Copa Antonio Peña

Copa Antonio Peña.

The Torneo Antonio Pena is an annual AAA tournament. It's held at the annual Antonio Peña Memorial show, in late October. The first tournament was held in 2007, a year after Pena passed away. Both the format and the trophy given out has changed over the years.

For the first two years, Torneo Antonio Peña was a king of the mountain type match. Two wrestlers are randomly drawn to start the match. Wrestlers are eliminated in normal fashion, and the loser is replaced by the next random participant. The first tournament featured surprise/unannounced entrants.

Summary of Winners

Year	Winner	Runner-Up
2007	Charly Manson	Konnan
2008	El Mesías	Dark Cuervo
2009	Cibernético	Konan Big
2010	Aerostar	Chris Stone
2011	Electroshock	L.A. Park
2012	Texano Jr.	El Mesías
2013	La Parka	Hijo del Fantasma
2014	Myzteziz	Pentagón Jr.
2015	Taurus	La Parka
2016	Pimpinela Escarlata	El Zorro
2017	Hijo del Fantasma	Johnny Mundo
2018	Pagano	Hijo del Fantasma
2019	Hijo del Vikingo	Taurus
2020	event canceled due to pandemic
2021	Pimpinela Escarlata (2)	Mamba

2007

The first Copa Antonio Peña was held on October 7 in Toreo de Cuatro Caminos. This was also the last AAA event at that building, which was subsequently torn down. The winner of Copa Antonio Pena received a medal.

Eliminated	Eliminator	Time
Brazo de Plata	X-Pac
X-Pac	Máscara Divina
Máscara Divina	Kenzo Suzuki
La Parka	Kenzo Suzuki
Kenzo Suzuki	Laredo Kid
Laredo Kid	Ron Killings
Ron Killings	Alan Stone
Scorpio Jr.	Alan Stone
Alan Stone	Charly Manson
Scott Hall	Charly Manson
Konnan	Charly Manson
Charly Manson won the cibernetico

2008

This year's torneo was held on October 24, in Estadio Beto Ávila, Veracruz. Mesias was the winner, beating six straight men to win the tournament.

Eliminated	Eliminator	Time
Gato Eveready	Histeria II	01:55
Histeria II	Extreme Tiger	04:59
Extreme Tiger	Pirata Morgan	07:14
Aerostar	Pirata Morgan	09:26
El Alebrije	Pirata Morgan	12:42
Pirata Morgan	El Elegido	16:11
El Elegido	El Mesías	17:33
Psicosis II	El Mesías	18:44
Dark Scoria	El Mesías	22:21
Silver King	El Mesías	25:46
Crazy Boy	El Mesías	30:10
Dark Cuervo	El Mesías	35:40
El Mesías won the cibernetico

2009

The format changed to a battle royal, under Royal Rumble rules. Luchadors were added about one a minute.

+ Marco Corleone starts

+ Ozz starts

+ Kenzo Suzuki enters

+ Ultimo Gladiador enters

+ Alan Stone enters

+ Pimpinela Escarlata enters

- Ozz eliminated by Pimpinela Escarlata

+ Silver King enters

+ Octagon enters

- Kenzo Suzuki eliminated by Octagon

+ Zorro enters

+ Cibernético enters

- Pimpinela Escarlata eliminated by self/Alan

+ La Parka Jr. enters

+ Konnan Big enters

- Ultimo Gladiador eliminated by La Parka Jr.

- La Parka Jr. eliminated by Silver King

- Silver King eliminated by Octagon

- Marco Corleone eliminated by Cibernético

- Zorro eliminated by Cibernético

- Octagon eliminated by Cibernético

- Alan Stone eliminated by Konnan Big

- Konnan Big eliminated by Cibernético

2010

This year's format was for a rudo vs tecnico cibernetico. In addition to winning the tournament, the winner also would win the runner up's mask or hair.

rudos: The Militia (Alan Stone, Billy Boy, Chris Stone, Decnnis) tecnicos: Elegido & Real Fuerza Aérea AAA (Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Super Fly)

Eliminations:

• Chris Stone sit down powerbomb Super Fly
• Elegido sit down powerbomb Billy Boy
• Laredo Kid 450 splash Alan Stone
• Laredo Kid hurcarrana Decnnis
• Chris Stone top headscissors Laredo Kid
• Chris Stone top rope legdrop Elegido
• Aerostar hurcarrana Chris Stone

2011

This year's match was held under royal rumble rules.

#	order of entry	order of elimination	eliminated by
1	La Parka	La Parka	Silver King & La Parka
2	LA Park	Cibernético	Silver King & La Parka
3	Silver King	Silver King	Electroshock
4	Electroshock	Zorro	LA Park
5	Cibernético	Magnus	Electroshock
6	Zorro	Joe Lider	LA Park
7	Jeff Jarrett	Jeff Jarrett	LA Park
8	Joe Lider	LA Park	Electroshock
9	Magnus	Electroshock	(not eliminated)

Electroshock was the winner.

2012

The 2012 Copa Pena was held at the Heroes Inmortales VI event, at the Domo Centro de Espectaculos in San Luis Potosi on October 7, 2012

#	order of entry	order of elimination	eliminated by
1	Daga	Toscano	El Mesias
2	El Mesias	Extreme Tiger	El Mesias
3	Psycho Clown	Ultimo Gladiador	Texano Jr.
4	El Elegido	Psycho Clown
5	Juventud Guerrera	Alebrije II	Mesias
6	Extreme Tiger	Heavy Metal	Texano Jr.
7	Toscano	El Elegido
8	Ultimo Gladiador	Juventud Guerrera	(injury)
9	Texano Jr.	Daga	El Mesias
10	Heavy Metal	La Parka	El Mesias
11	Alebrije II	Hector Garza	El Mesias
12	La Parka	El Mesias	Texano Jr.
13	Hector Garza	Texano Jr.	winner

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Texano Jr. was initially announced as the winner, but was disqualified after the match for fouling Mesias before eliminated him. AAA has since listed no winner for this match.

This was Hector Garza's final match. He announced his cancer diagnosis in the days after this event and would never return to the ring before passing away the following year.

2013

The format changed again in 2013. This year's tournament was a one night, sixteen luchador elimination tournament, in the traditional Rey de Reyes format. The tournament was held at Heroes Inmortales VI in Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo, Puebla on October 18.

Semifinals				Final
El Mesias
Fenix	W
Silver King
Monsther Clown
Hijo del Fantasma	W
Octagon
Daga
Axxel				Fenix
				Hijo del Fantasma
				La Parka	W
La Parka	W			Chessman
Parka Negra II
Mascara Ano 2000 Jr.
Electroshock
El Hijo del Perro Aguayo
Psicosis
Cibernetico
Chessman	W

Hijo del Fantasma was a luchador surprise, who jumped from CMLL and started with El Consejo on this show. This was also the debut of the second Parka Negra; Zorro returned to his original character on this show (and was never acknowledged to be the original Parka Negra.)

2014

The tournament, held on October 12, was a Royal Rumble match. The final two would have a one fall match.

Order of entrances

1. Pentagon Jr.
2. Australian Suicide
3. Fenix
4. Zorro
5. Villano IV (replacing Daga)
6. Myzteziz
7. La Parka
8. Blue Demon Jr.

No one was eliminated until everyone entered.

Order of elimination

1. Australian Suicide
2. Fenix
3. La Parka Jr.
4. Zorro
5. Villano IV at the same as...
6. Blue Demon Jr.

Myzteziz beat Pentagon Jr. to win

2015

Taurus won a royal rumble with Cibernético, La Parka, Blue Demon Jr., Averno, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Electroshock, Aerostar, Chessman, and Niño Hamburguesa

2016

Pimpinela Escarlata won a royal rumble with Zorro, El Elegido, Niño Hamburguesa, Bengala, Lady Shani, Dark Scoria, Dark Cuervo, Octagoncito, Big Mami, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, and Pirata Morgan

2017

Hijo del Fantasma won a royal rumble style match held on October 1, 2017 at Heroes Inmortales XI which also included Johnny Mundo, La Parka, Rey Escorpión, Psycho Clown, Hernandez, Psicosis II, Mamba, Murder Clown, Dark Cuervo, Monsther Clown, Dark Scoria, Estrella Divina, Histeria II, Marty Martinez, Pimpinela Escarlata, and Dave The Clown.

2018

Pagano won a royal rumble style match held on October 28th at Heroes Inmortales X which also included (Kahoz, Chessman, Hijo Del Vikingo, Súper Fly, Parka Negra, Hijo del Fantasma, Espectro, Averno, Niño Hamburguesa.

This was the only TV appearance of Ultimo Maldito (Kahoz) & Black Danger (Espectro) under the old characters of Antonio Pena. They were intended to be permanent changes, then dropped after one show and explained as "tributes" to Pena.

2019

The 2019 competition was held at Coliseo La Concordia, Orizaba, Veracruz on October 19th. The match was held on AAA's Copa rules, a royal rumble match until the final two, where it becomes pinfall/submission rules.

Participants

• Hijo del Vikingo
• Taurus
• Aerostar
• Murder Clown
• Iron Kid
• Parka Negra
• Dave The Clown
• Monsther Clown
• Tritón
• La Hiedra
• Faby Apache
• Parka Negra

Hijo del Vikingo pinned Taurus to win.

2021

4 people started the match then replaced by elimination, pinfall or going over the top rope

Participants

• Pimpinela Escarlata
• Mamba
• Keyra
• Sexy Star II
• Aerostar
• Argenis
• Toxin
• Villano III Jr.
• Arez

Pimpinela Escarlata pinned Mamba to win.