CMLL World Women's Championship
The CMLL World Women's Championship belt.
Details
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date established	June 12, 1992[G]
Current champion	Mercedes Moné
Date won	June 18, 2025
Statistics First champion Bull Nakano[G] Most reigns Marcela (5 times) Longest reign La Amapola (3 years, 346 days) Shortest reign Marcela (2nd reign, 29 days) Oldest champion Marcela (47 years, 172 days) Youngest champion Xóchitl Hamada (22 years, 324 days) Heaviest champion Bull Nakano (91 kg (201 lb)) Lightest champion Hiroka (45 kg (99 lb))

TheCMLL World Women's Championship (Campeonato Mundial Femenil de CMLL inSpanish) is thechampionship inwomen's professional wrestling that is most highly promoted by the Mexicanlucha librepromotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The championship has existed since 1992 and is one of two women's championships currently promoted by CMLL; the other is theMexican National Women's Championship. 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 astoryline. All title matches take place undertwo out of three falls rules.

Bull Nakano became the first CMLL World Women's Champion after winning a 12-womanbattle royal to receive the title on June 12, 1992.La Amapola holds the record for the longest reign with 1,442 days. Marcela has had the most reigns, with five. Marcela has had the shortest title reign, at 29 days. The CMLL World Women's Championship is the only Women's Championship and one of the only of two championships, the other being theIWGP Heavyweight Championship to be defended in the country of North Korea at the eventCollision in Korea in a match between at the time CMLL World Women's ChampionAkira Hokuto defeatedBull Nakano.^[1]

On June 12, 1992,Bull Nakano became the first champion in the title's history by defeatingLola González in a 12-woman12-womantorneo cibernetico elimination match.^[G] On November 4, 1996, CMLL stripped the fourth championReina Jubuki out of the title for wrestling onWCW Monday Nitro.^[G] On November 8, 1996,Lady Apache won thevacant championship by defeating Chaparita Asari in the finals of a four-woman tournament final.^[G] In February 1999, the championship was vacated due to inactivity of the CMLL's women's division.^[G] Apache won the vacant championship for the second time on May 15, 1999, however, the title was vacated once again with Apache leaving CMLL.

On 2001,La Diabólica, who previously was the number one contender for the title at the time, was awarded the vacant championship. In April 2003, the title was vacated again as Diabólica left the promotion. On September 16, 2005, at theCMLL 72nd Anniversary Show,Marcela defeatedDark Angel to win the vacant championship in the final of12-woman tournament. On August 16, 2023, The championship was vacated once again after the previous titleholderPrincesa Sugehit sustained an injury.^[2] On September 29, at CMLL Noche de Campeones,Stephanie Vaquer won the vacant championship by defeating La Catalina.^[3]

As of November 24, 2025, there have been 22 reigns between 15 champions and six vacancies. Bull Nakano was the inaugural champion. Marcela holds the record for most reigns at five.La Amapola's first and only reign is the longest at 1,442 days, while Marcela's second reign is the shortest at 29 days. Marcela is the oldest champion at 47 years old, whileXóchitl Hamada is the youngest at 22 years old.

Mercedes Moné is the current champion in her first reign. She won the title atAEW Grand Slam Mexico on June 18, 2025 inMexico City, Mexico, when she defeatedZeuxis.

CMLL held a 15-womantorneo cibernetico elimination match on June 5, 1992, to determine the two women who would fight for the newly created CMLL World Women's champion the following week.La Diabólica was originally scheduled to work the match, but did not appear which led to the uneven sides in the elimination match. Several of the participants had recently joined CMLL, leaving theUniversal Wrestling Association to join CMLL and its recently restarted women's division.Zuleyma was the reigningUWA World Women's Championship going into the match and CMLL allowed her to keep and defend the UWA championship in the years following Zuleyma's jump to CMLL. The finals came down toLola Gonzales, a pioneer for women's wrestling in Mexico, andBull Nakano, a Japanese wrestler that worked regularly for CMLL. The following week, on June 12, 1993, Bull Nakano became the first CMLL World Women's Champion by virtue of her victory over Lola Gonzales.

On November 6, 1996, CMLL took the CMLL World Women's Championship away from then reigning championReina Jubuki because she had wrestled on aWorld Championship Wrestling (WCW) show in North America only a few days prior. At the time WCW had a working relationship withAsistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), CMLL's main rival in Mexico and thus appearing for WCW was enough for CMLL to sever ties with Jubuki. CMLL held a tournament to crown a new champion only 2 days after announcing the title being vacated, choosing four of their top female competitors for a quick four-woman tournament.

The reigning champion,La Diabólica left CMLL to join rivalAsistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) on April 5, 2003, which forced CMLL to vacate the championship. This happened during a time of very low activity in CMLL's female division, which meant the title was inactive for over two years before CMLL held a tournament for the title starting on September 9, 2005. CMLL held a nine-womantorneo cibernetico elimination match to determine the two finalists that would face off the next week in a best two-out-of-three falls match.Dark Angel andMarcela survived the match and met on September 16, 2005, with Marcela winning the match and her first CMLL World Women's Championship.^[7]

General sources

• [G1] –Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: EMLL CMLL Women's Title".Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 397.ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.

Specific sources

• Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre championships
• World professional wrestling championships
• Women's professional wrestling championships

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