The Crash Cruiserweight Championship Explained

The Crash Cruiserweight Championship
Promotion:The Crash Lucha Libre
Currentholder:Black Destiny
Won:March 18, 2022
Created:June 14, 2013
Firstchamp:Fénix
Mostreigns:Rey Fénix (2 times)
Longestreign:Oraculo
Oldest:Rey Horus [1]
Youngest:Flamita [2]
Heaviest:Bestia 666 [3]
Lightest:Flamita

The Crash Cruiserweight Championship (Spanish; Castilian: Campeonato de Peso Crucero de The Crash) is a professional wrestling championship contested for in the Mexican lucha libre promotion The Crash Lucha Libre based in Tijuana, Baja California. Traditionally most lucha libre promotions promote a division labelled as the "Junior Heavyweight" division, while "Cruiserweight" is a term more used in the United States or Canada but The Crash uses the term "Cruiserweight". The official definition of the Cruiserweight class in Mexico is between 97kg (214lb) and 107kg (236lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[4] As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

From its creation in 2013 until the introduction of The Crash Heavyweight Championship in late 2017, the cruiserweight championship was the highest profile singles championship in the promotion. The current champion is Dinámico, who won the championship on November 5, 2021, when he defeated then-champion Oraculo in a match that also included Black Danger. Fénix was the first champion, having won a multi-man match on June 14, 2013, to become the inaugural champion, Oraculo is the only wrestler to have won the championship twice. Ángel Metálico's championship run from February 1, 2014 to May 8, 2015 is the longest in the history of the championship, while Rey Horus' 65 day reign is the shortest. The championship has been declared vacant twice, first when then-champion Bestia 666 was unable to defend the championship in 2016, and again in early 2018 when Fénix vacated the championship as he moved into the heavyweight division.

Combined reigns

Indicates the current champion
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain.
+Indicates that the date changes daily for the current champion.
RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns
Combined
days
1Black Destiny † 1 +
2Oraculo 1 735
32 484
4Ángel Metálico 1 461
51 308
61 293
71 223
81 147
9Dinámico 1 133
101
111 65

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rey Horus . November 1, 2009 . CageMatch.net . German.
  2. Web site: http://www.gaora.co.jp/dragongate/data/prfl/flamita.html. ja:フラミータ. July 27, 2015. Dragon Gate. Gaora. Japanese.
  3. Web site: Bestia 666 . July 28, 2011 . . Spanish . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120315231450/http://regio.record.com.mx/2011-02-24/toscano-0 . March 15, 2012.
  4. Web site: Reglamento de Box y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico . Arturo Montiel Rojas . Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. . August 30, 2001 . July 13, 2009 . Articulo 242: "Semicompleto 97 kilos / Junior Completo/Crucero 107 kilos" . Spanish. https://web.archive.org/web/20061130181418/http://www.ordenjuridico.gob.mx/Estatal/ESTADO%20DE%20MEXICO/Reglamentos/MEXREG004.pdf. November 30, 2006.