Infierno en el Ring (2012) (
Spanish
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for "Inferno in the Ring") was an annual
professional wrestling
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major event produced by
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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(CMLL), which took place on June 29, 2012 in
Arena México
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,
Mexico City, Mexico
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. The 2012 ''Infierno en el Ring'' replaced CMLL's regularly scheduled Friday night
Super Viernes
CMLL Super Viernes (Spanish for "CMLL Super Friday") is the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's banner event that takes place every Friday in Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico. The shows take place every Fri ...
show. The 2012 Infierno en el Ring was the fourth show under that name, the 14th time CMLL have promoted an ''Infierno en el Ring'' cage match and the first time it featured women competing in the main event.
The main event of the show was the eponymous ''Infierno en el Ring'' match that CMLL traditionally has traditionally held approximately once a year and which has headlined its own specific show since 2008. The ''Infierno en el Ring'' match is a multi-person
Steel Cage
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match contested under ''
Lucha de Apuestas
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'', or bet match, rules which means that the loser of the match would be forced to unmask or have their hair shaved off per Lucha Libre traditions. At the 2012 event 10 women participated, risking either their mask, (
La Seductora
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and
Goya Kong
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) or their hair (
La Amapola
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,
Estrellita,
Dark Angel,
Lady Apache
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,
Tiffany
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,
Marcela,
Dalys la Caribeña
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and
Princesa Blanca
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).
The show featured an additional five matches, three
Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team matches, a
Tag Team
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match and a ''Lightning match'', a one fall match with a 10-minute time limit.
Production
Background
The Mexican
wrestling company ''
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Co., Ltd. (CMLL; , "World Wrestling Council") is a ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion was previously known as ''Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre'' (''EMLL'') (''Mexi ...
'' (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker ''Infierno en el Ring'' ("Inferno in the Ring"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man
steel cage match
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, the eponymous ''Infierno en el Ring'' match. CMLL has use the ''Infierno en el Ring'' match on other shows, but will intermittently hold a show billed specifically as ''Infierno en el Ring'', with the first such show held in 2008. It is not an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All ''Infierno en el Ring'' shows have been held in
Arena México
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in
Mexico City, Mexico
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which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".
Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, which means the ''Infierno en el Ring'' '' shows replace their regularly scheduled ''
Super Viernes
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'' show.
[ The 2012 ''Infierno en el Ring'' show was the fourth show to use the name.
]
Storylines
The event featured six professional wrestling matches
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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted
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Backg ...
feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels
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Structure
To distribute the compressive forces exerte ...
(referred to as ''rudos'' in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces
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(''técnicos'' in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Results
Order of elimination
References
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