Festival de las Máscaras (2011)

Festival de las Máscaras (2011)
Information
Promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group
Date July 3, 2012[1]
Venue Arena Naucalpan[1]
City Naucalpan, State of Mexico[1]
Event chronology

Rey del Ring (2011) Festival de las Máscaras (2011) Jaula de la Muerte
Festival de las Máscaras chronology

Festival de las Máscaras (2010) Festival de las Máscaras (2011) Festival de las Máscaras (2012)

Festival de las Máscaras (2011) (Spanish for "Festival of the Mask") was an annual professional wrestling major event produced by Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), which took place on August 2, 2012 in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico. For this annual event the "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission) allowed wrestlers who had previously been unmasked after losing a Luchas de Apuestas, or bet match, to wear their masks again. The main event of the show heralded back to long running storyline feuds between Rayo de Jalisco, Jr., El Canek and Konnan against the brothers known as Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000 and Universo 2000). Cien Caras had originally lost his mask to Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. and Universo 2000 was unmasked by El Canek, but for one night they were allowed to wear the masks again as they wrestled against their longtime rivals.

Background

The event featured five professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers, where some were involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines and others simply put together by the matchmakers without a backstory. Being a professional wrestling event matches are not won legitimately through athletic competition; they are instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public. Wrestlers portray either heels (the bad guys, referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or faces (fan favorites or Técnicos in Mexico). In Lucha libre wrestlers who unmasked are not allowed to wear their mask again when they are competing, only if they change their ring character and normally only after a period of time has passed since unmasking. Most wrestlers who are unmasked do so as a result of losing a Luchas de Apuestas, or bet match, after which they are required to unmask in front of the audience and announce their real name and age, while a select few unmask voluntarily because they change their ring characters to an unmasked character.[2] Lucha Libre is controlled by state specific wrestling commission who license wrestlers and promoters and generally enforce the rules about re masking, although there have been a few cases where a previously de-masked wrestler has started to wear his mask again, including Silver King, although he does work unmasked when wrestling in Mexico City, being threatened with heavy fines and suspension if he wore the Silver King mask while wrestling.[3] IWRG sought special permission from the wrestling commission to allow the previously unmasked wrestlers to wear their masks for one special event each year, the Festival de las Máscaras.

Previously unmasked wrestlers
Name Lost mask to Date Note
El Brazo Villano I, Villano IV, Villano V October 21, 1988 [4]
Capitan Muerte Black Terry June 24, 2010  
Cien Caras Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. September 21, 1990 [5]
Cuchillo El Hijo del Santo October 30, 1988 [6]
El Hijo del Diablo Místico December 1, 2006 [7]
Kahoz Shocker December 15, 1995 [8]
Konnan Perro Aguayo March 22, 1991 [9]
Máscara Año 2000 Perro Aguayo April 30, 1993 [10]
El Pantera Misterioso, Jr. July 14, 2006 [11]
Rambo Villano III September 17, 1983 [12]
Scorpio, Jr. Negro Casas and El Hijo del Santo March 19, 1999 [13]
Universo 2000 El Canek September 17, 2004 [14]
Veneno Gran Markus, Jr. March 17, 2002 [15]
Yack Oficial 911 November 1, 2009 [16]

Outside of the main event there were not specific, pre-existing storylines built into any of the matches on the show, primarily because the show paid homage to wrestling history more than being part of any current storylines. Only the main event came with any sort of back history as El Canek, Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. and Konnan were teamed up to face Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000 and Universo 2000). Canek, Rayo and Konnan had all had previous feuds with one or all members of Los Hermanos Dinamita, from as far back as the 1980s. Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. was responsible for unmasking Cien Caras in 1990 when he won a Lucha de Apuesta over Caras.[5] El Canek had been the man to unmask Universo 2000 in 2004, in a match that actually also included Rayo de Jalisco, Jr.[14] Both Konnan and Máscara Año 2000 had lost their mask to the same man, Perro Aguayo,[9][10] but had a long running storyline with each other in the early days of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

Results

# Result Stipulation Reference
1 Dinamic Black and Ray Marin defeated Alan Extreme and Muerte Infernal – two falls to one Best two-out-of-three falls tag team match [1][17][18]
2 Capitan Muerte, El Hijo del Diablo and Fuego Eterno defeated Aracnido, Eterno and Yack – two falls to one Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match [1][17][18]
3 Triangulo de la Muerte (Cuchillo, Kahoz and Rambo) defeated Coco Rojo, El Brazo and Veneno – two falls to one Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match [1][17][18]
4 El Pantera, Fray Tormenta and El Solar defeated Black Terry, Negro Navarro and Scorpio, Jr. – two falls to one Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match [1][17][18]
5 El Canek, Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. and Konnan defeated Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000 and Universo 2000) by disqualification Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match [1][17][18]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Reyes Ruiz, Eduardo (July 3, 2011). "El Festival de Máscaras fue un Festival de Idolos !!!". Estrellas del Ring (in Spanish). Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "Okay... what is Lucha Libre?". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  3. ↑ Cruz, Sara (June 1, 2009). "El Fantasma: Habla sobre las sanciones a Konnan, Evans, Silver...". Super Luchas (in Spanish). issue 317.
  4. ↑ Enciclopedia staff (July 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Brazo, Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata (in Spanish) (Mexico). pp. 39–41. Tomo I.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 17, 2009). "Recordando los aniversarios del CMLL: El Rayo de Jalisco gana la Máscara de Cien Caras" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
  6. ↑ Enciclopedia staff (July 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Cuchillo (in Spanish) (Mexico). p. 61. Tomo I.
  7. ↑ Enciclopedia staff (October 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Místico (in Spanish) (Mexico). p. 36. Tomo III.
  8. ↑ "Tecnicos - Shocker" (in Spanish). Fuego en el ring. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Luchas 2000 staff. "Luchas 2000". Perro Aguayo y sus Victimas (in Spanish) (Juárez, Mexico: Publicaciones citem, S.A. de C.V.). pp. 12–15. Especial 30.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Enciclopedia staff (September 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Máscara Año 2000 (in Spanish) (Mexico City, Mexico). pp. 24–25. Tomo III.
  11. ↑ Enciclopedia staff (October 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Pantera (in Spanish) (Mexico City, Mexico). p. 50. Tomo III.
  12. ↑ Luchas 2000 staff. "Luchas 2000". Villano III y sus Victimas (in Spanish) (Juárez, Mexico: Publicaciones citem, S.A. de C.V.). pp. 24–27. Especial 30.
  13. ↑ Encyclopedia staff (November 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Scorpio, Jr. (in Spanish) (Mexico City, Mexico). p. 42. Tomo IV.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Enciclopedia staff (November 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Universo 2000 (in Spanish) (Mexico City, Mexico). p. 21. Tomo V.
  15. ↑ "March 2002 PPV "Apocalipsis"". ProWrestlingHistory. September 28, 2001. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
  16. ↑ "Castillo del Terror Losers". ProWrestlingHistory.com. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 Mejia Eguiluz, Diego (July 3, 2011). "Los Dinamita y el Rayo de Jalisco, una vez más frente a frente". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 "IWRG "Festival de las Máscaras – Homenaje a Fray Tormenta" (Resultados 3 de julio): Konnan traiciona a su equipo – Canek, luchador sorpresa – ¿Rayo de Jalisco Jr. a Triple A? – Fray Tormenta en acción – El Pantera no se despoja de su incógnita – Los Capos presentan al Hijo de Universo 2000". Superluchas.net (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. July 4, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2013.

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