Английская Википедия:Fantastica Mania 2020

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox professional wrestling event Fantastica Mania 2020 was a professional wrestling show tour, scripted and co-produced by the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion and the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion. The tour started on January 10 and ran until January 21, 2020, with shows taking place in Osaka, Ehime, Kyoto, Aichi, and four shows in Tokyo at Korakuen Hall.

The 2020 tour was the tenth year in a row that NJPW and CMLL has co-promoted shows in Japan under the Fantastica Mania name. With a total of eight shows, the tour tied the 2018 tour and the 2019 tour as the longest in Fantastica Mania history. Select events were shown on Fighting TV Samurai and TV Asahi, or live on NJPW World with subsequent video-on-demand options.

Background

The 2020 Fantastica Mania tour was the tenth year in a row where Japanese wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promoted a series of shows with their Mexican partner promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Due to the co-promotional nature of the shows, they rarely feature any development in ongoing NJPW or CMLL storylines, instead the shows generally focus on inter-promotional matches between CMLL and NJPW.

The 2020 tour included 8 shows, the same as the 2019 tour. Starting on Friday January 11 in Osaka at the Edion Arena Osaka, the show then runs through Ehime (January 12), Kyoto (January 13), Aichi (January 16) and four shows in Tokyo at the Korakuen Hall (January 17, 19, 20 and 21). The shows from Korakuen Hall were streamed live on NJPW World.

Storylines

Each of the 2020 Fantastica Mania shows features a number of professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL and NJPW with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. Wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that play the part of the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they perform.

The CMLL participants for the 2020 tour were announced on October 16, 2019, and included:

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Bárbaro Cavernario during the 2017 Fantastica Mania tour.

Rank	# of tours	Show(s)
Ángel de Oro	3	2019 2018 2015
Audaz	1	2019
Bárbaro Cavernario	5	2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Carístico	2	2019 2011
Negro Casas	0
El Cuatrero	2	2019 2018
Dulce Gardenia	0
Euforia	2	2017 2013
Forastero	1	2019
Flyer	1	2019
Fuego	3	2018 2016 2014
Guerrero Maya Jr.	1	2016
Luciferno	0
Niebla Roja	2	2018 2014
Okumura	9	2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Sansón	2	2019 2018
Soberano Jr.	3	2019 2018 2017
Stuka Jr.	4	2017 2016 2015 2014
Tiger	0
Titán	5	2019 2017 2016 2014 2013
Último Guerrero	6	2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

The 2020 tour marked the Fantasticamania debut for CMLL wrestlers Negro Casas, Dulce Gardenia, Lucifierno and Tiger. Casas was originally scheduled for the 2018 tour but had to miss it due to injury. For the first time in six years neither Volador Jr. nor Místico participated in the tour. Okumura is the only wrestler to participate in every Fantastica Mania tour, in part because of his role of liaison and translator for those that only speak Spanish on the CMLL contingent. Okumura and Carístico are the only two 2020 participants who were also on the first tour, at the time Carístico was known as "Místico".

Results

January 10

Retired wrestler Jushin Thunder Liger and NJPW chairman Naoki Sugabayashi joined the regular commentary team for the NJPW World broadcast of the event. Before the main event, Sugabayashi presenented OKUMURA with a plaque, commemorating his 25 professional wrestling anniversary.

See also

• 2020 in professional wrestling