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In professional wrestling, championships are competed for in scripted storylines by a professional wrestling promotion roster of wrestlers. The Mexican Lucha libre professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL), based in Mexico City, Mexico promotes 12 championships designated as World Champions in various divisions, 5 championships on a national level and 7 championship on a regional level. The championships are divided into weight limits as well as gender specific and size-specific divisions. Being professional wrestling championships, they are not won through legitimate athletic competition; they are instead instead won via scripted endings to a match or on occasion awarded to

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