| Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 The front plate of the championship belt | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Asistencia Asesoría y Administración / AAA | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | June 21, 2007[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Mexican National Minis Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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]
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- ^ a b c "Tecnicos – Máscarita Dorada". Fuego En El Ring (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ a b "El Amo de los Ocho Angulos / The Lord of the Eight Angles". Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. 2005. pp. 110–119. ISBN 978-968-6842-48-7.
- ^ a b "Tecnicos – Tsuky". Fuego en el Ring (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ a b c "Statistics for Professional wrestlers". PWI Presents: 2011 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts. Kappa Publications. 2011. p. 63. 2011 Edition.
- ^ Madigan 2007, pp. 209–212.
- ^ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
- ^ Arturo Montiel Rojas (August 30, 2001). "Reglamento de Box y Lucha Libre Professional del Estado de Mexico" (PDF) (in Spanish). Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2006. Retrieved April 3, 2009.
- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 401.
- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 409.
- ^ "Statistics for Professional wrestlers". PWI Presents: 2009 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts. Kappa Publications. p. 72. 2009 Edition.
- ^ "Verano de Escandalo 2008". Pro Wrestling History. September 14, 2008. Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
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