In October 2020, MLW would begin incorporating story elements from the defunctLucha Libre promotion and former television drama,Lucha Underground. Talent formerly associated withLucha Underground were brought into MLW as part of the "Azteca Underground" stable.[5][6]
On November 8, 2021, MLW announced that it would be holding its second co-promoted event with The Crash at the Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez Moreno in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico on December 3.[2][7]
The supercard featuredprofessional wrestling matches scripted by MLW and The Crash featuring wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portrayed eitherheels (referred to asrudos in Mexico, those that play the part of the "bad guys") orfaces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they performed.[8][9]
^Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"".Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 31.ISBN978-0-06-085583-3.featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
