CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles

Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles
National Incredible Pairs Tournament

Atlantis, has won the tournament four times, with three different partners
Details
Current champion(s) Atlantis and Euforia
Date won March 21, 2014[1]
Date established January 30, 2010
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

The CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles or "National Incredible Pairs Tournament" is an annual Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) tournament for Tag Teams traditionally held early in the year. The tournament is based on the Lucha Libre Parejas Increibles match type where two wrestlers of opposite allegiance, portraying either villains, referred to as "Rudos" in Lucha Libre wrestling terminology or fan favorites, or "Tecnicos".[2]

Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles Tournament Winners

Key
Symbol Meaning
(T) This wrestler is a Técnico
(R) This wrestler is a Rudo
Year Winners Dates Note
2010 Máscara Dorada (T) and Atlantis (R) January 22, 2010 February 5, 2010 [3]
2011 Máscara Dorada (T) and Atlantis (R) (2) February 11, 2011 February 25, 2011 [4]
2012 Atlantis (T) (3) and Mr. Niebla (R) February 17, 2012 March 2, 2012 [5]
2013 La Sombra (T) and Volador Jr. (R) March 1, 2013 March 15, 2013 [6]
2014 Atlantis (T) (4) and Euforia (R) March 7, 2014 March 21, 2014 [1]
2015 Máximo (T) and El Terrible (R) February 20, 2015 March 6, 2015 [7]
2016 TBD April 15, 2016 April 29, 2016 [8]

Tournament history

CMLL has held six tournaments so far since in 2010 with each consisting of 16 teams competing in a single elimination tournament with 8 teams competing in the first three rounds of the tournament in one night and the final match held a week after Block B has wrestled. The teams are announced ahead of time but the match order and the pairing of teams for the tournament is determined by a Battle royal with a competitor from each team that determines the match order, i.e. the first two wrestlers eliminated will have to face off in the first match of the first round and so on. The "Seeding Battle Royal" is common practice for a number of CMLL Tag Team tournaments but not generally used much outside of CMLL.[2] Each finalist team will have to wrestle and win three times in one night to qualify for the finale. In 2010 and 2011 the tournament final was held on CMLL's weekly Super Viernes, but in 2012 the finale was held during the 2012 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas Super show instead as it replaced Super Viernes.[9] The 2013 Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles started on Friday March 1 and ran until March 15, 2013 with the final taking place on the 2013 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas.[6] The 2014 Torneo has been announced as starting on February 20 and if it stays with the traditional format will hold the finals on March 6, 2015.

Over the course of the five tournaments so far 57 individual wrestlers has competed in the 70 matches and only four individuals have won the tournament, Atlantis has been on the winning team for four of the five tournaments and a finalist in the fifth, first with Máscara Dorada twice and then with Mr. Niebla and Euforia. Dorada is the only other repeat champion and the team of Máscara Dorada and Atlantis and the teams of El Hijo del Fantasma and Mephisto and Averno and La Mascara are the only team to appear in more than one tournament, both competed in the 2010 and 2011 tournaments. El Felino, Maximo, Mephisto, La Sombra. El Terrible, Último Guerrero and Valiente are the only wrestlers to work all six tournaments. Eight wrestlers have competed in five tournaments, 14 have appeared in four, seven wrestlers in three, five wrestlers in two and finally 15 wrestlers have only participated in one tournament so far. Of the 52 people 4 has appeared both as a Tecnico and a Rudo, Atlantis was a Rudo for 2010 and 2011 but a Tecnico in 2012 and 2013, Volador Jr. was a Tecnico in 2010 and a Rudo since then, Héctor Garza has one appearance on either side of the face/heel divide as does Sangre Azteca. Two competitors have appeared in different tournaments under different ring personas, first Kraneo who worked as "El Alebrije" in 2011 and Kraneo in 2012 and secondly Diamante Azul, who participated in the 2011 tournament under his previous ring identity of "Metro" and in the 2013 under his current ring character Diamante Azul. Rush worked under the name "Rouge" in 2010 and Rush in 2011 and since then, this does not signify two different ring personas, just a slight name change.[Note 1]

At times the team members will be part of a pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines with each other.[2] Each year there has been at least one exception to the "Tecnico teams with a Rudo" rule, but the majority of the teams has been actual Parejas Increibles. In 2010 and 2011 each team represented the region where they were raised or where they learned to wrestle which also excluded any non-Mexican competitors from the tournament. The teams represented the four most important regions of Lucha Libre in Mexico Mexico, Guadalajara, Jalisco, the La Laguna Region and Monterrey, Nuevo León.[10] In 2012 the Regional aspect was dropped and a non-Mexican competitor, Marco Corleone, participated.[11]

Tournament Participants

Máscara Dorada won in 2010 and 2011
Name Tournaments Year Notes[3][4][5]
El Alebrije / Kraneo 4 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Ángel de Oro 4 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
Atlantis 5 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Won 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
Averno 4 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
Bárbaro Cavernario 1 2015
Black Warrior 1 2012
Blue Panther 5 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 2011 Finalist
Brazo de Plata 4 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
Casas, NegroNegro Casas 5 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 2010 Finalist
Corleone, MarcoMarco Corleone 4 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Delta 5 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Diamante 1 2011
Dragon Lee 1 2015
Dragón Rojo Jr. 4 2010, 2011, 2013, 2013 2011 Finalist
Ephesto 4 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Euforia 5 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Won 2014
El Felino 6 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Garza, HéctorHéctor Garza 2 2010, 2011
Gran Guerrero 1 2015
Guerrero Maya Jr. 3 2012, 2013, 2015
Hechicero 1 2015
Hijo del Fantasma, ElEl Hijo del Fantasma 4 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Kamaitachi 1 2015
La Mascara 5 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2013 2010 Finalist
Máscara Dorada 4 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 2010, 2011 winner
Maximo 6 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 2014 Finalist, Won 2015
Ray Mendoza Jr. 1 2010
Mephisto 6 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Metro / Diamante Azul 3 2011, 2013, 2014
Misterioso Jr. 4 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
Místico 1 2010
Místico II 1 2014
Mr. Águila 4 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Mr. Niebla 3 2010, 2012, 2013
Niebla Roja 3 2013, 2014, 2015
Olímpico 2 2011, 2012
Pólvora 3 2012, 2013, 2014
Psicosis / Ripper 4 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Rey Bucanero 4 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 2015 Finalist
Rey Cometa 1 2014
Rey Escorpión 3 2012, 2013, 2014 2014 Finalist
Rush / Rouge 4 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 2012 Finalist
Sagrado, ElEl Sagrado 1 2010
Sangre Azteca 2 2010, 2011
Shocker 3 2010, 2013, 2015
La Sombra 6 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Won 2013
Stuka Jr. 5 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Terrible, ElEl Terrible 6 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 2012 Finalist, Won 2015
Thunder 1 2015
Texano Jr., ElEl Texano Jr. 1 2010
Tiger 1 2013
Titán 2 2014, 2015
Toscano 2 2010, 2011
Último Guerrero 6 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2014
Vangelis 1 2014
Valiente 6 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Volador Jr. 5 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Won 2013, 2015 Finalist

Notes

  1. The statistics are supported by the source for each show.

References

  1. 1 2 Salazar López, Alexis (March 22, 2014). "Homenaje a Dos Leyendas". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Madigan, Dan (2007). "Okay... what is Lucha Libre?". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 2940. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  3. 1 2 "Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles". Pro Wrestling History. January 22 – February 5, 2010. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
  4. 1 2 "Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles 2011". Pro Wrestling History. February 2–25, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
  5. 1 2 "Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles 2012". Pro Wrestling History. February 17 – March 2, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
  6. 1 2 "Resultados Arena México". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). March 15, 2013. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
  7. Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (March 6, 2015). "Dos caídas al hilo! Volador y Bucanero caen ante Terrible y Máximo que se llevan este Torneo." (in Spanish). Twitter. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
  8. "Lucha Libre en galerias" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. March 30, 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  9. Martin, Andrew (March 10, 2012). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly" (in Spanish). Wrestleview.com. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  10. Boutwell, Josh (January 15, 2010). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  11. Redacción Mediotiempo (February 18, 2012). "Mr Niebla y Atlantis primeros finalistas". Medio Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved October 3, 2012.
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