Guerra Revolucionaria (2013)

Beginning in 2009 the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as Grupo Internacional Revolución in Spanish) held an annual show called Guerra Revolucionaria ("The Revolutionary War"), a reference to the Mexican revolutionary war (1810–1821). The main event match, the eponymous Guerra Revolucionaria, a 20-man "over the top" Battle Royal where all 20 wrestlers start out in the ring. Once a wrestler is thrown over the top rope to the floor that wrestler is eliminated from the actual match, from that point on they will act as a "Lumberjack" outside the ring, ensuring that none of remaining competitors try to escape the ring. Each "lumberjack" is given a leather strap that they are allowed to use on anyone that leaves the ring. There is no specific "award" for winning the Guerra Revolucionaria tournament. The multi-man match often allows IWRG to intersect various ongoing storylines as another step in the escalating tension. At other times, the match itself was used as a way to start new feuds due to interactions inside or outside the ring. The Guerra Revolucionaria shows, as well as the majority of the IWRG shows, in general, are held in Arena Naucalpan, owned by the promoters of IWRG, and it is their main venue.[2] The 2013 Guerra Revolucionaria show was the fourth time that IWRG held an event under that label, having not held a Guerra Revolucionaria show in 2012.[3][4][5] The first three Guerra Revolucionaria tournaments did not offer a specific, actual reward to the winner of the match, but for the 2013 tournament IWRG announced that the winner of the match would become the number one contender to the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship.[1]

The event featured four professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers, where some were involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines and others simply put together by the matchmakers without a backstory. Being a professional wrestling event matches are not won legitimately through athletic competition; they are instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public. Wrestlers portray either heels (the bad guys, referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or faces (fan favorites or Técnicos in Mexico).[6]

in 2002 IWRG introduced the Rey del Ring ("King of the Ring"), an annual professional wrestling tournament.[7] After the 2011 Rey del Ring tournament IWRG presented the winner (Pantera) with a championship belt, a belt that can be defended between the annual tournament. On June 20, 2013 Dinamic Black pinned Oficial 911 to win the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship, less than a month after Oficial 911 won the 2013 Rey del Ring tournament.[8] Oficial 911 would regain the championship on September 5, 2013. In November IWRG announced that the winner of that year's Guerra Revolucionaria would become the number one contender for the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship.[1][9]