Lucha Underground News/Rumors/Results

Started by Fnord, August 28, 2014, 12:07:57 AM

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The El Rey Network issued the following:

EL REY NETWORK AND MARK BURNETT'S ONE THREE MEDIA ANNOUNCE PRODUCTION START ON 'LUCHA UNDERGROUND'

Hour-Long Weekly Series, Shooting in Los Angeles, To Feature Five 'Luchadores' From Popular Lucha Libre AAA Franchise

Premiering Wednesday, October 8th at 8:00 PM ET/PT, High-Octane Series Anchors New Night of Original Unscripted Programming; Network Also Unveils Series Key Art

Austin, TX– August 27, 2014 – El Rey Network puts its spin on lucha with "Lucha Underground", an original action-packed series from Emmy Award®-winning producer Mark Burnett's One Three Media. Production will begin on September 6th in front of a live audience in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. The character-driven, freestyle wrestling series is set to debut Wednesday, October 8th at 8:00 pm ET/PT.

On August 17th in Mexico City in conjunction with the TripleMania XXII produced by Lucha Libre AAA El Rey Network revealed the names of five Luchadores joining "Lucha Underground" directly from Lucha Libre AAA. They are: Blue Demon, Jr, son of the legendary original Blue Demon and is the first Mexican and the second masked wrestler to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship; Sexy Star, who has held the AAA Reina de Reinas Championship and FILL Women's Wrestling Championship; Fenix, the inaugural AAA Fusión Champion (March 2013) has also wrestled in Japan for Pro Wrestling Noah and Pro Wrestling Wave; Drago is a dead dragon, a character brought back to life as an immortal being, to protect La Parka in the last fight against his enemies; and Pentagon Jr. who has spread terror and fear in his adversaries without exception since his introduction in the 2012 War of the Titans. Additional Luchadores will be announced shortly.

"Not since 'The Contender' premiered has a new series combined this level of drama and athletic competition." said executive producer Mark Burnett. "Our Luchadores are fantastic, the action will be intense – and this season is just the beginning."

Scott Sassa, El Rey Network's Vice Chair, said: "The 'Lucha Underground' franchise is perfect for El Rey Network. It features good versus evil, intense action, humor, drama, great characters and most important great stories from two of the best storytellers in the business- Mark Burnett and Robert Rodriguez. It's the perfect time and they are the perfect team to bring lucha to America."

Currently, Lucha Libre's colorful world of freestyle wrestling is a huge draw in its home country of Mexico with over 85% of television audiences tuning into the high-flying antics of this popular franchise. Each week "Lucha Underground" will bring drama, excitement and action to U.S. audiences as the masked heroes and villains battle it out in the ring for wrestling supremacy.

"Lucha Underground" is produced by One Three Media in association with FactoryMade Ventures for El Rey Network. Executive producers are Mark Burnett, Eric Van Wagenen (also showrunner) and Brian Edwards of One Three Media; Dorian Roldán from Lucha Libre AAA; Alejandro Garcia and Antonio Cué Sánchez-Navarro; El Rey Network co-founder Robert Rodriguez; and FactoryMade Ventures and El Rey Network co-founders John Fogelman and Cristina Patwa. The series will be distributed internationally by One Three Media






Quote[Today at 12:56:15 PM] Duckman: Fnording=the act of not realising something very obvious 
Quote from: AlexK on July 25, 2010, 12:23:31 AMI love you, Fnord.

Fnord

Source: PWInsider

Former WWE star Evan Bourne and his brother Mike Sydal have both turned down deals for the new El Rey Network Lucha Underground series that AAA is involved with. We noted before that The Young Bucks and Frankie Kazarian also turned down deals. Many wrestlers are hesitant to sign with the series due to the terms of the deal and the discrepancy in pay being offered to various talents.

Former WWE Tough Enough participant Martin Casaus has signed on for the series. Former WWE creative writer Chris "Big Dick Johnson" DeJoseph will be working on production for the series. Indie stars Ricky Reyes and B-Boy have also signed on for the project. El Rey previously announced Luchadores Fenix, Pentagon Jr., Sexy Star, Drago and Blue Demon Jr.

Other names confirmed to have been offered deals include John Morrison, Konnan, Hernandez, Ricochet, Joey Ryan, Candace LeRae, Rocky Romero, Scorpio Sky, Matt Cross and Ivelisse Velez. As noted, Chavo Guerrero was also offered a deal and is expected to wrestle as well as work backstage. Tapings begin this weekend so El Rey was trying to get a majority of the deals signed yesterday.






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Fnord

As noted earlier, El Rey Network and AAA are filming the new Lucha Underground series in L.A. this weekend. We first reported this afternoon that Matt Striker will be the lead play-by-play man for the series, while Vampiro will be joining him on commentary.

Former WWE writer Chris DeJoseph is serving as the executive producer and head writer of the series. He is running the project on a daily basis and is considered by most to be one of the bosses. Dorian Roldan has not had much of a presence in dealing with the production crew or talent. The 27 year old is a minority investor in the project.

DeJoseph is high on Chavo Guerrero and several other former WWE superstars for the project. He believes the familiarity of faces such as Ezekiel Jackson, Chavo Guerrero and John Morrison will help bring viewers to the series, despite their lack of lucha background. In fact, while Guerrero has worked Texas area indies before being signed by WCW in the 1990s, he has never worked traditional lucha libre matches.

AAA will use about 10 wrestlers and personalities from their Mexican company for the series. Ricochet is said to be pushed as one of the top stars. Ricochet and several other stars originally balked at signing on for the project, but Lucha Underground softened their stance on their contracts after a hardline approach. They are still hopeful of bringing in AR Fox, Uhaa Nation and many others on a per night deal. If this happens, there is a concern over how it will go over with the locker room because of the deals they were forced to sign.






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Krazy


Fnord

Anyone watch this yet? I have it recorded, but haven't watched it yet.






Quote[Today at 12:56:15 PM] Duckman: Fnording=the act of not realising something very obvious 
Quote from: AlexK on July 25, 2010, 12:23:31 AMI love you, Fnord.

Krazy

Matt Striker is amazing by explaining moves and history. Vampiro on the otherhand meh. The wrestling is really good.

Chris Shields

I don't get the channel it's on, so unless it's put online or hulu or something like that, I won't be watching.

Krazy

Quote from: Chris Shields on November 03, 2014, 09:47:25 PM
I don't get the channel it's on, so unless it's put online or hulu or something like that, I won't be watching.

Its on Youtube broken in parts what I found.

Alex Smiley

It is also found in full on Dailymotion.

Lucha.UnderGround.2014 - OCT- 29 WEBRip.x264

I for one HOPE El Rey will see the potential of this and find a way to get it on something like Hulu, but right now that network doesn't necessarily have anything except some part of the Dusk Til Dawn series on Netflix...

Quote from: JackHondo on October 24, 2012, 07:31:28 AM
You're right, Jesus is nicer. But Alex is a close second.

Stoner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6GwLoTswic

Here it is on Youtube.  I think it might be an official Lucha Underground account.  In any case, good show.  I got a kick out of it.




Quote[Today at 05:31:25 PM] JackHondo: If a zombie outbreak ever happened, Stonie would cut his arm off and replace it with a chainsaw.

Quote from: Ian "Wolfie" Trumps on July 23, 2015, 03:24:59 PM
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Stoner





Quote[Today at 05:31:25 PM] JackHondo: If a zombie outbreak ever happened, Stonie would cut his arm off and replace it with a chainsaw.

Quote from: Ian "Wolfie" Trumps on July 23, 2015, 03:24:59 PM
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The TeeJ of Philly

Just looking at that thumbnail, Chavo traded in wrestling with a midget wrestler and making a nice pay check on global TV to wrestling with a midget wrestler and making an alright pay check on regional TV

Krazy

Quote from: The Soul of Philly on November 13, 2014, 07:29:43 PM
Just looking at that thumbnail, Chavo traded in wrestling with a midget wrestler and making a nice pay check on global TV to wrestling with a midget wrestler and making an alright pay check on regional TV

This mini isn't a money hungry assclown.

Chris Shields

I've watched the first 2 episodes, and a little bit of the 3rd episode. Initial thought was that it felt a lot like the short lived MTV promotion, Wrestling Society X, but with a lucha flare to it. The matches have been decent, and the backstage stuff has been solid, as well as having a different feel than the usual backstage stuff. It's decent, but it's one of those that could become cheesy very very quickly. Overall, it's not a bad watch if you've got about 50 minutes to spare, but if you're having to choose between this and say NXT, this would be choice numero dos.

Stoner

Quote from: The Soul of Philly on November 13, 2014, 07:29:43 PM
Just looking at that thumbnail, Chavo traded in wrestling with a midget wrestler and making a nice pay check on global TV to wrestling with a midget wrestler and making an alright pay check on regional TV

He doesn't even actually wrestle the guy. He kicks him in the face after the mini wrestled some other dude.




Quote[Today at 05:31:25 PM] JackHondo: If a zombie outbreak ever happened, Stonie would cut his arm off and replace it with a chainsaw.

Quote from: Ian "Wolfie" Trumps on July 23, 2015, 03:24:59 PM
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