CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship
Professional wrestling little persons' championship
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The CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship (Campeonato Mundial Mini-Estrellas de CMLL in Spanish), also known as the CMLL World Pequeño Estrellas Championship (Campeonato Mundial Pequeno Estrellas 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 wrestling, and can also be short wrestlers who work in the Mini-Estrellas division; although wrestlers with dwarfism can compete for the title, there also exists the CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Championship, exclusive to them.[b] The championship was created in 1992 and is the oldest active Mini-Estrella title in Mexico;[c] both the Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship and the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) World Mini-Estrella Championship were introduced after CMLL created their Mini-Estrella championship.[d][4] As it is 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.[e] All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.[f]
| CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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The front plate of the championship | |||||||||||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||||||||||
| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | March 1, 1992[a] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Angelito | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | November 17, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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.[a] When the creator of CMLL's Minis division, Antonio Peña, left CMLL to form his own promotion, AAA, Mascarita Sagrada and many other Minis left CMLL to join AAA.[g] After Mascarita Sagrada left the promotion, the title was vacant until September 1992, when Orito won the championship in a match against El Felinito.[h] In 1999, in a so-called "Phantom title switch", then-champion Damiancito el Guerrero had the championship stripped and given to Último Dragoncito 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 Dragoncito had "won" the title on an undisclosed date in October 1999.[i]
In addition to being the first champion, Mascarita Sagrada is also the first wrestler to have vacated the title; he is also the wrestler to have held the title the shortest amount of time, at 110 days. Angelito is the current champion in his record-setting third reign. He defeated Último Dragoncito on September 26, 2025, at Super Viernes. Pequeño Olímpico has held the title the longest of any champion, at 1,442 days for a single reign and 2,744 for his combined two reigns.[7]
1992 CMLL World Mini-Estrella tournament
CMLL held a tournament in early 1992 to determine the first CMLL World Mini-Estrella Champion; the semi-finals were held on February 23, 1992, and the finals on March 1, 1992.
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| Mascarita Sagrada | W | ||||||||
| Aguilita Solitaria | |||||||||
| Mascarita Sagrada | W | ||||||||
| Espectrito | |||||||||
| Octagoncito | |||||||||
| Espectrito | W | ||||||||
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| N/A | Unknown information |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
| Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) | ||||||||||
| 1 | Mascarita Sagrada | March 1, 1992 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 110 | Defeated Espectrito in the finals of a four-man tournament | [a] | ||
| — | Vacated | June 19, 1992 | — | — | — | — | Mascarita Sagrada left CMLL to join AAA | [g] | ||
| 2 | Orito | September 6, 1992 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 189 | [h] | |||
| 3 | Último Dragoncito | March 14, 1993 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 181 | [j] | |||
| 4 | Ultratumbita | September 11, 1993 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 520 | [k] | |||
| 5 | Máscarita Mágica | February 13, 1995 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 379 | [l] | |||
| 6 | Damiancito El Guerrero | February 27, 1996 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | [m] | [n] | |||
| 7 | Último Dragoncito | October 1999 | N/A | N/A | 2 | [o] | Champion Damiancito El Guerrero had not worked in the minis division for over a year; the title was given to Último Dragoncito instead of vacating it. | [i] | ||
| 8 | Pierrothito | October 16, 2001 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 784 | [7] | |||
| 9 | Pequeño Olimpico | December 9, 2003 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 1,442 | [7] | |||
| 10 | Pequeño Damián 666 | November 20, 2007 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 250 | [7] | |||
| 11 | Bam Bam | July 27, 2008 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 931 | [7] | |||
| 12 | Pequeño Olímpico | February 13, 2011 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 2 | 1,302 | [p] | |||
| 13 | Astral | September 7, 2014 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 864 | [q] | |||
| — | Vacated | January 18, 2017 | — | — | — | — | The championship was vacated when Astral moved into the regular division. He would no longer be considered a Mini-Estrella | [10] | ||
| 14 | Shockercito | March 5, 2017 | Live event | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 1813 | [r] | |||
| 15 | Mercurio | February 20, 2022 | CMLL Domingos Arena Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 635 | [12] | |||
| 16 | Último Dragoncito | November 17, 2023 | Super Viernes | Mexico City, Mexico | 3 | 679 | [13] | |||
| 17 | Angelito | September 26, 2025 | Super Viernes | Mexico City, Mexico | 1 | 218+ | [14] | |||
Combined reigns
- Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| † | Indicates the current champion |
| Rank | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pequeño Olimpico | 2 | 2,744 | |
| 2 | Shockercito | 1 | 1,813 | [11] |
| 3 | Último Dragoncito ¤ | 3 | 1,576[o] | [i] [7][8][9] |
| 4 | Mercurio | 1 | 1,532 | [15] |
| 5 | Damiancito El Guerrero ¤ | 1 | 1,312[m] | [n] |
| 6 | Bam Bam | 1 | 931 | [7][8] |
| 7 | Astral | 1 | 864 | [9][10] |
| 8 | Pierrothito | 1 | 784 | [7] |
| 9 | Ultratumbita | 1 | 520 | [k][l] |
| 10 | Mascarita Magica | 1 | 379 | [l][n] |
| 11 | Pequeño Damián 666 | 1 | 250 | [7] |
| 12 | Angelito † | 1 | 218+ | |
| 13 | Orito | 1 | 189 | [h][j] |
| 14 | Mascarita Sagrada | 1 | 110 | [a][g] |
Footnotes
- Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre p. 44 "ARTICULO 258.- Cada combate de lucha libre tendrá como limite tres caídas; cada caída será sin limite de tiempo, ganará quien obtenga dos caídas de las tres en disputa" ("ARTICLE 258.- Each wrestling match shall have as limit three falls; Each fall will be without time limit. The winner will be the one to first obtain two of the three falls in the match")[6]
- The exact date of Damiancito's title loss is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1,312 and 1,339 days.
- The exact date of Último Dragoncito's title win is unknown, which means that his second title reign lasted between 716 and 746 days.
- CMLL (September 8, 2014): "Astral es el nuevo Campeón de los Pequeños Estrellas. Después de reinar 3 años como monarca en esta división Olímpico dejo su cetro en manos de Astral." ("Astral is the new Mini-Estrellas Champion. After a 3 year reign as champion of the division, Olímpico left the crown in the hands of Astral")[9]
- CMLL (March 5, 2017): "obligando a un tercer capítulo, que llegó a su fin con resultado favorable para SHOCKERCITO, que se coronó de esta forma, como el flamante Campeón de la división." ("which came to an end with a favorable result for Shockercito, who was crowned the brand new champion of the division.")[11]