Guerra del Golfo (2005)

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Guerra del Golfo (2005)
Naucalpan, State of Mexico
VenueArena Naucalpan[1]
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The 2005 Guerra del Golfo (Spanish for "Gulf War") was the first instance of the recurring

professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group ("IWRG"; sometimes referred to as Grupo Internacional Revolución in Mexico). The show, held on December 22, 2005 also commemorated the 28th Anniversary of Arena Naucalpan, IWRG's main venue. In this instance the "Gulf" referred to in the title is the Gulf of Mexico, not the Gulf War
in the Persian Gulf.

The annual Guerra del Golfo main event consists of three matches in total, with two "qualifying matches", multi-man steel cage matches where the last person left in the cage advances to the main event of the night. The two losers would then be forced to wrestle inside the steel cage, with the loser of that match being forced to either take off their wrestling mask or have their hair shaved off under Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match" rules, if they are unmasked. In the main event masked wrestler Nemesis defeated Ultra Mega, forcing him to unmask as a result. The undercard also saw Scorpio Jr. defeat Heavy Metal to win the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship for the third time.

Production

Background

Starting as far back as 1997, the Mexican

IWRG Prison Fatal ("Deadly Prison") shows. The Guerra del Golfo shows, as well as the majority of the IWRG shows in general, are held in Arena Naucalpan, owned by the promoters of IWRG and their main arena.[3]

Arena Naucalpan opened its doors for the first lucha libre show on December 17, 1977.

major shows as well.[2][5]

Storylines

The event featured six 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.[1]

Event

The outcome of the first two matches, a singles match between Panterita and Zaiyer, and a best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match between the team of Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, and Veneno and the team of Kaleth, Pirata Morgan Jr., and Shigeo Okumura have not been documented.[1]

Scorpio Jr. had worked for IWRG since its creation, initially due to their working agreement with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and later on Scorpio Jr. signed directly with IWRG. Over the years he had won the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship on three occasions, the first time being on December 16, 1999.[6] His third reign began on September 9, 2004 as he defeated Villano IV to win the championship. His reign lasted a total of 245 days, until May 12, 2005 where he lost the belt to Heavy Metal.[1]

Aftermath

Fernando Montes wrestled as Ultra Mega for a while after being unmasked, but disappeared from IWRG in 2006. In 2007 he returned as the masked character "Oficial Fierro", teaming up with Oficial 911 and Oficial AK-47 to form the latest version of Los Oficiales in early 2007.[7] Teaming with Oficial 911 and Oficial AK-47 Montes, as Oficial Fierro, won the Distrito Federal Trios Championship twice[8] and the IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship once.[9]

Nemesis, along with his regular Jinetes de Apocalipsis ("Horsemen of the Apocalypse") tag team partners Kaleth and Pirata Morgan Jr., left IWRG in 2008 and changed his name to "El Hijo de Pirata Morgan" ("The Son of Pirata Morgan"). Being born in 1992 Nemesis was supposedly 13 years old at the time of the 2005 Guerra del Golfo, which makes it possible that someone else played the part of Nemesis early on and the future El Hijo de Pirata Morgan took over the role later on, but there are also examples of teenagers as young as 13 wrestling in Mexico.[10]

Scorpio Jr.'s fourth reign ended when the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship was vacated in February 2006 as Scorpio Jr. stopped working for IWRG on a regular basis.

El Canek won the championship, starting a reign that would last 1,444 days, almost four years.[12]

Results

No.Results
El Sagrado, Matrix and Nitro
La Guerra del Golfo semi-finals - five-man steel cage match[13]
6Nemesis defeated Ultra MegaLa Guerra del Golfo finals - steel cage, Luchas de Apuestas, hair vs. hair match[13]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Número Especial – Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2004". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. Issue 91.
  2. ^ a b "1997 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 7, 1998. pp. 2–28. issue 2332.
  3. ^ a b "Arena Naucalpan". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). June 11, 2012. p. 18. Issue 466.
  4. ^ "1996 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 10, 1997. pp. 2–28. issue 2280.
  5. ^ "1998 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 1999. pp. 2–28. issue 2348.
  6. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
    .
  7. ^ "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. issue 244. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  8. ^ "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. issue 244. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  9. ^ Rivera, Manuel (April 13, 2009). "Oficiales y Traumas: Sangriente rivalidad". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). p. 10. issue 310.
  10. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
    .
  11. ^ "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). December 23, 2006. Issue 192. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  12. ^ Mejia Eguiluz, Diego (April 19, 2010). "Arena Naucalpan 18 de Abril 2010" (in Spanish). The Gladiatores Magazine. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
  13. ^ a b c "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Ultra Mega (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico. November 2007. p. 47. Tomo V.

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