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Midget wrestling is professional wrestling involving people of exceptionally short stature. Its heyday was in the 1950s and 1960s, when wrestlers such as Little Beaver , Lord Littlebrook , toured North America, and Sky Low Low was the first holder of the National Wrestling Alliance 's World Midget Championship .
The CMLL Mini-Estrella division has only been involved in one Ruleta de la Muerte (Spanish for "Roulette of Death") tournament since its official creation in 1992. [5] The Ruleta de la Muerte tournament format is based on the Lucha Libre Parejas Increibles match type where two wrestlers of opposite allegiance, portraying either villains, referred to as "Rudos" in Lucha Libre wrestling ...
The AAA World Mini-Estrella Championship was created in 2008 as the focal point of AAA's Mini-Estrellas division. The first champion was Mini Charly Manson who won a Mini-Estrella Championship tournament when he defeated Mini Abismo Negro and Octagoncito in the finals of the tournament that took place at the 2008 Verano de Escándalo show on September 14, 2008.
Northern California based Pro Wrestling Revolution (PWR) is the only US based promotion to have created a specific Mini-Estrella championship, created in 2009. In 1997 the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) and AAA began a talent sharing program, which allowed several Mini-Estrellas wrestlers to compete on WWF television. [ 16 ]
For professional wrestling championships competed for exclusively by Midget professional wrestling and Mini-Estrellas. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Midget professional wrestlers" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), perform as a "special attraction" on lucha libre shows.
The NWA World Midget's Championship was the National Wrestling Alliance's midget wrestling singles championship. Large parts of the championship history is undocumented due to lack of documentation of Midget wrestling for large periods of time from the 1950s to the 1980s.