The Crash Cruiserweight Championship
# 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. 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. 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, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

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. Fénix was the first champion, having won a multi-man match on June 14, 2013, to become the inaugural champion, Oraculo is the only wrestler to have won the championship twice. 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. 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.

## 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 | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 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 | 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 4 | Bestia 666 | October 2, 2015 | The Crash show | N/A | 1 | | | |
| — | Vacated | 2016 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons | |
| 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 | Rey Horus | June 2, 2017 | The Crash show | Tijuana, Baja California | 1 | 65 | | |
| 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 | |
| — | Vacated | April 15, 2018 | — | Mexicali, Baja California | — | — | Rey Fénix announced that he was moving up to the heavyweight division. | |
| 8 | Bandido | May 19, 2018 | The Crash show | Monterrey, Nuevo Leon | 1 | 308 | Defeated Laredo Kid and Dezmond Xavier to win the vacant championship | |
| 9 | Jonathan Gresham | March 23, 2019 | The Crash show | Monterrey, Nuevo Leon | 1 | 223 | Match also included Flamita and Shane Strickland | |
| 9 | Oraculo | November 1, 2019 | The Crash VIII Aniversario | Monterrey, Nuevo Leon | 1 | 735 | Match also included Black Danger and Dinámico | |
| 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. | |
| — | 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 | 496+ | 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 | Oraculo | 1 | 735 |
| 2 | Fénix | 2 | 484 |
| 3 | Black Destiny† | 1 | 496+ |
| 4 | Ángel Metálico | 1 | 461 |
| 5 | Bandido | 1 | 308 |
| 6 | Flamita | 1 | 293 |
| 7 | Jonathan Gresham | 1 | 223 |
| 8 | Pentagón Jr. | 1 | 147 |
| 9 | Dinámico | 1 | 133 |
| 10 | Bestia 666 | 1 | 91¤ |
| 11 | Rey Horus | 1 | 65 |

## Footnotes

* ↑ 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).
* ↑ 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"
* ↑ 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"
* ↑ 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"
* ↑ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."
* ↑ The exact date the championship was vacated has not been confirmed which means that the championship reign lasted between 91 and 316 days.
