CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship

The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrella de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha libre wrestling-based promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The championship is exclusively competed for in the Mini-Estrellas, or Minis, division. A "Mini" is not necessarily a person with dwarfism, as in North American midget professional wrestling; it can also be very short wrestlers who work in the Mini division. The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico; both the Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship and the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) World Mini-Estrella Championship were introduced after CMLL created their Mini-Estrella championship. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship was created in early 1992 to give CMLL's Mini-Estrellas division a championship as its focal point. The first champion was Mascarita Sagrada, who won a four-man tournament on March 1, 1992 by defeating Espectrito in the final. When the creator of CMLL's Minis division, Antonio Peña, left CMLL to form his own promotion, AAA, Mascarita Sagrada and a large number of other Minis left CMLL to join AAA. After Mascarita Sagrada left the promotion, the title was vacant until September 1992, when Orito won the championship in a match against El Felinito. Since then, the title has not been vacated. In 1999, in a so-called "Phantom title switch", then-champion Damiancito el Guerrero had the championship stripped and given to Último Dragóncito without a match taking place. Damiancito had begun working under the ring name "Virus" in the "regular-sized" division for more than a year and thus no longer qualified as a Mini. Instead of vacating the title or making Virus lose it in a match, CMLL announced that Último Dragóncito had "won" the title on an undisclosed date in October 1999.

In addition to being the first champion, Mascarita Sagrada is the only wrestler to have vacated the title; he is also the wrestler to have held the title the shortest amount of time, at 110 days. The current champion is Pequeño Olímpico, who defeated Bam Bam for the title on February 13, 2011. It is Olímpico's second championship reign; he is the 12th overall champion and the 10th person to hold the championship. Último Dragóncito is the only wrestler to hold the title twice, while Pequeño Olímpico has held the title the longest of any champion, at 1,442 days.

Read more about CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship:  Title History, Reigns By Combined Length, 1992 CMLL World Mini-Estrella Tournament

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