The 2008 Antonio Peña Memorial Show (''Homenaje a Antonio Peña'' in

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) was the second show held in honor of the deceased Antonio Peña, owner and creator of the Mexican ''

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. The show was held near the second anniversary of Peña's death from a

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. The main focus of the show was the second annual ''

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'' which was won by

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as he survived a 13-man

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defeating

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, Dark Escoria, Silver King,

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and

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one by one to win the ''Copa''. The main event of the show saw ''

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'' (

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, Rellik and

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) defeat "Team AAA" (

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and Super Fly). As a result of the win Konnan became the storyline owner of AAA. In the third main event of the evening

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successfully defended the

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against Chessman and El Zorro. The event has since been retrospectively renamed ''Héroes Inmortales II'' ("Immortal Heroes II").

Production

Background

On October 5, 2006 founder of the Mexican

Antonio Peña Antonio Hipolito Peña Herrada (June 13, 1951 – October 5, 2006) was the founder of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in 1992. Peña's promotion reached its height of popularity in the e ...

died from a

. The following year, on October 7, 2007, Peña's brother-in-law Jorge Roldan who had succeeded Peña as head of AAA held a show in honor of Peña's memory, the first ever Antonio Peña Memorial Show (''Homenaje a Antonio Peña'' in

). AAA made the tribute to Peña into a major annual event that would normally take place in October of each year, renaming the show series ''Héroes Inmortales'' (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes"), retroactively rebranding the 2007 and 2008 event as ''Héroes Inmortales'' I and ''Héroes Inmortales'' II. As part of their annual tradition AAA holds a ''

'' ("Antonio Peña Cup") tournament with various wrestlers from AAA or other promotions competing for the trophy. The tournament is normally either a

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or a multi-man ''

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'' elimination match. Outside of the actual ''Copa Antonio Peña'' trophy the winner is not guaranteed any other "prizes" as a result of winning, although several ''Copa Antonio Peña'' winners did go on to challenge for the

. The 2008 show was the second show in what would become known as the ''Héroes Inmortales'' shows.

Storylines

The Antonio Peña Memorial Show featured six

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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either

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(referred to as ''rudos'' in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or

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(''técnicos'' in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Undercard matches

The first match of the Antonio Peña Memorial Show was a six-man ''

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'' match that saw the ''tecnico'' team of

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and

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defeat the ''rudo'' team of

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and

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. The second match on the undercard was a "AAA Special" ''Relevos Atómicos de locura'' match (Spanish for "Eight-man madness match") that featured two teams of four: a male wrestler, a female wrestler, an ''Exotico'' wrestler and a ''Mini-Estrella''. The added stipulation here was that it was contested under "

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" rules, which means that other wrestlers surround the ring and is allowed to throw a wrestler back in the ring if they leave it. The team of

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(male),

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(female),

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(''Mini-Estrella'') and

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(''Exotico'') defeated the ''Rudo'' team of

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(male),

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(Female),

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(''Mini-Estrella'') and

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(''Exotico''). The third match on the card was a three way

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''Lucha de Escaleras'', or

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, where ''La Hermandad Extrema'' (Spanish for "the Extreme Brotherhood";

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and

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) successfully the defended the

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against ''Los Bellos Stones'' ("The beautiful Stones";

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and Chris Stone) and

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( Jack Evans and

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Main event matches

The first of the three scheduled main events was the second annual ''Copa Antonio Peña''

. The underlying storyline of the match was

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' struggle with his former teammates in '' La Secta del Mesías'' and ''La Legión Extranjera'' after turning ''tecnico'' in the preceding month. El Mesías was the seventh participant in the match, with Histeria,

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and El Alebrije having already been eliminated. El Mesias stayed in the ring from entrant seven until the final participant, eliminating six wrestlers in total;

, Dark Escoria, Silver King,

and

to win the ''Copa''. After the match

saved El Mesías from a ''La Legión'' attack, enforcing El Mesias status as a ''tecnico''. In the fifth match of the night Cibernético defended the

against former teammate Chessman and ''La Legión'' deputy leader El Zorro in a Three way Street Fight, a match with no rules. The match saw all three wrestlers use various objects such as chairs and tables and also saw interference from ''La Legión'', drawing blood from all participants. In the end Cibernético retained the title by pinning El Zorro while Chessman was incapacitated from missing a move off the top rope. The last match of the evening was the continuation of the long running "AAA vs. ''La Legión'' storyline that had been the main focus of AAA for over two years. The match was a six man Steel cage elimination match where the winning team would win the storyline control of AAA, if "Team AAA" (

and Super Fly) won Joaquin Roldan, brother-in-law of Antonio Peña would remain in charge of AAA, while if ''La Legión Extranjera'' (

and a "surprise wrestler") won ''La Legión'' leader

would be in charge of AAA. An urn supposedly containing the ashes of Antonio Peña was brought to ringside, symbolizing the control of AAA that was at stake. In order to win the match the entire team had to escape the cage. Konnan introduced Rellik as ''La Legión's'' surprise wrestler, who joined AAA shortly after being fired from

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, and announced that if ''La Legión'' won Rellik would be the "Keeper of the urn". The first to escape was Octagón, quickly followed by Kenzo Suzuki, next La Parka and Electroshock escaped, keeping the two sides even in the cage. Super Fly and Rellik were the next two to leave the cage leaving only Latin Lover and Konnan in the match. ''La Legión'' won the match when Konnan was able to escape due to interference from ''Solo Para Mujeres'' TV host Sergio Mayer, who threw what was supposed to be urine at Latin Lover’s face when he tried to escape the cage. Following the victory Konnan gained possession of the urn to siginify his storyline power over the promotion.

Aftermath

Following the Memorial show where Konnan took the storyline control of the promotion Cibernético announced that he would not work for Konnan and vacated the AAA Mega Championship. Initially believed to be an elaborate storyline Cibernético then quit AAA and began working on the Mexican

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. Blurring the lines of storyline and real life animosity Cibernético did not work for AAA for 10 months, returning only after Konnan lost the storyline control of AAA at

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and disbanded ''La Legión Extranjera''. El Mesías won the vacant AAA Mega Championship at the 2008

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and further cemented his status as the top ''tecnico'' of the promotion following Cibernético's departure.

Results

;''Copa Antonio Peña'' Gauntlet match order of elimination # Histeria pinned

pinned Histeria #

pinned Extreme Tiger #Pirata Morgan pinned

#Pirata Morgan pinned El Alebrije #

pinned Pirata Morgan #

pinned El Elegido #El Mesías pinned

#El Mesias pinned Dark Escoria #El Mesías pinned Silver King #El Mesías pinned

#El Mesías pinned

References

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