Mexican National Trios Championship

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Mexican National Trios Championship
The front plate of the championship in gold with lettering raised to read "Campeon Nacional" and "Trios" underneath
One of the three identical championship belts
Details
PromotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date establishedMarch 10, 1985
Current champion(s)Los Indestructibles
(Apolcalipsis, Cholo and Disturbio)
Date wonSeptember 29, 2023
Statistics
First champion(s)Los Infernales
(El Satánico, MS-1 and Pirata Morgan)
Most reignsAs a team: Los Reyes de la Atlantida (Atlantis, Delta and Guerrero Maya Jr.) (3)
Individually: Atlantis, Delta and Volador Jr. (4)
Longest reignBlue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo (1728 days)
Shortest reignLos Payasos (26 days)

The Mexican National Trios Championship (Campeonato Nacional de Tríos in

bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded to a team after the team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport. All title matches take place under two-out-of-three falls
rules.

In the early 1980s the

Lucha Libre today. The Universal Wrestling Association created the UWA World Trios Championship in 1984 and the Boxing and Wrestling Commission created the Mexican National Trios Championship in 1985, making it only the second Trios championship in Mexico. Control of the championship was given to EMLL, the UWA's main rival at the time, with the commission retaining oversight and approval of the championship matches. In 1993 then champions Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones"; MS-1, Pirata Morgan, and El Satánico) left EMLL to join AAA, taking the trios championship with them after approval by the commission. In the late 1990s the championship was not promoted on a regular basis by AAA and appeared inactive until the champions, Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera, and El Signo
, joined CMLL in 2001 and lost the championship to a CMLL team. From that point forward the championship has been controlled by CMLL once more.

The current Mexican National Trios Champions is the team known as Los Indestructibles (Apolcalipsis, Cholo and Disturbio), who won the championship on September 29, 2023. This is the team's first reign and they are the 43rd overall champions. Los Reyes de la Atlantida hold the record for most reigns as a team, with three reigns in total, while Atlantis, Delta and Volador Jr. holds the individual record with four reigns each.

History

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With the emergence of trios (

Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) and endorsed by the Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission. The commission granted EMLL the rights to promote the championship, which meant that CMLL had control over the everyday use of the championship, determining which storylines the title were being used in, who were allowed to challenge for the title and how to use it in a public relations sense. The Commission would oversee the rule and approves any championship change that EMLL proposed.[3]

The finals of the tournament to crown the first champions saw

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) was formed by a group of officials and wrestlers who broke away from CMLL. The then-reigning champions Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000, and Universo 2000 left CMLL to join AAA and brought the Mexican National Trios Championship with them as it was not a CMLL owned title. The Commission granted AAA the right to control the title from 1992 on, later on when AAA began working with Promotora Mexicana de Lucha Libre (PROMELL) both promotions were allowed used the Trios title by the commission. In 1996 AAA and PROMELL stopped working together and the title was vacated. PROMELL was granted the right to promote the title from that point on and held a tournament to crown new champions. Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera, and El Signo won the tournament and would go on to hold the titles for 1,728 days, although for the majority of the time the three did not team up and the Trios championship was inactive.[3] In 2001 the trio worked a couple of matches for CMLL, just long enough for them to lose the championship to Mr. Niebla, Olímpico, and Safari, bringing the championship back under CMLL's control, where it has remained ever since.[6]

On June 13, 2003 a championship match between champions La Familia de Tijuana (

CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship, CMLL World Trios Championship, and the CMLL World Welterweight Championship at the time.[8] In November, 2010 Dorada suffered a knee injury and relinquished his portion of the Mexican National Trios Championship. Delta was selected as his replacement via a fan vote, but the team lost the trios championship in the first defense against the team of Ángel de Oro, Diamante (who were the other two options for Dorada's replacement) and Rush.[9]

Rules

The title is a "National" title which means that non-Mexican citizens are prohibited from challenging or holding the championship. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match.

Steel cage match.[11] On occasion single fall title matches have taken place, for example when promoting CMLL title matches in Japan, conforming to the traditions of the local promotion.[a]

Reigns

Main article: List of Mexican National Trios Champions

Los Indestructibles (Apolcalipsis, Cholo, and Disturbio) are the current champions, after winning the title on September 29, 2023. It is the team's first reign and they are the 43rd overall champions. Los Reyes de la Atlantida hold the record for most reigns as a team, with three, while Atlantis, Delta and Volador Jr. have all held the championship on four separate occasions. Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo is the team with the longest reign of 1,728 days while Los Payasos and the trio of Dos Caras, Villano III and Villano IV both held the title for only 26 days, which is the shortest time of any championship team.

Several championship teams have lost the championship in their first defense, while the teams of

Sagrado, La Sombra, Volador Jr., and El Felino, Safari, Volador Jr. both are credited with six successful title defenses before losing the championship, the most of any of the 39 championship teams.[6] In 1991 the Commission allowed El Ninja to replace the injured Leono during a championship defense, helping Los Thundercats retain the title against the team of Rocky Santana, El Gallego and Romano Garcia.[13]

Tournaments

1985

Records from 1985 are not clear on which trios teams participated in the tournament to determine the first ever Mexican National Trios Championship, only a few matches were clearly identified as part of the tournament, the earliest of which was a January 25, 1985 match in Arena Coliseo that saw Los Infernales (MS-1, Pirata Morgan, Satánico) defeat El Enfermero Jr., Herodes and Jerry Estrada to advance in the tournament. Records also indicate that trios consisting of Popitekus, Panico and Zorro de Oro; Talisman, La Fiera, and Mocho Cota; Atlantis, Stuka and Acertijo; Chamaco Valaguez, Impacto and Águila Solitaria were in the tournament, but were all eliminated before the finals. On February 10, 1985 Los Infernales defeated Los Brazos to win the championship.[3][4]

2003

Masked wrestler Averno during a wrestling match in 2006.
Averno, part of Los Infernales who competed in the tournament.

After Nicho el Millonario did not show up for a scheduled title match CMLL decided to vacate the championship and left it vacant for approximately five months. In late November 2003, CMLL held an eight-team, three-week tournament to crown new champions. Most of the teams in the tournament had not teamed up on a regular basis prior to the show, except for Los Nuevo Infernales. In the end, the team of El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr., who was paired up for the tournament, defeated Alan Stone, Super Crazy, and Zumbido to win the titles.[7]

Tournament brackets[14]
First round Semi-finals Final
El Felino, Safari, and Volador Jr. W
Black Warrior, Doctor X, and Olímpico   El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr. W
Sagrado, and Virus
 		W Ricky Marvin, Sagrado and Virus  
La Alianza
(
Hooligan, Ramstein, and Sangre Azteca
) 		  El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr. W
Blue Panther, Tigre Blanco, and Tony Rivera   Alan Stone, Super Crazy and Zumbido  
Alan Stone, Super Crazy, and Zumbido W Alan Stone, Super Crazy and Zumbido W
Los Infernales
(Averno, Mephisto, El Satánico) 		W Los Infernales
(Averno, Mephisto, El Satánico) 		 
Violencia
) 		 

2009

Máscara Dorada
, part of the trio that won the 2009 championship tournament.

On December 19, 2009, it was announced by the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. that Poder Mexica had been stripped of the Mexican National Trios Championship because Black Warrior had left CMLL, breaking up the team.

Fabian El Gitano, Máximo, and Rouge, and then Delta, Leono, and Valiente to qualify for the final.[16] On January 6, 2010 Máscara Dorada, Stuka Jr. and Metro defeated Poder Mexica to become the new Mexican National Trios Champions.[8]

First round Semi-finals Final
Metro
 		W
Los Guerreros de Tuareg
(Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, and Skándalo ) 		[15] Máscara Dorada, Stuka Jr., and Metro W
Los Ángles
(Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Oro, and Ángel de Plata) 		[15] Los Cancerebros del Infierno [15]
Polvora
) 		W Máscara Dorada, Stuka Jr., and Metro W
Delta, Leono, and Valiente W Poder Mexica
Pegasso, Rey Cometa, and Diamante [16] Delta, Leono, and Valiente [16]
Poder Mexica
(Sangre Azteca, Dragón Rojo Jr., and Misterioso Jr.) 		W Poder Mexica W
Fabian El Gitano, Máximo, and Rouge
[16]

2010

Much like the previous year, one-third of the reigning Mexican National Trios Champions was unable to further help defend the title. This year, CMLL resolved the situation differently, but still managed to organize in a tournament. The champions, Mascara Dorada, Stuka Jr., and Metro, successfully defended their championship on November 15, 2010, in Arena Puebla. Dorada suffered an ankle injury during the course of the match. Citing both the injury (which would keep him out a month) and, more so, the demands of his other three championships, Mascara Dorada vacated his share of the titles three days later.[8] CMLL broke with the precedent of forcing the entire team to vacate the titles and instead declared a web poll would determine a replacement for Mascara Dorada. Voting was held for over two weeks on CMLL.com.

  • Delta - 41.52%
  • Ángel de Oro - 39.20%
  • Diamante - 19.28%

CMLL appeared to waver about the winner becoming the champion or just joining Stuka and Metro for a title match. CMLL's website indicated Delta won the championship,

Sagrado, but the team of Rush and the two poll losers, Ángel de Oro and Diamante, won the tournament and would go on to win the championship.[9]

Tournament brackets[18]
First round Semi-finals Final
Rey Cometa, Molotov, and Fuego  
Nosferatu, Euforia, and Pólvora W Nosferatu, Euforia and Pólvora  
Los Guerreros Tuareg
(Loco Max, Skandalo, and Arkangel de la Muerte) 		  Sagrado, Palacio Negro and Metal Blanco W
Sagrado, Palacio Negro, and Metal Blanco
 		W Sagrado, Palacio Negro, and Metal Blanco  
Los Cancerberos del Infierno
(Virus, Raziel, and Cancerbero) 		W Rush, Diamante, and Ángel de Oro W
Ángel de Plata, and Guerrero Maya Jr.
  Los Cancerberos del Infierno
(Virus, Raziel, and Cancerbero) 		 
Rush, Diamante, and Ángel de Oro W Rush, Diamante, and Ángel de Oro W
Durango Kid,
Tiger Kid
 

Footnotes

  1. ^ An example of this was Bushi winning the CMLL World Welterweight Championship in a one-fall match on a New Japan Pro-Wrestling show.[12]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
    . most shows feature several six-man, or "trios" matches
  2. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
    .
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
    .
  4. ^ a b "Comision de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. Trios Title". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
  5. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
    .
  6. ^ a b c d "Mexican National Trios Championship". CageMatch. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  7. ^ a b "05.12.2003 - 253.03.2005 :Felino, Safari & Volador Jr". CageMatch. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  8. ^ a b c Ruiz Glez, Alex (November 19, 2010). "Máscara Dorada renuncia al Campeonato Nacional de Tríos". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  9. ^ a b Ruiz Glez, Alex (January 10, 2011). "Arena México (resultados domingo 9 de enero del 2011) Rush, Diamante y Ángel de Oro nuevos campeones nacionales de tercias". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  10. ^ Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2009.
  11. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". ProWrestlingHistory.com. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
  12. ^ "Road to Tokyo Dome". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December 19, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  13. ^ "Wrestling In Monterrey". CageMatch. March 15, 1991. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  14. ^ "Mexican National Trios Title Tournament 2003". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  15. ^ a b c d "Se ilusionan con el cetro" (in Spanish). Esto - OEM Enlina. December 23, 2009. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2010.
  16. ^ a b c d Ruiz Glez, Alex (December 31, 2009). "El Poder Mexica es el segundo finalista por el Campeonato Nacional de Tercias". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved January 7, 2010.
  17. ^ "¡Nuevos campeones nacionales de tercias! Delta es el nuevo integrante". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  18. ^ a b "Mexican National Trios Title #1 Contendership Tournament". CageMatch. Retrieved June 8, 2017.

External links

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