Several minor Mexican independent circuitprofessional wrestling promotions joined together late 2018 to form an overall sanctioning body called Promotores Asociados de Lucha Libre ("Promotional Association of Professional Wrestling"; PALL) to act as a unifying organization for wrestling promotions International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), Lucha Memes, Lucha Libre Boom, Promociones NOBA, Pleu Sports, MDA Lucha Libre, Generación XXI, GCC and Tortas Súper Astro.[2][3] The various companies would collaborate on events, coordinate to make sure they were not holding shows on the same day.[2] For the wrestlers PALL had a fund to help support wrestlers who were injured during a PALL sanctioned show as well as give them support in promoting them across Mexico.[2] The first co-promoted show under the PALL banner took place on August 31, 2018 in Arena Naucalpan, in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, owned by the IWRG.[4]
Storylines
The show will feature sevenprofessional 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.[5]
The seeds for the shows main event was sown on September 16, 2019, when Fresero Jr. and his tag team partner Mr. Iguana defeated Demonio Infernal and Warrior Jr. after which Fresero Jr. made a challenge for Demonio Infernal's IWRG Rey del Ring Championship.[6] Two weeks later Demonio Infernal successfully defended the championship against Fresero Jr.[7] On the October 27 IWRG show Fresero Jr. helped El Hijo de Canis Lupus defend the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship against Demonio Infernal by interfering in the match. Following the match Demonio Infernal made a Lucha de Apuestas, "hair vs hair" match challenge.[8] Fresero Jr. defeated Demonio Infernal in a Super Libre, no disqualification match, on November 24, followed by accepting the Apuesta challenge.[9]
On March 24, 2019, Aramís and Imposible defeated Heddi Karaoui and Death Metal to win the vacant IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.[10] The duo defended the championship twice in the subsequent months, defeating Capo del Norte and Capo del Sur on April 10,[11] and then El Hijo de Canis Lupus and Dragón Bane On April 28.[12] When the full show for the PALL 1st Anniversary show was announced, IWRG revealed that Aramís and Imposible were no longer champions, instead six tag teams would wye for the championship: Los Traumas ( Trauma I and Trauma II), Los Alas (Alas de Oro and Alas de Plata), Los Fulgors (Fulgor I and II), Ave Rex and Toxin and US representatives Bryce Benjamin and Marshe Rockett, better known as Da Soul Touchaz.[1]
In 2006 Internacional Pantera, then known simply as "El Pantera" lost a steel cage match]] to Misterioso Jr., which also included El Sagrado, Volador Jr., Nitro, Neutron, Mascara Purpura, Averno, Mephisto, El Felino, Sangre Azteca, La Máscara. As a result of the Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match" stipulation Pantera was forced to unmask. After unmasking he revealed his real name, Francisco Javier Pozas, as part of the Lucha Libre tradition.[13] Pantera later left CMLL and began to wear his mask again, claiming that CMLL had not paid for the mask loss, thus he did not honor the stipulation of the match and resumed wrestling with the mask on.[14]
Los Big Strippers (Big Chico Che, Big Mike, and Big Ovett) defeated Capo del Norte, Capo del Sur, and Fly Warrior and Diva Salvaje, Jessy Ventura, and Pasion Cristal
Los Traumas ( Trauma I and Trauma II), Dragón/El Hijo del Impostor defeated Bryce Benjamin and Marshe Rockett, Alas de Oro/Alas de Plata, Fulgor I/Fly Warrior, and Hip Hop Man/Toxin
^"PALL". CageMatch. August 31, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
^Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 31. ISBN978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
^"IWRG". CageMatch. April 28, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
^Enciclopedia staff (October 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Pantera (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico. p. 50. Tomo III.
^PWI Staff (August 2008). "Pro Wrestling Illustrated 500 - 2008 :344 Pantera". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, USA: Sports and Entertainment publications LLC. October 2008.