La Legión Extranjera
Group History
Legión Extranjera (Foreign Legion) is an AAA rudo group, though loosely affilated. It's basically a catch all for one time and irregularly scheduled foreign heels, working as Konnan's hired guns. This is also allows AAA to advertise matches where the Legión Extranjera are scheduled, without announcing the specific participants before the show (and since they appear to have last minute changes, it prevents false advertising.)
The Foreign Legion leader is Konnan. At the end of 2006, he was put out of action by Cibernetico (giving him time to take care of health issues.) Nicho debuted in 2007 as the replacement leader, getting revenge for Konnan while he's recovering.
During the period Konnan worked for TNA, many TNA wrestlers appeared in AAA as both members of Legión Extranjera and as representing their promotions. Since leaving TNA, Konnan's appeared to stop using their workers.
Most wrestlers listed appeared very few times; this list is an attempt to include everyone who was part of Legión Extranjera. Besides Konnan and Nicho, only Kenzo Suzuki and Head Hunter I were regulars early in 2007. Both X-Pac and Ron Killings became regulars with unit (and promotion) in mid 2007, and Sabu frequently appeared with them as well. The Foreign Legion has had ties to La Secta, Vipers Revolution, The Hart Foundation 2.0 and The Dark Family.
Through out 2008 Konnan fought for the ownership of AAA. In October 2008 he won the rights to own AAA via a War Games style cage match. There appears an alliance with La Hermandad, but they're not considered regular members. Since Konnan owned AAA, it's not uncommon for other AAA rudos to partner with the Legion where it benefits both sides much like Vipers Revolution had in the past. This would last until TripleMania in June 2009 when Konnan lost his power and the Legión disbanded from a mega stable with The Dark Family and La Yakuza as splinter stables to a core group of wrestlers and Tirantes, their referee.
Legión Extranjera resurfaced in fall of 2009, when Konnan suing his way back onto AAA. The new lineup has featured more women than men. Besides the usual feud with AAA management, they've also gone for revenge on former member Electroshock for not waiting around for the group to reappear. This version of the Legion has also featured a lot more female wrestlers.
Current Members
- Konnan (leader)
- Zorro
- Chessman - unclear when he actually joined the group, but became a member at some point
- Hernandez - returned to AAA at Rey de Reyes 2010 as an old friend of Konnan.
- Alex Koslov
- Kenzo Suzuki - though he made a big deal about going on out his own to start La Yakuza, has since quietly returned to this group when the Yakuza fell apart.
- Teddy Hart - suspended by AAA, unclear when/if he'll actually return
- Rain - part time, disappears from AAA for stretches
- Christina Von Eerie - debuted in March of 2010
- Hijo de Tirantes - rudo referee allied with the group, occasionally forced to call matches without bias
Nicho & Joe Lider often work with this group, but insist they're mercenaries and not bound to this group by more than their payoffs.
As usual, any other rudo on the roster might be allied with the Legion, or might fight them to defend AAA, depending on the night.
Former Members (of this version)
Roxxi and Lorelei Lee have appeared with this version of group in late 2009, but just for single appearances.
Goddess was introduced as a member but kicked out after one appearance.
Jennifer Blade was part of this group thru Guerra de Titanes 2009, but has not returned since.
Tirantes was a major associate of this iteration of the group, but left AAA in October 2009. His son Hijo de Tirantes has already taken his spot as rudo referee aligned with this group.
Past Membership
Wrestlers that wrestled for the previous version of La Legion but are not currently a member of the new group:
- Abismo Negro
- Antifaz
- Black Bufalo
- Black Magic
- Chessman
- Dark Cuervo
- Bryan Danielson
- Electroshock
- Dark Espiritu
- Jack Evans
- Ayako Hamada
- Gran Hamada
- Histeria
- Head Hunter I
- Head Hunter II
- Kaoru Ito
- Joe Lider
- Ron Killings
- Bobby Lashley
- El Mesias
- Mike Modest
- Mr. Niebla
- Nicho el Millionario (former replacement leader)
- Dark Ozz
- El Padrino
- Psicosis II
- Josh Raymond
- Rellik
- Rikishi
- Sabu
- Dark Scoria
- Silver King
- Kenzo Suzuki
- Nate Webb
- X-Pac w/Alicia Webb
- Zorro
TNA Wrestlers (who only appeared during the TNA/AAA partnership)
- Elix Skipper (also see wikipedia)
- Hernandez (but not as Mr. Texas)
- Lance Hoyt
- Abyss (also see wikipedia)
- Jeff Jarrett
- AJ Styles (also see wikipedia)
- Low-Ki
- Samoa Joe
- Traci Brooks
- Christy Hemme
- Tiana Ringer
- Homicide (also see wikipedia)
- Scott D'Amore
- Frankie Kazarian
- Scott Steiner
- Rhino
Other TNA wrestlers have appeared in vignette for the group, but have not wrestled in TNA as of yet.
