The Festival de las Máscaras (2018) (Spanish for "Festival of the Masks") was a major annual ''lucha libre'' event produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG)

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held on June 17, 2018. The show was held in

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, Naucalpan,

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, which is IWRG's primary venue. For the 2018 event Máscara Año 2000, Cocco Rojo, Olímpico, Mano Negra, Veneno, Star Boy, El Pantera II, Dr. Cerebro, Cerebro Negro, Oficial 911, Oficial AK-47 and Oficial Fierro,

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and Omega, El Hijo del Diablo and El Golpeador all wore their masks again after having lost '' Luchas de Apuestas'', or "bet matches", in the past and thus lost the rights to wear their mask. The main event of the show featured

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(CMLL) main-stays the Muñoz brothers

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and Dragon Lee facing off against the father/son team of L.A. Park and El Hijo de L.A. Park as part of a long-running rivalry between the two families, that has played out not only in CMLL but on various independent promotion shows across Mexico. On the night L.A. Park and his son won the match. The show featured six additional matches.

Production

Background

The wrestling mask has always held a sacred place in ''

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'', carrying with it a mystique and anonymity beyond what it means to wrestlers elsewhere in the world. The ultimate humiliation a ''luchador'' can suffer is to lose a '' Lucha de Apuestas'', or bet match. Following a loss in a ''Lucha de Apuesta'' match the masked wrestler would be forced to unmask, state their real name and then would be unable to wear that mask while wrestling anywhere in Mexico. Since 2007 the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as ''Grupo Internacional Revolución'' in Spanish) has held a special annual show where they received a waiver to the rule from the State of Mexico Wrestling Commission and wrestlers would be allowed to wear the mask they previously lost in a ''Lucha de Apuestas''. The annual

IWRG Festival de las Máscaras The Festival de las Máscaras (Spanish for "Festival of the Mask") is an annually recurring major professional wrestling show produced and scripted by International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as ''Grupo Internaciona ...

("Festival of the Masks") event is also partly a celebration or homage of ''lucha libre'' history with IWRG honoring wrestlers of the past at the events similar to

's (CMLL) '' Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' ("Homage to Two Legends") annual shows. The IWRG's Festival de las Máscaras shows, as well as the majority of their major IWRG shows in general, are held in

, owned by the promoters of IWRG and is their main venue. The 2018 Festival de las Máscaras show was the eleventh year in a row IWRG held the show.

Storylines

The event featured five professional wrestling matches 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 faces (''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.

Results

References

External links

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