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.
| width=18% | Wrestler: | width=5% | Times: | width=15% | Date: | width=22% | Location: | width=40% | Notes: |
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| Charly Manson | 1 | Naucalpan, Mexico | Defeated Konnan in the final match to become the first Copa Antonio Peña winner.[1] | ||||||
| El Mesías | 1 | Veracruz, Mexico | Defeated Dark Cuervo in the final match[2] | ||||||
| Cibernético | 1 | Monterrey, Mexico | Won a twelve-man battle royal, lastly eliminating Konan Big[3] | ||||||
| Aero Star | 1 | Tamaulipas, Mexico | Won an eight-man torneo cibernetico, lastly eliminating Chris Stone[4] | ||||||
| Electroshock | 1 | Monterrey, Mexico | Won a nine-man gauntlet match, lastly eliminating L.A. Park[5] | ||||||
| El Texano Jr. | 1 | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a thirteen-man gauntlet match, lastly eliminating El Mesías. The win was later nullified.[6] | ||||||
| La Parka | 1 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | Won a four-way elimination match, lastly eliminating El Hijo del Fantasma.[7] | ||||||
| Myzteziz | 1 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a lumberjack match, lastly eliminating Pentagón Jr. | ||||||
| Taurus | 1 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a ten-man battle royal, lastly eliminating La Parka.[8] | ||||||
| Pimpinela Escarlata | 1 | Monterrey, Mexico | Won a 12-man battle royal[9] | ||||||
| El Hijo del Fantasma | 1 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Won a 14-man battle royal to win the AAA Latin American Championship[10] | ||||||
| Pagano | 1 | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | Won a ten-man battle royal, lastly eliminating El Hijo del Fantasma. | ||||||
| El Hijo del Vikingo | 1 | Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico | Won an eleven-man battle royal, lastly eliminating Taurus. | ||||||
| Pimpinela Escarlata | 2 | Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico | Won a nine-man battle royal, lastly eliminating Mamba. | ||||||
| Chik Tormenta | 1 | October 1, 2023 | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico | Won by defeating Maravilla in the final match. |
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.[11]
| width=18% | Event: | width=5% | Date: | width=15% | Location: | Venue: | width=60% | Main event: |
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| Antonio Peña Memorial Show (2007) | Naucalpan, Mexico | Toreo de Cuatro Caminos | Domo de la Muerte match between Abismo Negro, Electroshock and El Zorro against Chessman, Cibernético and El Intocable | |||||
| Antonio Peña Memorial Show (2008) | Naucalpan, Mexico | Estadio Universitario Beto Ávila | Steel cage elimination match between "Team AAA" and La Legión Extranjera | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales III | Naucalpan, Mexico | Arena Monterrey | Dr. Wagner Jr. defending the AAA Mega Championship against El Mesías. | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales IV | Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico | Centro de Convenciones | Steel cage elimination match between "Team AAA" and La Sociedad. | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales (2011)[12] | [13] | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico | Arena Monterrey | Steel cage elimination Masks vs. Hairs match between Los Perros del Mal (Damián 666, Halloween and Nicho el Millonario) and Los Psycho Circus (Monster Clown, Murder Clown and Psycho Clown). | ||||
| Héroes Inmortales (2012) | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Centro de Espectáculos de San Luis Potosí | Domo de la Muerte Hairs vs. Hairs match between Jack Evans, La Secta Bizarra Cibernetica (Cibernético, Dark Cuervo and Dark Ozz) and Los Perros del Mal (Halloween, El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Psicosis and Teddy Hart). | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales VII | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo | Chessman vs. Fénix vs. El Hijo del Fantasma vs. La Parka for the Copa Antonio Peña. | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales VIII | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Domo San Luis | El Mesías and El Patrón Alberto vs. El Hijo del Perro Aguayo and El Texano Jr. | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales IX | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Domo San Luis | El Patrón Alberto vs. Johnny Mundo for the AAA Mega Championship | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales X | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico | Arena Monterrey | Johnny Mundo vs. Garza Jr. for the AAA Latin American Championship | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales XI | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Domo San Luis | Joe Líder vs. El Mesías vs. Pagano in a Death match | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales XII | Puebla, Puebla, Mexico | Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo | Rey Wagner vs. Jeff Jarrett in a Hair vs. Hair Lucha de Apuestas | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales XIII | Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico | Coliseo "La Concordia" | Averno and Rey Wagner vs. Pentagón Jr. and Texano Jr. vs. Chessman and Pagano vs. Psycho Clown and Rey Escorpión in a Steel Cage Match | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales XIV | Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico | Coliseo "La Concordia" | Steel cage elimination match between Los Psycho Circus (Psycho Clown, Monster Clown, and Murder Clown) vs. La Empresa (Puma King, Sam Adonis, and DMT Azul) | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales XV | Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico | Auditorio Benito Juárez | Team USA (QT Marshall and Sam Adonis) vs. Team Mexico (Octagón and Alberto El Patrón) | |||||
| Héroes Inmortales XVI | Alberto El Patrón (c) vs. Laredo Kid for the AAA Mega Championship |
| Héroes Inmortales XVI | |
| Promotion: | Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide |
| Date: | October 6, 2024 |
| Venue: | Auditorio Benito Juárez |
| City: | Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Lastevent: | Triplemanía XXXII |
| Event: | Héroes Inmortales |
| Liveevent: | Y |
| Lastevent2: | Héroes Inmortales XV |
| Nextevent2: | Héroes Inmortales XVII |
Héroes Inmortales XVI (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes Sixteen) was a professional wrestling event produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). The event tookplace on October 5, 2024, at the Audtorio Benito Juárez in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. It was the sixteenth Héroes Inmortales show, held annually in honor of the promotion's deceased founder Antonio Peña and it featured the Copa Antonio Peña tournament named in his honor.
In 1992 then-Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) booker and match maker Antonio Peña left the company alongside a number of wrestlers to form the Mexican professional wrestling, company Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, later known simply as "AAA".[14] [15] Over the next decade-and-a-half Peña and the team behind AAA built the promotion into one of the biggest wrestling companies in the world.[15] On October 5, 2006, Peña died from a heart attack.[14] [15] After Peña's death his brother-in-law Jorge Roldan took control of the company with both his wife Marisela Peña, Antonio's sister, and Dorian Roldan (their son) also taking an active part in AAA. On October 7, 2007, AAA held a show in honor of Peña's memory, the first ever "Antonio Peña Memorial Show" (Homenaje an Antonio Peña in Spanish).[16] The following year AAA held the second ever "Antonio Peña Memorial Show", making it an annual tradition for the company to commemorate the passing of their founder. In 2008 the show was rebranded as Héroes Inmortales (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes"), retroactively rebranding the 2007 and 2008 event as Héroes Inmortales I and Héroes Inmortales II.[17]
AAA has held a Héroes Inmortales every year since then, with the 2020 event not occurring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Héroes Inmortales hosts the Copa Antonio Peña ("Antonio Peña Cup") tournament each year, a multi-man tournament with various wrestlers from AAA or other promotions competing for a trophy. The tournament format has usually been either a gauntlet match or a multi-man torneo cibernetico elimination match.[18] [19]
The Héroes Inmortales XVI show featured professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they follow a series of tension-building events, which culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[20]