| Torneo Gran Alternativa (2010) | |||
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) | ||
| Date | April 16, 2010 April 23, 2010 April 30, 2010[1] | ||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | ||
| Venue | Arena México[1] | ||
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TheTorneo Gran Alternativa (2010) was aprofessional wrestling annual tournament produced byConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and took place over three shows between April 16 and April 30, 2010 inArena México,Mexico City, Mexico. TheTorneo Gran Alternativa ("Great Alternative tournament") is an annual tournament where an established CMLL veteran teams up with aNovato or rookie in a tag team tournament, although at times theNovato is not so much a rookie, but either a wrestler who has been given a newring character or has never participated in theGran Alternativa before. The format of the tournament was changed for the 2010 tournament, traditionally it featured 8tag teams and a one night tournament, but in 2010 it featured 16 teams, split over threeCMLL Super Viernes shows.Héctor Garza andPólvora won the tournament, defeatingVolador Jr. andDelta in the finals.
Starting in 1994 the Mexicanprofessional wrestling promotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) created a special tournament concept where they would team up anovato, or rookie, with a veteran for a single-eliminationtag team tournament.[2][3] The tournament was calledEl Torneo Gran Alternativa, or "The Great Alternative Tournament" and became a recurring event on the CMLL calendar. CMLL did not hold a Gran Alternativa tournament in 1997 and 2000 held on each year from 2001 through 2010. The 2010 Gran Alternativa tournament was the 16th overall Gran Alternativa tournament. All tournaments have been held inArena México.[4]
The tournament featured 15professional wrestling matches under elimination rules, which means that you are eliminated if you lose a match. The teams were created specifically for the tournament, with no teams having worked together on a regular basis before, and in the past has not wrestled as a regular team after theGran Alternativa is over. The tournament incorporated pre-existingscripted feuds orstorylines. Wrestlers portrayed eithervillains (referred to asRudos in Mexico) orgood guys (Técnicos in Mexico) as they competed in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes.
On April 7, 2010 CMLL announced theNovato participants for Block A of the 2010Gran Alternativa tournament, featuring three wrestlers that had been involved in the 2009torneo Gran Alternativa, ending a two-year practice that stated that you could not wrestle as anovato in the tournament if you had participated in a previous year's tournament. The returningnovatos areRey Cometa,Pólvora andCamorra. The five first timenovatos were announced asSensei,Diamante,Cancerbero,Inquisidor andDisturbio.[1] When the full card for the April 16, 2010CMLL Super Viernes show the full teams for Block A were announced as Diamante &La Sombra,Blue Panther and Rey Cometa,Héctor Garza and Pólvora,La Máscara and Sensei,Atlantis and Inquisidor,El Terrible and Disturbio,Mephisto andCancerbero and finallyRey Bucanero andSemental who replaced Camorra. Block A was won by Héctor Garza and Pólvora.[5]
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Rey Cometa andBlue Panther[5] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Semental andRey Bucanero | ||||||||||||||
| Rey Cometa and Blue Panther | ||||||||||||||
| Héctor Garza and Pólvora[5] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Sensei andLa Máscara | ||||||||||||||
| Héctor Garza andPólvora[5] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Héctor Garza and Pólvora[5] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Diamante and La Sombra | ||||||||||||||
| Diamante andLa Sombra[5] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Cancerbero andMephisto | ||||||||||||||
| Diamante and La Sombra[5] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Inquisidor and Atlantis | ||||||||||||||
| Inquisidor andAtlantis[5] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Disturbio andEl Terrible | ||||||||||||||
Block B of the 2010 tournament took place on April 23, 2010, and the announced teams were:Delta (Novato) andVolador Jr.,Guerrero Maya Jr. (Novato) andValiente,Ángel Azteca Jr. (Novato) andShocker,Pegasso (Novato) andToscano,Raziel (Novato) andAverno,Durango Kid (Novato) andEl Texano Jr.,Puma King (Novato) andÚltimo Guerrero and the team ofTiger Kid (Novato) andEl Felino. Of note in Block B is the fact that Raziel has been a professional wrestler since 1996 but changed from the character Caligula to Raziel in late 2009 and thus is being billed as aNovato by CMLL. Block B also features Tiger Kid teaming up with his uncle El Felino, the only two wrestlers to have any sort of relationship going into the tournament. Block B was won by Delta and Volador Jr.[6]
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Puma King andÚltimo Guerrero[6] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Pegasso andToscano | ||||||||||||||
| Puma King and Último Guerrero[6] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Durango Kid and El Texano Jr. | ||||||||||||||
| Durango Kid andEl Texano Jr.[6] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Ángel Azteca Jr. andShocker | ||||||||||||||
| Puma King and Último Guerrero | ||||||||||||||
| Delta and Volador Jr.[6] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Tiger Kid andEl Felino | ||||||||||||||
| Delta andVolador Jr.[6] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Delta and Volador Jr.[6] | Winners | |||||||||||||
| Raziel and Averno | ||||||||||||||
| Guerrero Maya Jr. andValiente | ||||||||||||||
| Raziel andAverno[6] | Winners | |||||||||||||
The finals was contested under "best two out of three falls" rules and took place on theApril 30, 2010 Super Viernes. Pólvora and Héctor Garza defeated Delta and Volador Jr. two falls to one, in 23:46 to win the 2010Gran Alternativa.[7]