Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) announced on Tuesday that they’ll be bringing back the National Women’s Tag Team Championships. The title was previously used from 1990 to 1996.
The titles didn’t mean much in the 1990s. They weren’t part of the big, national-scale shows of CMLL. They were simple national titles for another CMLL division. As Lucha Blog states: “The past champions have the right to be proud of being champions, but there’s no great history or memories associated with the Mexican Women’s Championships…”
The title will be contested in a tournament. So far, the following names have been announced for the National Women’s Tag Team Championship Tournament: Jarochita & Lluvia, Tiffany & Reina Isis and Marcela & Skadi. It is expected that the first blocks will not be streamed.
Los campeonatos nacionales de parejas, varoniles y femeniles no son los únicos que podrán ser activados hay uno más que tiene altas posibilidades de que también sea activado dentro de poco.
— Alfonso Lizarraga (@dr_landru) March 5, 2020
CMLL has now a total of 23 championships in its promotion. Although many fans recognized the championships that are contested in Arena Mexico, the company used most of the remaining one in regional shows. Alfonso Lizarraga (Dr. Landrau) suggested that other titles will be reactivated in CMLL.
Lucha Blog reported the following regarding such rumor:
There are five other national championships which have existed:
Mini: last held by Mascarita Dorada; he walked out of AAA in 2007 when they were going to have him drop it to 2007. He claimed AAA still had the physical belt. Dorada & AAA are on better terms now, but AAA doesn’t use the national titles. CMLL also doesn’t seem interested in the minis title.
Feather: an indie title mostly doing the 1980s. UWA/LLI had a world featherweight championship so this worked with that. CMLL probably would take care of the vacant lightweight title first and even then, it seems unlikely this one would return without a major change.
Middle: A long history in EMLL, going back to the earliest days of the promotion and held by the biggest names. Like the tag titles, it moved over to AAA in the early 90s with then-champion Octagon. Octagon won it back again in 2006 but did very little with it since. CMLL would absolutely want this title back, but may not be able to get it without Octagon passing away or agreeing to it.
Cruiser: This pre-dates the more famous WCW Cruiserweight championship, though it was mostly an indie championship. It did go through CMLL rings, showing up in Pista Arena Revolucion during the last few years of the CMLL’s since-demolished third Mexico City building. La Parka was the last champion, so the championship is vacant. It’s unclear if CMLL would care to bring it back; it’s not a title with history in Arena Mexico and it’s not a weight division they use.
Atomicos: The only national championship created directly for AAA, coming in to existence in 1996 and defended in that promotion only. Vacant since 2009; Chessman & Psycho Circus won the titles, but it was really an angle to get over Vampiro in his then role as AAA commissioner by stripping them for cheating. The angle was never followed up on. CMLL’s dislike of booking 4v4 matches makes it a poor fit. On the other hand, CMLL doesn’t book many 2v2 matches outside of prelims and there are now three 2v2 titles.
