The Crash Cruiserweight Championship

The Crash Cruiserweight Championship (Spanish: Campeonato de Peso Crucero de The Crash) is a professional wrestling championship contested for in the Mexican lucha libre promotion The Crash Lucha Libre based in Tijuana, Baja California. Traditionally most lucha libre promotions promote a division labelled as the "Junior Heavyweight" division, while "Cruiserweight" is a term more used in the United States or Canada but The Crash uses the term "Cruiserweight". The official definition of the Cruiserweight class in Mexico is between 97 kg (214 lb) and 107 kg (236 lb), but is not always strictly enforced.[lower-alpha 1][9] As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 2] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[lower-alpha 3] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 4] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 5]

The Crash Cruiserweight Championship
The championship belt
Details
PromotionThe Crash Lucha Libre
Date establishedJune 14, 2013[1]
Current champion(s)Black Destiny
Date wonMarch 18, 2022
Statistics
First champion(s)Fénix[2]
Most reignsRey Fénix (2 times)[2][3]
Longest reignOraculo (735 days)[1]
Shortest reignRey Horus (65 days)[1]
Oldest championRey Horus (32 years, 343 days)[4][5]
Youngest championFlamita (21 years, 257 days)[6][7]
Heaviest championBestia 666 (95 kg (209 lb))[8]
Lightest championFlamita (73 kg (161 lb))[7]

From its creation in 2013 until the introduction of The Crash Heavyweight Championship in late 2017, the cruiserweight championship was the highest profile singles championship in the promotion. The current champion is Dinámico, who won the championship on November 5, 2021, when he defeated then-champion Oraculo in a match that also included Black Danger.[14] Fénix was the first champion, having won a multi-man match on June 14, 2013, to become the inaugural champion,[2] Oraculo is the only wrestler to have won the championship twice.[2][3] Ángel Metálico's championship run from February 1, 2014 to May 8, 2015 (461 days) is the longest in the history of the championship, while Rey Horus' 65 day reign is the shortest.[1] The championship has been declared vacant twice, first when then-champion Bestia 666 was unable to defend the championship in 2016, and again in early 2018 when Fénix vacated the championship as he moved into the heavyweight division.[1]

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 Fénix June 14, 2013 N/A Tijuana, Baja California 1 232 Defeated Ángel Metálico, Flamita, Pentagón Jr., Star Boy, Tony Casanova, Willie Mack and X-Torm in eight-way elimination match to become the inaugural champion. [2][15]
2 Ángel Metálico February 1, 2014 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 461 This was a four-way Ladder match, also involving Daga and Star Boy. [16][17]
3 Pentagón Jr. May 8, 2015 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 147 This was a four-way match also involving Drago and Zarco [18][19]
4 Bestia 666 October 2, 2015 The Crash show N/A 1 [lower-alpha 6] [20][21]
— Vacated 2016 — — — — Championship vacated for undocumented reasons [1]
5 Flamita August 13, 2016 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 293 Defeated El Torito, Fly Warrior, Laredo Kid, Lince Dorado, Septimo Dragon and Willie Mack to win the vacant title. [6][22]
6 Rey Horus June 2, 2017 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 65 [4]
7 Rey Fénix August 6, 2017 The Crash/Revolucha show Monterrey, Nuevo Leon 2 252 This was a four-way match also involving Ultimo Ninja and Sammy Guevara [3][23]
— Vacated April 15, 2018 — Mexicali, Baja California — — Rey Fénix announced that he was moving up to the heavyweight division. [1]
8 Bandido May 19, 2018 The Crash show Monterrey, Nuevo Leon 1 308 Defeated Laredo Kid and Dezmond Xavier to win the vacant championship [24][25]
9 Jonathan Gresham March 23, 2019 The Crash show Monterrey, Nuevo Leon 1 223 Match also included Flamita and Shane Strickland [26]
9 Oraculo November 1, 2019 The Crash VIII Aniversario Monterrey, Nuevo Leon 1 735 Match also included Black Danger and Dinámico [27]
10 Dinámico November 5, 2021 The Crash X Aniversario Tijuana, Baja California 1 133 This was a three-way match that also included Black Danger. [14]
— Vacated March 18, 2022 — Tijuana, Baja California — — Diamonico signed with Ring of Honor
11 Black Destiny March 18, 2022 The Crash show Tijuana, Baja California 1 586+ Defeated Black Danger, Septimo Dragon and Skalibur in a fatal four way for the vacant title.

Combined reigns
† Indicates the current champion
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain.
+ Indicates that the date changes daily for the current champion.
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
days
1 Oraculo1735
2 Fénix2484
3 Black Destiny†1586+
4 Ángel Metálico461
5 Bandido308
6 Flamita293
7 Jonathan Gresham223
8 Pentagón Jr.147
9 Dinámico133
10 Bestia 66691¤
11 Rey Horus65

Footnotes
  1. One example the weight limits not being strictly enforced is Mephisto winning the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, a championship with a 78 kg (172 lb) upper limit despite weighing 90 kg (200 lb).
  2. Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[10]
  3. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[11]
  4. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[12]
  5. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[13]
  6. The exact date the championship was vacated has not been confirmed which means that the championship reign lasted between 91 and 316 days.

References
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  • Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
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