# CMLL Universal Championship (2019)

The CMLL Universal Championship (2019) (Spanish: Campeonato Universal) was a professional wrestling tournament produced and scripted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; "World Wrestling Council"). The tournament started on February 2, 2019 and ran for three Super Viernes shows with the final held on February 14, 2019 at Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico.
The CMLL Universal Championship is an annual tournament exclusively for wrestlers who hold a CMLL-recognized championship at the time of the tournament. The tournament was first held in 2009, but not held in 2018 for unexplained reasons, making the 2019 version the tenth overall tournament. Being a professional wrestling tournament, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public. In the finals of the 2019 tournament Mexican National Heavyweight Champion El Terrible defeated the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Champion Niebla Roja to become a two-time tournament winner.

## Background

The tournament featured 15 professional wrestling matches under single-elimination tournament rules, which means that wrestlers would be eliminated from the tournament when they lose a match. All male "non-regional" CMLL champions at the time of the tournament were eligible to participate in the tournament. The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship is exclusively for CMLL's Mini-Estrella division and thus not eligible for the tournament. Regionally promoted championships such as the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship and the Occidente championships promoted in Guadalajara, Jalisco have not been included in the tournament in the past; only titles that have been defended in CMLL's main venue Arena Mexico, although exceptions have been made to allow New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) champions to compete if they were in Mexico at the time. Both Euforia and Eléctrico were eligible for the tournament, but neither champion participated.

### Eligible champions

| Champion | Championship held | Block |
| Bárbaro Cavernario | Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship | A |
| Carístico | NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship | A |
| El Cuatrero | CMLL World Middleweight ChampionshipMexican National Trios ChampionshipOccidente Trios Championship | B |
| Diamante Azul | CMLL World Tag Team Championship | B |
| Dragon Lee | CMLL World Lightweight Championship | A |
| Eléctrico | Mexican National Lightweight Championship | N/A |
| Euforia | CMLL World Trios Championship | N/A |
| Forastero | Mexican National Trios ChampionshipOccidente Trios Championship | A |
| Gran Guerrero | CMLL World Trios Championship | A |
| Mephisto | CMLL World Welterweight Championship | B |
| Niebla Roja | CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship | B |
| Sansón | Mexican National Trios ChampionshipOccidente Trios Championship | B |
| Soberano Jr. | Mexican National Welterweight Championship | B |
| Stuka Jr. | NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship | A |
| El Terrible | Mexican National Heavyweight Championship | A |
| Último Guerrero | CMLL World Heavyweight ChampionshipCMLL World Trios Championship | B |
| Valiente | CMLL World Tag Team Championship | A |
| Volador Jr. | NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship | B |

## Tournament

| First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Finals | Finals |
| El Terrible | W | | | | | | | |
| Stuka Jr. | 02:31 | | | | | | | |
| Stuka Jr. | 02:31 | El Terrible | W | | | | | |
| | | Gran Guerrero | 03:38 | | | | | |
| Valiente | 05:16 | Gran Guerrero | 03:38 | | | | | |
| Gran Guerrero | W | | | | | | | |
| Gran Guerrero | W | | | El Terrible | W | | | |
| | | | | Dragón Lee | 10:06 | | | |
| Dragón Lee | W | | | | | Dragón Lee | 10:06 | | |
| Forastero | 04:45 | | | | | | | |
| Forastero | 04:45 | Dragón Lee | W | | | | | |
| | | Carístico | 05:00 | | | | | |
| Carístico | W | Carístico | 05:00 | | | | | |
| Cavernario | 03:23 | | | | | | | |
| Cavernario | 03:23 | | | | | | El Terrible | W |
| | | | | | | | Niebla Roja | |
| Último Guerrero | W | | | | | | | | Niebla Roja |
| Diamante Azul | 03:14 | | | | | | | |
| Diamante Azul | 03:14 | Último Guerrero | W | | | | | |
| | | El Cuatero | 04:02 | | | | | |
| El Cuatrero | W | El Cuatero | 04:02 | | | | | |
| Soberano Jr. | 04:42 | | | | | | | |
| Soberano Jr. | 04:42 | | | Último Guerrero | 06:00 | | | |
| | | | | Niebla Roja | W | | | |
| Niebla Roja | W | | | | | Niebla Roja | W | | |
| Mephisto | 03:40 | | | | | | | |
| Mephisto | 03:40 | Niebla Roja | W | | | | | |
| | | Volador Jr. | 05:04 | | | | | |
| Volador Jr. | W | Volador Jr. | 05:04 | | | | | |
| Sansón | 03:21 | | | | | | | |