Mexican National Women's Championship
Encyclopedia
The Mexican National Women's Championship (Campeonato Nacional Feminil in Spanish
) is a professional wrestling
championship
for female wrestlers created and sanctioned by the 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. The championship is currently promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre
wrestling based promotion
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
(CMLL) and has in the past also been promoted by the Mexican based Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
(AAA) promotion. 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 title was not officially sanctioned by the Comisión until 1986 where they lifted the ban on Women's wrestling in Mexico City, the first officially recognized Mexican National Women's champion was Reyna Gallegos, who at the time was the Mexican Women's champion a title that was created in the 1950s. The Comisión chose to recognize the lineage of the title that predated their endorsement to give the title more credibility.
The first recognized Mexican Woman's champion was Isabel Romero who won the title some time in 1959. The championship lineage From 1959 until the Comisión sanctioned the title remains unclear and for large stretches of time undocumented. Martha Villalobos
holds the record for the longest reign with 1,399 days while Lady Apache
's 2 reigns combine for 1,470 days the longest of any champion. Isabel Romero has held the title three times, while five women are tied with two reigns since the title was officially sanctioned; Lady Apache, La Sirenita, Tiffany
, Martha Villalobos and Zuleyma
. La Diabólica
holds the record for the shortest title reign, with 50 days. The current champion is Princessa Blanca, having defeated Marcela
on January 30, 2009 to win the championship. It is her first reign with the title, she's the 17th officially recognized champion and the 12th overall champion of the sanctioned era.
Spanish language
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) is a professional wrestling
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
championship
Championship (professional wrestling)
A Championship or "title" in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries...
for female wrestlers created and sanctioned by the 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. The championship is currently promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre
Lucha libre
Lucha libre is a term used in Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking countries, for a form of professional wrestling that has developed within those countries...
wrestling based promotion
Professional wrestling promotion
A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre is a Lucha Libre-style professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City while running cards in Guadalajara, Puebla and elsewhere in central and southern Mexico...
(CMLL) and has in the past also been promoted by the Mexican based Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico...
(AAA) promotion. 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
Narrative thread
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. The title was not officially sanctioned by the Comisión until 1986 where they lifted the ban on Women's wrestling in Mexico City, the first officially recognized Mexican National Women's champion was Reyna Gallegos, who at the time was the Mexican Women's champion a title that was created in the 1950s. The Comisión chose to recognize the lineage of the title that predated their endorsement to give the title more credibility.
The first recognized Mexican Woman's champion was Isabel Romero who won the title some time in 1959. The championship lineage From 1959 until the Comisión sanctioned the title remains unclear and for large stretches of time undocumented. Martha Villalobos
Martha Villalobos
Martha García Mejía is a Mexican luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Martha Villalobos.-Championships and accomplishments:*Asistencia Asesoría y Administración...
holds the record for the longest reign with 1,399 days while Lady Apache
Lady Apache
Sandra González Calderón is a Mexican professional wrestler or Luchadora, best known under the ring name Lady Apache. González's ring name comes from the "family name" of Mario Balbuena González who wrestles under the name Gran Apache; whom she was married to when she made her wrestling debut in...
's 2 reigns combine for 1,470 days the longest of any champion. Isabel Romero has held the title three times, while five women are tied with two reigns since the title was officially sanctioned; Lady Apache, La Sirenita, Tiffany
Tiffany (luchadora)
Xóchitl Leyva Sánchez is a Mexican luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Tiffany. She has won the 2003, 2005 and 2008 Reina de Reinas tournaments and has held the Mexican National Women's Championship two times...
, Martha Villalobos and Zuleyma
Zuleyma
Elvia Fragoso Alonso is a retired Mexican professional wrestler, known by her ringname Zuleyma, who competed in the Universal Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Association as one of the most dominant luchadoras in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s...
. La Diabólica
La Diabólica
La Diabólica is a Mexican Luchadora Enmascarada, or masked professional wrestler, best known from her work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotions Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración...
holds the record for the shortest title reign, with 50 days. The current champion is Princessa Blanca, having defeated Marcela
Marcela (wrestler)
María Elena Santamaría Gómez is a Mexican professional wrestler, known mainly for her work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where she works under the ring name Marcela...
on January 30, 2009 to win the championship. It is her first reign with the title, she's the 17th officially recognized champion and the 12th overall champion of the sanctioned era.
Title history
Key| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 in order to not count it as an official reign |
| (n) | Indicates that a title change took place "no later than" the date listed.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. |
| Indicates that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation from that time period. | |
| + | Indicates that the date changes daily for the current champion. |
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes |
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| Isabel Romero | 1 | (n) | Unknown | A | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Irma Gonzales | 1 | Unknown | A | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Isabel Romero | 2 | Unknown | A | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Jarochita Rivero | 1 | Puebla | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Isabel Romero | 3 | Unknown | Tampico | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| 1 | Unknown | A | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| 1 | Apatlaco | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Defeats La Briosa; | ||||
| Vacated | — | — | Championship vacated when Reyna Gallegos retires | ||||
| 1 | Apatalco | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Defeats Zuleyma in tournament final. | ||||
| Zuleyma Zuleyma Elvia Fragoso Alonso is a retired Mexican professional wrestler, known by her ringname Zuleyma, who competed in the Universal Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Association as one of the most dominant luchadoras in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s... |
1 | Xochimilco | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| 1 | Apatalco | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Zuleyma Zuleyma Elvia Fragoso Alonso is a retired Mexican professional wrestler, known by her ringname Zuleyma, who competed in the Universal Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Association as one of the most dominant luchadoras in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s... |
2 | Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Vacated | — | — | Championship vacated when Zuleyma wins the UWA World Women's Championship UWA World Women's Championship The UWA World Women's Championship was a singles professional wrestling women's championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion Universal Wrestling Association from 1975 until the UWA closed in 1995 and since then defended on the Mexican independent circuit... . |
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| Neftali | 1 | Nezahualcoyotl | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Defeats Vicky Carranza. | |||
| 1 | Cuautla | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Vacated | — | — | Championship vacated when La Sirenita becomes pregnant | ||||
| 1 | Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Defeats Lady Apache in tournament final; | ||||
| Vacated | — | — | Championship vacated when La Diabólica wins the CMLL World Women's Championship CMLL World Women's Championship The CMLL World Women's Championship is the top female professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre... . |
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| 2 | Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Defeats Maria del Angel. | ||||
| 1 | Unknown | Culiacan | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| 2 | Culiacan | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Defeats La Practicante. | ||||
| Tiffany Tiffany (luchadora) Xóchitl Leyva Sánchez is a Mexican luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Tiffany. She has won the 2003, 2005 and 2008 Reina de Reinas tournaments and has held the Mexican National Women's Championship two times... |
1 | San Luis Potosí | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Lady Apache Lady Apache Sandra González Calderón is a Mexican professional wrestler or Luchadora, best known under the ring name Lady Apache. González's ring name comes from the "family name" of Mario Balbuena González who wrestles under the name Gran Apache; whom she was married to when she made her wrestling debut in... |
1 | Monterrey | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Tiffany Tiffany (luchadora) Xóchitl Leyva Sánchez is a Mexican luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Tiffany. She has won the 2003, 2005 and 2008 Reina de Reinas tournaments and has held the Mexican National Women's Championship two times... |
2 | Monterrey | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Lady Apache Lady Apache Sandra González Calderón is a Mexican professional wrestler or Luchadora, best known under the ring name Lady Apache. González's ring name comes from the "family name" of Mario Balbuena González who wrestles under the name Gran Apache; whom she was married to when she made her wrestling debut in... |
2 | Zapopan | Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
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| Vacated | — | — | Championship vacated four months after Lady Apache won the CMLL Women's World Championship. | ||||
| Marcela Marcela (wrestler) María Elena Santamaría Gómez is a Mexican professional wrestler, known mainly for her work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where she works under the ring name Marcela... |
1 | Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Defeats Princesa Sujei after the two become the finalist in the 14-women elimination match. | |||
| Princesa Blanca | 1 | + | Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... |
Live event House show A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and... |
Reigns by combined length
Key| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| § | Indicates that the length of one reign is too uncertain to calculate. |
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| † | Indicates the current champion |
| + | Indicates that the date changes daily for the current champion. |
| Rank | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lady Apache | 2 | ||
| 2 | |||
| Tiffany | 2 | ||
| Princessa Blanca † | 1 | ||
| 2 | |||
| Zuleyma | 2 | ||
| 1 | |||
| Marcela | 1 | ||
| Neftali | 1 | ||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 |