Trauma I, who won the Rebelión de los Juniors'' show.">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

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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

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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 Lucha libre (, meaning "freestyle wrestling" or literally translated as "free fight") is the term used in Latin America for professional wrestling. Since its introduction to Mexico in the early 20th century, it has developed into a unique form ...

'' that family follows in the footstep of wrestlers, with a multitude of second-generation and in some instances third-generationOn example is La Sombra who is the grandson of wrestler El Moro and son of Jose Andrade, better known as Brillante. wrestlers active in the ring today. It is not uncommon for sons to take the

ring name A ring name is a type of stage name used by an athlete such as a professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, or boxer whose real name is considered unattractive, dull, difficult to pronounce or spell, amusing for the wrong reasons, or projecting ...

of their father, or a variation there of, such as the son of Santo wrestling as El Hijo del Santo, literally "The Son of Santo", or

Perro Aguayo Jr. Pedro Aguayo Ramírez (July 23, 1979 – March 21, 2015) was a Mexican ''luchador'' or professional wrestler and promoter who achieved fame in lucha libre as Perro Aguayo Jr. or El Hijo del Perro Aguayo ("The Son of Perro Aguayo"). He was the rea ...

, taking the ring name of his father

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 ...

. With a large number of Mexican wrestlers starting out as masked wrestlers where their real name and true background is not revealed it has allowed for a number of wrestlers to claim to be sons of famous wrestlers when they in actuality paid for the rights to use the name, such as

Cien Caras Jr. Cien Caras Jr. (born October 18, 1976) is a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) portraying a ''rudo'' ...

and

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." H ...

not being related to

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 l ...

but instead paid for the privileges. Normally the "

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" or storyline relationship is promoted as real until a wrestler is unmasked. With family playing such an important part of ''lucha libre'' the Mexican

professional wrestling promotion A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling that has little relationship to the rules of the amateur olympic form. "Promotion" also describes a role which entails man ...

International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) that they hold several major events each year that plays off that family connection. IWRG regularly holds "family tournaments" such as '' Legado Final'' ("Final Legacy") or '' Guerra de Familias'' ("War of the Families"). Starting in 2011 IWRG has also regularly promoted a show called ''Rebelión de los Juniors'' ("The Junior Rebellion"), focusing specifically on second and third-generation wrestlers and normally tied to the

, with the main event either being for the championship or for the rights to challenge for the championship. IWRG has held a ''Rebelión de los Juniors'' five years in a row, with no specific date announced for a 2016 ''Rebelión de los Juniors'' show. A total of 87 wrestlers have participated in the five shows from 2011 through 2015 with Eterno and

Golden Magic Golden Magic (born July 18, 1990) is a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotions Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is a former AAA World Trios Ch ...

being the only wrestlers to have worked all shows so far. Golden Magic,

and

Apolo Estrada Jr. Apolo Estrada Jr. is the ring name of Roberto Guadalupe Estrada Zúñiga (born January 10, 1987), a Mexican ''luchador'' or professional wrestler. He is the son of professional wrestler Apolo Estrada and has worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Li ...

Event history

Dates, venues, and main events

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