''Entre Torre Infernal'' (

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for "In the Infernal Tower") was a

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(PPV) event produced by

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'') (''Mexi ...

(CMLL) that took place on August 4, 2000, in

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. The main event of the PPV was a 4-man

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elimination match, contested under ''

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'' rules where each competitor puts his hair on the line. The rules state that a wrestler can leave the cage either by climbing over the top of the cage or by pinning an opponent; the last man in the cage would have his hair shaved off. The four wrestlers in the cage were

Villaño III Arturo Díaz Mendoza (March 23, 1952 – August 21, 2018) was a Mexican professional wrestler who performed under the ring name Villano III (in Spanish Villano Tercero). Díaz was a second-generation wrestler, son of ''luchador'' Ray Mendoza a ...

Perro Aguayo Pedro Aguayo Damián (18 January 1946 — 3 July 2019) better known as "(El) Perro Aguayo" (Aguayo the dog) and El Can de Nochistlan (The Nochistlan Dog) was a Mexican wrestler through the 1970s to the 1990s. Aguayo was the first person ever ...

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and

Máscara Año 2000 Jesús Reyes González (born 10 March 1958) is a Mexican ''Luchador'', or professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Máscara Año 2000 or Máscara Año Dos Mil. His ring name is Spanish for "Mask of the year 2000", originally referri ...

. CMLL has subsequently branded the "multi-man ''Apuesta'' cage match" as ''Infierno en el Ring'' ("Inferno in the ring") instead of the ''Torre Infernal'' ("Infernal Tower") name they used for this PPV event. The undercard featured a 10-man ''Torneo Cibernetico'' where the last two wrestlers would face off in a "Mask vs. Mask" match. The event was also supposed to host the finals of a tournament for the vacant

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but due to an injury to

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and

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won the championship by forfeit and instead had their first title defense, facing the team of

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(Charles Jr.'s partner) and Villaño IV. The show also featured two Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match, one for normal sized wrestlers and one for wrestlers from the ''

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'', or minis, division.

Background

The event featured seven

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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing

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feuds or storylines. Wrestlers portray either

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(referred to as ''Rudos'' in Mexico) or fan favorites (''Técnicos'' in Mexico) as they compete in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes.

Results

;Torneo Cibernetico order of elimination

References

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