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2023 Lucha Libre Win/Loss Records and other related luchadb stats

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 thecubsfan

(the end of 2023 Tapatia awards voting is closing in a few days, vote now)

This post is the annual summary of hundreds of hours of work building and maintaining a database of every known Mexico and lucha libre event in the past year. You can see the complete win/loss records and other data on this Google Sheet. As always, these numbers will change slightly due to corrections, duplications, and video channels posting of shows six months after they take place.

Shows for each year, over the last ten. (Number in parenthesis indicates the change since I ran these numbers a year ago – ‘new’ shows discovered or duplicates removed.)

Year Count (last ten years)
2014 5591 (+2)
2015 6424
2016 7117
2017 6108
2018 6344
2019 6922
2020 2161
2021 4001 (+1)
2022 6162 (+24)
2023 6135

It’s good to run the numbers. If you had asked me, I would’ve said for sure I had significantly fewer posters from 2023 compared to 2022. Alfredo moved on from LuchaWorld and there were always at least a dozen posters he’d find a week that I wouldn’t. I did enough tracking during the year where I could identify which venues went missing and tracked down some of them. Some of the increase was also just more shows running the farther we’re out from COVID; January 2022 was a quiet month due to outbreaks and there wasn’t anything similar in 2023. At any rate, it’s about the same.

Events Actually Added To LuchaDB In During The Year (No Matter What Year They Happened)

2015: 11,525
2016: 9,771
2017: 8,628
2018: 9,678
2019: 7,692
2020: 5,899
2021: 12,306
2022: 10,361
2023: 9,331

That number is down and probably will be going farther down. I had bigger numbers in the years where I was mowing through newspaper archives for old results, and I haven’t been able to find new sources. I am getting a few from the old Box y Luchas as they get posted, but I don’t expect I’ll have a full 3000 extra.

Most Matches

2008: Ultimo Guerrero (228)
2009: La Parka Jr. (211)
2010: Mistico (204)
2011: Último Guerrero & La Mascara (188)
2012: Último Guerrero (189)
2013: Último Guerrero (205)
2014: Atlantis (215)
2015: Atlantis (207)
2016: Atlantis (217)
2017: Último Guerrero & Psycho Clown (204)
2018: Último Guerrero (205)
2019: Caristico (223)
2020: Joe Lider (67)
2021: Psycho Clown (138)
2022: Psycho Clown (158)
2023: Mistico (195)

195 matches is a lot of matches. Again, all these stats are dependent on shows I notice enough to add to the database, and even not all shows have listed matches. It’s also dependent on what shows I decide are lucha libre mexicana, a semi-arbitrary and flawed process. Mistico returning to top is about how much he’s working, and Psycho Clown taking a little more time off.

There were 50 wrestlers were recorded as having at least 100 matches. (Stephanie Vaquer and Blue Rocket Jr. from Torreon came in at exactly 100 matches.) That’s up from 42 last year. 10 wrestlers had 150 or more matches:

196 Mistico
171 Jessy Ventura
165 Panterita/Mascara Dorada
162 Pig Destroyer
161 Volador Jr.
159 Ultimo Guerrero
158 Pig Destructor
158 Diva Salvaje
157 Atlantis Jr.
153 La Fashion

I’ve never connected the Pigs to their non-Pig gimmicks, so those numbers would be slightly higher.

Looking through all of this, my big realization is I need to automate the “Primary Name” field on this database, because I’m not really doing a great job of fixing them myself. (Hombre Bala Jr. is still Drone.)

Most Wins

2008: Blue Panther (97)
2009: Mistico (110)
2010: Mistico (128)
2011: Último Guerrero (90)
2012: Atlantis (93)
2013: La Mascara (102)
2014: Atlantis (99)
2015: Volador Jr. (113)
2016: Volador Jr. (120)
2017: Volador Jr. (120)
2018: Caristico (115)
2019: Caristico (126)
2020: Caristico (37)
2021: Mistico/Carisico (68)
2022: Mistico (83)
2023: Mistico (113)

This is where I annually note the “most” categories are usually CMLL names because CMLL runs a lot and reports six shows of results a week. Some indie shows around Mexico City turn up with results, but it’s rare we get much of any information on other shows.

Diva Salvaje, between AAA and the indies, had 48 known wins. Psycho Clown, who usually leads this among AAA wrestlers had 38.

Most Losses

2008: Averno (84)
2009: Negro Casas (86)
2010: Negro Casas (75)
2011: La Mascara (72)
2012: Último Guerrero (79)
2013: Último Guerrero (84)
2014: Último Guerrero (82)
2015: Último Guerrero (80)
2016: Último Guerrero (91)
2017: Último Guerrero (92)
2018: Último Guerrero (99)
2019: Mephisto (91)
2020: Stuka (29)
2021: Toxin (38)
2022: Volador Jr. (58)
2023: Volador Jr. (65)

Back to back “wins” for Volador Jr. is unprecedented for someone wrestling as a tecnico. He had a normal win percentage (56%), so it’s an effect of just wrestling a lot. The first non-CMLL person on the list is Hellboy, coming in at 59 losses. Jessy Ventura had 34 losses, Abismo Negro Jr. at 32.

I’ve noted here that Demonio Infernal and Fresero Jr. have had a lot of draws in the last couple of years. I may need to make a category, because it’s a hotly competed award:

Most Draws/Non-Finishes in 2023
12 Pig Destroyer
12 Pig Destructor
11 Fresero Jr.
10 Pig Pool
10 Demonio Infernal

Best Win % (with at least 10 known results)

2008: Psycho Clown & Zombie Clown (100%)
2009: Psycho Circus (100%)
2010: Tondar (GDL) (100%)
2011: Mini Monster Clown (90%)
2012: Rayo de Oro (Guatemala) (97%)
2013: Tinieblas Jr. (90%)
2014: William Rock/Pequeno Violencia (92%)
2015: Súper Muñeco (93%)
2016: Huracán Ramírez (85%)
2017: Huracán Ramírez (90%)
2018: Tinieblas Jr. (91%)
2019: Microman (87%)
2020: Muerte Extrema (90%)
2021: Estrella de Jalisco I (2021) (90%)
2022: Octagón (88%)
2023: Tinieblas Jr. (93%)

Tinieblas Jr. went 14-1, plus 26 matches where he was announced but no results was recorded. Alberto el Patron is right behind with 11-2 (and 19 unknowns.) Guadalajara’s Adrenalina went 29-6 (6 unknowns), most of that in his home arena. Micro Gemelo Diablo II went 32-9 among those full time on the CMLL roster.

This is a good point for a list of names I typed in lineups many times and almost never found out how they did:

most matches without recorded results
130: La Fashion (+23 matches w/a results)
129: Zonik of Torreon (+4)
112: Cronos of Veracruz (0 results)
106: Hellboy of Veracruz (0 results)
99: Blue Rocket of Torreon (1 result; he lost!)

Worst loss % (with at least 10 known results)

2008: Carrona (0%)
2009: Espectrito (0%)
2010: Metailk II (GDL) (11%)
2011: Akron (13%)
2012: Mini Talisman (8%)
2013: Estrella De Fuego (5%)
2014: Psicosis I/Nicho el Millionario (0%)
2015: Lady Shani (5%)
2016: Nahual (Morelos) (10.53%)
2017: Pitbull I (Jalisco) & Flayer Boy (9%)
2018: Rey Muerte (Guerrero) (0%)
2019: Mije (0%)
2020: La Guerrera (CMLL) (0%)
2021: Quca (0%)
2022: Guapito (0%)
2023: Zuzu Divine, el Jabali, Gran Kenut (0%),

Zuzu Divine (0-10) is a Hidalgo-based luchadora who wrestles in Mexico City a bit and traveled internationally in 2023. She had 34 unknown matches so she surely won at some point. Jabali & Kenut are Arena Coliseo Guadalajara locals, though more the types that appear more often on the bonus Sunday shows.

Fuerza Guerrera went 2-19 (19 unknown) among people who spent any time on the main CMLL roster. Zacarias went 4-18 among those who are regulars. WilliemMack went 3-10 and Parka Negra went 6-18, not sure which of them better counts as an AAA regular.

top 10 states with the most events

738 Estado de México
604 Coahuila
521 Distrito Federal
519 Jalisco
509 Puebla
484 Veracruz
347 Chihuahua
316 Tamaulipas
290 Hidalgo
272 Nuevo León

About the same as 2022. Jalisco and CDMX change spots from last year. Veracruz & Puebla the same. Chihuahua is way up, Nuevo Leon returned to it’s pre-COVID numbers and Texas is way down. I think that might mean more Texas as a personal blind spot more than the scene changing.

Events by arena

159 Arena México
98 Arena Naucalpan
84 Arena México Rayos de Plata, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
74 Arena Roberto Paz, Guadalajara, Jalisco
68 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
67 Arena Olimpico Laguna, Gomez Palacio, Durango
62 Arena Aficion
59 Arena San Francisco, Tultepec, Estado de México
58 Arena Mezquital, Apodaca, Nuevo Leon
56 Deportivo 11 de Julio, Pachuca, Hidalgo

Arena Rayos de Plata was one of those arenas that Alfredo was usually finding. I tracked down their Facebook in the fall and discovered they’d actually started running twice a week. The Monterrey Commission has backed off some of its control of lucha libre in that city, but many shows that might have been at Arena Femenil or elsewhere seem to have migrated to Arena Mezquital.

Most Matches on AAA TV Tapings

15 Sam Adonis
15 Octagon Jr.
14 Hijo del Vikingo
14 Negro Casas
14 Psycho Clown

AAA is running fewer TV tapings, so there are fewer TV matches to be had. Taurus wrestled 21 matches in 2022 (the most), and 11 in 2023.

Most Matches in CMLL-owned buildings (Arena Mexico/Coliseo/Guadalajara/Puebla)

135 Volador Jr.
124 Mistico
119 Panterita del Ring Jr./Mascara Dorada
109 Titan
109 Angel de Oro

Titan getting that high even with some Japanese work is a busy man. La Jarochita looks to be top woman this year at 68 matches. Pierrothito had 50 matches among the minis. Micro Gemelo Diablo is top Micro at 38 matches. All are missing a few matches from unadvertised private shows.

The difference in exposure between these two major promotions is immense.

Most Arena Naucalpan matches

80 Hellboy
65 Spider Fly
59 Hijo de Canis Lupus
56 Aguila Roja
55 Noisy Boy

Tonalli is right behind at 51 despite going to CMLL for a moment. Puma de Oro is behind him at 46 despite quitting for a while

Most Friday night Arena Mexico appearances

39 Místico
38 Volador Jr.
31 Templario
31 Ángel de Oro
30 Titán

La Jarochita appeared to most of the women at 24. Pierrothito had 13 appearances. None of the micros made more than 2 appearances wrestling. Mije and Zacarias probably made the most Friday night appearances if you count standing in the corner.

2022 Lucha Libre Win/Loss Records and other related luchadb stats

January 24, 2023January 30, 2024 thecubsfan

(the end of 2022 Tapatia awards voting is closing in a few days, vote now)

This post is the annual summary of hundreds of hours of work building and maintaining a database of every known Mexico and lucha libre event in the past year. You can find the typical list of disclaimers at the end of this post and can see the complete win/loss records and other data on this Google Sheet.

This is the first “full year” of lucha libre in 2019, or at least 95% of one. CMLL was closed for a short span in January 2022. Other indie venues were slow to return following the pandemic or just didn’t come back and will never be back. I expect the total normal of shows to rise slightly in 2023, assuming I continue to enter in dozens of new lineups each week. I have, as of this paragraph, 3,670 videos to sort through and potentially add to the luchadb. I’ll probably find a few more shows in there, and others may turn up during the next few months. For now, these are the numbers I’ve got.

Shows for each year, over the last ten. (Number in parenthesis indicates the change since I ran these numbers a year ago – ‘new’ shows discovered or duplicates removed.)

Year Count
2013 2879
2014 5589
2015 6424
2016 7117
2017 6108
2018 6344 (-2)
2019 6922
2020 2161 (-1)
2021 4000 (+7)
2022 6138

Not quite up to 2019 form, but not far off from previous years. Also, a lot less deep dives into Facebook to put together fuller lists of shows for weekly buildings.

Events Actually Added To LuchaDB In During The Year (No Matter What Year They Happened)

2015: 11,532
2016: 9,771
2017: 8,629
2018: 9,680
2019: 7,694
2020: 5,903
2021: 12,315
2022: 10,372

10,372 is a lot of data entry. Maybe I should get into that.

Most Matches

I omit GCW and most other US indies, so it’s possible Psycho Clown is probably into the 160s. Still lower numbers than in years past. AAA wasn’t running spot shows early in the year, and CMLL really still isn’t.

There were 44 wrestlers with at least 100 matches this year, up from 10 the year prior. 8 wrestlers had as much as Psycho Clown did last year

158 Psycho Clown
157 Último Guerrero
153 Diva Salvaje
152 Volador Jr.
150 Mistico
145 Jessy Ventura
140 Abismo Negro Jr.
138 Atlantis Jr.

Most Wins

This is where I annually note a lot of the “most” categories are CMLL names because CMLL runs a lot and reports six shows of results a week. Most indie shows get no results. (Some get videos, but my ambition to figure out unreported results for most indie shows via watching videos is very low; the finishes just don’t matter.) The winner of this is generally whoever is the top tecnico in CMLL, which continues to be Mistico.

Psycho Clown had the most wins of an AAA wrestler at 41.

Most Losses

This is usually a rudo award, so it’s strange to see Volador Jr. up there. He simply wrestled a lot, and rarely outside of CMLL, so he has a lot of reported losses. (He also had a 57% winning percentage.) The next five names on the list are CMLL rudos, followed strangely by IWRG’s Noisy Boy with 46 losses. Abismo Negro Jr. clocks in at 39 losses, but he’s also wrestling a lot in IWRG. Sexy Star II is the highest of people who just wrestled in AAA at 31.

Last year, I noted that Demonio Infernal and Fresero Jr. had a high amount of draws – a lot of their matches go to no finishes because neither side likes to lose, and they believe their fans are OK with not getting an outcome. They had a lot of draws in 2022 as well – Fresero 7, Demonio 5. They were joined by Guadalajara’s Gallo at 7 draws; he and Rayman battled as equals prior to their mask match.

Best Win % (with at least 10 known results)

Octagon went 16-2 in known matches (and had 19 matches with no recorded results.) Micro Gemelo Diablo II went 25-5 in CMLL., while Micro Gemelo Diablo I is 26-9; he gets credit for matches where CMLL doesn’t list a number. Sanson went 19-6 as the best of the full-time AAA guys.

This is a good place to mention that not every wrestler gets tracked in the database. It’s mostly to prevent duplicates and to avoid permanent entries for people who are quickly gone. Generally, I won’t start to add a new wrestler to database until a name turns up 100 times, mostly because it’s a nice big round number. I’ll do it quicker if it’s a name in a notable promotion, but even people in Guadalajara may have to wait until they show up 20 times. These are very arbitally lines.

Worst loss % (with at least 10 known results)

Guapito went 0-11 in recorded results, mostly with Robles. If we raise the bar to 25 results, Parka Negra’s 2-25 recorded (a 7% winning percentage) puts him on ‘top’ of the list. Polvora had the worst luck of the CMLL regulars, with a 10-33 record for a 23% percentage.

top 10 states with the most events

Estado de México 926
Coahuila 712
Jalisco 589
Distrito Federal 564
Veracruz 446
Puebla 387
Tamaulipas 313
Hidalgo 211
Texas 160
Chihuahua 157

These numbers are always going to have a Mexico City/Mexico State bias because those shows get covered more often, so Coahuila and Jalisco approaching those numbers just tell how much wrestling there was in those areas. Coahuila has a very active scene in Torreon (/Gomez Palacio) and a separate group in Saltillo and Monclova.

Nuevo Leon/Monterrey shows:
2018: 323 events
2019: 258 events
2020: 96 events
2021: 190 events
2022: 147 events

The policies the Monterrey lucha libre commission have applied in the last year have been nearly as successful at reducing lucha libre in the entire state as COVID itself.

Events by arena

153 Arena México
98 Arena Naucalpan
83 Arena 23 de Junio, Nicolás Romero, Estado de Méxic0
70 Arena Roberto Paz, Guadalajara, Jalisco
63 Arena Aficion
62 Arena Olimpico Laguna, Gomez Palacio, Durango
60 Arena Colon, Torreón, Coahuila
57 Coliseo Fraternidad, Veracruz, Veracruz
56 Arena GDL, Guadalajara, Jalisco
56 Arena Lopez Mateos

Arena 23 de Junio is a tiny Coliseo Coacalco arena that sometimes will run a free noon show on Sundays before a Sunday show (but whose posters are hard to track down some weeks.) Arena Roberto Paz is a rare arena that runs twice a week. I have no idea how Arena Aficion stays in business, and I may be missing a few of those shows since they don’t always put out posters. The other ones are weekly venues that sneak in an extra show or two at times.

Most Matches on AAA TV Tapings

21 Taurus
19 Hijo del Vikingo
19 Pagano
18 Sexy Star II
17 Mr. Iguana/Nino Hamburguesa/Laredo Kid

Taurus and Vikingo are up top because we knew when their Marvel Lucha Libre characters (and so they have them marked down as working twice on some tapings.) Others were less clear.

Most Matches in CMLL-owned buildings (Arena Mexico/Coliseo/Guadalajara/Puebla)

136 Volador Jr.
110 Soberano Jr.
105 Gran Guerrero
101 Último Guerrero
100 Atlantis Jr.

Negro Casas wrestled 84 matches. Reyna Isis wrestled the most matches for women at 72. Mercurio had 57 to lead the minis, Micro Gemelo Diablo I had 37 among the micros.

Most Arena Naucalpan matches

68 Spider Fly
62 Puma de Oro
60 Tonalli
60 Hell Boy
60 Aster Boy
60 Noisy Boy

It’s a noticeable drop off from those four to Cerbero Negro and Dick Angelo at 45, and no one else has more than 40.

Most Friday night Arena Mexico appearances

37 Volador Jr.
31 Soberano Jr.
30 Último Guerrero
28 Titán/Místico/Atlantis Jr.

The people who had the highest percentage of their CMLL matches take place on Friday Arena Mexico shows were all women. 47% of Avispa Dorada’s CMLL matches were on Friday Arena Mexico shows. Dalys has 42% of her CMLL matches on CMLL’s biggest show of the week, and then it’s Isis, Vaquer, Sugehit, Silueta, and Jarochita before the first man (Templario.) CMLL’s both featured women more and prioritized their better wrestlers on Fridays, which means it’s a small group of women who appear a lot. Dalys’ departure means there are about 22 Friday night appearances that’ll go to others. There are 21 Negro Casas appearances to replace.

Aéreo, Pequeño Polvora, Fantasy and the Dr. Karontes did not appear on a Friday night Arena Mexico show in 2022.

Zanodkan Jr. (34) had the most Tuesday Arena Coliseo Guadalajara matches. Averno was the top among the ‘regular’ CMLL roster, though his usage indicates there was some unusual deal there: he appeared more often in Guadalajara than Friday Arena Mexico matches.

Stigma (33) appeared the most in Arena Puebla, followed by Volador Jr. and 26. Rey Bucanero & Terrible tied with most Tuesday Arena Mexico matches at 21. Volador wrestled the most on Saturday Arena Coliseo shows at 23. Inquisidor strangely had the most Sunday Arena Mexico matches at 25.

2020 Lucha Libre Win/Loss Records and other related luchadb stats

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 thecubsfan

(the 2021 Tapatia award voting is closing in a few days, vote now)

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the lucha libre landscape. The number of shows shrank nearly 70%, with lucha libre barely existing and going underground after March. This annual post about how many matches people wrestled will have a lot smaller numbers than usual as a result.

There were many particular data issues due to the set of circumstances in 2020. Most of these will carry into 2021.

I am unable to capture all events which take place in Mexico in any year; I can only find them if there’s some sort of promotion online. The special challenge of 2020 meant there were many shows purposefully not widely advertised in order to evade government detection. It’s unknown how many shows there were or how that compares to the normal amount of shows missed.
CMLL numbers are a mess. The amount of events is inflated three or four times compared to what took place. The matches are incomplete. Events listed in 2021 clearly took place in 2020, or different months than listed in 2020. CMLL ran all day tapings with no fans, and later gave no indication of when matches were taped when. I’ve chosen to list matches on-air date instead. It is likely possible to figure out which marathon day each match was part of based on factors like ringside worker’s clothing and announcers present, but it would be an extra amount of work to figure out which marathon day is which. Social media may be key. I’ve decided this is not worth my time to figure out.
Many other shows are listed under their Air Date instead of their actual date for similar issues.
AAA records are the most complete, but 2020 fall AutoLuchas shows are still airing and some unannounced substations will be found.
I’ve tried to mark matches as canceled (no match) on shows which did not take place, but that’s not complete. There are always shows which are advertised which do not take place, though 2020 likely set the record.

You can see the complete win/loss records and other data on this Google Sheet.

Shows for each year, over the last ten. (Number in parenthesis indicate the change since I ran these numbers a year ago – ‘new’ shows discovered or duplicates removed.)

Year: Shows
2011: 2717 (+2)
2012: 2901 (+13)
2013: 2859 (+52)
2014: 5588 (+10)
2015: 6420 (+4)
2016: 7111 (+8)
2017: 6104 (+6)
2018: 6345 (+12)
2019: 6927 (+47)
2020: 2157

I wasn’t going nuts adding lineups until 2014, and still most of those years have more recorded events than this year. I started this database in 2006; I’d have to go back to 2005 (all after the fact additions) to find a lower total

Events Actually Added In During The Year (No Matter What Year They Happened)
2015: 11553
2016: 9785
2017: 8642
2018: 9687
2019: 7705
2020: 5926

Punching in all of those old 60s/70s results gave me something to do and taught me a lot, but that’s a slower process. Definitely slower than the newspapers. (I could always use new ideas on archives to search.)

Most Matches

There’s nothing more appropriate for 2020 than Joe Lider wrestling the most matches. A dangerous wrestler for dangerous times. He’s just high profile enough that people would actually advertise him, and not attached to any promotion that’d dissuade him from working for safety’s sake. Lider going back to DTU, who tried as hard as any indie to run regularly, added a few more matches.

wrestlers with more than 60 matches:

67 Joe Lider
66 Caristico
65 Fresero Jr.
63 Hijo del Espectro Jr.
61 Diosa Quetzal
61 Ultimo Guerrero
60 Baby Xtreme

These are all low enough numbers that a little more digging for cancelations would likely change the order. Or counting matches that didn’t air until 2021.

A subcategory: the wrestlers with the biggest difference between their 2019 and 2020 totals

157 Caristico (223 in last year to 66 this year)
152 Psycho Clown (207 to 55)
149 Místico (181 to 32)
148 Atlantis (148 to 0)
147 Valiente (194 to 48)
134 Volador Jr. (185 to 51)
131 Hijo del Vikingo (131 to 37)
128 Último Guerrero (189 to 61)
128 Soberano Jr. (179 to 51)
119 Cuatrero (169 to 50)

Most Wins

The flip side to Joe Lider working a lot is results rarely turn up from those places. We’re still missing results from AutoLucha shows at this point. Big Ovett (23) has more recorded wins than anyone working for AAA. Arez got to 16 mostly outside of AAA. Psycho Clown took 15 and did take a lot of outside dates.

Most Losses

It’s been nearly a decade since a CMLL tecnico was at the top of the list. Ángel de Oro, both a tecnico and a rudo, was second at 28.

Best Win % (with at least 10 known results)

Muerte Extrema mostly inhabits the halls of Arena Lucha Time, where I’ve not been consistently tracking results. He hasn’t been there since Sepembter, as best I can tell, but won a lot early on.

I cut it down further to 50 results last year. That doesn’t work well this year: only Caristico, Ultimo Guerrero, Forastero, Angel de Oro, and Negro Casas reached 50 decisions in 2020.

Worst loss % (with at least 10 known results)

La Guerrera is definitely the lowest woman in CMLL’s totem pole. CMLL’s mostly done singles and pairs matches since the restart and leaned heavily towards giving the veterans wins; it’s unsurprising she didn’t find a way to a win. She has a good chance this weekend: there’s a Silueta & La Guerrera vs Stephanie Vaquer & La Seductora that someone’s got to win.

There’s a lot of usual CMLL stats – which day of the week did people work? which of the main arenas? – which doesn’t work in 2020.

States WIth at Least 100 Events

370 Estado de México
258 Distrito Federal
162 Jalisco
156 Veracruz
148 Coahuila
111 Tamaulipas

There were 18 states with 100 events this year, compared to eight this year. Mexico City (49%) and Chiapas (40%) were the only two states who didn’t decline more than 50%. Quintana Roo declined 84%.

2019 Lucha Libre Win/Loss Records and other stats

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 thecubsfan 3 Comments

I look thru the luchadb every year and try to create some statistics from the past year, to fabricate a real purpose to all the lineups I enter. This is the post where I put those totals.

Shows entered for each year (how many events of that year I put in, not how many I typed in all), for the last 10 years:

Year: Shows
2010: 2573 (-16 events)
2011: 2715 (-7)
2012: 2888 (-21)
2013: 2827 (-25)
2014: 5578 (+20)
2015: 6416 (-20)
2016: 7103 (-52)
2017: 6098 (+1)
2018: 6333 (+30)
2019: 6880

6,880 is the most events I’ve had in three years when KrisZ was still actively searching for them too and passing them on. My guess is promotions posting more consistently to Facebook, better checking for missing posters, and increased amount of videos helped contribute to finding some rarer shows. My real reaction was a yelp in terror when I realized exactly how many shows I’d entered in. I did some more digging and it turns out not to be as bad:

events entered (actually entered that year, not necessarily from that year)
2015: 11573
2016: 9791
2017: 8654
2018: 9689
2019: 7712

That’s a lot better! I was typing in Guadalajara and later Torreon lineups in previous years, but those projects are complete. I’m still doing going through magazines for old lineups, but it’s a low priority and takes a lot more time for me to find them compared to websites. That time is being spent looking at Facebook pages instead, so the modern stuff is up while the overall number is down. I also decided that, when I do find a new Facebook page of a promotion with lots of old posters, that I won’t go back past the current year without a strong reason to do it.

(I do check for other Mexico newspaper archives which might have old lineups, but haven’t had much luck. I’d quit everything else if I could ever find one for Mexico City and just spend all my time on that.)

Going back to the first chart, most of the previous year counts are down. I did some weeding out of duplicate lineups this fall, taking a look at any time I had two shows happening in the same building at the same day. I could probably go deeper, double-checking all shows listed as happening in the same city and on the same day, but I’m not sure I’m going to invest that time.

Most Matches

This is the first time Caristico has had the most matches since 2010. A heavier CMLL scheduled and a lot of indie work will do it.

Psycho Clown again broke 200 known matches, reaching 208. (AAA numbers are a little fuzzier; most of them are spot shows where there are rarely any results, so substitutions and cancelations can be missed. There’s also more AAA spots shows which seem to be unpublicized.) Hijo del Vikingo was closest at 170, which probably includes weeks of matches he was advertised for but didn’t appear due to injury. La Parka reached 111 matches before he passed away.

Caristico, Psycho Clown, Valiente, Ultimo Guerrero, Volador Jr., Soebrano Jr., Mistico, Hijo del Vikingo, Cuatrero, Angel de Oro, Pagano, Niebla Roja, Gran Guerrero, Forastero, Mephisto, La Hiedra and Sanson also wrestled at least 150 matches. Atlantis & Titan were one away (and Titan’s over if you add in his NJPW work.)

Most Wins

Volador is again second this year, though it wasn’t as close. He got 109 wins. Psycho Clown has 61 known wins.

Most Losses

Ultimo Guerrero’s streak comes to an end, only losing a 82 times. Guerrero had more wins than losses, which is the real key. Eterno (Abismo Negro Jr.) & Aramis had losses in the 50s, though I’d count Pagano at 45 as the AAA ‘winner’.

Best Win % (with at least 10 known results)

Microman did it with 41 decisions. Gallito and Atomo are unsurprisingly close behind. Deposed Arena Coliseo Guadalajara booker Magnum booked himself to a 23-5 win record. I’m sure he was completely deserving of each and every win. El Divino, who has a YouTube channel and worked early matches on Lucha Libre Boom shows, went 9-2 with 23 unknown results.

10 wins was the standard when a lot less events were counted. What would the top 10 look like if the criteria was 50 matches instead?

75% Pentagon Jr.
75% La Comandante
72% Atlantis Jr.
72% Dalys la Caribena
68% Psycho Clown
68% Atlantis
68% Tiffany
67% Mistico
67% Dragon Lee
67% Diamante Azul

Historically, CMLL tecnicos wins about two-thirds of their matches. That’s not been the case for the CMLL women this past year. I’d guess Dalys would’ve been higher. (Hijo del Signo has a winning percentage of 63%, which also seems odd.)

Worst loss % (with at least 10 known results)

Poor Mije lost all 11 matches of which I have results. (He had 8 other matches.) Mije’s already picked up a win in 2020 so he shouldn’t repeat.

Star Fire went 1-20 in known matches, though she has 37 unknown matches. Pequeño Universo 2000 went 1-19, and there’s only two matches with results unaccounted for. La Vaquerita (1-11) and Mascara de Bronce (1-9 with a draw) are the only other 1 win people.

Again, if we up the criteria to at least 50 matches with results

29% Sanely
30% Okumura
31% Dark Magic
31% Kawato
31% Luciferno
31% Hijo del Villano III
31% Flamita
32% La Hiedra
33% Texano Jr.
34% Misterioso II

I’d expect more CMLL tecnicas, but they lack 50 matches with decisions. The amount of tecnicas and the injuries that took some of them spread the losses around.

66% Estrellita (12)
64% Marcela (51)
40% Lluvia (45)
44% Silueta (18)
38% Princesa Sugehit (34)
29% Skadi (27)
25% La Jarochita (48)
23% Mystique (17)
18% La Magnifica (22)
17% Avispon Dorada (28)
08% La Vaqueirta (12)

People with 100 matches announced but no results

127: Odin (Laguna) – 0 results
119: Psycho Clown – 89 results
115: Baby Fantasy (Laguna) – 0 results
110: Masivo (Laguna) – 0 results
107: Angel Negro (Veracruz) – 1 result (he lost)
105: Bala de Plata (Laguna) – 2 results (he won both)
103: La Hiedra – 50 results
102: Golden Boy – 10 results
101: Hijo del Vikingo – 68 results
101: Fishman Jr. – 18 results

Laguna posters go up on consistently, some people work two or three times per weekend, there’s frequently video of the matches, but I rarely actually watch the video to figure out who won (or who anyone is.)

Most matches on AAA TV tapings

33: Rey Escorpion & Psycho Clown
31: Hijo del Vikingo
30: Niño Hamburguesa
29: Chessman

CMLL Appearances By Days Of The Week

Most Friday Arena Mexico (events, not matches)
42 Último Guerrero
40 Valiente
40 Volador Jr.
39 Caristico
37 Cuatrero

Most Tuesday Arena Mexico
29 Guerrero Maya Jr.
26 Stuka Jr.
25 Audaz
25 Kraneo
24 Flyer/Atlantis

Most Arena Puebla
37 Stigma
32 Perverso
31 Caristico
30 King Jaguar
38 Volador Jr.

Most Tusday Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
30 Barbaro Cavernario
26 Valiente
26 Difunto
24 Esfinge
23 Niebla Roja

Cavernario worked a lot of Tuesday Guadalajara, a lot of Friday Arnea Mexico, and not really a lot elsewhere.

Valiente had both the most Arena Coliseo & Sunday Arena Mexico appearances.

More Friday than Tuesday Mexico
34 Último Guerrero
31 Valiente
30 Volador Jr.
24 El Cuatrero
24 Gran Guerrero

More Tuesday than Friday Mexico
20 Kraneo
20 Universo 2000 Jr.
18 Blue Panther
18 Guerrero Maya Jr.
16 Nitro

This is short hand to “who does CMLL see as real stars” and “who are the second level of stars who can work the show we don’t care about as much.”

Events by State (at least 100 events)

821 Estado de México
689 Jalisco
672 Coahuila
659 Veracruz
504 Distrito Federal
406 Tamaulipas
349 Puebla
322 Hidalgo
322 Nuevo León
201 Chihuahua
188 Durango
183 Guerrero
159 Baja California
148 San Luis Potosí
124 Guanajuato
119 Guatemala
100 Oaxaca

Estado de Mexico remains top despite 68 less events than last year. (It’s also about twice as many events as the commission said they sanctioned.) The increases came in Jalisco (+207), Coahuila (+145), and Veracruz (+101).

more 2018 lucha db stats: CMLL appearances by day of the week, busiest states, AAA TV records

February 7, 2019February 18, 2020 thecubsfan

I did this two years ago. (I was busy writing a book last year, I think.)

CMLL Appearances By Days Of The Week

You can see the full chart here.

most Friday night Arena Mexico shows: Volador Jr., Ultimo Guerrero, Caristico, Barbaro Cavernario, Rush
most Tuesday night Arena Mexico shows: Stuka Jr., Mephisto, The Panther, Ephesto, Niebla Roja

There’s an a-team/b-team divide there. My theory is the Tuesday night guys are CMLL programming have no plans for, but there is some needed to have credible main events for those shows too. Maybe the better way is to look is to see not who works the most, but who works much more on one show than the other:

most Tuesday shows more than Friday shows: Nitro (22), Lucifierno (18), Pequeno Olimpico & Acero (16), Stuka Jr. (15)
most Friday shows more than Tuesday shows: Volador (36), Rush (27), Ultimo Guerrero & Barbaro Cavernario (26), Terrible (25)

Yea, that’s still pretty close. Pequeno Olimpico leads the way with most matches overall (47) with 0 Friday night appearances. LA Park & son broke the chart the other way,

Leaders in other categories:

most Puebla shows: Stigma (31) – son of person who runs the building
most Tuesday Arena Mexico: Stuka Jr. (33)
most Tuesday Guadalajara: Esfinge (30) – son of person who runs the building
most Friday Arena Mexico: Volador Jr. (44)
most Saturday Arena Coliseo: Stuka Jr. (23)
most Sunday Arena Mexico: Valiente & Niebla Roja (31)
most Sunday Guadalajara: Magico (37)

Magico was the original name of Mascara Sagrada. I don’t know this one. He wrestled on only 10 Tuesday shows, so he doesn’t have the most matches of the Guadalajara locals. That would be Difunto, who had 54 matches in that building alone. He got more CMLL bookings than Electrico, Sangre Azteca and Bengala, among many others.

Blue Panther wrestled the most matches without wrestling in Puebla. LA Park & son did the most without a Tuesday Arena Mexico. Sam Adonis disappeared from CMLL before he got to work a Coliseo match in 2018. Nitro didn’t go to Guadalajara all year. Pequeno Universo did not work on a Sunday.

Events/Wrestlers by State

Mexico City is the home of lucha libre. Except, there are a few states where I found many more lucha libre events in 2018

Estado de Mexico (889)
Veracruz (558)
Coahuila (527)
Jalisco (482)
Ciudad de Mexico (461)

The wrestler to wrestle the most in one state appears to be someone named Angel Negro in Veracruz. Only, there might have to be two Angel Negros, because he’s wrestling twice a day most Sundays, sometimes in Veracruz and in Fortin at the same time. I will never be able to tell them apart.

Nayarit was the only Mexican state where I found zero events from all of 2018. This made me sad, so I searched Facebook and found a show from December. I’m still kind of sad, to be honest.

Lunatik Xtreme, one of the sons of X-Fly, turned up on the most Mexico State cards.

You can see a full list here.

AAA TV Win/Loss Records

This includes anything that aired as part of a taping on Twitch. I guess these would be different if we looked at what aired, though it rarely seemed like AAA had figured what was going to when they recorded the shows.

Most wins: Psycho Clown (19)
Most losses: Pagano, Joe Lider, Parka Negra (15)
Most matches: Psycho Clown (30)
Best win % (at least 5 matches): Nino Hamburguesa (80%, 8-2)
Worst win % (at least 5 matches): Joe Lider (13%, 2-15-1)

You can see a full chart here.

2018 Lucha Libre Win/Loss Records and other stats

February 5, 2019February 4, 2019 thecubsfan

This is the annual look at numbers gathered by spending an unhealthy amount of time entering lucha libre lineups into a database.

Might as well start with the amount of shows that made it into the database in some form.

Year Shows
2009: 2367 shows (0 extra events found since the last time I did this)
2010: 2589 shows (0)
2011: 2722 shows (+1)
2012: 2909 shows (+10)
2013: 2852 shows (+3)
2014: 5558 shows (+36)
2015: 6436 shows (+43)
2016: 7155 shows (+60)
2017: 6097 shows (+146)
2018: 6303 shows

That’s up a bit (206), even with finding a lot more of 2017. I’m not sure why. It might be a matter of more detail work – looking thru the “weekly” buildings to see where I’ve missed one – than a great deal more lineups being posted. I think it won’t keep going up but anything’s possible.

As usual, I’ve put together Win/Loss records in a Google spreadsheet. It’s separated by what promotion each person worked for, but it is the win/loss record for all the matches that person had regardless of promotion.

Most Matches

Ultimo Guerrero has had the most matches 6 of the 11 years I’ve done this. He’s had at least 200 recorded matches a year since 2013.

Psycho Clown again led AAA with 200. There’s no one close within AAA. Pagano wrestled 138 matches, Hijo del Vikingo behind him at 128. Fellow AAA main event Dr. Wagner wrestled just 70 matches. LA Park wrestled 116 matches in lucha libre shows (and many more not included.) La Parka was at 123 matches, down from the last couple of years. We’re probably missing a bunch more AAA spot shows and AAA would be missing a lot if Psycho Clown ever suffered a serious injury.

Most Wins

Volador is just short of Caristico at 113; if he went on two NJPW tours instead of three, he’s probably first place again. Atlantis (108) and Diamante Azul (103) also break the 100 win club. Psycho Clown got 50 AAA wins, and probably a lot more if we had those spot show results.

Most Losses

UG almost became the first 100 match loser. Maybe the next project is to see how these look if I just count singles matches. Aramis has the most losses (45) of anyone on AAA’s roster all year. Joe Lider (34) is more of the people who were actually around AAA all year.

Best Win % (with at least 10 known results)

When you run your own promotion and you’re the top star, you tend to have a really good record. The evil ninja turtles, Ra-Zhata (86%) and Shil-Kah (82%) were surprising not far behind. Maybe they’d be not as well if I figured out their previous characters. Top in CMLL was Michael Elgin (82%), with Microman (81%) just behind. La Parka led AAA with a 77% win percentage.

Worst loss % (with at least 10 known results)

Rey Muerte went 0-10 in matches with results, with 19 unknown matches. He mostly runs in Acapulco’s La Mandona, where Estrellas del Ring Acapulco sometimes types up results. Pequeño Universo 2000 had 2 wins on the year against 16 losses for an 11% winning percentage. Parka Negra (Angel Mortal Jr.) was worst in AAA with 13%.

Most matches on AAA TV tapings

Psycho Clown (30)
Rey Escorpion (28)
Maximo & Pagano (26)
Hijo del Vikingo & Texano Jr. (25)

Events by State

889    Estado de México    
558 Veracruz    
527 Coahuila    
482 Jalisco 
461 Distrito Federal    
421 Tamaulipas
283 Puebla  
263 Hidalgo 
260 Nuevo León  
258 Chihuahua   
208 Guerrero    
203 Baja California 
181 Durango 
169 San Luis Potosí 
143 Texas   
106 Guanajuato  
101 California  
95  Quintana Roo    
85  Morelos 
72  Guatemala   
61  Oaxaca  
46  Tlaxcala    
41  Illinois    
40  Michoacán   
39  Chiapas 
29  Querétaro   
29  Tabasco 
28  Sinaloa 
26  Zacatecas   
23  Yucatán 
21  Arizona 
18  New York    
17  Aguascalientes  
17  Sonora  
16  Colima  
14  Baja California Sur 
13  Colorado    
10  Japan   (is not a state)
8   Georgia 
7   Nevada  
5   Campeche    
3   Nebraska    
3   Pennsylvania    
2   Ohio    
2   Maryland    
2   New Jersey  
2   Tennessee   
2   other   
1   El Salvador 
1   Arkansas    
1   Louisiana   
1   North Carolina  
1   Connecticut 
1   Oklahoma    
1   New Mexico  
1   Michigan    
1   Florida 
1   Missouri    
1   Colombia    
1   Indiana 
1   Washington