Héroes Inmortales VII explained

Héroes Inmortales VII
Promotion:AAA
Date:October 18, 2013[1]
Venue:Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo
City:Puebla, Puebla
Lastevent:Triplemanía XXI
Nextevent:Guerra de Titanes
Event:Héroes Inmortales Shows
Liveevent:Y
Lastevent2:VI
Nextevent2:VIII

Héroes Inmortales VII (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes VII") was a professional wrestling event produced by the AAA promotion. The event, which commemorated the seventh anniversary of the death of AAA founder Antonio Peña, took place on October 18, 2013, at Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo in Puebla, Puebla.[2] [3] While the 2011 and 2012 Peña memorial shows were both simply billed as Héroes Inmortales, the 2013 edition returned to using a Roman numeral, VII for seven, in its name. The event was headlined by El Texano Jr. defending the AAA Mega Championship against Psycho Clown and also featured the annual Copa Antonio Peña.[2] The event also included a memorial ceremony for AAA wrestler and the uncle of Psycho Clown, El Brazo, who died due to complications from diabetes three days before the event.

Production

Background

On October 5, 2006, founder of the Mexican professional wrestling, company AAA Antonio Peña died from a heart attack.[4] [5] The following year, on October 7, 2007, Peña's brother-in-law Jorge Roldan who had succeeded Peña as head of AAA held a show in honor of Peña's memory, the first ever Antonio Peña Memorial Show (Homenaje a Antonio Peña in Spanish).[6] AAA made the tribute to Peña into a major annual event that would normally take place in October of each year, renaming the show series Héroes Inmortales (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes"), retroactively rebranding the 2007 and 2008 event as Héroes Inmortales I and Héroes Inmortales II.[7] As part of their annual tradition AAA holds a Copa Antonio Peña ("Antonio Peña Cup") tournament with various wrestlers from AAA or other promotions competing for the trophy. The tournament is normally either a gauntlet match or a multi-man torneo cibernetico elimination match. Outside of the actual Copa Antonio Peña trophy the winner is not guaranteed any other "prizes" as a result of winning, although several Copa Antonio Peña winners did go on to challenge for the AAA Mega Championship. The 2013 show was the seventh show in the Héroes Inmortales series of shows.

Storylines

The Héroes Inmortales show featured eight professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as 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 followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Viva la Raza! Lucha Weekly 9/28/13 . Boutwell . Josh . September 28, 2013 . September 28, 2013 . Wrestleview.
  2. Web site: @luchalibreaaa: Todo listo para… ¡AAA Héroes Inmortales VII! . Mexicool . Rey . September 26, 2013 . September 27, 2013 . SuperLuchas . Spanish.
  3. Web site: Octubre 18 – Héroes Inmortales VII Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo, Puebla . September 28, 2013 . . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20131004064658/http://www.luchalibreaaa.com/carteleraaaa/item/960-octubre-18-h%C3%A9roes-inmortales-vii-gimnasio-miguel-hidalgo-puebla.html . October 4, 2013 . dead .
  4. News: Hicks. Brady. 2006: The year in wrestling. PWI Presents: 2007 Wrestling Almanac and book of facts. Kappa Publications. 2007 Edition. 26.
  5. Web site: Falleció Antonio Peña . October 5, 2009 . October 14, 2009 . Ocampo, Ernesto. Super Luchas Magazine . Spanish.
  6. Web site: AAA Misc. Cards – Pena Memorial show 2007. 2009-02-13. Pro Wrestling History. https://web.archive.org/web/20090325103400/http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/misccards.html. 25 March 2009 . live.
  7. Web site: Héroes Inmortales I (Homenaje al Lic. Antonio Peña) . June 12, 2011 . September 2, 2011 . . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718093620/http://luchalibreaaa.com/heroes-inmortales-ihomenaje-al-lic-antonio-pena.php . 18 July 2011 . dead .