The Mexican National Heavyweight Championship is a Mexican Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) championship created and sanctioned by Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (the Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission). While the Commission sanctions the title, it does not promote the events in which the Championship is defended.
History[]
The earliest recorded champion was Francisco Aguayo. When Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL, later renamed CMLL) was founded in 1933, it was given the full promotional control of the title, with the Commission only being asked to approve the champions. In this, "control" refers to the every day use of the championship, determining which storylines the title is being used it, who gets to challenge for the title, how to use it in a public relations sense. After Pierroth, Jr. won the title in 1995, he left CMLL and signed with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), bringing the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship with him. When Máscara Sagrada became the champion in 1996, it was officially acknowledged by the Commission that AAA controlled the booking of the championship from that point forward. El Halcón, also billed as Halcón Ortiz and Super Halcón, has the record for most championship reigns, with five. The Championship was inactive for several years, starting on September 13, 2006 where it was one of the four titles eliminated to make room for the new AAA World Heavyweight Championship. In the fall of 2009 Charly Manson left AAA, bringing the Mexican National Championship belt with him to defend on the independent circuit. X-Fly won the championship from Charly Manson on February 21, 2010 at a Perros del Mal Producciones show. X-Fly is the first "Independent" champion crowned in the title's history.
Hector Garza defeated X-Fly, Perro Aguayo Jr., Toscano, Texano Jr. and El Mesias in a six-way match to win the championship at Arena Aficion on February 14, 2012. Garza announced a temporary retirement from the ring in October 2012 due to lung cancer, then passed away in May of 2013.
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) held a Torneo Cibernetico to crown a new champion on October 22, 2017 with Diamante Azul, El Terrible, El Cuatrero, Blue Panther, Jr., Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Kraneo, Comandante Pierroth, Rush, Shocker, Stuka, Jr. and Vangelis. The final 2 left in the match met on October 29, 2017 where El Terrible defeated Diamante Azul to win the championship.
