The Copa Antonio Peña (Spanish for "The Antonio Peña Cup") is an annual professional wrestling tournament held by Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) once a year. The tournament is named in memory of Antonio Peña, the founder of AAA, who died on October 5, 2006. The tournament is part of the annual Antonio Peña Memorial show held annually around the anniversary of Peña's death. The tournament is a Gauntlet match featuring eight to thirteen AAA wrestlers ranging from mid-card to main eventers. The events are televised as a special feature on Televisa. The Cup is not defended like a championship and does not automatically give the winner a shot at the AAA Mega Championship. As is tradition with AAA major events the wrestlers compete inside a hexagonal wrestling ring and not the four sided ring the promotion uses for television events and house shows.
Copa Antonio Peña winners
editWrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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Charly Manson | 1 | October 7, 2007 | Naucalpan, Mexico | Defeated Konnan in the final match to become the first Copa Antonio Peña winner.[1] |
El Mesías | 1 | October 24, 2008 | Veracruz, Mexico | Defeated Dark Cuervo in the final match[2] |
Cibernético | 1 | September 26, 2009 | Monterrey, Mexico | Won a twelve-man battle royal, lastly eliminating Konan Big[3] |
Aero Star | 1 | October 1, 2010 | Tamaulipas, Mexico | Won an eight-man torneo cibernetico, lastly eliminating Chris Stone[4] |
Electroshock | 1 | October 9, 2011 | Monterrey, Mexico | Won a nine-man gauntlet match, lastly eliminating L.A. Park[5] |
El Texano Jr. | 1 | October 7, 2012 | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a thirteen-man gauntlet match, lastly eliminating El Mesías. The win was later nullified.[6] |
La Parka | 1 | October 18, 2013 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | Won a four-way elimination match, lastly eliminating El Hijo del Fantasma.[7] |
Myzteziz | 1 | October 13, 2014 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a lumberjack match, lastly eliminating Pentagón Jr. |
Taurus | 1 | October 4, 2015 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a ten-man battle royal, lastly eliminating La Parka.[8] |
Pimpinela Escarlata | 1 | October 2, 2016 | Monterrey, Mexico | Won a 12-man battle royal[9] |
El Hijo del Fantasma | 1 | October 1, 2017 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a 14-man battle royal to win the AAA Latin American Championship[10] |
Pagano | 1 | October 28, 2018 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | Won a ten-man battle royal, lastly eliminating El Hijo del Fantasma. |
El Hijo del Vikingo | 1 | October 19, 2019 | Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico | Won an eleven-man battle royal, lastly eliminating Taurus. |
Pimpinela Escarlata | 2 | October 9, 2021 | Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico | Won a nine-man battle royal, lastly eliminating Mamba. |
Chik Tormenta | 1 | October 1, 2023 | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico | Won by defeating Maravilla in the final match. |
Antonio Peña Memorial Shows
editThe Copa Antonio Peña is one of the featured events on the annual Antonio Peña Memorial Show (Homenaje a Antonio Peña in Spanish), which has been held since 2007 around the anniversary of Peña's death. In 2011, the first two Memorial Shows were retrospectively renamed Héroes Inmortales I and Héroes Inmortales II.[11]
2024
editHéroes Inmortales XVI | |||
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Promotion | Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide | ||
Date | October 6, 2024 | ||
City | Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico | ||
Venue | Auditorio Benito Juárez | ||
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Héroes Inmortales XVI (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes Sixteen) was a professional wrestling event produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). The event tookplace on October 5, 2024, at the Audtorio Benito Juárez in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. It was the sixteenth Héroes Inmortales show, held annually in honor of the promotion's deceased founder Antonio Peña and it featured the Copa Antonio Peña tournament named in his honor.
Production
editBackground
editIn 1992 then-Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) booker and match maker Antonio Peña left the company alongside a number of wrestlers to form the Mexican professional wrestling, company Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, later known simply as "AAA".[14][15] Over the next decade-and-a-half Peña and the team behind AAA built the promotion into one of the biggest wrestling companies in the world.[15] On October 5, 2006, Peña died from a heart attack.[14][15] After Peña's death his brother-in-law Jorge Roldan took control of the company with both his wife Marisela Peña, Antonio's sister, and Dorian Roldan (their son) also taking an active part in AAA. On October 7, 2007, AAA held a show in honor of Peña's memory, the first ever "Antonio Peña Memorial Show" (Homenaje an Antonio Peña in Spanish).[16] The following year AAA held the second ever "Antonio Peña Memorial Show", making it an annual tradition for the company to commemorate the passing of their founder. In 2008 the show was rebranded as Héroes Inmortales (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes"), retroactively rebranding the 2007 and 2008 event as Héroes Inmortales I and Héroes Inmortales II.[17]
AAA has held a Héroes Inmortales every year since then, with the 2020 event not occurring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Héroes Inmortales hosts the Copa Antonio Peña ("Antonio Peña Cup") tournament each year, a multi-man tournament with various wrestlers from AAA or other promotions competing for a trophy. The tournament format has usually been either a gauntlet match or a multi-man torneo cibernetico elimination match.[18][19]
Storylines
editThe Héroes Inmortales XVI show featured professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they follow a series of tension-building events, which culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[20]
Results
editNo. | Results[21] | Stipulations | ||
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1 | Chik Tormenta won by last eliminating Mini Vikingo[a] | Copa Antonio Peña match | ||
2 | Decay (Crazzy Steve and Havok) defeated Abismo Negro Jr. and Flammer (c) by pinfall | Mixed tag team match for the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship | ||
3 | Tokyo Bad Boys (Nobu San, SB Kento and Takuma) defeated Niño Hamburguesa, Epydemius Jr. and Dinámico by pinfall | Six-man tag team match | ||
4 | Matt Riddle (c) defeated El Fiscal by pinfall | Singles match for the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship | ||
5 | Vampiro, Mecha Wolf and Negro Casas defeated El Mesías and Nueva Generación Dinamita (Sansón and Forastero) by pinfall | Six-man tag team match | ||
6 | Alberto El Patrón (c) (with Konnan) defeated Laredo Kid (with Latin Lover) by pinfall | Singles match for the AAA Mega Championship | ||
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Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Yoav (October 8, 2007). "AAA: Homenaje a Antonio Peña (7-OCT-07)". Súper Luchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- ^ "AAA Misc. Cards – Pena Memorial show 2008". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
- ^ a b Marquina, Alva (September 26, 2009). "AAA- Héroes Inmortales III- (Resultados en vivo 26 septiembre 2009) – Cibernético gana el Trofeo Antonio Peña – Electroshock sustituye a Charly Manson contra Chessman – El luchador sorpresa fue Konan Big". Súper Luchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved September 27, 2009.
- ^ a b Carrillo, Omar (October 2, 2010). "Resultados 1ro. de octubre – AAA "Héroes Inmortales IV" – Legado AAA, Mesías, Wagner, Aerostar y 187 ganan sus respectivos encuentros". Súper Luchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ^ a b Cano Vela, Eduardo (October 9, 2011). "AAA Héroes Inmortales (Cobertura y resultados 9 de Octubre de 2011) – Mesias y Sting empatan y unen sus fuerzas contra Konnan, Jarrett y sus aliados, Wagner gana pero Octagón y La Parka lo traicionan, los perros pierden las cabelleras". Súper Luchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Mexicool, Rey (October 7, 2012). "Héroes Inmortales (VI): ¡Texano Jr. gana la Copa Antonio Peña, pero queda vacante!". Súper Luchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ Mexicool, Rey (October 18, 2013). "La Parka... ¡ganador de la Copa Antonio Peña 2013! – @Parka_AAA @hijodelfantasma #HéroesInmortales". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ a b Bihari, Robert (October 5, 2015). "AAA Heroes Inmortales iPPV results (10/4): Alberto el Patron vs. Johnny Mundo, Rey Mysterio, Antonio Pena tribute match". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ^ "Australian Suicide sin máscara en Héroes Inmortales X" (in Spanish). AAA. October 2, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
- ^ a b c "En Héroes Inmortales XI nacen nuevos campeones". Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (in Spanish). October 2, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
- ^ "Héroes Inmortales Archive". Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (in Spanish). Retrieved September 2, 2011.
- ^ "Héroes Inmortales ya tiene logo". Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (in Spanish). August 18, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ^ "Héroes Inmortales V en Monterrey". Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (in Spanish). August 2, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
- ^ a b Brady, Hicks. "2006: The year in wrestling". PWI Presents: 2007 Wrestling Almanac and book of facts. Kappa Publications. p. 26. 2007 Edition.
- ^ a b c Ocampo, Ernesto (October 5, 2009). "Falleció Antonio Peña" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved October 14, 2009.
- ^ "AAA Misc. Cards – Pena Memorial show 2007". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
- ^ "Héroes Inmortales I (Homenaje al Lic. Antonio Peña)". Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (in Spanish). June 12, 2011. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
- ^ "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2009". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 8, 2010. 348.
- ^ "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2010". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 12, 2011. 399.
- ^ Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 128–132. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ^ Pulido, Luis (October 7, 2024). "AAA Héroes Inmortales (10/6/2024) Results: Three Title Matches, Vampiro, Chik Tormenta, More Set". Fightful. Retrieved October 7, 2024.