On October 5, 2006 founder of the Mexican professional wrestling, companyLucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA, or Triple A) Antonio Peña died from a heart attack.[2][3] The following year, on October 7, 2007, Peña's brother-in-law Jorge Roldan who had succeeded Peña as head of AAA held a show in honor of Peña's memory, the first ever Antonio Peña Memorial Show (Homenaje a Antonio Peña in Spanish).[4] AAA made the tribute to Peña into a major annual event that would normally take place in October of each year, renaming the show series Héroes Inmortales (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes"), retroactively rebranding the 2007 and 2008 event as Héroes Inmortales I and Héroes Inmortales II.[5] As part of their annual tradition AAA holds a Copa Antonio Peña ("Antonio Peña Cup") tournament with various wrestlers from AAA or other promotions competing for the trophy. The tournament is normally either a gauntlet match or a multi-man torneo cibernetico elimination match. Outside of the actual Copa Antonio Peña trophy the winner is not guaranteed any other "prizes" as a result of winning, although several Copa Antonio Peña winners did go on to challenge for the AAA Mega Championship. The 2014 show was the eighth show in the Héroes Inmortales series of shows.
Storylines
The Héroes Inmortales show featured five professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (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.
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^Brady, Hicks. "2006: The year in wrestling". PWI Presents: 2007 Wrestling Almanac and book of facts. Kappa Publications. p. 26. 2007 Edition.
^Ocampo, Ernesto (October 5, 2009). "Falleció Antonio Peña" (in Spanish). Super Luchas Magazine. Retrieved October 14, 2009.
^"AAA Misc. Cards – Pena Memorial show 2007". Pro Wrestling History. Archived from the original on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
^"Héroes Inmortales I (Homenaje al Lic. Antonio Peña)". Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (in Spanish). June 12, 2011. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
^ a b c d"Myzteziz se llevó la Copa Antonio Peña". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. October 13, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^"El Patrón Alberto buscará el Megacampeonato de AAA". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. October 13, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^Trujillo, Gladys (October 12, 2014). "Héroes Inmortales VIII en San Luis Potosí: resultados finale". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 15, 2015.
^"Héroes Inmortales VIII: El Patrón con destino inconcluso" (in Spanish). Lucha Libre AAA World Wide. Retrieved August 15, 2015.