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IWRG Legado Final
The Legado Final (Spanish for "Final Legacy") is a List of major IWRG shows, series of major wrestling shows produced and scripted by the Mexican ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; sometimes referred to as ''Grupo Internacional Revolución'' in Mexico). The first Legado Final (2011), ''Legado Final'' show was held on June 2, 2011 at IWRG's main venue Arena Naucalpan, with a Legado Final (2012), second held in 2012 and a Legado Final (2015), third show held in 2015. The event celebrates, or pays tribute to, the fact that ''lucha libre'' is a family tradition with a main event tournament where fathers and sons team up for a tag team elimination match. Previous winners include El Brazo and El Hijo del Brazo in 2011, Pirata Morgan and El Hijo de Pirata Morgan in 2012 and finally El Hijo del Diablo and Dragón Celestial in 2015. After the 2015 match Dragón Celestial took the name "El Diablo Jr. I" and began teaming with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Pantera
''El Pantera'' (English: ''The Panther'') is a Mexican television series that aired on Canal 5 from May 14, 2007 to November 26, 2009. It is based on a comic book of the same name. It narrates the life of Gervasio, a young man who fights crime in Mexico City. The title role is performed by Luis Roberto Guzmán. The character of El Pantera was created in the 1970s by the writer Daniel Muñoz and artist Juan Alba for Mundo Vid. A novel called ''El Pantera'', or ''La Noche del Pantera'' was written by Muñoz in the 1990s, followed by ''El Misterio de la Amenaza Negra''. Plot Gervasio Robles Villa, son of a white man and a Oaxacan Indian woman, is imprisoned for assassinating his fiancée, a crime that he did not commit. During the time he was in jail, he learned Wushu from a mysterious man called "El Indio" (a Native American convicted for tax evasion). The Main General of the police, Porfirio Ayala, convinced of Villa's innocence, decides to release him and return him the li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Co., Ltd. (CMLL; , "World Wrestling Council") is a ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion was previously known as ''Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre'' (''EMLL'') (''Mexican Wrestling Enterprise''). Founded in 1933, it is the oldest professional wrestling promotion still in existence. CMLL currently recognizes and promotes twelve "World Championships" for various weight divisions and classifications, six national level and six regional level championships. The Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Anniversary Shows, CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual major show, starting in 1934, with the CMLL 87th Anniversary Show being the most recent. CMLL also regularly promotes major events under the names ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' ("Homage to two legends"), ''Sin Piedad'' ("No Mercy"), ''Sin Salida'' ("No Escape"), ''Infierno en el Ring'' ("Inferno in the Ring") during the year. CMLL has promoted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Usage of the word The term ''eponym'' functions in multiple related ways, all based on an explicit relationship between two named things. A person, place, or thing named after a particular person share an eponymous relationship. In this way, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era. When Henry Ford is referred to as "the ''eponymous'' founder of the Ford Motor Company", his surname "Ford" serves as the eponym. The term also refers to the title character of a fictional work (such as Rocky Balboa of the Rocky film series, ''Rocky'' film series), as well as to ''self-titled'' works named after their creators (such as the album The Doors (album), ''The Doors'' by the band the Doors). Walt Disney created the eponymous The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerra De Familias (2015)
La Guerra de Familias (2015) ( Spanish for "War of the Families") was a professional wrestling major event, produced by the Mexico based International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) to promote professional wrestling promotion. The event took on March 31, 2013, at "Arena Naucalpan" in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, IWRG's main venue. The focal point of the event was a four team tag team tournament between four "families". Production Background The Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as ''Grupo Internacional Revolución'' in Spanish) holds several shows over the year to showcase the fact that wrestling is a family tradition in Lucha libre, with a large number of second and third-generation wrestlers following the footsteps of their relatives and becoming wrestlers themselves. Starting in 2012 IWRG has on several occasions held a '' Guerra de Familias'' ("War of the Families") tournament, which is a singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerra De Familias (2012)
The 2012 Guerra de Familias (Spanish for "War of the Families") was a major ''lucha libre'' event produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) professional wrestling promotion in conjunction with ''Promocione Wagner'' on April 8, 2012. The show was held in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, which is IWRG's primary venue. The show was the first show promoted under the ''Guerra de Familias'', with IWRG holding subsequent shows in later years. IWRG joined up with the Dr. Wagner Jr.-owned ''Promociones Wagner'' for the show with all the main event competitors either being from the Wagner family or booked through ''Promociones Wagner''. Dr. Wagner Jr. teamed up with his son El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., his brother Silver King teaming up with Silver King Jr., and AAA wrestler La Parka teaming up with his brother for the third team in the steel cage match. The Wagners won the match when El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. escaped the cage, leav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IWRG Guerra De Familias
Guerra_de_Familias_(2012).html" ;"title="Dr. Wagner Jr., who helped co-promote the first ''Guerra de Familias (2012)">Guerra de Familias'' show in 2012. The Guerra de Familias (Spanish for "War of the Families") is a major professional wrestling show held by the Mexican ''Lucha Libre'' promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) intermittently starting in 2012. The show honors the fact that ''Lucha Libre'' is a family tradition by holding a tournament where all teams are supposedly made up of family members. All shows have been held in Arena Naucalpan in Naucalpan, Mexico State, IWRG's main venue. IWRG has held a ''Guerra de Familias'' show in 2012, 2013 and 2015, with no show announced for 2016 yet. Event history Mexican ''Lucha libre'', or professional wrestling, has a long history of being a family tradition with brothers, sons, daughters, grandchildren etc. following in the footsteps of their relatives and also become ''luchadors'' (wrestlers). The professional w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IWRG Rebelión De Los Juniors
IWRG Junior de Juniors Championship at the first ''Rebelión de los Juniors (2011)">Rebelión de los Juniors'' show. Rebelión de los Juniors (Spanish for "The Junior Rebellion") is a major professional wrestling show held by the Mexican ''Lucha Libre'' promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) annually since its creation in 2011. The focal point of the show is always a multi-man elimination match either for the IWRG Junior de Juniors Championship or for the rights to challenge the championship at a later date. All participants in the main event match are supposed to be at least a second-generation wrestler. The Junior de Juniors Championship was won by Trauma I on the 2011 ''Rebelión de los Juniors'' show, all other shows have been for the #1 Contendership. IWRG has not announced a date for the 2016 ''Rebelión de los Juniors'' show yet. Event history It has been a long-standing tradition in ''Lucha libre'' that family follows in the footstep of wrestlers, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Súper Luchas
''Súper Luchas'' is a Spanish-language publication covering lucha libre and other forms of professional wrestling. The publication began as a print magazine in 1991 and later became the largest lucha libre magazine in the world and remained one of the few professional wrestling magazines to survive to the 2000s but now operates mainly as an online website. The website is the number one Spanish-language professional wrestling website in the world. Critics When Leopoldo Meraz directed Spectacular, the world of wrestling, and later the first era of Super Fights, it was common for timely photos to be published on covers or posters when the fighters were left without a mask in the middle of a fight. He even encouraged his star photographer, Guillermo Mañón, to get this type of graphics, which is why several fighters from the International Wrestling company that organized billboards at El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos threatened Mañón and tried to hit him, as a threat to kill him. Stop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IWRG Junior De Juniors Championship
The IWRG Junior de Juniors Championship is a professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling), championship promoted by the Mexican ''lucha libre'' (Professional wrestling) professional wrestling promotion, promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since February 2011. The championship is only for second or third generation wrestlers, with IWRG also accepting storyline relationships like Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 who is not actually related to Máscara Año 2000 but is paying for the use of the name. IWRG never revealed how Oficial Factor qualified as a second generation wrestler. The current champion is Dick Angelo 3G who defeated El Hijo del Alebrije to win the championship on March 27, 2022. As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a kayfabe, scripted ending to a match determined by the Booker (professional wrestling), bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cien Caras
Carmelo Reyes González (born October 18, 1949) is a Mexican retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Cien Caras ("Hundred Faces"). He is best known for his appearances with the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Personal life Carmelo Reyes González was born on October 18, 1949, in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico. His younger brothers, Andrés Reyes González (better known as Universo 2000) and Jesús Reyes González (known as Máscara Año 2000) also followed Carmelo into professional wrestling. Two of Carmelo Reyes' sons also followed in his footsteps, known as the masked wrestlers, known as El Cuatrero and Sansón. His nephews are also professional wrestlers, known as Forastero, Universo 2000 Jr. and Máscara Año 2000 Jr. In Mexican wrestling there is a long tradition of wrestlers paying for the rights to use a ring name and be portrayed as a second or third-generation wrestler without actually being related. It has been confirmed that wrestlers Cien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Hijo De Cien Caras
Eustacio Jiménez Ibarra (March 21, 1976 – November 29, 2010) was a Mexican ''Luchador'' '' enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler better known by the ring name of El Hijo de Cien Caras. The name is Spanish for "the Son of Cien Caras." He was not, however, related to wrestler Cien Caras, but instead paid Cien Caras for the rights to use the ring name, a practice not uncommon in Lucha Libre. He also wrestled under the names Frankenstein and Suplex, named after the monster and the wrestling move. He was the brother of Adolfo Tapia, who wrestles as L. A. Park as well as the nephew of Super Parka, the cousin of Volador Jr., the uncle of El Hijo de L.A. Park and the great uncle of Flyer. Professional wrestling career Jiménez was born in a small village named Nuevo Padilla, located in the town of Tula, Tamaulipas, but while he was still a child, his family moved to Tampico, where he grew up. After Jiménez's brother Adolfo Tapia had become famous as La Parka, he decided to f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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