Sin Piedad (2001)
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Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||
Date | December 14, 2001[1] | ||
City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | ||
Venue | Arena México[1] | ||
Attendance | 10,900[1] | ||
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Sin Piedad (2001) (
Production
Background
The Mexican
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.
In mid-2000 Shocker, Bestia Salvaje and Scorpio Jr. teamed up in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to form a group called Los Guapos (The Hansome Ones"). The Los Guapos concept presented all three wrestlers as vain, selffocused bordering on narcissistic metrosexual wrestlers who were almost more concerned with their looks, bleached hair etc. than anything else.[3] The group took part in a large number of vignettes with them visiting beauty spas and talking about their looks, which played for comedic value, especially considering none of the wrestlers were considered "classically beautiful", in fact Scorpio, Jr's father was nicknamed El Rey Feo ("The Ugly King") and the son took after his father.[4] In mid-2001 both Scorpio Jr. and Salvaje wanted to bring in their long time friend and partner Emilio Charles Jr. to the group, which Shocker opposed on the ground that Charles Jr. was simply "too ugly". Even after attempts at a "make over" Shocker still opposed the inclusion. in the fall Los Guapos turned on Shocker, and the three Nuevo Guapos attacked Shocker during and after several matches. In the end Shocker and Emilio Charles Jr. agreed to a Lucha de Apuesta or "bet match" where both wrestlers would put their hair on the line against the outcome of the match. The Luchas de Apuestas match is the ultimate "storyline settler" in Lucha Libre and would also determine which side would be the true Los Guapos.[5]
In the fall of 2001,
Event
In the opening match the Los Boriquas (The Puerto Ricans) team of
In the third match of the night the tecnico team of
The regular group La Familia de Tijuana ("The Family from Tijuana"), consisting of
The final match of the night had both Shocker and Emilio Charles Jr. both put their hair on the line on the outcome of the match as well as the "ownership" of the Los Guapos group name as well. Guapo founder Shocker lost the first fall to Guapo usurper Emilio Charles Jr. putting him behind from the beginning. Shocker fought back and showed Charles that Shocker was just as capable of cheating and using underhanded tactics, even if he was not a tecnico after the other Guapos had turned on him, taking the second fall. The third fall of the match saw the advantage change from moment to moment as neither man dominated, but in the end Shocker took advantage of a miscommunication between Charles as Bestia Salvaje and Scorpio Jr. who tried to interfere in the match and pinned Emilio Charles Jr. for the third and final fall. After the match Charles' long, bleached hair was clipped off, then the rest of his hair was shaved completely off.[1][5]
Aftermath
Following his victory Shocker would reform Los Guapos in 2002 when he teamed up with
Results
No. | Results Rey Misterio Jr. Best two-out-of-three falls eight-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match | 09:58 | |
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6 | Shocker defeated Emilio Charles Jr. | Best two-out-of three falls Lucha de Apuesta, hair vs. hair match | 16:34 |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "December 2001 PPV". ProWrestlingHistory. December 14, 2001. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ^ "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–20. issue 2488.
- ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "2001: CMLL". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 13, 2002. pp. 3–8. issue 2540.