Festival de las Máscaras (2016)
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Official poster, depicting all eight main event competitors
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| Promotion | International Wrestling Revolution Group | |||
| Date | June 5, 2016 (aired June 6, 2016 (AYM Sports)) |
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| Venue | Arena Naucalpan | |||
| City | Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico | |||
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The 2016 Festival de las Máscaras (Spanish for "Festival of the Masks") was a major lucha libre event produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) professional wrestling promotion held on June 5, 2016. The show was held in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, which is IWRG's primary venue.
At the 2016 event Atomic Star, Panterita, Mega, Omega, Súper Mega Oficial 911, Oficial AK-47, Oficial Fierro and Veneno all wore their masks again after having lost Luchas de Apuestas, or "bet matches", in the past and thus lost the rights to wear their mask.
The main event was a three-stage steel cage match, in the steel first match Trauma I, Mr. Águila and Canis Lupus defeated Danny Casas and in the second steel cage match Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Mr. Elektro and El Hijo de Dos Caras defeated Toscano. This meant that Casas and Toscano were forced to compete in the final steel cage match of the night, under Lucha de Apuestas rules with both men risking their hair. In the end, Toscano pinned Danny Casas, forcing Casas to be shaved bald as a result.
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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