Lucha Libre World Cup

Lucha Libre World Cup

Official poster for the tournament
Information
Promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Date May 24, 2015[1]
Venue Palacio de los Deportes[1]
City Mexico City, Mexico[1]
Event chronology

Rey de Reyes (2015) Lucha Libre World Cup TBA

The Lucha Libre World Cup is an upcoming professional wrestling tournament organized by Mexican professional wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) with the financial backing of the Grupo Modelo brewery, with Victoria Beer as the official sponsor. The tournament will include a number of three-man tag teams, referred to as trios in Lucha Libre, two of which will represent AAA itself, another team from outside AAA to represent Mexico as well as teams representing Total Nonstop Action, Ring of Honor, All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling NOAH as well as an "International team". The tournament was originally announced as "Copa Victoria", but later rebranded as the "Lucha Libre World Cup".

Background

The event will featured a number of professional wrestling matches, in which some wrestlers may be involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines and others are matched up with no back story outside of the tournament. Wrestlers themselves portrayed either villains (referred to as "Rudos" in Mexico) or fan favorites ("Tecnicos" in Mexico) as they competed in matches with pre-determined outcomes. AAA originally announced that together with Grupo Modelo, specifically "Victorian Beer", to arrange "Copa Victoria", a trios tournament with teams from around the world competing in a one night tournament. At the time of the announcement AAA revealed that the first team to represent AAA would be the team of Alberto el Patron (team captain), Myzteziz and Rey Mysterio Jr..[1] In late April it was announced that former AAA regular Kenzo Suzuki would captain a team representing All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) that would also include Tiger Mask III and Masamune.[2] In addition former holder of the AAA World Tag Team Championship, Taiji Ishimori, would captain a team representing Pro Wrestling NOAH consisting of himself, Yoshihiro Takayama and Atsushi Kotoge.[2] It was also announced that Matt Hardy would captain the team representing the U.S. based Total Nonstop Action. AAA announced that they would hold qualifiers to determine the second team representing AAA, with the winners of three qualifying matches earning the right to represent AAA. Fênix, Electroshock and El Hijo del Fantasma; La Parka, El Texano Jr. and Cibernético took place on April 30 with Psycho Clown, El Zorro and Averno to take place on a later date.[3] El Hijo del Fantasma and El Texano Jr. won their qualifying matches and are now members of the second AAA team.[4] It has also been revealed that Blue Demon Jr. and Dr. Wagner Jr. would represent Mexico, with a third member yet to be announced.

Teams and Members

Team Team member
Dream Team El Patrón Alberto (Captain)
Myzteziz
Rey Mysterio Jr.
Team Mexico 1 El Hijo del Fantasma
El Texano Jr.
TBD
Team Mexico 2 Blue Demon Jr.
Dr. Wagner Jr.
TBA
Team World TBD
TBD
TBD
Team TNA Matt Hardy (Captain)
TBD
TBD
Team ROH TBD
TBD
TBD
Team NOAH Taiji Ishimori (Captain)
Yoshihiro Takayama
Atsushi Kotoge
Team AJPW Kenzo Suzuki (Captain)
Tiger Mask III
Masamune

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "AAA, NOAH, AJPW, TNA y ROH en Mundial de Lucha Libre". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. April 21, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "AAA: Se anuncian los integrantes de los Grupos AJPW y NOAH para la Lucha Libre World Cup" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. April 23, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ "AAA: Comienzan las eliminatorias para conformar al equipo México II." (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. April 10, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ "AAA: Palenque Feria Mesoamericana Tapachula, Chiapas; Resultados del evento grabado para TV" (in Spanish). Lucha Libre AAA. May 1, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2015.

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