The origins of the Micro-Estrella division lies in Midget wrestling, which in Mexico was popularized in the 1970s when promoters used the American concept and had a number of Mexicans with dwarfism, individuals with an adult height of less than, perform as a "special attraction" on lucha libre shows. In the early days saw the popularity of wrestlers such as Gran Nikolai, Pequeno Goliath and Arturito. By the 1980s midget wrestling was less popular in Mexico, especially since few new wrestlers had joined the division. In the early 1990s Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, created a new concept, the Mini-Estrella division. The division was created by Antonio Peña who worked for CMLL at the time, who came up with the idea of using both wrestlers with dwarfism and wrestlers who were simply very short together, and to have those Mini-Estrellas work as smaller versions of popular wrestlers of the time. Peña and CMLL created the CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship in 1992, which is considered the official birth of the division. CMLL's Mini-Estrellas division featured a number of skilled, high flying wrestlers which helped make the concept an immediate success, replacing Midget wrestling with the Mini-Estrellas division in Mexico. On April 30, 2017 CMLL began promotion a series of matches for the Micro-Estrellas division, with all competitors being people with dwarfism. The first match in the new division saw Microman and Gallito defeat the team of Mije and Zacarias. The match even had a micro referee as would the Micro-Estrella matches going forward. Prior to the match Gallito, Mije and Zacarias had worked as Mascotas for various CMLL wrestlers and got physically involved in matches, but hardly ever wrestled. In subsequent years the Micro-Estrellas became a regular feature on CMLL shows, leading to the first Micro-Estrellas Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask match between Microman and Chamuel at the CMLL 86th Anniversary Show, which saw Chamuel lose and be forced to unmask. On the December 11, 2019 Informa show CMLL introduced the CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Championship and unveiled the size-appropriate championship belt. Chamuel is the current CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Champion, having won a six-man torneo cibernetico elimination match on December 25, 2019 to become the inaugural champion. As with all professional wrestling championships, matches for the CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Championship are not won or lost competitively, but by a pre-planned ending to a match, with the outcome determined by the CMLL 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. The championship will be the first exclusively for people with dwarfism in Mexico, while several have been promoted in the United States such as the NWA World Midget's Championship, and Mini-Estrella championships have been promoted in Mexico since 1992, but those are not exclusively for wrestlers with dwarfism.
Title history
Tournaments
2019
CMLL held a six-man torneo cibernetico elimination match featuring Microman, Chamuel El Gallito, Zacarias el Perico, Guapito, and Átomo on December 25, 2019 to determine the first CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Champion. The first wrestler eliminated was Átomo, pinned by Zacarias. elimnations two through four were: Guapito, Zacarias and El Gallito. In the end Chamuel pinned long time rival Microman to win the match and the championship as well.
