''La Copa Junior'' (2014) (Spanish for "The Junior Cup") was a professional wrestling tournament produced and scripted by the Mexican wrestling promotion

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(CMLLl; Spanish "World Wrestling Council"). The tournament was held on January 1, 2014 in Arena México in

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. CMLL's recurring ''

La Copa Junior The Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) has held the La Copa Junior ("The Junior Cup") tournament on an infrequent schedule since 1996. The tournament pays respect to the fact that wrestling is a family t ...

'' tournament featured second, third or fourth generation wrestlers completing against each other. The 2014 version of the ''La Copa Junior'' was the sixth tournament held by CMLL. The 2014 tournament was a 12-man '' torneo cibernetico'' elimination match and saw

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emerge victorious over eleven other wrestlers.

Production

Background

Starting in 1996 the Mexican

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("World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) held their first ever ''

'' tournament. CMLL held the tournament to celebrate the fact that ''

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'' in Mexico is often a family tradition, with a large number of second, third, or even fourth generation wrestlers following the footsteps of their relatives. The premise of the tournament is that all participants are second-generation or more, although at times the family relationship is a storylines family relationship and not an actual one. One example of this is

Dragón Rojo Jr. Dragón Rojo Jr. (Spanish for ''Red Dragon Jr.'', born November 3, 1982) is the ring name of a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'' (Spanish for "Masked Professional wrestler") known for his work in ''Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre'' (CMLL). Dragón ...

being billed as the grandson of Dragón Rojo, when in reality that is simply a storyline created by CMLL. The original ''La Copa Junior'' was won by Héctor Garza. CMLL would not hold another ''La Copa Junior'' until the 2005 tournament (won by Shocker), followed by a 2006 tournament won by Dos Caras Jr. The tournament did not return until 2010 where Dragón Rojo Jr. won the 2010 version. In 2012 third-generation ''luchador'' La Sombra won the Junior cup In 2014, CMLL held two ''La Copa Junior'' tournaments, first a tournament on January 1, won by

, followed by a VIP tournament, featuring higher card wrestlers than the usual tournaments, which was won by Máximo The semi-regular tournament returned in

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, won by Esfinge In 2017,

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won the '' La Copa Junior Nuevos Valores''

Storylines

The tournament featured a number of

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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 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.

Family relationship

Tournament

Order of elimination

Results

References

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