CMLL takes center stage for historic US show in Las Vegas amid WrestleMania week

LAS VEGAS – Pro wrestling fans volition descend connected Las Vegas for days of enactment up of WrestleMania 42 this week, but WWE is hardly the lone crippled successful town.

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), 1 of Mexico’s astir fashionable pro wrestling promotions, is acceptable to clasp its archetypal solo amusement successful the U.S. successful its 92-year history. CMLL has produced galore legendary pro wrestlers and immoderate of its apical stars presently are making important waves successful different large North American promotions similar All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH).

The institution has partnered with AEW and ROH connected plentifulness of occasions with immoderate pro wrestlers successful the second promotions signing dual contracts allowing them to vie connected each other’s shows, including Místico and Thunder Rosa. CMLL is acceptable to enactment unneurotic an intriguing paper that volition showcase Lucha Libre benignant of pro wrestling that the mean instrumentality mightiness person ne'er seen before.

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CMLL prima Flip Gordon performs a dive extracurricular of the ring. (CMLL)

Flip Gordon, who is the National Wrestling Alliance's satellite historical middleweight champion, is among those participating successful matches astatine the historical CMLL show. He said for CMLL to person its ain amusement successful Las Vegas underscored the unthinkable momentum the institution has enactment together.

"I deliberation it's precise significant. Last year, we sold implicit a cardinal tickets successful Arena Mexico, which nary different institution has ever done successful the past of nonrecreational wrestling," Gordon told Fox News Digital. "CMLL is connected a blistery streak close now. We're selling retired shows near and right. I deliberation this twelvemonth we're gonna interruption the grounds for astir sold retired shows successful our 92-year history. This amusement is precise important due to the fact that this is the archetypal clip that we are crossing the borderline into the United States arsenic a company. We are bringing our endowment to Las Vegas to enactment connected the champion amusement we tin to amusement what Lucha Libre is. CMLL is the creator of Lucha Libre. Now it's our accidental to amusement precisely what Lucha Libre is and we're precise excited."

He added that fans are successful for a dainty arsenic galore notable names are going to beryllium connected the card.

"Oh, this amusement is stacked," Gordon said. "So, we got, successful the main event, we got Místico (and Templario) versus Hechicero (and Ángel de Oro) successful a champion versus champion match. We person Claudio Castagnoli versus Atlantis Jr. … Atlantis, Jr., obviously, 2nd procreation superstar. He's a immense star. He's having a breakthrough twelvemonth close now, he's successful AEW arsenic good arsenic CMLL.

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Mistico and Ultimo Guerrero vie during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling CMLL Fantastica Mania lawsuit astatine Yoyogi National Gymnasium successful Tokyo connected Feb. 18, 2026. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

"Then we person my match, I'm tagging with Capitán Suicida. We're going against 2 of the brightest young stars successful each the nonrecreational wrestling, not conscionable Mexico, each implicit the world, successful Máscara Dorada and Neón. That one's gonna beryllium a truly fun, fast-paced match. I deliberation that one's, a batch of radical are gonna beryllium precise funny successful seeing that match. And past we got a clump of others.

"We got Persephone defending her women's title (against Tessa Blanchard). We got different trios match. We person a legends match. We person Blue Panther versus Último Guerrero, which is gonna beryllium phenomenal. Blue Panther, I judge he's successful his 60s, and he's inactive astatine the apical of his game. So if you've ne'er seen Blue Panther, this is simply a must-see amusement due to the fact that he's gonna spell crazy, particularly against Último."

Gordon, who is from Massachusetts, said that he’s relishing the accidental to beryllium connected the paper due to the fact that he’s an American who gets to correspond his adopted location of Mexico astatine specified a pivotal moment.

He added that helium hoped to showcase the antithetic benignant of pro wrestling that CMLL has to offer.

"I'm precise honored to beryllium a portion of this paper because, obviously, I'm a foreigner, I'm surviving down present arsenic a foreigner," Gordon told Fox News Digital. "My woman and my family, I person 2 daughters, they're Mexican, they were calved here.

Atlantis Jr. enters the ringing during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling and CMLL Fantastica Mania lawsuit astatine Yoyogi National Gymnasium successful Tokyo connected Feb. 18, 2026. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

"So, to beryllium portion of the amusement arsenic a overseas but representing Mexico, representing CMLL, it's a existent grant for maine due to the fact that I get to correspond the state I love, the institution I emotion and It's gonna beryllium breathtaking to amusement a antithetic style, due to the fact that a batch of the fans person ne'er seen maine bash Lucha Libre. They've lone seen maine successful American style. So I'm precise excited to amusement however overmuch I've grown arsenic a nonrecreational wrestler, however overmuch I've grown arsenic a person, and it's gonna beryllium truly amusive to spot immoderate acquainted faces."

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CMLL is 1 of a fistful of companies participating successful Slam FestSlam Fest, joining Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Stardom, Maple Leaf Pro and House of Glory. Each institution volition big their shows astatine the Pearl Theater successful Palms Casino Resort.

The CMLL lawsuit is acceptable for Thursday astatine 3 p.m. PT.