The Mexican National Welterweight Championship ( Campeonato Nacional Peso Welter in Spanish ) is a Mexican professional wrestling championship created and sanctioned by 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 at which the title is defended. Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotes the events and has the everyday control of the championship. The official definition of the welterweight weight class in Mexico is between 77 kg (170 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but is not always strictly enforced. Because Lucha Libre emphasizes the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important than the normally more prestigious heavyweight division of a promotion . As it is 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 . All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.
23-413: Karloff Lagarde holds all "longevity" records for the championship. He has had the longest individual reign (1,859 days), the longest combined reign (2,731 days) and the most reigns of any champion, with four. Psicosis holds the record for the shortest reign, having held the title for only two days. Magia Blanca is the current champion, having won a tournament on June 24, 2022, to win the championship. It
46-408: A wrestling clown . Carlos Lagarde died on August 31, 2007, following numerous weeks in poor health as a result of a stroke . Perro Aguayo Pedro Aguayo Damián (18 January 1946 — 3 July 2019) better known as "(El) Perro Aguayo" (Aguayo the dog) and El Can de Nochistlan (The Nochistlan Dog) was a Mexican wrestler through the 1970s to the 1990s. Aguayo was the first person crowned
69-404: Is Blanca's first Welterweight Championship reign. He is the 76th overall champion and the 57th person to hold the title. The championship was created on June 17, 1934, making it the oldest professional wrestling championship still promoted. Documentation is unclear on the details of the tournament other than that Mario Nuñez won the title by defeating Tony Canales in the final on June 17, 1934. In
92-597: The WWF Light Heavyweight Champion , though pre-1997 title reigns are not included in WWE's official history for that title. In 2012, Aguayo was inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame . Aguayo was notably the last major rival of El Santo . Often prone to blading , Aguayo has been described by American pundits as a cross between Terry Funk and Bruno Sammartino (for his willingness to brawl and overpower opponents). One of
115-662: The Mexican National Welterweight Championship from Blue Demon, but vacated the title the following year to focus on defending the NWA World Welterweight Championship and teaming with Guajardo. Lagarde's marathon reign as NWA World Welterweight Champion ended on August 5, 1965, 2743 days after winning it, when he lost to Huracán Ramírez . Lagarde regained the title in September and held it for 590 days before Vento Castella defeated him for
138-452: The belt. Lagarde's third and final reign as NWA World Welterweight champion began only two months after Castella had won the title and lasted for 1,469 days making Lagarde the person to have held the NWA World Welterweight Championship the longest with 4,802 days in total, over 2,000 days more than the second longest. In 1969 Lagarde won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship for a fourth time, defeating longtime rival Huracán Ramírez for
161-510: The biggest box office attractions in lucha libre history, prominent professional wrestling journalist and historian Dave Meltzer described Aguayo as "one of the hardest working and most charismatic wrestlers ever". Aguayo's son also wrestled as Perro Aguayo Jr. or El Hijo del Perro Aguayo ("The Son of Perro Aguayo"). Aguayo was synonymous with the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) as one of its top heels and one of
184-454: The early days of the championship no single professional wrestling promotion had exclusive control of the championship, but as Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL; later renamed Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre) became dominant it became the main promoter of the championship, with the Commission pre-approving the champions. After El Felino vacated the title in 1992, control of the championship
207-507: The first time. Karloff Lagarde Carlos Delucio Lagarde (July 27, 1928 – August 31, 2007) is best known as Karloff Lagarde , a Mexican Luchador , or professional wrestler , who was immensely popular during the 1960s and 1970s. Through his career had faced most of Mexico's top stars of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s including lucha libre legends such as El Santo , El Solitario , Mil Máscaras , Black Shadow , Huracán Ramírez , Gory Guerrero , Ray Mendoza and Perro Aguayo . He
230-462: The group Valiente and Sagre Azteca had held the Welterweight championship before. The tournament saw Averno and Místico La Nueva Era outlast everyone to earn the rights to wrestle for the title on April 26, 2013, as the main event of CMLL's Arena Mexico 57th Anniversary Show . In the finals Averno, with the help of his cornerman Mephisto was able to defeat La Nueva Era to win the championship for
253-524: The king of the welterweights for several years. On March 24, 1961, Lagarde became a triple champion when he defeated El Santo to win the Mexican National Middleweight Championship . His run with the Mexican National Welterweight Championship lasted 1,859 days in total, from 1957 until April 4, 1962, when he lost the title to Blue Demon. In the early 1960s Lagarde had begun teaming up with René Guajardo and by 1962 they were one of
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#1732869596599276-693: The name Karloff Lagarde. In 1957 he won his first wrestling championship when he defeated Jalisco Gonzalez to win the Mexican National Welterweight Championship . The following year, on January 31, 1958, Lagarde also won the NWA World Welterweight Championship when he defeated Blue Demon for the championship. With both the Mexican National and the NWA World titles in the welterweight division Largade reigned as
299-535: The then-champion Titán was unable to defend the championship due to a long-term injury. CMLL announced that they would hold a tournament for the vacant championship starting on April 19, 2013. 10 wrestlers would compete in a Torneo cibernetico elimination match with the last two wrestlers meeting at a later date in a match to determine the next champion. CMLL announced that Místico La Nueva Era , Valiente , Rey Cometa , Guerrero Maya Jr. , Fuego , Volador Jr. , Averno , Tiger , Sangre Azteca and Namajague . Of
322-446: The time. They portrayed the enmascarado (masked wrestlers) Ángel and Satán . two of the main protagonists in the 1964 movie Los endemoniados del ring ("The Demons of the Ring"). Lagarde was a second-generation wrestler, although the ring name of his father has not been found documented. His brother wrestled around the same time as Lagarde was active, although the family relationship
345-588: The title El Felino left the Mexico National title competition to focus on his CMLL World Welterweight Championship. CMLL held a 16-man tournament over two days, starting on August 9 with the finals of the tournament the following week on August 15. All matches took place at the Pista Arena Revolucion in Mexico City, Mexico The Mexico National Welterweight Championship was vacated on March 20, 2013, when
368-533: The title on September 9, 1969. The rivalry with Ramírez extended into the 1970s with Ramírez regaining the title in 1972 and Lagarde winning his fourth and final title from Ramírez on October 20, 1972. Lagarde's final title run ended on August 11, 1973, when he was defeated by El Marque. When the Lagarde / Guajardo duo was at the top of the Mexican wrestling world the duo appeared in one of the many Lucha films produced at
391-616: The top heels in lucha libre overall. In the 1990s, Aguayo helped found Asistencia Asesoría y Administración , later known simply as AAA, and his three-way feud with Konnan and Cien Caras proved to be one of the most successful programs in terms of box office receipts. He stayed with AAA until 2000, even making an appearance on WWF's Royal Rumble in 1997 in a match that featured lucha libre legends like El Canek , Mil Máscaras and up and comers who would later make names for themselves like Héctor Garza and Heavy Metal . He came to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre to feud with Los Capos . He
414-579: The top teams in Mexico at the time and one of the top five Lucha libre teams of all time. They were collectively known as Los Rebeldes ("The Rebels") and headlined shows all over Mexico while wrestling against some of the top Tecnicos (good guys) at the time such as El Santo, Blue Demon and Rayo de Jalisco . They held the Mexican National Tag Team Championship at least once between 1962 and 1967. On April 28, 1962, Lagarde regained
437-548: Was granted to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), which promoted the title for the next six years. In 1998 control of the Welterweight Championship was returned to CMLL when Arkangel de la Muerte defeated El Toreo on a CMLL show. Since then the title has been promoted exclusively by CMLL. On July 16, 1992, then-reigning Mexico National Welterweight Champion El Felino defeated América to win his first ever CMLL World Heavyweight Championship . After winning
460-462: Was inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame . He was the father of the Los Perros del Mal stable founder Perro Aguayo Jr. , who died on 21 March 2015, during a wrestling match at the age of 35. On 3 July 2019, Aguayo died at the age of 73, his death was announced through a social media post by the "Los Perros del Mal" account. According to them, his death was caused by a heart attack. His funeral
483-612: Was known as the "king of the Welterweight" due to him holding the Mexican National Welterweight Championship four times and the NWA World Welterweight Championship three times in his career. Lagarde teamed up with René Guajardo to form a tag team known as Los Rebeldes , considered to be one of the top five tag teams in Lucha libre history. Born in Zapotlán de Juárez , Hidalgo , Carlos Lagarde debuted in 1950 in Hidalgo State wrestling under
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#1732869596599506-441: Was not publicly known at the time, his brother wrestled as the masked "Ángel Negro" ("Black Angel"). Lagarde's nephew is also a professional wrestler as well, working under the ring name Karloff Lagarde, Jr. as a tribute to his uncle. It is not an uncommon practice in Mexico to become a "Junior" without being actually the son of the wrestler, instead it is seen as a tribute. Another one of Lagarde's nephews wrestles as Coco Rojo ,
529-579: Was successful in taking the hair of Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000 but he lost his slated retirement match against Universo 2000 . He remained in retirement until his son began feuding with Los Capos as well. Cien Caras claimed he could not retire until his business with Aguayo was finished so a double hair vs. hair match was set with Perro Aguayo and Perro Aguayo Jr. taking on Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000. The Aguayos were successful and Perro Aguayo returned to retirement and Cien Caras went into semi-retirement. On 5 August 2012, at Triplemanía XX , Aguayo
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