On October 5, 2006, founder of the Mexicanprofessional wrestling,companyAAAAntonio Peña died from aheart attack.[4][5] The following year, on October 7, 2007, Peña's brother-in-law Jorge Roldan who had succeeded Peña as head of AAA held a show in honor of Peña's memory, the first ever Antonio Peña Memorial Show (Homenaje a Antonio Peña inSpanish).[6] AAA made the tribute to Peña into a major annual event that would normally take place in October of each year, renaming the show seriesHéroes Inmortales (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes"), retroactively rebranding the 2007 and 2008 event asHéroes Inmortales I andHéroes Inmortales II.[7] As part of their annual tradition AAA holds aCopa Antonio Peña ("Antonio Peña Cup") tournament with various wrestlers from AAA or other promotions competing for the trophy. The tournament is normally either agauntlet match or a multi-mantorneo cibernetico elimination match. Outside of the actualCopa Antonio Peña trophy the winner is not guaranteed any other "prizes" as a result of winning, although severalCopa Antonio Peña winners did go on to challenge for theAAA Mega Championship. The 2012 show was the sixth show in theHéroes Inmortales series of shows.
TheHéroes Inmortales show featured sixprofessional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as eitherheels (referred to asrudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") orfaces (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.
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