The CMLL Universal Championship 2014 (Campeonato Universal in
Spanish) was a
professional wrestling tournament produced by the
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
promotion, which took place over three Super Viernes shows between August 15 and 29, 2014, in
Arena México,
Mexico City, Mexico. The
CMLL Universal Championship is an annual tournament of CMLL champions that was first held in 2009 and has been held annually ever since. Being a professional wrestling tournament, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public.
Background
The tournament featured 15
professional wrestling matches under
single-elimination tournament rules, which means that wrestlers were eliminated when they lose a match. There were no specific storylines that build to the tournament, which has been held annually since 2009. All male "non-regional" CMLL champions at the time of the tournament were involved in the tournament, The
CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship and
Mexican National Lightweight Championship are both exclusively for CMLL's Mini-Estrella division and thus not eligible for the tournament. Regionally promoted championships such as the
CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship and the Occidente championships promoted in
Guadalajara,
Jalisco were not included in the tournament; only titles that have been defended in CMLL's main venue
Arena Mexico were included. The tournament was divided into two qualifying blocks, which took place on August 15 and August 22,[1][2] while the final took place on August 29, 2014.[3]
2014 Universal Championship tournament
When CMLL announced the 2014 tournament the following champions were eligible to participate: