Héroes Inmortales XIV explained

Héroes Inmortales XIV
Promotion:Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Date:October 9, 2021[1]
Venue:Coliseo La Concordia
City:Orizaba, Mexico
Lastevent:Triplemanía XXIX
Nextevent:Triplemanía Regia II
Event:Héroes Inmortales
Liveevent:Y
Lastevent2:Héroes Inmortales XIII
Nextevent2:2023

Héroes Inmortales XIV (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes fourteen") was a professional wrestling event produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA). The event took place on October 9, 2021, at Coliseo La Concordia in Orizaba, Mexico. It was the fourteenth Héroes Inmortales show, held annually in honor of the promotion's deceased founder Antonio Peña and features the Copa Antonio Peña tournament named in his honor.

Production

Background

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".[2] [3] 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.[3] On October 5, 2006 Peña died from a heart attack.[2] [3] 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).[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] [7]

Storylines

The Héroes Inmortales XIV show featured four professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed 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.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LUCHA LIBRE AAA ANNOUNCES HEROES INMORTALES XIV FOR OCTOBER 9. Carrera, Pep. Lucha Central. August 25, 2021. September 10, 2021.
  2. News: Hicks. Brady. 2006: The year in wrestling. PWI Presents: 2007 Wrestling Almanac and book of facts. Kappa Publications. 2007 Edition. 26.
  3. Web site: Falleció Antonio Peña . October 5, 2009 . October 14, 2009 . Ocampo, Ernesto. SuperLuchas Magazine . Spanish.
  4. Web site: AAA Misc. Cards – Pena Memorial show 2007. 2009-02-13. Pro Wrestling History.
  5. 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 . July 18, 2011 . dead .
  6. News: Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2009. SuperLuchas. 348. January 8, 2010. Spanish.
  7. News: Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2010. SuperLuchas. 399. January 12, 2011. Spanish.
  8. Book: Madigan, Dan. Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperCollins Publishers. 2007. A family affair. 128–132. 978-0-06-085583-3.