CMLL World Tag Team Championship explained

Championshipname:CMLL World Tag Team Championship
Currentholder:Los Nuevos Ingobernables
Won:January 23, 2022
Promotion:Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Created:March 3, 1993
Mostreigns:Team: Averno/Mephisto, Rey Bucanero/Último Guerrero, Negro Casas/El Hijo del Santo (3 times)
Individual: Negro Casas and Último Guerrero (6 times)
Firstchamp:Dr. Wagner Jr. and El Canek
Longestreign:Negro Casas and Shocker
Shortestreign:Dr. Wagner Jr. and Último Guerrero (7 days)[1]
Oldest:Negro Casas [2]
Youngest:La Sombra
Lightest:Averno and Negro Casas (79kg (174lb))
Heaviest:Los Headhunters
(147kg (324lb))

The CMLL World Tag Team Championship (CMLL Campeonato Mundial de Parejas in Spanish) is a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council") in Mexico and is for two-man tag teams only. The championship was created in 1993 to replace the Mexican National Tag Team Championship and is still promoted by CMLL to this day. It is the top championship promoted by CMLL, with the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship and the Occidente Tag Team Championship considered lower ranked, regional tag team championships. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is won or lost via wrestling matches.

The reigning champions are Los Nuevos Ingobernables ("The New Ungovernables"; Ángel de Oro and Niebla Roja), having defeated Titán and Volador Jr., on January 23, 2022, at CMLL Domingos Arena Mexico. They are the 44th overall champions in their first reign together. Negro Casas and Shocker hold the record for the longest reign as a team, at 1,335 days. Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero hold the record for the longest combined reigns of any team: 1,185 days divided over three reigns. Individually, Último Guerrero has held the championship six times for a total of 1,923 days, the longest of any individual. The team of Último Guerrero and Dr. Wagner Jr. held the championship for seven days, the shortest reign of any championship team. Casas and Último Guerrero have the most title reigns with six each, while the combinations of Casas and El Hijo del Santo, Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero and Averno and Mephisto are the only teams to have won the championship three times.

The championship has been declared vacant on a number of occasions, either because of an injury to one of the champions or because a wrestler stopped working for CMLL for a period of time. The championship has been held up once, based on the inconclusive outcome of a match, being vacant for a week until the two teams had a rematch. CMLL has also held a couple of tournaments designed to give the winners of the tournament a match against the champions, declaring them the official number one contender for the champions.

History

Starting in 1957 the Mexican Lucha libre, or professional wrestling, promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ("Mexican Wrestling Enterprise"; EMLL) began promoting the Mexican National Tag Team Championship as the top championship of their tag team division. In 1991 EMLL was rebranded Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ("World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) after the promotion left the National Wrestling Alliance in the late 1980s.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Tag Team Title . March 4, 2009 . wrestling-titles.com.
  2. Web site: Resultados Arena México Viernes 13 de Junio '14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140702063843/http://cmll.com/02_resultados/super_viernes/super_viernes_cmll.htm . Results from Arena México Friday June 13 '14 . Salazar López . Alexis A. . July 2, 2014 . June 14, 2014 . June 14, 2014 . . es . dead .