CMLL World Heavyweight Championship

CMLL World Heavyweight Championship
The design used for most of the CMLL World Championship belts (no weight division indicated)
Details
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established	June 9, 1991[a]
Current champion(s)	Gran Guerrero
Date won	November 7, 2022
Statistics First champion(s) Konnan el Bárbaro[a] Most reigns Universo 2000 (3 times) Longest reign Universo 2000 (1225 days)[1][2] Shortest reign Konnan el Bárbaro (70 days)[1][2] Oldest champion Último Guerrero (46 years, 229 days)[1][2] Youngest champion Steel (26 years, 43 days)[1][2] Heaviest champion Brazo de Plata (135 kg (298 lb)) Lightest champion Máximo Sexy (92 kg (203 lb))

The CMLL World Heavyweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Peso Completo del CMLL) is a men's professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the Mexican (lucha libre) promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). It was introduced in 1991 to signal CMLL's independence from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), as CMLL had left the NWA in the late 1980s but had continued to promote the NWA's championships. As part of the move away from the NWA, CMLL established championships designated as "CMLL World Championships" for several weight divisions. The Heavyweight Championship was the first CMLL title to be created, and the inaugural champion was Konnan el Bárbaro, who won the title on June 9, 1991. The current champion is Gran Guerrero, who is in his first reign. He defeated Hechicero on November 7, 2022. Eighteen different wrestlers have held the championship, split over 22 separate championship reigns.

In most professional wrestling promotions around the world, the "world heavyweight" designation is used to indicate the highest-ranking championship instead of an actual weight division. Traditionally, however, lucha libre has used multiple weight divisions, often with the lower weight classes receiving more attention from the promoters. CMLL carries on this tradition. ^[b]

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