Mexican National Heavyweight Championship


The Mexican National Heavyweight Championship is a Mexican lucha libre championship created and sanctioned by 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 controlled the Championship, since then [Lucha Libre Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide|AAA Worldwide|AAA] gained control of the championship, after the Commission granted them control of the championship. In 2006 the championship was abandoned and replaced by the AAA Mega Championship. In 2009 the championship became active again on the Mexican Independent circuit until 2013. CMLL brought the championship back in 2017. Since the championship is designated as a heavyweight title, the championship can only officially be competed for by wrestlers weighing at least. However, the regulation is not strictly adhered to.

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. At that point Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre was given the full promotional control of the title, with the Commission only being asked to approve the champions.
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. The then champion, Charly Manson left AAA in 2009 and defended the title on the independent circuit. Manson later lost the championship to Héctor Garza until his death on May 23, 2013, after which it became inactive once more. In October 2017, CMLL announced that it was bringing the championship back under its control.
The current champion is Akuma, who defeated Star Black on March 28, 2025. A total of 51 wrestlers have held the championship since its inception, resulting in 71 reigns. The longest Mexican National Heavyweight Championship reign belongs to Médico Asesino with a total of 1,378 days. El Halcón was champion for the shortest time, 24 days, but also holds the record for most reigns with five in total. Cien Caras's two combined reigns lasted 1,483 days, more than any other champion.

Combined reigns

RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns		Combined days
1Firpo Segura4-¤
2Francisco Aguayo3-¤
3Cien Caras
4
5Charly Manson
6
7Rayo de Jalisco Jr.
81,254
9
10Pepe Mendieta1-¤
11
12Latin Lover
13
14X-Fly
15Star Black
16Alfonso Dantés¤
17Pierroth Jr.
18Ángel Blanco
19
20
21
22Gran Markus
23Popitekus
24
25Gran Markus Jr.
26
27Diamante Azul
28Goliath
29Máscara Sagrada
30
31Cibernético
32
33Joaquin Murietta1215¤
34Raúl Mata
35Pirata Morgan
36Tony Benetto
37Pantera Negra
38
39
40TNT
41Black Gordman
42Mr. Águila
43Euforia
44Akuma †+
45Chico Casaola1N/A
45Daniel Aldana1N/A
45Martinez Larrea1N/A
45Rye Duran1960-1,324
45Yaqui Joe1N/A
45---