Championship History
The Championship dates back to 1933, making it one of the oldest professional wrestling champions still in use today predating all active titles in both North America and Japan. Records of how the first champion, Yaqui Joe, are unclear due to minimal written documentation from that period. No documentation exists that the championship was created for Empressa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL, later renamed CMLL) but during the 1930s and 40s the promotion was granted control of the title by the Comisión. In 1992 Antonio Peña founded Asistencia Asesoría y Administración taking a number of CMLL wrestlers with him. One of these wrestlers was the then reigning National Middleweight Champion Octagón who took the championship with him. When Blue Panther won the championship in on July 27, 1992 it was officially acknowledged by the Commission that AAA controlled the booking of the championship from that point forward.
Octagón is the current Mexican National Middleweight Champion. It is his fourth title reign and the 60th overall champion. Octagón was also the 45th, 57th and 51st champion. The status of Octagón's title reign is unclear after AAA announced that they would not publicly recognize any titles without the AAA name. El Santo and current champion Octagón are tied for the most reigns with four each. El Santo has held the title for the most days, accumulating 4 reigns that add up to a minimum of 3256 days in total. Perro Aguayo has held the title the shortest amount with 11 days.
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