Reyes del Aire
Reyes del Aire (Kings of the Air) is CMLL's high flyers tournament. The tournament usually works as a cibernetico with mostly young and undercard tecnicos, with the idea of focusing more attention on the winner. Reyes del Aire grown in importance each year.
The size of the tournament varies year to year. The tournament is usually held in Arena Mexico, but some have taken place in Arena Puebla. CMLL will occasionally run multiple tournaments in a year for no explained reason.
Past Winners
- 2005: Volador Jr.
- 2006: La Mascara
- 2007: Volador Jr. (2) & Virus
- 2008: Valiente
- 2009: Volador Jr. (3)
- 2010: no tournament held
- 2011: Angel de Oro
- 2012: Angel de Oro (2) & Valiente (2)
- 2013: La Sombra
- 2014: Stuka Jr.
- 2015: La Sombra (2)
- 2016: Bárbaro Cavernario
- 2017: Angel de Oro
- 2019: Titán
2005
This year's Reyes del Aire match was held on June 10, in Arena Mexico.
Order of Elimination
- Leono (by Tigre Metalico)
- Stuka Jr. (by Tigre Blanco)
- Tigre Metalico (by Misterioso II)
- Tigre Blanco (by Alan Stone)
- Alan Stone & Virus (double pinfall)
- La Mascara (by Misterioso II via La Rosa Driver)
- Misterioso II (by Volador Jr. via Spanish Fly)
Volador Jr. defeated Ricky Marvin with a Dos Caras Clutch for the victory.
2006
This year's Reyes del Aire match was held on June 18, in Arena Coliseo.
Order of Elimination
- Valiente (by Leono)
- Danger (by Tony Rivera)
- Loco Max (by Oro II)
- Leono (by Stuka)
- Oro II (by Neutron)
- Tony Rivera (by Mascara Purpura)
- Stuka Jr.
- Mascara Purpura (double countout with Stuka Jr., suffered an injury on a dive)
- Neutron
La Mascara defeated Neutron with his La Campana for the victory.
2007
There were two Reyes del Aire tournaments in 2008.
February
The first Reyes del Aire of the year was held on February 16th in Arena Mexico.
Order of elimination
- Sombra de Plata
- Super Nova
- Valiente
- Metro
- Leono
- Misterioso II
- Stuka Jr.
- Virus
- Felino
- Alex Koslov (double pin with Felino)
- Sagrado
- Averno
- Mephisto
- La Mascara
- Sangre Azteca
Volador Jr. was the winner, pinning Sangre after a Spanish Fly.
October
The second Reyes del Aire of the year was held on October 2nd in Arena Coliseo. This tournament featured lower level wrestlers as compared to the early Reyes del Aire
Wrestlers included:
- Ángel Azteca Jr.
- Astro Boy
- Euforia
- Loco Max
- Metálico
- Nosferatu
- Skandalo
- Stuka Jr.
- Super Nova
- Trueno
- Valiente
- Virus
Virus was the winner, defeating Valiente for the win.
2008
This year's Reyes del Aire was held on May 9th in Arena Mexico.
Order of Elimination:
- Loco Max
- Stuka Jr.
- Virus
- Flash
- Diamante Negro
- Mascara Purpura
- Euforia
- Ephesto
- Volador Jr.
- Mr. Aguila (draw with Volador Jr.)
- La Mascara
- Misterioso II
- La Sombra
- Sangre Azteca
- Valiente
Valiente was the winner.
2009
This year's tournament was held on October 12. Breaking with the usual pattern, this was held in Arena Puebla.
At the time, it was unclear if this was meant to be the official Reyes del Aire tournament. White it was promoted using the name Reyes del Aire, this sort of annual events had never been held outside Mexico City and the list of participants more resembled a usual cibernetico than a group of pure flyers. Since no named cibernetico was ever held in Mexico City this year, Puebla's tournament has been confirmed as the actual 2009 tournament.
Order of elimination (from Fuego en el Ring
- Flash (by Sangre Azteca)
- Sangre Azteca (by Mascara Dorada, double pin)
- Mascara Dorada (by Sangre Azteca, double pin)
- Ephesto (by Valiente)
- Sagrado (by Black Warrior)
- Black Warrior (by La Mascara)
- Valiente (by Texano Jr.)
- Texano Jr. (by La Mascara)
- La Mascara (by Averno)
- Averno (by Volador Jr.)
- Mephisto (by Volador Jr.)
The winner was Volador Jr.
2010
There was no 2010 Reyes del Aire.
2011
This year's tournament was held back in Arena Mexico on January 1st, the first show of the year. The tournament featured lower status wrestlers than the previous tournament, and included half tecnicos and half rudos.
Guerrero Maya Jr. was scheduled to be in the match, but replaced by Molotov due to illness. Pegasso was also scheduled for the tournament and was replaced by Sensei. No reason was given at the time, but Pegasso explained he had a knee injury when he returned months later.
Order of elimination
- Tiger Kid (by Molotov)
- Sensei (by Puma King)
- Scorpion (by Rey Cometa)
- Molotov (by Arkangel de la Muerte)
- Puma King (by Angel de Plata
- Rey Cometa (by Cancerbero)
- Raziel (by Fuego)
- Fuego (by ?)
- Arkangel de la Muerte (by Angel de Plata, double elimination)
- Angel de Plata (by Arkangel de la Muerte, double elimination)
- Cancerbero (by Delta)
- Diamante (by Virus)
- Polvora (by Delta)
- Delta (by Virus)
- Virus (by Angel de Oro)
Angel de Oro was the winner.
2012
Arena Mexico (February)
This first version of this year's tournament was held back in Arena Mexico on February 3rd. The cibernetico was expanded to 18 wrestlers for the first time ever, 9 rudos and 9 tecnicos.
Order of Elimination:
- Rey Cometa
- Puma King
- Raziel
- Titán
- Hijo del Signo
- Fuego
- Euforia
- Guerrero Maya Jr.
- Tiger
- Pólvora (double elimination with Stuka)
- Stuka Jr. (double elimination with Polvora)
- Delta
- Virus
- Valiente
- Rey Escorpion
- Máscara Dorada (by Mr. Aguila)
- Mr. Águila (by Mascara Dorada)
Leaving Ángel de Oro as the winner.
Ángel de Oro joined Volador Jr. as the only multi-time winners, and became the first back to back winner.
Arena Puebla (October)
A second version of the tournament was held October 15th in Arena Puebla. It's only the second time the tournament was held in Puebla, the first since 2009. This version was a twelve man tournament, six rudos, six tecnicos.
Tritón was announced for the tournament, but replaced by Titán.
Eliminations
- Niebla Roja (by Mistico)
- Titán (by Rey Escorpion)
- Angel de Oro (by Averno & Escorpion)
- Rey Escorpion (by Mascara Dorada)
- Euforia (by La Mascara)
- Mistico (by Mephisto)
- Averno (by Valiente)
- Mascara Dorada (Dragon Rojo)
- La Mascara (double pin with Mephisto)
- Mephisto (double pin with La Mascara)
- Dragon Rojo (disqualified for pulling Valiente's mask)
2013
This year's Reyes del Aire was expanded to thirty two luchadors, the largest ever field. Two sixteen luchador ciberneticos led to a singles match between the two survivors. All matches took place in Arena Mexico.
February 1st Cibernetico
Eliminated | Eliminator | Time | ||
Sagrado | Tiger | 7:15 | ||
Stuka Jr. | Namajague | 10:20 | ||
Tiger | Titan | 11:44 | ||
Namajague | Rey Cometa | 13:00 | ||
Hijo del Fantasma | Polvora | 13:58 | ||
Felino | La Mascara | 14:29 | ||
Rey Cometa | Euforia | 15:40 | ||
Delta | Dragon Rojo | 17:00 | ||
Mr. Aguila | La Sombra | 20:28 | ||
Polvora | Titan | 24:16 | ||
Euforia | La Mascara | 25:44 | ||
Titan | Averno | 27:00 | ||
La Mascara drew Dragon Rojo, both are eliminated |
30:44 | |||
Averno | La Sombra | 37:12 | ||
La Sombra won the cibernetico |
February 8th Cibernetico
Eliminated | Eliminator | Time | ||
Sangre Azteca | Valiente | 11:20 | ||
Virus | Guerrero Maya Jr. | 12:38 | ||
Angel de Oro | Rey Escorpion | 14:26 | ||
Mephisto | injury | 16:54 | ||
Puma | Maximo | 17:38 | ||
Triton | Niebla Roja | 18:26 | ||
Diamante | Niebla Roja | 19:08 | ||
Fuego | Psicosis | 20:01 | ||
Valiente | Volador Jr. | 21:08 | ||
Psicosis | Mascara Dorada | 22:09 | ||
Niebla Roja | Maximo | 23:22 | ||
Maximo | Volador Jr. | 24:08 | ||
Rey Escorpion | Mascara Dorada | 25:19 | ||
Guerrero Maya Jr. | Volador Jr. | 26:37 | ||
Mascara Dorada | Volador Jr. | 28:50 | ||
Volador Jr. won the cibernetico |
February 15th Final
La Sombra defeated Volador Jr. to win the tournament.
2014
The 2014 tournament was held on April 27th in 2014.
Eliminated | Eliminator | Time | ||
Triton | Tiger | 7:15 | ||
Ephesto | Guerrero Maya Jr. | 7:53 | ||
Guerrero Maya Jr. | Niebla Roja | 10:28 | ||
Rey Cometa | Puma | 11:31 | ||
Tiger | Delta | 12:23 | ||
Puma | Valiente | 13:51 | ||
Delta | Averno | 15:37 | ||
Niebla Roja | Stuka Jr. | 17:00 | ||
Valiente | Averno & Mephisto | 19:26 | ||
Averno | Stuka Jr. | 20:51 | ||
Mephisto | Stuka Jr. | 27:08 | ||
Stuka Jr. won the cibernetico |
As in 2012, a second tournament was held in Arena Puebla. This tournament took place on August 4.
Order of elimination is currently unknown. Rey Escorpion defeated Mascara Dorada to win the tournament. Other participants were Ángel de Oro, Dragón Rojo Jr., Stigma, Stuka Jr., Gran Guerrero, Misterioso Jr., Puma, Ripper
2015
The 2015 tournament was held on May 1st in Arena Mexico. All times are as aired on TV, which was an edited version of the match.
Eliminated | Eliminator | Time | ||
Triton | Tiger | 2:34 | ||
Guerrero Maya Jr. | Puma | 4:12 | ||
Fuego | Virus | 5:42 | ||
Puma | Angel de Oro | 7:16 | ||
Delta | Kamaitachi | 8:58 | ||
Tiger | Dragon Lee | 9:50 | ||
Kamaitachi drew Dragon Lee, both are eliminated |
9:59 | |||
Misterioso Jr. | Stuka Jr. | 10:13 | ||
Virus | Niebla Roja | 10:58 | ||
Angel de Oro | Gran Guerrero | 11:35 | ||
Gran Guerrero | Barbaro Cavernario | 12:17 | ||
Niebla Roja | La Sombra | 14:08 | ||
Barbaro Cavernario | Stuka Jr. | 15:37 | ||
Stuka Jr. | La Sombra | 21:40 | ||
La Sombra won the cibernetico |
La Sombra won with help from a distraction from Rush.
2016
The 2016 tournament was held over two weeks on September 23 & September 30 in Arena Mexico, being the first night a cibernetico with the last two survivors heading to a match the next week.
September 23th
Eliminated | Eliminator | Time | ||
Dragon Rojo Jr. | Valiente | 5:36 | ||
La Mascara | disqualified, unmasked Dragon Lee | 7:32 | ||
Mascara Dorada | Negro Casas | 8:39 | ||
Valiente | Euforia | 9:01 | ||
Máximo Sexy | Mephisto | 10:03 | ||
Negro Casas | Dragon Lee | 12:21 | ||
Dragon Lee | Bárbaro Cavernario | 12:48 | ||
Euforia | Mistico | 14:10 | ||
Mistico | Bárbaro Cavernario | 14:43 | ||
Mephisto | Volador Jr. | 24:16 | ||
Bárbaro Cavernario and Volador Jr. won the cibernetico |
September 30th Final
Bárbaro Cavernario defeated Volador Jr. to win the tournament.
2017
The 2017 tournament was held on April 7 in Arena Mexico.
Eliminated | Eliminator | Time | ||
Luciferno | Volador Jr. | 6:14 | ||
Titan | Barbaro Cavernario | 10:15 | ||
Gran Guerrero | Máximo Sexy | 12:01 | ||
Dragon Lee | Hechicero | 14:32 | ||
Mephisto | Volador Jr. | 14:32 | ||
Valiente | La Mascara | 17:39 | ||
Barbaro Cavernario | Mistico | 18:22 | ||
Máximo Sexy | Hechicero | 19:57 | ||
La Mascara | Caristico | 20:25 | ||
Hechicero | Volador Jr. | 21:41 | ||
Caristico | Euforia | 23:41 | ||
Mistico | Niebla Roja | 24:15 | ||
Niebla Roja | Volador Jr. | 24:47 | ||
Volador Jr. | Euforia | 29:35 | ||
Euforia | Angel de Oro | 29:44 | ||
Angel de Oro won the cibernetico |
2019
The tournament was held on January 4, 2019
Eliminated | Eliminator | Time | ||
Universo 2000 | Black Panther | |||
Drone | Virus | |||
Sagrado | Triton | |||
Black Panther | Tiger | |||
Virus | Flyer | |||
Esfinge | Polvora | |||
Tiger | Rey Cometa | |||
Polvora | Audaz | |||
Rey Cometa | Vangellys | |||
Audaz | Kawato San | |||
Vangellys | Titan | |||
Triton drew Kawato San, both are eliminated |
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Flyer | Templario | |||
Templario | Titán | |||
Titán won the cibernetico |