Copa Nuevos Valores

Copa Nuevos Valores
Official poster for the tournament final
Promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date April 3, 2018[1]
April 10, 2018[1]
April 17, 2018[1]
City Mexico City, Mexico
Venue Arena México
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The Copa Nuevos Valores (Spanish for "New Values Cup") is a professional wrestling tournament promoted by the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) held between April 3 and April 17, 2018 at Arena México. The tournament was held to give prominense to 16 younger, lower ranked wrestlers who worked for CMLL at the time. As it is a professional wrestling tournament, it is won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match.

The final match saw Magia Blanca defeat Flyer to win the tournament and earn a match for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship held by Soberano Jr. at the time. The tournament also included Astral, El Coyote, Fugaz, Grako, Jorge Kebrada, Maquiavelo, Príncipe Daniel, Príncipe Díamante, Príncipe Odin Jr., Retro, Reyko, Sangre Imperial, Super Astro Jr. and Yago.

History

The Mexican professional wrestling company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL for short) has a long history of promoting tournaments focusing on the younger or lower ranked wrestlers on their rosters, primarily as a means to showcase select wrestlers in an attempt to elevate one or more wrestlers up the ranks of CMLL. In 1994 CMLL introduced the Gran Alternativa ("The Great Alternative") tournament, a tag team tournament where a relative rookie would team up with a veteran wrestler for a tournament. The tournament concept was so successful that it became an annual event on CMLL's event calendar from that point forward.[2]

In 1996 CMLL introduced La Copa Junior, a tournament for second or third generation wrestlers, often lower ranked, again to showcase at least one of the competitors in the tournament.[3] The La Copa Junior has been held intermittently since 1996 although not on an annual schedule. In 2014 CMLL held both a regular version of La Copa Junior, and a "VIP" version focusing more on well established second generation wrestlers, distinguishing itself from the tournament that focuses on younger wrestlers.[4][5] In 2011 CMLL held the Forjando un Ídolo ("Forging an Idol") tournament, featuring 16 low-to-mid card wrestlers competing in the tournament. The tournament was won by Ángel de Oro and signaled his assent up the ranks of CMLL.[6] In both 2012 and 2013 CMLL held the Torneo Sangre Nueva (literally "the New Blood Tournament"), featuring younger, lower ranked wrestlers in the traditional tournament format. In early 2018 CMLL decided to hold a new tournament focusing on their lower ranked or younger competitors called the Torneo Nuevos Valores ("New Values Cup") featuring 16 competitors who had yet to get many opportunities in CMLL, in a three-week long tournament.[7] Audaz and Templario were originally announced for the tournament,[7] but were replaced by Astral and Príncipe Odin Jr. later on without any explanation.[8][9]

Tournament

The tournament featured 15 professional wrestling matches spread out over three shows. The tournament format followed CMLL's traditional tournament formats, with two qualifying blocks of eight wrestlers that competed during the first and second week of the tournament and a final match between the two block winners. The qualifying blocks were all one-fall matches while the tournament final was a best two-out-of-three-falls match.

Tournament participants

Name Age CMLL debut Block Notes Ref(s)
Astral 29 2009 A Originally worked in the Mini-Estrella division until 2018 [10]
El Coyote Unknown 2013 B   [11]
Flyer 23 2014 A Granson of Super Parka [12]
Fugaz 22 2017 B   [13]
Grako Unknown 2017 A   [14]
George Kebrada 27 2017 A   [15]
Magia Blanca 24 2015 B   [16]
Maquiavelo Unknown 2017 B   [17]
Príncipe Daniel 22 2016 B   [18]
Príncipe Díamante 21 2015 B   [19]
Príncipe Odin Jr. 36 2005 B Used the name "Artillero" from 2005-January 2018 [20]
Reyko Unknown 2014 B   [21]
Retro Unknown 2016 A   [22]
Sangre Imperial Unknown 2016 A Son of Sangre Chicana [23]
Super Astro Jr. 21 2018 A Son of Super Astro [24]
Yago 29 2016 A   [25]

Tournament brackets

Round of 16   Quarterfinals   Semifinals   Final
                           
Astral [8]  
Súper Astro Jr. W     Super Astro Jr. [8]  
Retro [8]   Yago W  
Yago W       Yago [8]  
Flyer W       Flyer W  
[8] Grako     Flyer W
Sangre Imperial W   Sangre Imperial [8]  
George Kebrada [8]       Flyer [26][27]
Reyko [9]       Magia Blanca W
Magia Blanca W     Magia Blanca W  
Fugaz [9]   El Coyote [9]  
El Coyote W       Magia Blanca W
Príncipe Diamante W       Príncipe Diamante [9]  
Maquiavelo [9]     Príncipe Diamante W
Príncipe Daniel W   Príncipe Daniel [9]  
Príncipe Odin Jr. [9]  

Aftermath

As a result of winning the tournament, Magia Blanca was awarded a championship match in his weight division. On May 1, 2018, Magia Blanca wrestled Soberano Jr. for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship but lost two falls to one.[28] The two finalists, Magica Blanca and Flyer, faced off in CMLL's next tournament, the Gran Alternativa tournament, where Flyer gained a measure of revenge and he and Volador Jr. defeated Magia Blanca and Atlantis from the tournament.[29][30] On May 24 it was revealed that Magia Blanca had suffered a knee injury during a match and would not be able to work for six to nine months.[31]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Preparan festejos para el 75 aniversario de la Arena Coliseo". ESTO Enlinea (in Spanish). March 31, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  2. ↑ "CMLL Gran Alternativa". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Copa Junior Tournament". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ Salazar López, Alexis A. (January 2, 2014). "Resultados Arena México Miércoles 1º de Enero '14". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ López Peralta, Gonzalo (October 4, 2014). "Lucha Libre: Función viernes 3 de octubre". Yahoo Deportes (in Spanish). Yahoo!. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. "fase de eliminacion". Forjando un Idolo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
  7. 1 2 Lopez Escalona, Arturo (March 22, 2018). "Anuncian Copa Nuevos Valores" (in Spanish). El Sol de Cordoba. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dark Angelita (April 4, 2018). "CMLL: Dio inicio la Copa Nuevos Valores, Flyer primer finalista". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dark Angelita (April 12, 2018). "CMLL: Magia Blanca a la final del Torneo Nuevos Valores". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  10. ↑ Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. "Tecnico Astral". Fuego en el Ring (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Coyote". Wrestling Data. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Flyer, el tercer Volador está aquí" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. February 14, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Fugaz". Wrestling Data. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Grako". Wrestling Data. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Jorge Kebrada". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Magia Blanca". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Maquiavelo". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Principe Daniel". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  19. ↑ "Principe Diamante". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  20. ↑ "Rudo: Artillero". Fuego en el Ring (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 30, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
  21. ↑ "Reycko". Wrestling Data. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  22. ↑ "Retro". Wrestling Data. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  23. ↑ "Sangre Imperial". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  24. ↑ "Super Astro Jr". Wrestling Data. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  25. ↑ "Yago". CageMatch (in German). Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  26. ↑ Dark Angelita (April 20, 2018). "CMLL: Una mirada semanal al CMLL (De 12 al 18 de abril de 2018)". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  27. ↑ Dark Angelita (April 18, 2018). "CMLL: Magia Blanca gana la Copa Nuevos Valores 2018". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  28. ↑ "CMLL Martes Arena Mexico". CageMatch (in German). May 1, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  29. ↑ López Escalona, Arturo (May 5, 2018). "Volador Jr. y Flyer, finalistas en torneo increíble de parejas". Ovaciones (in Spanish). Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  30. ↑ "Volador Jr. y Flyer, satisfechos por llegar a Final en 'la gran alternativa". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. May 5, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  31. ↑ Dark Angelita (May 24, 2018). "CMLL: Magia Blanca fuera de acción por lesión". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 11, 2018.
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