page_title: CMLL World Middleweight Championship
section_title: Reigns
hierarchical_section_title: CMLL World Middleweight Championship / Reigns
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 2015年11月7日 大阪府立体育会館 「POWER STRUGGLE」 獣神サンダー・ライガー
context_page_description: The CMLL World Middleweight Championship is a professional wrestling world championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. While lighter weight classes are regularly ignored in wrestling promotions in the United States, with most emphasis placed on "heavyweights", more emphasis is placed on the lighter classes in Mexican companies. The official definition of the middleweight division in Mexico is a person between 82 kg and 87 kg, but the weight limits are not strictly adhered to. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won via legitimate competition; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or on occasion awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.
  El Cuatrero is the reigning champion, having defeated Ángel de Oro for the title on January 19, 2018, at Fantastica Mania, a joint show held by CMLL and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Dragón Rojo Jr. is the longest reigning champion in the history of the championship. Since its creation in 1991, there have been 19 individual championship reigns shared between 15 wrestlers. El Dandy is the only three-time champion; he also has the shortest reign of any champion at 63 days.
context_section_description: El Cuatrero is the current champion, having won the title on January 19, 2018, from Ángel de Oro. This is El Cuatrero's first reign as middleweight champion; he is the 19th overall champion. Dragón Rojo Jr. is the wrestler who has held the championship the longest, a total of 5 years, 127 days. El Dandy holds the record for most CMLL World Middleweight Championship reigns with three and is one of only three wrestlers to hold the title more than once, the others being Negro Casas and Emilio Charles Jr. El Dandy also held the record for the shortest reign—his second lasted only 63 days.
caption: Jushin Thunder Liger, the only Japanese wrestler to hold the championship
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