division. They had a one-night, eight-man tournament to determine the first Middleweight Champion. The tournament final saw Blue Panther defeat El Satánico to win the championship.
Reigns[]
El Dandy holds the record for most World Middleweight Championship reigns with three and is one of only four wrestlers to hold the title more than once, the others being Negro Casas, Emilio Charles, Jr. and Dragon Rojo Jr. El Satánico holds the record for longest individual reign, with 1,561 days. El Dandy has held the title the shortest at 63 days.
1991 CMLL World Middleweight Championship Tournament[]
In 1991, CMLL held an eight-man, one night tournament to crown the first ever CMLL World Middleweight champion.
| First round | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| Blue Panther | W | ||||||||||||
| Ringo Mendoza | |||||||||||||
| Blue Panther | W | ||||||||||||
| El Dandy | |||||||||||||
| Espectro Jr. | |||||||||||||
| El Dandy | W | ||||||||||||
| Blue Panther | W | ||||||||||||
| Satánico | |||||||||||||
| Ángel Azteca | W | ||||||||||||
| Emilio Charles, Jr. | |||||||||||||
| Ángel Azteca | |||||||||||||
| Satánico | W | ||||||||||||
| El Satánico | W | ||||||||||||
| El Hijo de Gladiador | |||||||||||||
