The Lucha Dragons

The Lucha Dragons
Kalisto (left) and Sin Cara (right).
Tag team
Members Kalisto
Sin Cara
Name(s) The Lucha Dragons
Heights Sin Cara:
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Kalisto:
5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[2]
Combined
weight		 370 lb (170 kg)[1][2]
Debut July 24, 2014
Years active 2014–present
Promotions WWE/NXT

The Lucha Dragons are a Mexican American professional wrestling tag team currently signed to WWE where they portray faces (wrestling term for those that portray the "good guys"), which consists of Kalisto and Sin Cara. They previously wrestled in WWE's developmental territory NXT, where they were one-time NXT Tag Team Champions. Their name is a reference to their lucha libre style of wrestling. They won the NXT tag titles after defeating then champions The Ascension on September 11, 2014 at NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way.[3]

Team history

NXT (2014–2015)

After WWE's release of Luis Urive on March 26, 2014, Jorge Arias (formerly known as "Hunico" and previously portrayed Sin Cara) reprised the Sin Cara character towards the end of 2013. After a brief winning streak, as 2014 progressed, Sin Cara was unsuccessful in winning four battles royal: the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXX,[4] a battle royal for the WWE United States Championship in May,[5] a Money in the Bank qualifying battle royal in June, and a battle royal for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Battleground.[6][7] On the July 24 episode of NXT, after failing to win the NXT Tag Team Championship from The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) with his former partner El Local at NXT TakeOver on May 29, Kalisto announced he and El Local had parted ways and revealed Sin Cara as his new partner.[8][9]

Over the next weeks, Kalisto and Sin Cara won a tournament to become the number one contenders to the NXT Tag Team Championship.[10] On September 11 at NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way, Kalisto and Sin Cara, now billed together as "The Lucha Dragons", defeated The Ascension to become the new NXT Tag Team Champions, their first WWE titles.[3] They successfully defended their titles in a rematch against The Ascension two weeks later on the September 25th episode of NXT, winning the match after Hideo Itami distracted The Ascension. They then began a rivalry with The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch), which culminated in a title match at NXT TakeOver: R Evolution in which the Lucha Dragons retained. The Lucha Dragons lost the championship to Buddy Murphy and Wesley Blake on the January 15, 2015 episode of NXT. They then lost a rematch to Blake and Murphy at NXT TakeOver: Rival[11] The duo then began to appear less frequently on NXT, losing a number one contenders tag-team match to Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady on the March 11 episode. [12] During this period they also began to appear off-and-on on WWE's main roster show Main Event, winning matches against the likes of The Ascension.[13]

Main roster (2015–present)

The Lucha Dragons made their official main roster debut on the March 30, 2015 episode of Raw, the night after WrestleMania 31. They teamed with The New Day to defeat the team of The Ascension, Cesaro and Tyson Kidd in an 8-man tag-team match, with Kalisto scoring the pinfall. During the match, the crowd was chanting Lucha (which is their catchphrase). On the April 20th episode of Raw, the Lucha Dragons lost to The New Day in a number 1 contender's match for the WWE Tag Team Championships. [14][15]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sin Cara's WWE bio". WWE. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kalisto's WWE bio". WWE. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Meltzer, Dave (September 11, 2014). "WWE NXT Takeover live results: Tyson Kidd vs. Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville vs. Tyler Breeze". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Andre the Giant memorial battle royal". Wrestleview. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Caldwell, James. "Caldwell's WWE Raw results 5/5: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live Raw – PPV fall-out, U.S. Title battle royal, IC Title re-match, Shield vs. Wyatts, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ Tedesco, Mike. "WWE Raw results – 6/16/14 (Stretcher match main event)". wrestleview.com. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Caldwell, James. "Caldwell's WWE Battleground PPV report 7/20: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live PPV – Cena defends WWE Title, IC Title battle royal, Usos vs. Wyatts Tag Title match, more". PWTorch.com. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  8. ↑ Namako, Jason (July 17, 2014). "WWE NXT Results – 7/17/14 (Tyson Kidd vs. Sami Zayn)". Wrestleview. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  9. ↑ James, Justin (July 25, 2014). "James's WWE NXT report 7/24 – Week 108: Charlotte defends NXT Women's Title, Rusev faces NXT Champ; Overall Reax". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  10. ↑ Trionfo, Richard (July 31, 2014). "Complete NXT spoilers from Full Sail leading into Takeover". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  11. ↑ Parry, Josh (2015-01-15). "NXT news: Next live special announced, full spoiler Results from Thursday's NXT TV tapings". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
  12. ↑ [http://www.pwmania.com/wwe-nxt-results-march-11-2015[
  13. ↑ Prentice, Matt (February 18, 2015). "WWE news: SD TV taping spoilers - Main Event results, Dark matches, NXT tag team, crowd size, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  14. ↑ http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/572823-wwe-raw-results-042015
  15. ↑ Tylwak, Nick (March 30, 2015). "Raw: Lesnar runs wild, as does the crowd". Canoe - SLAM! Sports. Retrieved April 13, 2015. during the match fans were chanting their signature lucha chant
  16. ↑ Parks, Greg (2011-09-23). "Parks' WWE SmackDown report 9/23: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of the show, including Mark Henry's first Smackdown as World Champion". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
  17. ↑ Howell, Nolan (August 21, 2014). "NXT: Tag team finals and Takeover II set". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
  18. ↑ Trionfo, Richard (July 24, 2014). "WWE NXT spoilers for tonight". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
  19. ↑ Trionfo, Richard (August 14, 2014). "WWE NXT report: Neville vs. Breeze . . . finally; tag title contender tournament continues; who is the number one contender for Charlotte's title?". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
  20. ↑ Namako, Jason (August 21, 2014). "WWE NXT Results – 8/21/14 (Rose/Zayn vs. Cara/Kalisto)". Wrestleview. Retrieved August 22, 2014.