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
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Copa Antonio Peña winners
Antonio Peña Memorial Shows
The ''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''.
References
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Professional wrestling memorial shows