Mexican National Heavyweight Championship
Mexican National Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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Héctor Garza: the 56th and 64th Mexican National Heavyweight Champion
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Date established | 1926 | ||||||||||
Date retired | 2013 | ||||||||||
Promotion | Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (Sanctioning body) CMLL (1933 – 1996) AAA (1996 – 2008) Mexican Independent circuit (2009 – 2013) |
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The Mexican National Heavyweight Championship (called the Campeonato Nacional Completo in Spanish) was a Mexican Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) championship created and sanctioned by "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (the Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission). While the Commission sanctions the title, it does not promote the events in which the Championship is defended. From 1933 until the mid-1990s, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) controlled the Championship, since then Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) has controlled the championship, after the Commission granted them the right to the title. In 2006 the title inactivated and replaced by the AAA Mega Championship but in late 2009 it became active again. As the Championship is designated as a heavyweight title, the Championship can only officially be competed for by wrestlers weighing at least 105 kg (231 lb). However, the regulation is not strictly adhered to.[1]
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Championship history
Being 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. The earliest documented use of the Mexican National Heavyweight Title was in 1926 and as such the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship was the oldest continuously promoted wrestling title in the world at the time of its inactivation. The earliest recorded champion was Francisco Aguayo who initially won the title under the name Frank Aguayo while wrestling in border on the US side. He later brought the belt with him to Mexico and on June 21, 1934 firmly established it as a Mexican-based championship with his victory over Manuel "El Toro" Hernández in the first championship match ever sanctioned by the Mexico City Boxing and wrestling commission.[2] At that point Empressa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL, later renamed CMLL) was given the full promotional control of the title, with the Commission only being asked to approve the champions.[Note 1]
After Pierroth, Jr. won the title in 1995, he left CMLL and signed with AAA, bringing the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship with him. When Máscara Sagrada became the champion in 1996, it was officially acknowledged by the Commission that AAA controlled the booking of the championship from that point forward. El Halcón, also billed as Halcón Ortiz and Super Halcón, has the record for most championship reigns, with five. On September 13, 2006, AAA created the new AAA Mega Championship and the National title was not promoted in the promotion.[3] The then champion, Charly Manson left AAA in 2009 and defended the title on the independent circuit.[4] The longest reign belongs to El Médico Asesino with 1378 days. El Halcón was champion for the shortest time, 24 days. The champion is currently vacant and inactive as the last champion, Héctor Garza, died on May 26, 2013 while holding the title.
Title history
- Key
Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed |
Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won |
N/A | The specific information is not known |
— | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign |
(n) | Indicates that a title change took place "no later than" the date listed.[Note 2] |
Indicates that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation on wrestling in Mexico from the 1920s to 1940s |
No. | Champion | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
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1 | Francisco Aguayo | 1 | 1926 (n) | N/A | Unknown | Live event | [2] | |
2 | Martinez Larrea | 1 | December, 1930 (n) | N/A | Unknown | Live event | ||
3 | Francisco Aguayo | 2 | June 21, 1934 | N/A | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | Defeated Manuel "El Toro" Hernández in the first sanctioned championship match on Mexican soil. | [2] |
4 | Yaqui Joe | 1 | 1937 | N/A | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
5 | Francisco Aguayo | 3 | 1938 | N/A | Unknown | Live event | ||
— | Vacated | — | 1940 | — | N/A | N/A | Championship vacated for unknown reasons | |
6 | Firpo Segura | 1 | 1940 | N/A | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | Defeated Doc Macias | |
7 | Rye Duran | 1 | 1942 | N/A | Morelia, Michoacán | Live event | ||
8 | Firpo Segura | 2 | 1943 | N/A | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
9 | Steve Morgan | 1 | September 28, 1946 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | EMLL 13th Anniversary Show | [5] | |
10 | Firpo Segura | 3 | March 22, 1947 | N/A | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
11 | Daniel Aldana | 1 | 1948 | N/A | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
12 | Firpo Segura | 4 | 1952 | N/A | Cuernavaca, Morelos | Live event | ||
13 | Joaquin Murrieta | 1 | August 12, 1954 | N/A | N/A | Live event | ||
— | Vacated | — | March 1955 | — | N/A | N/A | Championship vacated for unknown reasons | |
14 | El Médico Asesino | 1 | September 7, 1956 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | Defeated Gran Lothario in a tournament final | |
— | Vacated | — | June 16, 1960 | — | N/A | N/A | Title vacated when Médico Asesino died | |
15 | Pepe Mendieta | 1 | May 13, 1962 | N/A | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | Defeated Henry Pilusso in a tournament final | |
— | Vacated | — | 1965 | — | N/A | N/A | Title vacated when Mendieta retired | |
16 | Chico Casaola | 1 | December 1965 | N/A | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | Defeated Pantera Negra in a tournament final | |
17 | Pantera Negra | 1 | March 13, 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | ||
17 | Black Gordman | 1 | September 6, 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas | Live event | ||
19 | Polo Torres | 1 | November 2, 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Torreón, Coahuila | Live event | ||
20 | Henry Pilusso | 1 | October 30, 1967 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | Live event | ||
21 | Goliath | 1 | March 30, 1969 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | Live event | ||
22 | Raul Reyes | 1 | February 2, 1970 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Monterrey, Nuevo León | Live event | ||
23 | Ángel Blanco | 1 | April 7, 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
24 | Enrique Vera | 1 | October 26, 1973 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
25 | Raul Reyes | 1 | March 12, 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Acapulco, Guerrero | Live event | ||
26 | El Halcón | 1 | September 27, 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | EMLL 42nd Anniversary Show (2) | ||
27 | Gran Markus | 1 | March 13, 1977 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | [6] | |
28 | El Halcón | 1 | June 24, 1977 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
29 | Raul Mata | 1 | December 18, 1977 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Monterrey, Nuevo León | Live event | ||
30 | El Nazi | 1 | July 1, 1978 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Monterrey, Nuevo León | Live event | ||
31 | TNT | 1 | October 27, 1978 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
32 | Gran Markus | 1 | February 4, 1979 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
33 | El Halcón | 3 | December 23, 1979 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Torreón, Coahuila | Live event | ||
34 | Tony Benetto | 1 | January 16, 1980 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Acapulco, Guerrero | Live event | ||
35 | Cien Caras | 1 | July 26, 1980 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Puebla, Puebla | Live event | ||
36 | Herodes | 1 | March 28, 1982 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
37 | Halcón Ortiz | 1 | June 20, 1982 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | ||
38 | Pirata Morgan | 1 | August 7, 1983 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | ||
39 | Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. | 1 | January 8, 1984 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
40 | Cien Caras | 1 | March 30, 1984 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
41 | Alfonso Dantés | 1 | August 20, 1986 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Acapulco, Guerrero | Live event | ||
42 | Super Halcón | 5 | September 3, 1987 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | ||
43 | Gran Markus, Jr. | 1 | December 17, 1987 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Acapulco, Guerrero | Live event | Previously won the title as "Herodes" | |
44 | Alfonso Dantés | 1 | August 7, 1988 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | ||
— | Vacated | — | March 1989 | — | N/A | N/A | Title vacated when Alfonso Dantés retired | |
45 | Popitekus | 1 | May 21, 1989 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
46 | Gran Markus, Jr. | 3 | July 9, 1990 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
47 | Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. | 1 | October 17, 1990 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Acapulco, Guerrero | Live event | ||
48 | El Egipcio | 1 | April 13, 1991 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Puebla, Puebla | Live event | ||
49 | Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. | 3 | June 13, 1992 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
50 | Pierroth, Jr. | 1 | February 24, 1995 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Puebla, Puebla | Live event | ||
51 | Máscara Sagrada | 1 | September 20, 1996 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Actopan, Hidalgo | Live event | ||
52 | Cibernético | 1 | June 22, 1997 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Mexico City, Distrito Federal | Live event | ||
53 | Perro Aguayo | 1 | February 22, 1998 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Chihuahua, Chihuahua | Live event | ||
54 | El Cobarde II | 1 | February 15, 1999 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | Live event | ||
55 | Latin Lover | 1 | October 19, 1999 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila | Live event | ||
56 | Héctor Garza | 1 | May 5, 2002 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas | Live event | [7] | |
57 | El Zorro | 1 | August 5, 2002 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Monterrey, Nuevo León | Live event | [7] | |
58 | Pirata Morgan | 1 | December 27, 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Oaxaca, Oaxaca | Live event | [8] | |
59 | El Zorro | 1 | February 4, 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Veracruz, Veracruz | Live event | [9] | |
60 | Mr. Águila | 1 | June 20, 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Naucalpan, México | Triplemanía XII | [10] | |
61 | El Zorro | 3 | August 1, 2004 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Live event | [11] | |
62 | Charly Manson | 1 | June 4, 2006 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Pachuca, Hidalgo | Triplemanía XIV | [3][12] | |
63 | X-Fly | 1 | February 21, 2010 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico State | La Revolucion | [13] | |
64 | Héctor Garza | 2 | February 14, 2012 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Pachuca, Hidalgo | Perros del Mal Producciones | This was a six-way elimination match, also involving El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, El Mesías, El Texano, Jr. and Toscano. | [14] |
— | Inactive | — | May 26, 2013 | — | N/A | N/A | Héctor Garza died while holding the championship. |
Championship reigns by combined length
Championships without a specific start or end date are not included as it is not possible to calculate the specific number of dates for a reign.
Rank | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
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1 | Cien Caras | 2 | 1,483 |
2 | El Médico Asesino | 1 | 1,378 |
3 | Charly Manson | 1 | 1,358 |
4 | El Zorro | 3 | 1,318 |
5 | El Halcón | 5 | 1,252 |
6 | Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. | 3 | 1,246 |
7 | Gran Markus | 2 | 1,021 |
8 | Raul Reyes | 2 | 994 |
9 | Latin Lover | 1 | 929 |
10 | X-Fly | 1 | 723 |
11 | Alfonso Dantés | 2 | 696 |
12 | Inactive | 1 | 633 |
13 | Pierroth, Jr. | 1 | 574 |
14 | Héctor Garza | 2 | 559 |
15 | Angel Blanco | 1 | 567 |
16 | Henry Pilusso | 1 | 517 |
17 | Enrique Vera | 1 | 502 |
18 | El Egipcio | 1 | 427 |
19 | Popitekus | 1 | 414 |
20 | Polo Torres | 1 | 362 |
21 | Gran Markus Jr. | 3 | 358 |
22 | Perro Aguayo | 1 | 358 |
23 | Goliath | 1 | 309 |
24 | Máscara Sagrada | 1 | 275 |
25 | El Cobarde II | 1 | 246 |
26 | Cibernético | 1 | 245 |
27 | Pirata Morgan | 2 | 193 |
28 | Raul Mata | 1 | 201 |
29 | Tony Benetto | 1 | 192 |
30 | Steve Morgan | 1 | 175 |
31 | Black Gordman | 1 | 146 |
32 | El Nazi | 1 | 118 |
33 | TNT | 1 | 100 |
34 | Pantera Negra | 1 | 88 |
35 | Mr. Águila | 1 | 42 |
Footnotes
- ↑ In this, "control" refers to the everyday use of the title, determining which storylines the title is being used it, who gets to challenge for the title, how to use it in a public relations sense.
- ↑ Documentation of the specific date of a title change is not found but documentation of the champion holding the title on that date/in that period.
References
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