In 1992 then-
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) booker and match maker
Antonio Peña left the company alongside a number of wrestlers to form the Mexican
professional wrestling,
companyAsistencia Asesoría y Administración, later known simply as "AAA".[2][3] Over the next decade-and-a-half Peña and the team behind AAA built the promotion into one of the biggest wrestling companies in the world.[3] On October 5, 2006 Peña died from a
heart attack.[2][3] After Peña's death his brother-in-law Jorge Roldan took control of the company with both his wife Marisela Peña, Antonio's sister, and Dorian Roldan (their son) also taking an active part in AAA. On October 7, 2007, AAA held a show in honor of Peña's memory, the first ever "
Antonio Peña Memorial Show" (Homenaje an Antonio Peña in
Spanish).[4] The following year AAA held the second ever "
Antonio Peña Memorial Show", making it an annual tradition for the company to commemorate the passing of their founder. In 2008 the show was rebranded as
Héroes Inmortales (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes"), retroactively rebranding the 2007 and 2008 event as Héroes Inmortales I and Héroes Inmortales II.[5]
AAA has held a Héroes Inmortales every year since then, with the 2020 event not occurring due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. The Héroes Inmortales hosts the
Copa Antonio Peña ("Antonio Peña Cup") tournament each year, a multi-man tournament with various wrestlers from AAA or other promotions competing for a trophy. The tournament format has usually been either a
gauntlet match or a multi-man torneo cibernetico elimination match.[6][7]
Storylines
The Héroes Inmortales XIV show featured four
professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing
scripted feuds,
plots and
storylines. Wrestlers portrayed 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.[8]
^"Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2009". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 8, 2010. 348.
^"Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2010". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 12, 2011. 399.
^Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 128–132.
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