Distrito Federal Trios Championship

Distrito Federal Trios Championship
Shiima Nobunaga, who held the championship with Judo Suwa and Sumo Fuji
Details
Promotion	International Wrestling Revolution Group Mexican Independent Circuit
Date established	1986[1]
Current champion(s)	Las Tortugas Ninja (Leo, Mike and Rafy)[2]
Date won	May 1, 2016[2]
Other name(s)
Mexico State Trios Championship/Campeonato Trios de Estado de Mexico
Statistics First champion(s) Los Temerarios (Black Terry, Jose Luis Feliciano, Shu el Guerrero)[1] Most reigns Individual: Oficial (5 reigns) Team: Los Oficiales (3 reigns) (Guardia, Oficial and Virgilante) Longest reign Los Oficiales (507 days)[N 1] Shortest reign Los Divos (21 days) (Bengalí, Cats and Raiden)[N 2]

The Distrito Federal Trios Championship is a Trios (six-man) tag team Championship primarily promoted by the Mexican Lucha libre professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). The title was created in 1986 and is controlled by the "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission), which regulates all matches where the title is defended, allowing it to only be defended in Mexico City and the State of Mexico. It is considered a secondary, lower level championship than the Mexican National Trios Championship also sanctioned by the Commission but almost exclusively controlled by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). IWRG has held the control of the Distrito Federal Trios Championship since IWRG was founded in 1996 and has at times been a secondary title for the promotion, below the IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship.^{[N 3]} The championship is not restricted by nationality, only by geographical location of where it can or cannot be defended. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately: it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.

The current champions are Las Tortugas Ninja (Leo, Mike and Rafy) having defeated Los Mariachis Locos (El Hijo del Diablo, El Diablo Jr. I and Imposible) to win the championship May 1, 2016 in Arena Naucalpan^[2] The first Distrito Federal Champions was the team known as Los Temerarios ("The Reckless"; Black Terry, Jose Luis Feliciano, Shu el Guerrero) who won the championship at some point in 1986.^[1] Due to very few paper records being preserved of professional wrestling events, especially on the independent circuit there are periods of time where the status of the championship is unclear. At times there is no record of the specific date a team won the championship or who they defeated, leaving the possibility that there may have been other championship reigns in that period of time. Due to the fictional nature of professional wrestling, it is also possible that some of the championship changes that proceeded periods of uncertainty were fictional in nature, where new champions were announced but no actual match took place.^[1] In the years preceding Los Oficiales winning the championship in 2007 the title was inactive for long periods of time and was not defended on a regular basis.

Due to the gaps in records it can only be stated that there have been at least 34 championship reigns between 30 different trios and 72 individual wrestlers. The first version of Los Oficiales (Guardia, Oficial and Virgilante) is the trio with the most reigns as a team, three; while Oficial is the individual with the most reigns, holding the championship with three different configurations of Los Oficiales. The longest reigning Trio is the current version of Los Oficiales, whose reign from July 19, 2007 to December 7, 2008 was the longest with 507 days in total. Technically the 31st reign by Gringos VIP lasted 679 days, but during the trio's reign the Commission allowed Gringo Loco to be replaced by Apolo Estrada, Jr. as Gringo Loco had returned to the United States of America about halfway through their reign, making Los Oficiales the longest reigning trio. The current version of Los Oficiales is also the team with the longest combined, confirmed championship reign at 7003210000000000000♠2,100 days and counting. Oficial AK-47 has the longest combined reign for an individual, combining four reigns to 7003226200000000000♠2,262 days and counting. The Nuevo León based trio of Los Divos (Bengalí, Cats and Raiden) held the championship for 21 days in 2005, making it the shortest confirmed reign of any champions. Four wrestlers have been champions under two different wrestling identities; Black Terry has held the title twice under that name and once as the masked character Guerrero Maya. Oficial AK-47 has held it both under his current character and as "Ultra Mega" as well, Oficial Factor previously held the championship under his former identity of Mega as well while Oficial Spartan also held the championship under the name Omega.^{[N 4]}

Title history

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List of Championship reigns by combined length

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Individual Championship reigns by length

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Championship tournaments

It is believed that the original champions Los Temerarios (Black Terry, Jose Luis Feliciano, Shu el Guerrero) is believed to have won a trios tournament of indeterminate size, but no documentation of the date or participants of the tournament exists.^[1]

Distrito Federal Trios Tournament, 2010

In April 2010 IWRG stripped Los Terribles Cerebros (Black Terry, Cerebro Negro and Dr. Cerebro) of the championship due to Cerebro Negro electing to work a Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU) on the same day as an IWRG show, forcing IWRG to abandon the planned match. IWRG held an eight-team, one night single elimination tournament from April 15 to April 29, 2010 to crown the new champions. Cerebro Negro actually participated in the tournament, but did not team with his former partners Black Terry and Dr. Cerebro.^[11]

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