Fantasticamania
Fantasticamania is the collective name of a series of annual professional wrestling major show co-promoted by Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). Fantasticamania is a series of two or three shows that has taken place in Japan, in January of each year since 2010. The event is hosted by NJPW in Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. So far twelve Fantasticamania shows have taken place.
Event history
The Fantasticamania event series was a result of the working relationship between Japanese based New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) who had been exchanging wrestlers for sort or long periods of time for several years before 2011. In late 2010 NJPW and CMLL announced that they would co-promote two shows in January 2011 under the name Fantasticamania. The shows would take place in Japan organized by NJPW with CMLL sending a number of their wrestlers to Japan to work the shows. In 2011 and 2012 some CMLL wrestlers toured with NJPW prior or after the shows, while some of the wrestlers flew in just for the show. In 2014, the Fantasticamania tour was expanded to five days, with events for the first time scheduled to take place outside of Tokyo's Korakuen Hall, in Osaka and Kyoto.[1]
So far Fantastiamania has hosted 75 matches, five to seven matches for each event, none of the matches featured female competitors nor any participation from CMLL's Mini-Estrella division since NJPW hardly ever promotes female or Mini-Estrella matches and do not have any under contract either. A total of 50 wrestlers have wrestled on the Fantasticamania shows so far, with King Fale and Kenny Omega having wrestled on only one of the shows. Seven wrestlers have worked all five tours so far; Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask IV and Taichi from NJPW and OKUMURA, Máscara Dorada, La Sombra and Máximo from CMLL. The Fantasticamania events has hosted thirteen championship matches, with three title changes; Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Máscara Dorada to win the CMLL World Welterweight Championship, Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) defeated Golden☆Lovers (Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and La Sombra defeated Dragón Rojo, Jr. to win the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship.[2][3][4][5][6] The CMLL World Middleweight Championship, IWGP Tag Team Championship, CMLL World Trios Championship, CMLL World Welterweight Championship, NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship, IWGP Intercontinental Championship, Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship and CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship were all successfully defended.[2][3][7][4][5][6][8][9][10][11][12][13] Fantasticamania has hosted one Lucha de Apuestas, or bet match; while the Luchas de Apuestas match is the most important match type in CMLL, NJPW hardly ever promotes matches of this type. The match saw Tiger Mask IV put his mask on the line against Tomohiro Ishii, who lost and had his hair shaved off after the match.[2][4][5]
Dates, venues, and main events
References
- ↑ "来年もやります!! “ルチャの祭典”『Fantastica Mania 2014』はなんと5大会!! 大阪、京都にも初上陸!!". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). October 25, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Flores, Manuel (January 24, 2011). "NJPW CMLL Presents Fantasticamania 2011". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish) (Mexico City, Mexico: CAMSAN Impresores, S.A. de C.V.). pp. 3–7. Issue 398. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Flores, Manuel (January 22, 2011). "Resultados “Fantasticamanía” – CMLL/NJPW en Japón – Los mexicanos perdieron todos los duelos por campeonatos" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Zayfreb (January 23, 2011). "Resultados NJPW PRESENTS CMLL FANTASTICA MANIA 2011, 23 de enero." (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Results: New Japan x CMLL, 1/23/11". Puroresufan. January 23, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2013". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Results: New Japan x CMLL, 1/22/11". Puroresufan. January 22, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2012". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). January 21, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Soy Rudo (January 21, 2012). "NJPW-CMLL: Resultados “Fantasticamania 2012″ día 1" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
- ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2012". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Soy Rudo (January 22, 2012). "NJPW-CMLL: Resultados “Fantasticamanía 2012″ Día 2" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
- ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2013". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2014". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved January 19, 2014.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "January/February cards including Tanahashi vs. Anderson!". Strong Style Spirit. January 5, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 "Los programas oficiales de la gira NJPW Presents: CMLL Fantastica Mania 2014". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). January 6, 2014. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
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