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Six-man tag match set for MLW Azteca Underground tapings

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Rivals Alex Hammerstone and Richard Holliday are facing off in six-man tag team action at MLW’s Azteca Underground event in Dallas.

MLW has announced that Hammerstone & The Von Erichs (Marshall & Ross Von Erich) vs. Holliday, King Muertes & Mads Krugger will take place at the Friday, April 1 Azteca Underground tapings. The tapings are being held at Gilley’s Dallas.

Hammerstone and Holliday were formerly stablemates in The Dynasty. On an episode of MLW Fusion that aired last month, Holliday turned against Hammerstone and got together with Alicia Atout.

Atout will be in Holliday’s corner for the six-man tag match.

Hammerstone is the current MLW World Heavyweight Champion. He won the title from Jacob Fatu last October.

MLW also has a set of television tapings at Gilley’s Dallas on Thursday, March 31. “Intimidation Games” is the name of that set of tapings.

The updated card for the Azteca Underground show is listed below:

  • Azteca Apocalypto match: LA Park vs. Jacob Fatu
  • Alex Hammerstone & The Von Erichs vs. Richard Holliday, King Muertes & Mads Krugger
  • Bandido vs. Flamita
  • nZo vs. KC Navarro
  • MLW National Openweight Champion Alex Kane defends against Puma King, ACH, and Myron Reed in a four-way match
  • Mexican strap match: Aramis vs. Gino Medina
  • Aerostar, Microman & El Dragon vs. Arez, Mini Abismo Negro, and a mystery partner
  • Octagon Jr. vs. Matt Cross
  • Chik Tormenta vs. Holidead

Four participants added to MLW Battle Riot match

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Image: MLW

Four participants have been added to the field for this year’s MLW Battle Riot match.

MLW announced today that King Muertes (formerly known as Mil Muertes), Caribbean Champion Richard Holliday, Zenshi, and Lee Moriarty will be taking part in the Battle Riot. The match is taking place at MLW’s television tapings at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 10.

Moriarty is making his MLW debut at the tapings.

The four wrestlers join MLW National Openweight Champion Alex Hammerstone as the first participants announced for the Battle Riot.

The Battle Riot is a 40-man battle royal where two wrestlers start the match and then a new participant is added every 60 seconds. There are no disqualifications, and eliminations can occur by pinfall, submission, or being thrown over the top rope. The winner of the Battle Riot will receive an MLW World Heavyweight Championship shot whenever they want it.

Jacob Fatu is the current MLW World Heavyweight Champion. In storyline, Fatu’s Contra Unit stablemate Josef Samael controls the challenges to Fatu’s title and has denied Hammerstone a title shot. The Battle Riot is Hammerstone’s only path to a title match.

This will be the third Battle Riot match that MLW has presented. Tom Lawlor won the first Battle Riot in 2018 and LA Park won the second Battle Riot in 2019.

The July 10 tapings in Philadelphia are the start of a new season for MLW. It will be the first MLW event with fans in attendance since March 2020.

King Muertes signs multi-year deal with MLW

Posted on by Josh Nason

After debuting in MLW following its restart earlier this year, Court Bauer is keeping King Muertes around a bit longer, announcing on Twitter that he has signed the former Lucha Underground star to a multi-year deal.

Formerly known as Mil Muertes, he debuted in January as part of Salina de la Renta’s Promociones Dorado faction. He defeated Brian Pillman Jr. in his first match, followed by a victory over Savio Vega in an Aztec jungle fight. Wins over Parrow and Gringo Loco followed, but he was unsuccessful in dethroning National Openweight Champion Alex Hammerstone.

With de la Renta written off as a sacrifice to Cesar Duran (the former Dario Cueto) in the season finale, Muertes will be part of Duran’s Azteca Underground group going forward.

Muertes will join a reshuffled roster that includes Jacob Fatu, Hammerstone, Tom Lawlor, King Mo, Gringo Loco, Davey Richards, Alex Kane, Calvin Tankman, Gino Medina and the Von Erichs. More names will be announced over the next few weeks as MLW continues their weekly YouTube draft shows.

They will hold their next TV taping in Philadelphia this July.