Gran Alternativa (2010)

Gran Alternativa (2010)
Information
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
Date 02010-04-16 April 16, 2010
02010-04-23 April 23, 2010
02010-04-30 April 30, 2010[1]
Venue Arena México[1]
City Mexico City, Mexico[1]
Event chronology
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2010) Gran Alternativa (2010) Sin Salida (2010)
Torneo Gran Alternativa chronology
Gran Alternativa 2009 Gran Alternativa (2010) Gran Alternativa (2011)

The Gran Alternativa 2010 was a professional wrestling annual tournament produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and took place over three shows between April 16 and April 30, 2010 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The Torneo Gran Alternativa ("Great Alternative tournament") is an annual tournament where an established CMLL veteran teams up with a Novato or rookie in a tag team tournament, although at times the Novato is not so much a rookie, but either a wrestler who has been given a new ring character or has never participated in the Gran Alternativa before. The format of the tournamnent was changed for the 2010 tournament, traditionally it featured 8 tag teams and a one night tournament, but in 2010 it featured 16 teams, split over three CMLL Super Viernes shows. Héctor Garza and Pólvora won the tournament, defeating Volador, Jr. and Delta in the finals.

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Background

The tournament featured 15 professional wrestling matches under elimination rules, which means that you are eliminated if you lose a match. The teams were created specifically for the tournament, with no teams having worked together on a regular basis before, and in the past has not wrestled as a regular team after the Gran Alternativa is over. The tournament incorporated pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines. Wrestlers portrayed either villains (referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or good guys (Técnicos in Mexico) as they competed in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes.

Tournament

Block A

On April 7, 2010 CMLL announced the Novato participants for Block A of the 2010 Gran Alternativa tournament, featuring three wrestlers that had been involved in the 2009 torneo Gran Alternativa, ending a two-year practice that stated that you could not wrestle as a novato in the tournament if you had participated in a previous year's tournament. The returning novatos are Rey Cometa, Polvóra and Camorra. The five first time novatos were announced as Sensei, Diamante, Cancerbero, Inquisidor and Disturbio.[1] When the full card for the April 16, 2010 CMLL Super Viernes show the full teams for Block A were announced as Diamante & La Sombra, Blue Panther and Rey Cometa, Héctor Garza and Pólvora, La Máscara and Sensei, Atlantis and Inquisidor, El Terrible and Disturbio, Mephisto and Cancerbero and finally Rey Bucanero and Semental who replaced Camorra. Block A was won by Héctor Garza and Pólvora.[2]

Block A
  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                           
     Rey Cometa and Blue Panther[2] Winners  
   Semental and Rey Bucanero    
     Rey Cometa and Blue Panther    
     Héctor Garza and Pólvora[2] Winners  
   Sensei and La Máscara  
     Héctor Garza and Pólvora[2] Winners  
       Héctor Garza and Pólvora [2] Winners
     Diamante and La Sombra  
     Diamante and La Sombra[2] Winners  
   Cancerbero and Mephisto    
     Diamante and La Sombra[2] Winners
     Inquisidor and Atlantis    
   Inquisidor and Atlantis[2] Winners
     Disturbio and El Terrible    

Block B

Block B of the 2010 tournament will take place on April 23, 2010 and the announced teams are: Delta (Novato) and Volador, Jr., Guerrero Maya, Jr. (Novato) and Valiente, Ángel Azteca, Jr. (Novato) and Shocker, Pegasso (Novato) and Toscano, Raziel (Novato) and Averno, Durango Kid (Novato) and El Texano, Jr., Puma King (Novato) and Último Guerrero and the team of Tiger Kid (Novato) and El Felino. Of note in Block B is the fact that Raziel has been a professional wrestler since 1996 but changed from the character Caligula to Raziel in late 2009 and thus is being billed as a Novato by CMLL. Block B also features Tiger Kid teaming up with his uncle El Felino, the only two wrestlers to have any sort of relationship going into the tournament. Block B was won by Delta and Volador, Jr.[3]

Block B
  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                           
     Puma King and Último Guerrero[3] Winners  
   Pegasso and Toscano    
     Puma King and Último Guerrero[3] Winners  
     Durango Kid and El Texano, Jr.    
   Durango Kid and El Texano, Jr.[3] Winners
     Ángel Azteca, Jr. and Shocker    
       Puma King and Último Guerrero  
     Delta and Volador, Jr.[3] Winners
     Tiger Kid and El Felino    
   Delta and Volador, Jr.[3] Winners  
     Delta and Volador, Jr.[3] Winners
     Raziel and Averno    
   Guerrero Maya, Jr. and Valiente  
     Raziel and Averno[3] Winners  

Finals

The finals was contested under "best two out of three falls" rules and took place on the April 30, 2010 Super Viernes. Pólvora and Héctor Garza defeated Delta and Volador, Jr. two falls to one, in 23:46 to win the 2010 Gran Alternativa.[4]

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