The Mexican National Tag Team Championship () is a national Mexican professional wrestling championship controlled by the (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission) and competed for by two-man tag teams. The championship was created in 1982 (retroactively in 1957), promoted regularly until 2003, and intermittently until 2011 when the last known defense took place. (EMLL) had control of the championship from its creation until 1992, at which point it was transferred to AAA.

Magazines from around the time of Cachorro & Ringo Mendoza's tournament win on June 18, 1982 claim that they were the first national tag team champions. Although other mentions of prior "national" tag champions exist in records, they consistently line up with records for other titles known to exist at the time, such as the EMLL Arena México Tag Team Championship. Regardless, those prior histories have since been folded into the national championship's own and are generally accepted as part of the currently-recognized lineage. Thus, the "first" champions are apocryphally considered Los Hermanos Shadow (The Shadow Brothers; Blue Demon and Black Shadow), who won an eight-team tournament in 1957. The championship was reintroduced in 2020 after previously being abandoned in 2011.

In the mid-1990s there was confusion about who was recognized as champions for a period of time. In December 1995, one half of then-championship team Los Guerreras, Fuerza Guerrera, left AAA, which led to the promotion declaring the title vacant. On January 12, 1996, new champions were crowned as Juventud Guerrera and Psicosis defeated Volador and El Mexicano to claim the titles. When Juventud also left AAA, the decided that Los Guerreras were never officially stripped of the championship, refusing to recognize Juventud Guerrera and Psicosis as champions. In August 1996, the commission finally declared the championship vacant and returned the championship belts to AAA for future use.

The last championship team under AAA's control was Octagón and La Parka, who won the championship on June 20, 2003, when they defeated Electroshock and Chessman. In early 2009, AAA stopped promoting all Mexican National Championships, opting to focus on their AAA branded championships. Octagón and La Parka were never stripped of the championship, but did not defend them on any AAA shows after late 2007. From that point on the championship was only defended twice on the Mexican independent circuit, in March 2009, and then in December 2011. The championship was inactive after the last known defense. until February 19, 2020, when (CMLL; formerly EMLL) announced that they were bringing the championship back.

Los Depredadores (Rugido and Magnus) are the current champions in the first reign. They won the titles by defeating La Fuerza Tapatia (Esfinge and Fugaz) on Domingo Familiar in Mexico City, Mexico, on July 9, 2023; they are the 45th overall champions. Los Destructores (Tony Arce and Vulcano) held the championship three times, the most of all recognized champions, while Tony Arce holds the individual record with four reigns. Los Metálicos (Oro and Plata) had the shortest verified reign, six days in December 1991. Octagón and La Parka's reign lasted 3,110 days, the longest known reign of any champions.

Tournaments 1997 In 1997, the then-reigning champions Fuerza Guerrera and Juventud Guerrera began working for different promotions, causing the championship to be vacated by AAA. They held a one-night eight-team tournament on July 20, 1997, at the El Toreo de Naucalpan bullfighting arena in Naucalpan, Mexico State. Some sources mistakenly list the AAA "Young Stars Tag Team" tournament held on May 15, 1997, and broadcast on June 7, as the championship tournament, which was won by the same team, but was not for the vacant championship.

2020

In 1992, then reigning Mexican National Tag Team Champions Los Destructores, left CMLL and doing so taking the championship with them to AAA. The championship was defended in AAA from 1992 until 2007, and subsequently only defended twice more on the independent circuit before becoming dormant. La Parka, one half of the last recognized championship team, died on January 11, 2020. A couple of weeks later CMLL officially announced that they had regained control of the Mexican National Tag Team Championship and would be holding a tournament for the championship in February and March. The tournament ran from February 28 to March 13, and saw Atlantis Jr. and Flyer defeated El Hijo de Villano III and Templario to win the championship.

Tournament brackets

Title history

Combined reigns

By team + Key†Indicates the current champion¤The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain. RankTeamNo. ofreignsCombined days1Octagón and La Parka 1 3,1102Los Depredadores †1+3 1 1,0294 1 8135Los Destructores 1 5746Atlantis Jr. and Flyer 1 4837La Fuerza Tapatia 1 4768Los Consagrados 1 4299Chessman and Electroshock 1 42710Los Infernales 1 344Los Hermanos Dinamita 1 Los Destructores 3 13Perro Aguayo and Perro Aguayo Jr. 1 32914Fuerza Guerrera and Mosco de la Merced 1 32315Bestia Salvaje and Pierroth Jr. 1 28716Misterioso and Volador 2 26917Fuerza Guerrera and Juventud Guerrera 2 255¤18Los Vipers 2 25219Cien Caras and Sangre Chicana 1 19920Hator and The Panther 1 18221Tony Benetto and Rayo de Jalisco Jr. 1 17022Felino Jr. and Polvora 1 16723Máscara Sagrada and La Parka Jr. 1 15924Latin Lover and Panterita del Ring 1 10925Heavy Metal and Latin Lover 1 8426Atrapasuenos 1 8727Ángel Azteca and Volador 1 8128Perro Aguayo Jr. and Héctor Garza 1 6129Los Metálicos 1 6

By wrestler

RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombined days1La Parka Jr./La Parka 2 3,2692Octagón 1 3,1103Magnus †1+Rugido † 511,0297 4 9188Ángel Azteca 2 8949Atlantis 1 78010Electroshock 3 67911Fuerza Guerrera 3 578¤12 1 57413Cien Caras 2 54314Atlantis Jr. 1 483Flyer16Esfinge 1 476Fugaz18 1 429Pirata Morgan20Chessman 1 42721 2 39022 3 35023Máscara Año 2000 1 344Volcano 3 Masakre 1 MS-127 1 32928Mosco de la Merced 1 32329Bestia Salvaje 1 287Pierroth Jr.31Misterioso 2 26932Juventud Guerrera 2 255¤33Abismo Negro 2 25234Sangre Chicana 1 19935Latin Lover 2 19336Hator 1 18238Rayo de Jalisco Jr. 1 170 40Felino Jr. 1 167Polvora42Máscara Sagrada 1 15943Panterita del Ring 1 10944Espiritu Negro 1 87Rey Cometa 46Heavy Metal 1 8447Héctor Garza 1 6148Oro 1 6Plata

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References

External links Mexican National Tag Team Championship