| Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles | |||||||||||||
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 Atlantis has won the tournament four times, with three different partners. | |||||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||||||||||||
| Date established | January 30, 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Current champions | Atlantis andEuforia | ||||||||||||
| Date won | March 21, 2014[1] | ||||||||||||
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TheCMLLTorneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles or "National Incredible Pairs Tournament" is an annualLucha Libre (professional wrestling) tournament forTag Teams traditionally held early in the year. The tournament is based on the Lucha LibreParejas Increíbles match type where two wrestlers of opposite allegiance, portraying eitherheels (villains), referred to as "Rudos" in Lucha Libre wrestling terminology orfaces (fan favorites), or "Tecnicos"[2] team together.
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| (T) | This wrestler is aFace, or Técnico. |
| (R) | This wrestler is aHeel, or Rudo. |
| Year | Winners | Dates | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Máscara Dorada(T) andAtlantis(R) | January 22, 2010 –February 5, 2010 | [3] |
| 2011 | Máscara Dorada(T) (2) andAtlantis(R) (2) | February 11, 2011 –February 25, 2011 | [4] |
| 2012 | Atlantis(T) (3) andMr. Niebla(R) | February 17, 2012 –March 2, 2012 | [5] |
| 2013 | La Sombra(T) andVolador Jr.(R) | March 1, 2013 –March 15, 2013 | [6] |
| 2014 | Atlantis(T) (4) andEuforia(R) | March 7, 2014 –March 21, 2014 | [1] |
| 2015 | Máximo(T) andEl Terrible(R) | February 20, 2015 –March 6, 2015 | [7] |
| 2016 | Místico(T) andMephisto(R) | April 15, 2016 –April 29, 2016 | [8] |
| 2017 | Bárbaro Cavernario(R) andVolador Jr.(T) (2) | February 10, 2017 –February 24, 2017 | [9] |
| 2018 | El Terrible(R) (2) andRush(R) | February 9, 2018 –February 23, 2018 | [10] |
| 2019 | Titán(T) andBárbaro Cavernario(R) (2) | April 12, 2019 –April 26, 2019 | [11][12] |
| 2020 | Carístico(T) andForastero(R) | February 14, 2020 –February 28, 2020 | [13][14][15] |
| 2021 | Templario(R) andVolador Jr.(T) (3) | June 11, 2021 –June 25, 2021 | |
| 2022 | Stuka Jr.(R) andAtlantis Jr.(T) | February 25, 2022 | |
| 2023 | Averno(R) andMístico(T) (2) | February 10, 2023 –February 17, 2023 | |
| 2024 | Rocky Romero(R) andMascara Dorada(T) | March 15, 2024 –March 29, 2024 |
CMLL has held ten tournaments so far since in 2010 with each consisting of 16 teams competing in a single elimination tournament with 8 teams competing in the first three rounds of the tournament in one night and the final match held a week after Block B has wrestled. The teams are announced ahead of time but the match order and the pairing of teams for the tournament is determined by aBattle royal with a competitor from each team that determines the match order, i.e. the first two wrestlers eliminated will have to face off in the first match of the first round and so on. The "Seeding Battle Royal" is common practice for a number of CMLL Tag Team tournaments but not generally used much outside of CMLL.[2] Each finalist team will have to wrestle and win three times in one night to qualify for the finale. In 2010 and 2011 the tournament final was held on CMLL's weeklySuper Viernes, but in 2012 the finale was held during the 2012Homenaje a Dos Leyendas Super show instead as it replacedSuper Viernes.[16] The 2013Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles started on Friday March 1 and ran until March 15, 2013, with the final taking place on the 2013Homenaje a Dos Leyendas.[6] The 2014Torneo has been announced as starting on February 20 and if it stays with the traditional format will hold the finals on March 6, 2015.
Over the course of the five tournaments so far 57 individual wrestlers have competed in the 70 matches and only four individuals have won the tournament,Atlantis has been on the winning team for four of the five tournaments and a finalist in the fifth, first withMáscara Dorada twice and then withMr. Niebla andEuforia. Dorada is the only other repeat champion and the team of Máscara Dorada and Atlantis and the teams ofEl Hijo del Fantasma andMephisto and Averno and La Mascara are the only team to appear in more than one tournament, both competed in the 2010 and 2011 tournaments.El Felino,Maximo, Mephisto,La Sombra.El Terrible,Último Guerrero andValiente are the only wrestlers to work all six tournaments. Eight wrestlers have competed in five tournaments, 14 have appeared in four, seven wrestlers in three, five wrestlers in two and finally 15 wrestlers have only participated in one tournament so far. Of the 52 people 4 has appeared both as aTecnico and aRudo, Atlantis was aRudo for 2010 and 2011 but aTecnico in 2012 and 2013, Volador Jr. was aTecnico in 2010 and aRudo since then,Héctor Garza has one appearance on either side of the face/heel divide as doesSangre Azteca. Two competitors have appeared in different tournaments under differentring personas, firstKraneo who worked as "El Alebrije" in 2011 and Kraneo in 2012 and secondlyDiamante Azul, who participated in the 2011 tournament under his previous ring identity of "Metro" and in the 2013 under his current ring character Diamante Azul.Rush worked under the name "Rouge" in 2010 and Rush in 2011 and since then, this does not signify two different ring personas, just a slight name change.[Note 1]
At times the team members will be part of a pre-existingscriptedfeuds orstorylines with each other.[2] Each year there has been at least one exception to the "Tecnico teams with aRudo" rule, but the majority of the teams has been actualParejas Increíbles. In 2010 and 2011 each team represented the region where they were raised or where they learned to wrestle which also excluded any non-Mexican competitors from the tournament. The teams represented the four most important regions of Lucha Libre in MexicoMexico,Guadalajara, Jalisco, theLa Laguna Region andMonterrey,Nuevo León.[17] In 2012 the Regional aspect was dropped and a non-Mexican competitor,Marco Corleone, participated.[18]
