Festival de las Máscaras (2009)
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| Promotion | International Wrestling Revolution Group | |||
| Date | August 20, 2009 | |||
| Venue | Arena Naucalpan | |||
| City | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | |||
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The 2009 Festival de las Máscaras (Spanish for "Festival of the Mask") was a major lucha libre event produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) professional wrestling promotion on July 16, 2009. The show was held in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, which is IWRG's primary venue. The 2009 event was only the second time IWRG held a Festival de las Máscaras, which would become an annual tradition.
Most of the competitors on the show had previously lost their mask and for one night only were allowed to wrestle wearing them. The previously unmasked wrestlers on the show were Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, Orito, Panterita, El Signo, Pantera, Ricky Cruz, Scorpio Jr., Rambo, Veneno, Kahoz, Máscara Año 2000, Sangre Chicana, Mano Negra and Villano III. In the main event of the five match show the team of Kahoz, Máscara Año Dos Mil and Sangre Chicana defeated El Fantasma, Mano Negra and Villano III
The wrestling mask has always held a sacred place in lucha libre, carrying with it a mystique and anonymity beyond what it means to wrestlers elsewhere in the world. The ultimate humiliation a luchador can suffer is to lose a Lucha de Apuestas, or bet match. Following a loss in a Lucha de Apuesta match the masked wrestler would be forced to unmask, state their real name and then would be unable to wear that mask while wrestling anywhere in Mexico. Since 2007 the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as Grupo Internacional Revolución in Spanish) has held a special annual show where they received a waiver to the rule from the State of Mexico Wrestling Commission and wrestlers would be allowed to wear the mask they previously lost in a Lucha de Apuestas.
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