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World Destructor’s Championship
By u/basspro24chevy
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Damn, redbull going for the win in all fronts. Perez really wants that World Destructors Championship trophy
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kwisatzworld · 6 months
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If you have an interest in football, you may have had the opportunity to attend a live match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. If so, you might have noticed how the local fans, of either team, often whistle and even insult the opposing team every time they touch the ball, and with even more fervor if it's the star player of the rival team (currently Ronaldo or Messi). If they consider that player to be arrogant or if they have previously played for the other team (as was the case with Luis Figo), the boos are even more intense.
If you pause to think, you will see that this attitude directly stems from fear. Fear that the rival team may be better and win the game. Fear that Messi or Ronaldo might have a standout day and tip the match against our team. “Remember that unjust criticism is often a hidden compliment. No one kicks a dead dog!” as Dale Carnegie once said. And it’s true: people don’t fear the weak; they simply ignore them. That's why the level of anger or hatred decreases as the level of the opponent decreases, unless there is a historical rivalry, as is the case with Atlético and Real Madrid, or Espanyol and Barça.
In my case, I have never lacked haters. First, because I have always been competing for top positions. Second, because I have a strong character and have always said what I think, not what the fans or my rivals want to hear. In that sense, I am not as well-liked by the majority as other more reserved riders.
Unlike countries like the United States, where those who confidently display their success are applauded, in Spain, athletes who demonstrate great humility, who are part of a united family and stay out of trouble, both in competition and in their private lives, are more favorably viewed. In my case, especially at the beginning of my career, I behaved in precisely the opposite way that an "ideal" athlete should, so my detractors had plenty of reasons to channel their hatred (or fear) toward me.
“Casually,” most of the criticism came from some fans of my rivals. There are fans who simply support their rider, but others need to criticize or jeer at their rivals. It happened with Pedrosa when we were both in the 250cc, and the Spanish public divided into “Pedrosistas” and “Lorenzistas”. It happened with Márquez when he entered MotoGP, and I openly commented that he was too aggressive in overtaking. And since my debut in MotoGP, I have always faced it from the most hardcore Rossi fans, who since 2008 saw me as a threat to his reign, both in the MotoGP championship and in the Yamaha team.
After winning the 2015 world championship, these criticisms, insults, and jeers have become even more common, both at the world circuit and on social media. In Márquez’s case, who also began experiencing it that year due to the incident between Rossi and him, it may have been a greater emotional burden since he had always carefully maintained his image as the “ideal” athlete. Moreover, they were “friends”, and Rossi’s fans respected him and considered him, due to talent and age difference, the natural heir. All of that changed when Valentino started to “smell” his tenth world championship. To achieve it, clashes on the track between the two became inevitable. The situation became even more tense when in the press conference of the Malaysian Grand Prix, Rossi accused Márquez of deliberately helping me win the championship. From that point on, the two of us became enemies for the millions of 46 fans. In my case, because we always had a tense relationship and I was the rival who could snatch his long-awaited tenth world title; in Márquez’s case, supposedly for conspiring in my favor.
If you pay attention, the word “detractor” resembles “destructor”. It is related to destroying, eliminating, annihilating. How do the most radical fans attempt to “eliminate”, or at least weaken, the rival? By trying to get into their heads. By demoralizing them, sending negative messages like “you’re very bad,” “you have no personality,” “you’re not even in the same league as my rider,” etc.
Lately, when I check my Twitter or Instagram, in the comments on my photos, I see messages like these: “loser,” “go home,” “you can't tame the beast,” “take the money and run,” “retire, you're making a fool of yourself,” etc. After reading them, I have sometimes checked the recipient’s username. Curiously, the nicknames of these individuals always end with the same number.
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Masked Matches of May XIX : Fuerza Guerrera, Pentagon & Psicosis vs. La Parka, Octagon & Rey Mysterio Jr., May 31st 1995 AAA Sin Limite
Video link to the match over at Youtube : https://youtu.be/Dth3j9pwMWg
Cagematch page for this match/event.
Who’s Who?
La Parka
What good timing for this entry! I had no idea La Park was going to debut when I watched this match and did some of the legwork on this entry.
La Parka made his debut in 1982 a decade before AAA would be founded. He would hold no titles in that time. Before the La Parka(The reaper) gimmick Parka was most notably Principe Island a mask he lost in 1987 to El Hijo del Santo. ending his 5-0-0 streak. I’m sure he had his fans, but he wasn’t super well known at all as those gimmicks his first decade in the business. 
1992 came around and the AAA walkout happened. Antonio Pena, the leader and head booker of AAA who use to be a CMLL booker came to La Parka with the idea for the gimmick. The skeleton based loosely on the Day of the Dead tradition Mexico practices each year. The character was a hit out of the gate and the first major match was vs Lizmark at the first ever Triplemania for Lizmark’s  Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. Not covering that match because I talked about it last year when highlighting Lizmark.
That belt would be around Park’s waist before too long. That and the WWA World Light Heavyweight Champion were the only 2 belts Parka had held at this point in 1995. 1992 to 1996 he worked with AAA until 1997 came around and the peso crashed. Like many people he left the company at that time following many other luchadors to bolster WCW. Where despite becoming a household name and one of the most memorable guys on the roster... he never really won any accolades. Post WCW he would return to Mexico working indie and CMLL dates from 2000-2008. Which is when clashing between La Park and AAA happened. They debut a new La Parka while he was doing dates for WCW as La Parka Jr. the two didn’t clash in the late 90′s because Parka wasn’t working with CMLL or rival companies instead being a WCW ad for their character and working US indie dates. 
Octagon
Octagon made his debut in 1981 working mostly with EMLL as well. He didn’t become the Octagon character until the late 1980′s though when Octagon came to EMLL booker Antonio Pena with the idea of incorporating his legit martial arts training into a character. Octagon was the name based on the Chuck Norris film of the same name. This character took off and become a big hit. Octagon being in a couple of movies in the early 90′s which had become rare as the height of luchador movies had ended in the 70′s. Octagon was also of course sorta a proven gimmick as both Kung Fu and Kato Kung Lee had success, but most would agree that in the 30 years since Octagon debutted, that he has eclipsed both men’s success with his take on the gimmick. 
Octagon at this point had captured and lost :  Mexican National Trios Champion (with Atlantis and Mascara Sagrada), Mexican National Middleweight Champion(x2),  AAA World Tag Team Champion (with El Hijo del Santo) and was still currently Mexican National Trios Champion (2x) (with Rey Misterio Jr. and Super Muneco). We covered his unmasking a few days ago vs Huracan Ramirez(II) since then he also shaved Bestia Negra I, then La Pareja del Terror(Eddie G and Art Barr) with his tag partner El Hijo del Santo.
Octagon would become the posterboy for leaving EMLL for AAA when that company launched. Antonio Pena walking out to form AAA with Octagon and many talents following him. Octagon is famous for being the hold out. Working strong with AAA even after the peso crashed in 1997 and most people left AAA. Octagon stayed being put in their HoF in 2011. Though strangely Octagon left AAA 2014 and sued them for money owed. Even working with CMLL again in 2017 after leaving the promotion 25 years earlier… a sight literally no one thought we would see. 
Rey Mysterio Jr.
Rey Mysterio made his debut in 1989 in a World Wrestling Association promotion in Tijuana where he would work under various names until his Uncle allowed him to take the Rey Mysterio mask and name. Rey Mysterio Jr. would make his presence more well known in 1992 by joining AAA. Which signed lots of talent from Tijuana as well as all the walkout talent from CMLL. Rey Mysterio only worked 10 matches for CMLL in his career from what I can tell in 2001.
Rey Mysterio has won 5 hairs/masks at this point while in AAA. And held the following titles : Current Mexican National Trios Champion(with Super Muneco & Octagon), WWA World Lightweight Champion(x2), WWA World Tag Team Champion (with Rey Misterio Sr), and Mexican National Welterweight Champion. He would of course go on to hold gold in both WCW and WWE carving a career in American wrestling. He never held a AAA branded belt, mostly repping his original promotion WWA’s titles. 
At this time he was one of many great young talents filling AAA. He Psicosis & Juventud Guerrera were the big 3 feuding in AAA/ECW/WCW the three of them all going to WCW once the peso crashed an AAA had to slow down and do less shows. Which lead to his mainstream career for all the the 2000′s and into the 2010′s still an international draw outside of the WWE asked to work NJPW, LU and recently a show for WWE in Saudi Arabia. 
Fuerza Guerrera
Making his debut in 1978 working primarily with EMLL from what I can tell. He became a bigger star towards the late 80′s and early 90′s. He had taken the mask of Rocky Star who we covered in that brazos trios match from earlier. To many fans in the states Fuerza Guerrera may be a bit of an unknown with his son being a more well known name. His son of course being Juventud Guerrera and getting mainstream exposure thanks to WCW and his fantastic feud/rivalry with Rey Mysterio Jr. His father though was a great luchador in his own right and is considered a legend even if he never became a well known name in the states. 
In the late 80′s he captured the following titles, arranged in the order he worn them from his first title to the latest before this match : Mexican National Lightweight Championship, Mexican National Welterweight Championship,  NWA World Welterweight Championship(x2), WWA World Welterweight Championship,  CMLL World Welterweight Champion,  Mexican National Tag Team Champion (with Juventud Guerrera),  WWA World Tag Team Champion (with Juventud Guerrera) and WWA World Trios Champion (with Juventud Guerrera and Psicosis). 
Those last 3 team titles he was currently holding at this time. Rey and his uncle would often tag vs the father son team of Juventud Guerrera & Fuerza Guerrera.
Of course with this being a mask vs mask match, I have to go over his Luchas de Apuestas record which at this time was 3-0-0 with him taking the mask of Rocky Star in 1989 and with his first win coming in 1985 when Los Bravos : Fuerza(Mask) El Dandy (hair) and Talisman (hair) won a trios betting match over Los Destructores : Lemús II (mask), Tony Arce (hair) and Vulcano (hair).
Juvy would not debut until he was 18 in 1992. Though he may have started training before that obviously. Where and and Rey Mysterio quickly became rivals which would continue into WCW in the late 90′s.
Pentagon I(Espanto Jr.)
Making his debut in 1971 Espanto Jr. would find his most fame in the mid to late 80′s where he would lose his mask and then hair several times to El Hijo del Santo. By 1995 he wasn’t really going to be a draw as a maskless guy who had lost to Santo half a dozen times despite that being a good rivalry. So AAA founder and head booked Antonio Pena repackaged him as Pentagon I an evil twin to the Octagon Character. A trope that would have 3 incarnations over the following decade. 
Of course in late 2012 Pentagon Jr. would debut. Which is the one most people are familiar with and the most famous of the incarnations. Likely put in that gimmick to play off an Octagon Jr. Though, that never came to fruition in AAA. With Flamita being put in the gimmick only for Octagon to freak out on him and pull his mask off post show. Flamita left AAA, then Pentagon Jr. did and then Octagon did. Getting ahead of myself though. So this is the start of a decade of evil Pentagon characters for Octagon to fight.  
As Espanto Jr. in the late 80′s and early 90′s held the WWA World Welterweight Championship, WWA World Lightweight Championship, UWA World Welterweight Championship, & UWA World Lightweight Championship. He would not win gold as Pentagon before retiring from the character and wrestling in 1996 instead becoming a trainer as the same wrestling school as his brothers.    
Psicosis
Making his debut in 1989 Psicosis got his start in the same WWA Promotion Rey Mysterio started at. 
It’s estimated that Psicosis and Rey Mysterio Jr. have met each other in the ring over 500 times in their careers. He like La Parka and a few other AAA talents would go to WCW in the late 90′s Psicosis like La Park had issues with AAA who owned the Psicosis name and gave it to a new guy when Psicosis started working with CMLL in the early 2000′s where he instead went by Nicho el Millonario which is the name he still works under today. 
He’d work briefly in WWE 2005-2006 after that he would return to AAA for a long stint from 2008-2016, but more recently has become a staple in the hot Mexican indie company The Crash where he has worked 8 matches over 2017 & 2018 throughout all of his career Psicosis has always been someone you could see on a Mexican Indie shows never really being a company man after 2000. 
At the time Psicosis was holding both the WWA World Welterweight Champion and  WWA World Trios Champion (with Fuerza Guerrera and Juventud Guerrera).   
How is the match?
Great, this one is really fun to watch because you have lots of starpower here in hindsight since Park/Mysterio/Psicosis would go on to be big stars in WCW and after in Mexico and Rey in WWE. Even Psicosis as noted had a short stint in WWE in the mid 2000′s. While this is a great match, I think it sorta hurts as a follow up to yesterday’s trios match which is the best one I think we have looked at in this series. This is fun, but knowing where Octagon/Pentagon went sorta deflates Pentagon here. I also, think the evil twin thing is a bit of a strange trope in general. It’s sorta akin to Tiger Mask/Black Tiger in NJPW I’d suppose and that had worked in the past. In fact it was working fairly well with Eddie G being Black Tiger(II) around this time in NJPW. So I get why they wanted to do it, as it had proven to work other places. 
Still it’s nice to see young Rey/Psicosis/Parka along with Octagon an Fuerza as well. It seems like a waste though to have Pentagon here instead of Juvy, but you can’t have everything. Parka is fun and Psicosis dancing to taunt him is as well. They try to sell Octagon in dire trouble here with the mask ripping and all that jazz. Which leads to a nice moment after the match when all three tecnicos are in the ring together at the end. A really fun trios match, I’d recommend checking it out, but it isn’t anything too wild. It does feel like a television match and not a PPV or Supercard match because that’s what it was. 
Highlights :
Fuerza Guerrera, Pentagon & Psicosis vs. La Parka, Octagon & Rey Mysterio Jr., May 31st 1995 AAA Sin Limite
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lostinyourears · 6 years
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Masked Matches of May XII : Fuerza Guerrera vs. Huracan Ramirez(II) vs Octagon, 3 way Mask vs Mask match Main Event, EMLL Juicio Final December 14th 1990
Video link to the match over at Youtube : https://youtu.be/BGUSO2D8F8A
Cagematch page for this match/event.
How does this match work?
It starts as a 3 way, then whoever gets pinned/submitted then goes onto t final 2/3 falls proper mask vs mask match in the main event. This took place at Juicio Final(Final Judgement) which is a on again off again event for CMLL who have held it in 1990, 1991, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011 & 2014. We will probably look at another match from this event, as it’s often had big matches. I’d recommend Satanico/El Dandy which happened at this 1990 event, but I won’t be covering it cause neither of those men had a mask. 
Who’s Who?
Fuerza Guerrera
Making his debut in 1978 working primarily with EMLL from what I can tell. He became a bigger star towards the late 80′s and early 90′s. About a year before this he had taken the mask of Rocky Star who we covered in that brazos trios match from the other day. To many fans in the states Fuerza Guerrera may be a bit of an unknown with his son being a more well known name. His son of course being Juventud Guerrera and getting mainstream exposure thanks to WCW and his fantastic feud/rivalry with Rey Mysterio Jr. His father though was a great luchador in his own right and is considered a legend even if he never became a well known name in the states. 
In the late 80′s he captured the following titles, arranged in the order he worn them from his first title to the latest before this match : Mexican National Lightweight Championship, Mexican National Welterweight Championship,  NWA World Welterweight Championship and WWA World Welterweight Championship. 
At the time of this match Fuerza Guerrera was in his 2nd reign as NWA World Welterweight Championship, which would be his longest singles reign on record. Holding the belt for over 800 days which encompassed the entirety of 1990. 
Of course with this being a mask vs mask match, I have to go over his Luchas de Apuestas record which at this time was 2-0-0 with him taking the mask of Rocky Star in 1989 and with his first win coming in 1985 when Los Bravos : Fuerza(Mask) El Dandy (hair) and Talisman (hair) won a trios betting match over Los Destructores : Lemús II (mask), Tony Arce (hair) and Vulcano (hair).
So at this point Fuerza and his mask were far from untouchable. His son mentioned earlier would have been only 16 at this time and unlike many luchadores who start in their mid teens Juvy would not debut until he was 18 in 1992. Though he may have started training before that obviously.
Octagon
Octagon made his debut in 1981 working mostly with EMLL as well. He didn’t become the Octagon character until the late 1980′s though when Octagon came to EMLL booker Antonio Pena with the idea of incorporating his legit martial arts training into a character. Octagon was the name based on the Chuck Norris film of the same name. This character took off and become a big hit. Octagon being in a couple of movies in the early 90′s which had become rare as the height of luchador movies had ended in the 70′s. Octagon was also of course sorta a proven gimmick as both Kung Fu and Kato Kung Lee had success, but most would agree that in the 30 years since Octagon debutted, that he has eclipsed both men’s success with his take on the gimmick. 
Octagon had not captured any gold by this point in his career, or any masks. So he hadn’t really hit the ground running yet despite being popular. He has famously always had some attitude issues. Some people saying his ego was big with many old school talents looking down upon him, calling him "Muchachito" (the Spanish equivalence of "Little boy") in a derogatory tone.
Octagon would become the posterboy for leaving EMLL for AAA when that company launched. Antonio Pena walking out to form AAA with Octagon and many talents following him. Octagon is famous for being the hold out. Working strong with AAA even after the peso crashed in 1997 and most people left AAA. Octagon stayed being put in their HoF in 2011. Though strangely Octagon left AAA 2014 and sued them for money owed. Even working with CMLL again in 2017 after leaving the promotion 25 years earlier... a sight literally no one thought we would see. 
Huracan Ramirez(II)
Huracan Ramirez was originally a great luchador based on a film character who was created to be in said film. In fact the original Harazan Ramirez, Daniel García Arteaga didn’t play the character in the original film. That was Eduardo Bonada who was contracted to wrestle as the character after the film released. He was heading towards retirement though and so they held an audition for a new Huracan Ramirez. Which Daniel García Arteaga(who had a bit role in the original film) won and became the ‘Original’ Huracan Ramirez and innovated the Huracarrana. He was allowed to use the mask/name without paying the producers of the film, but by the same margin didn’t get a cut of the film/merchandise money the producers made. He would take the name/character in 1953 and from 1962 to 1973 García appeared in five "Huracán Ramírez" movies.
It’s hard to overstate the success the Huracan Ramirez had in lucha libre. At one point he was billed as a 4 belt champion(which was legitimate), when Santo turned tecnico in the early 60′s he and Huracan became a very popular tag team and life long friends. He also invented a move that is synonymous with the art of lucha libre. In the end though Huracan sadly couldn’t pass down his legacy to a son/nephew/protege because at the end of the day... he didn’t own the character. He tried to fight this, but was met with threats of them casting a new Huracan Ramirez to which Huracan just unmasked himself and forever made himself unanimous with the character... which to be fair he had made a success through 30 years of hard work. Even wearing the mask as a pallbearer for El Santo at his funeral in the 1980′s. 
So... this is one of many failed attempts to make a new Huracan Ramirez. There isn’t too much about this guy out there. He worked in CMLL in late 80′s early 90′s and has made a AAA appearance once in 2017. As far as I can tell, he didn’t hold any belts or win any masks before this match. Names he used before this match and Huracan gimmick in EMLL Darth Vader, Guerrero Inmortal, and Interceptor. Huracan Ramirez is likely the most infamous names rights controversy in Lucha Libre history with his unmasking to ruin future attempts at making it work a big cliff note to take away from lucha history. 
How is the match?
Pretty good, probably not the best match on the card because this card also had El Dandy vs El Satanico. Still this match isn’t bad by any means and shouldn’t be forgotten, just because it includes a false Huracan Ramirez. Who didn’t do bad in this contest at all. You really feel bad for guys that get stuck with a gimmick like this. Where no one is going to bite on this idea of a false/pirate gimmick as they often get called. It sometimes works out, for instance La Parka(II)’s entire career. So it’s hard to say it’s always a bad call, but it’s never really turned out positively for these 2nd chance Huracans. The shoes are just too big to fill and the ending for the original guy is just too unkind that I don’t think a Huracan Ramirez that isn’t legitimately related to the original will ever get over after how the people who owned the gimmick screwed the original out of all the hard work he had put into the character's legacy was unrewarded.  
Anyways, the match itself is good. I have an issue with Octagon just being AWOL for the triangle portion of the match. I get that it’s so Fuerza/Huracan can work a singles match basically, but I don’t like it. I hate when that happens in any company cause it made Octagon look like a joke. He takes a few punches from Fuerza, piece out for the whole triangle part of the match. Huracan takes a fall and then Octagon and Fuerza have basically a singles match. With way less heat than the Huracan/Fuerza bit. 
I’m not a big fan of how quickly the 1st two falls happen in the 2/3 falls match that happens with the losers of the triangle match that starts this main event. I get why as they have basically 2 matches right before, but I still think it should be noted. I think EMLL booking is pretty good here though. They made the two winners here feel like great talents. Particularly Fuerza who has 2 matches back to back and wins them both. Even though Octagon was napping on the outside for that first match so, theoretically he should have beaten Fuerza, so when Fuerza instead reversed the submission to send Octagon to the final round he looked like a million bucks. 
I even think the false Huracan looked good and somewhat protected in this loss. He took a nasty missed dive to the outside and his first round match with Fuerza was more heated and nasty than the same first round match Octagon had with Fuerza. I feel like being given the Huracan gimmick was a curse anyways. After this the guy went by Huracan Sevilla, but never reached the heights Octagon/Fuerza did and obviously never reached the heights the original did, but that’s a high bar for anyone to hit. 
Highlights :
Fuerza Guerrera vs. Huracan Ramirez(II) vs Octagon, 3 way Mask vs Mask match Main Event, EMLL Juicio Final December 14th 1990
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