Lucha Dragons

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Lucha Dragons
Kalisto (front) and Sin Cara (back) in March 2015
Tag team
MembersKalisto
Sin Cara
Name(s)Lucha Dragons
Billed heightsKalisto:
5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[1]
Sin Cara:
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Combined
billed weight		368 lb (167 kg)[2][1]
Billed fromMexico City
DebutJuly 24, 2014
DisbandedJuly 19, 2016
Years active2014–2016

The Lucha Dragons were a

Sin Cara
. They previously wrestled in WWE's developmental territory NXT, where they were one-time NXT Tag Team Champions. Their name is a reference to their lucha libre style of wrestling. They won the NXT Tag Team Championship after defeating then champions The Ascension on September 11, 2014, at NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way.[3]

History

NXT Tag Team Champions (2014–2016)

battle royals: the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXX,[6] a battle royal for the United States Championship in May,[7] a Money in the Bank qualifying battle royal in June, and a battle royal for the Intercontinental Championship at Battleground.[8][9]

Meanwhile, on the July 24 episode of

NXT, after failing to win the NXT Tag Team Championship from The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) with his former partner El Local at NXT TakeOver on May 29,[10] Kalisto announced he and El Local had parted ways and revealed Sin Cara as his new partner.[11][12]

Over the next weeks, Kalisto and Sin Cara won a tournament to become the number one contenders to the NXT Tag Team Championship.[13] On September 11 at NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way, Kalisto and Sin Cara, now billed together as "The Lucha Dragons", defeated The Ascension to become the new NXT Tag Team Champions, their first WWE professional wrestling championship.[3] They successfully defended their titles in a rematch against The Ascension two weeks later on the September 25 episode of NXT.[14]

They then began a rivalry with The Vaudevillains (

Colin Cassady on the March 11 episode.[19] During this period, they also began to appear off-and-on on WWE's main roster show Main Event, winning matches against the likes of Curtis Axel and Heath Slater.[20] The Lucha Dragons made their return to NXT for the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, but lost to Finn Bálor and Samoa Joe in the first round.[20]

WWE Tag Team Championship pursuits (2015–2016)

Kalisto performing the Salida del Sol on Viktor

The Lucha Dragons made their official main roster debut on the March 30, 2015 episode of

WWE Tag Team Championship, but failed to win.[22] The Lucha Dragons received another title shot on August 23 at SummerSlam in a fatal four-way tag team match, but were once again unsuccessful.[23]

In November, after

TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, The Lucha Dragons received another shot at the WWE Tag Team Championship, but were defeated by The New Day in a triple threat ladder match, which also included The Usos.[28] The Lucha Dragons once again failed to win the WWE Tag Team Championship on the December 22 episode of Super SmackDown Live!, where they were defeated by The New Day.[29]

After Sin Cara had been sidelined with a shoulder injury in late December 2015,

2016 WWE draft as singles competitors.[43]

Championships and accomplishments

See also

References

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