Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship

The Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship (Campeonato Nacional Mini-Estrella in Spanish), also referred to as the Mexican National Minis Championship, is an inactive professional wrestling championship sanctioned by Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission). While the commission sanctioned the title, it did not promote the events at which the championship was defended. Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promoted the events and had the everyday control of the championship.[h] The championship was exclusively for wrestlers in the Mini-Estrellas, or Minis, division. A "Mini" is not necessarily a person with dwarfism, as in North American Midget wrestling; wrestlers who do not have dwarfism but are very short also work in the Mini-Estrellas division.[i] As it was a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately; it was instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.[j] All title matches took place under two out of three falls rules.[k]

Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship
a little person dressed in a white body suit and mask, wearing a colorful cape on the way to the ring.
The front plate of the championship belt
Details
PromotionAsistencia Asesoría y Administración / AAA
Date established1992
Date retiredJune 21, 2007[1][2]
Other name(s)
Mexican National Minis Championship
Statistics
First champion(s)Espectrito [a]
Final champion(s)Mascarita Sagrada 2000[b]
Most reigns
Longest reignMascarita Sagrada 2000 (958 days)[b]
Shortest reignJerrito Estrada (26 days)[c][d]
Oldest championEspectro I (29 years, 221 days)[f]
Youngest championRocky Marvin – (18 years, 184 days)[f]
Heaviest championMini Abismo Negro (75 kilograms (165 lb))[g]
Lightest championMascarita Sagrada Jr. (40 kilograms (88 lb))[g]

The championship was introduced in January 1993,[l] to be used as the top championship in AAA's newly created Mini-Estrella division. Espectrito won a match against Mascarita Sagrada; Mascarita Sagrada had been the CMLL World Mini-Estrellas Champion when Antonio Peña left Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to create AAA and was initially offered the championship without a match; Sagrada declined, opting to face Espectrito in a match to decide who would become the first champion instead.[a] In 1995 then-reigning champion Super Muñequito defeated Espectrito to win the IWC World Mini-Estrella Championship, merging it with the Mexican National title.[a][m][n] In 1997 then-reigning champion Mascarita Sagrada Jr. left AAA to work for Promo Azteca; he vacated the title and changed his name to "Tzuki".[13] Octagoncito II defeated Pentagoncito to win the vacant title.[o] In 2007, Mascarita Sagrada 2000 left AAA for rival promotion CMLL, while still holding the championship.[1][2]

AAA replaced the championship with the AAA World Mini-Estrella Championship in 2008.[14] The first Mini-Estrella champion, Espectrito, was one of three wrestlers to hold the championship twice, the others being Octagoncito II and Mascarada Sagrada 2000. There was a total of 15 championship reigns shared by 11 wrestlers. Mascarita Sagrada 2000 has the longest individual championship reign at 958 days,[b] as well the longest combined reigns at 1,867 days.[p] Jerrito Estrada's 26-day reign was the shortest.[c][d]

Title history

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Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 Espectrito January 8, 1993 AAA Live event Querétaro 1 98 Defeated Mascarita Sagrada to win the vacant title [a][15]
2 Mascarita Sagrada April 16, 1993 AAA Sin Limite Mexico City 1 294 [d][16]
3 Jerrito Estrada February 4, 1994 AAA Live event Cuernavaca 1 26 [c][17]
4 Octagoncito March 26, 1994 AAA Sin Limite Mérida, Yucatán 1 112 [q][18]
5 Fuercita Guerrera July 16, 1994 AAA Live event Mexico City 1 38 [r][19]
6 Super Muñequito August 23, 1994 AAA Live event Zacatecas 1 703 [s][20]
7 Espectrito July 26, 1996 AAA Sin Limite Actopan, Hidalgo 2 50 [t][21]
8 Mascarita Sagrada Jr. September 14, 1996 AAA Live event Orizaba 1 [u] [v][22]
Vacated 1997 Championship vacated when Mascarita Sagrada Jr. left the promotion. [w]
9 Octagoncito II July 26, 1997 AAA Live event Tulancingo 1 314 Octagoncito defeated Pentagoncito to win the vacant title. [o][23]
10 Mini Abismo Negro June 5, 1998 AAA Live event Fresnillo, Zacatecas 1 334 [x][24]
11 Octagoncito II May 5, 1999 AAA Live event Tecamac 2 550 [y][25]
12 Rocky Marvin November 5, 2000 AAA Live event Monterrey 1 274 [z][27]
13 Mascarita Sagrada 2000 August 6, 2001 AAA Live event León, Guanajuato 1 909 [p][28]
14 Mini Abismo Negro February 1, 2004 AAA Sin Limite Zapopan 2 278 [aa][29]
15 Mascarita Sagrada 2000 November 5, 2004 AAA Sin Limite Veracruz, Veracruz 2 958 [b][30]
Deactivated June 21, 2007 Date of last AAA match for Mascarita Sagrada 2000 [1][2]

Reigns by combined length

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Octagoncito II, second highest number of days as a champion
Key
¤ The exact length of the title reign is uncertain; the shortest possible length is used.
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined days
1 Mascarita Sagrada 2000 2 1,867
2 Octagoncito II 2 864
3 Super Muñequito 1 703
4 Mini Abismo Negro 1 612
5 Mascarita Sagrada 2 295
6 Rocky Marvin 1 274
7 Espectrito 2 148
8 Octagoncito 1 112
9 Mascarita Sagrada Jr. 1 109¤[u]
10 Fuercita Guerrera 1 38
11 Jerrito Estrada 1 26

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c d Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Espectrito I 1993/01/08 Queretaro" [11]
  2. ^ a b c d Lucha 2000 Especial 21 (December 20, 2004) p. 13 "Mascarita Sagrada 2000 5 noviembre 2004" [26]
  3. ^ a b c Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Jerrito Estrada 1994/02/04 Cuernavaca" [11]
  4. ^ a b c Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Mascarita Sagrada [2] 1993/04/16 Mexico City" [11]
  5. ^ a b c d e Madigan (2007), chapter: You ain't seen nothing yet: the minis, pps 209–212
  6. ^ a b Sorted by age, youngest to oldest:
    1. Rocky Marvin – 18 years, 184 days[3]
    2. Mascarita Sagrada 2000 – 19 years, 168 days[4]
    3. Octagoncito – 19 years, 335 days[5]
    4. Tzuki – 22 years, 258 days [6]
    5. Mascarita Sagrada 2000 – 22 years, 260 days[4]
    6. Mini Abismo Negro – 23 years, 350 days[3]
    7. Octagoncito II – 25 years, 94 days [7]
    8. Espectro I – 26 years, 21 days[e]
    9. Octagoncito II – 27 years, 12 days[7]
    10. Mini Abismo Negro – 27 years, 72 days[3]
    11. Jerrito Estrada – 27 years, 252 days
    12. Super Munequito – 27 years, 299 days
    13. Mascarita Sagrada – 28 years, 95 days[e]
    14. Espectro I – 29 years, 221 days[e]
    15. Fuercita Guerrera – undocumented
  7. ^ a b Sorted by weight, lightest to heaviest:
    1. Tzuki – 40 kilograms (88 lb)[6]
    2. Mascaria Sagrada – 42 kilograms (93 lb)[e]
    3. Octagoncito – 46 kilograms (101 lb)[5]
    4. Mascarita Sagrada 2000 – 50 kilograms (110 lb)[4]
    5. Octagoncito II – 62 kilograms (137 lb)[7]
    6. Espectro I – 65 kilograms (143 lb)[e]
    7. Rocky Marvin – 68 kilograms (150 lb)[3]
    8. Mini Abismo Negro – 75 kilograms (165 lb)[3]
    9. Jerrito Estrada – Undocumented
    10. Fuercita Guerrera – Undocumented
    11. Super Munequito – Undocumented
  8. ^ In this context, "control" refers to the everyday use of the championship, determining which storylines the championship is being used in, who gets to challenge for it and how to use it in a public relations sense.
  9. ^ Madigan (2007), pp.209: "They invited some of the wrestlers of smaller physical stature south of the border to work."[8]
  10. ^ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities - but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[9]
  11. ^ 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")[10]
  12. ^ Duncan & Will (2000), chapter "Mexico: National Midget (miniestrella) title, p. 401 [11]
  13. ^ IWC stood for "International Wrestling Council", a name used to Promote AAA in the United States between 1994 and 1995.
  14. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "International World Minis Championship" [12]
  15. ^ a b Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "AAA Octagoncito 1997/07/26 Tulancingo Defeats Pentagoncito." [11]
  16. ^ a b Lucha 2000 Especial 21 (December 20, 2004) p. 13 "Mascarita Sagrada 2000 6 augusto 2001 " [26]
  17. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Octagoncito 1994/03/26 Merida" [11]
  18. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Fuercita Guerrera 1994/07/16 Mexico City" [11]
  19. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Super Muñequito 1994/08/23 Zacatecas" [11]
  20. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Espectrito I [2] 1996/07/26 Actopan" [11]
  21. ^ a b The exact date on which the title was vacated is not known, which means the title reign lasted between 109 and 314 days.
  22. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Mascarita Sagrada Jr. 1996/09/14 Orizaba" [11]
  23. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Vacant when Sagrada jumps to Promo Azteca." [11]
  24. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "Mini Abismo Negro 1998/06/05 Fresnillo, Zacateca" [11]
  25. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 401 "AAA Octagoncito [2] 1999/05/05 Tecamac" [11]
  26. ^ Lucha 2000 Especial 21 (December 20, 2004) p. 13 "Rocky Marvin" [26]
  27. ^ Lucha 2000 Especial 21 (December 20, 2004) p. 13 "Mini Abismo Negro 2000 1 febrero 2004" [26]

References

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