Drago and El Hijo del Fantasma To Debut On Impact For Slammiversary

[cero2k]

Source: impactwrestling.com

NASHVILLE | MEXICO CITY – IMPACT Wrestling, a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp., announced today that it will bring two superstars from Mexico-based Lucha Libre AAA (AAA for short) to participate in Slammiversary 15 on July 2, a live pay-per-view filmed on the backlot at Universal Studios Florida.

AAA stars El Hijo del Fantasma (AKA King Cuerno) and Drago will team up at Slammiversary in a 4-way match for the IMPACT Wrestling Tag-Team Championship, now held by the Latin American Xchange (LAX). The match will also feature talent from two other international promotions.

El Hijo del Fantasma (Spanish for Son of the Ghost) is a second-generation wrestler who has been wrestling since 2000, following the wrestling boots of his father, El Fantasma.

Drago, who has been wrestling professionally since 1998, has won multiple tag-team championships and is regarded as one of the most colorful, charismatic and creative wrestlers ever.

In March 2017, IMPACT Wrestling announced a landmark alliance with AAA, including a talent exchange between the organizations and other opportunities to collaborate in their respective markets. The high-flying lucha libre style synonymous with AAA events was an early influencer of IMPACT Wrestling’s X-Division, which has produced some of the most memorable matches in professional wrestling history.

[KILLdozer]

Ha! Now you really have to watch it Brm!

[Big Red Machine]

Ha! Now you really have to watch it Brm!

I guess I do. But I HATE outside talent randomly being given title shots on major shows. .

[KILLdozer]

Ha! Now you really have to watch it Brm!

I guess I do. But I HATE outside talent randomly being given title shots on major shows. .

Drink it.....

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[cero2k]

I'm starting to suspect this is where they add Marafuji to

[Big Red Machine]

Here is Meltzer's write-up of the situation, which makes some rather interesting political notes:

In an interesting political move, Impact Wrestling will have members of warring Mexican promotions in the same tag team title match.

The company today announced for Sunday's Slammiversary pay-per-view from Orlando, that LAX would defend the Impact tag titles in a four-way match. One team announced today is Drago & El Hijo del Fantasma, who both work for AAA, the very heated rival promotion of The Crash, which Konnan, who heads the LAX group, is the booker of.

Drago's name had been bandied about since Konnan brought it up on his podcast.

At first, when Impact opened up a working relationship with AAA after already doing so with The Crash, a very unique political situation, the idea was that the talent from the two companies would never interact, but obviously that has changed. In Mexico, neither promotion allows its talent to appear on a show with anyone from the other promotion. In the U.K., there was a situation where AAA pulled a power play to force Pentagon Jr. off a show because that show was using rival talent.

Another note is that Drago and Fantasma (who is King Cuerno in LU) are both under contract to Lucha Underground exclusively for U.S. television, meaning Lucha Underground for the first time is allowing its talent to appear for another wrestling promotion on television.

That last bit surely won't sit well with Ricochet (and whoever the other guy was) who was Tweeting about being unhappy that he wasn't allowed to work ROH.

[cero2k]

That last bit surely won't sit well with Ricochet (and whoever the other guy was) who was Tweeting about being unhappy that he wasn't allowed to work ROH.

he twitted about that a while back, but I hope he realizes that the LU/Impact thing comes from Impact starting a relation with AAA, while as ROH are with CMLL