{"id":15923,"date":"2018-03-22T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=15923"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:33:50","slug":"the-departure-of-mesias-ricky-banderas-leaves-aaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/22\/the-departure-of-mesias-ricky-banderas-leaves-aaa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Departure of Mes\u00edas: Ricky Banderas leaves AAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the only 4-time <strong>AAA<\/strong> Mega Champion, <strong>\u201cMes\u00edas\u201d Ricky Banderas<\/strong>, announced on social media that his 12-year run with Mexican wrestling promotion AAA had ended. He stated on his Facebook that a press conference was going to be held to announce his next plans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15932\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15932 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/banderas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/banderas.jpg 421w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/banderas-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: AAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Banderas is from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and started as a Latino prospect in Puerto Rico and for WWF\/E \u2013\u00a0his name is a combination of\u00a0pop artist Ricky Martin and Banderas from Antonio Banderas. He made a name for himself as the ace of Victor Quinone\u2019s <strong>International Wrestling Association<\/strong>. With Banderas, IWA Puerto Rico shatter attendance records and even had a match that is deemed today as one of the best match in the island\u2019s history, with Banderas going at it with <strong>El Rey Fenix<\/strong> (not to be confuse with the Lucha Underground star Fenix el Rey) in a sold-out baseball stadium in the early 2000s. He also would end up having legendary feuds with the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/10\/11\/puerto-rico-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>El Leon Apolo<\/strong>, <strong>Vampiro<\/strong>, <strong>Slash<\/strong> <strong>Venom<\/strong> (Flash Flanagan) and the iconic duo with <strong>Shane<\/strong> <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>Glamour<\/strong> <strong>Boy<\/strong> as \u201cLos Hermanos del Dolor\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IWA Lucha del Siglo Ricky Banderas VS Rey Fenix 2002\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-2NCQxknow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2006, push by people like IWA agent, <strong>Bushwhacker<\/strong> <strong>Luke<\/strong>, Banderas joined AAA as Muerte Cibern\u00e9tica, were he would feud with <strong>La Parka<\/strong>. Banderas joined <strong>Cibern\u00e9ticos<\/strong> stable in AAA \u201cLa Secta Cibern\u00e9tica\u201d and would later fight over the supremacy in the group against Cibern\u00e9tico in a Casket Match.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15934\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15934 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/Judas-Mesias-e1521746985300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Impact Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Banderas would wrestle in IWA and various Latin American countries, but returned in 2007 to AAA as El Mesias, which was base off Banderas\u2019s gimmick in IWA Puerto Rico. He would catapult himself to stardom in Mexico, winning the Mega Championship tournament and in the process becoming the first ever AAA Mega Champion. Mesias headlined various <strong>TripleMania<\/strong> and feud with the likes of <strong>L.A. Park<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Wagner Jr<\/strong>., <strong>Texano Jr<\/strong> and <strong>El Hijo del Perro Aguayo<\/strong>. In his resume in AAA, he holds victories over WWE Champion <strong>AJ Styles<\/strong>, WWE Hall of Famers <strong>Sting<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Jarret<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15936\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15936 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/rs-205224-Lucha03-e1521747122668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El Rey Network \/ Lucha Underground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was his success in AAA, that made other promotions like <strong>Total<\/strong> <strong>Non<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Stop<\/strong> <strong>Action<\/strong> (<strong>TNA<\/strong> and now <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong>) and the <strong>MTV<\/strong> <strong>Project<\/strong> <strong>Wrestling<\/strong> <strong>Society<\/strong> <strong>X<\/strong> notice him. \u00a0In his resume, he has won the <strong>Lucha Underground<\/strong> title, the WSX title, <strong>WWC<\/strong> Universal title, he AAA Mega Championship (in four occasion) and a dozen of other titles between Puerto Rico and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AAA-AJ Styles vs El Mesias-TNA World Heavyweight Championship(FULL MATCH)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AzzNxFQP9fU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In his latter years, even with his popularity as <strong>Mil Muertes<\/strong>, Mesias took a backseat in AAA and was less feature. Even with the chaos of the company, with veterans and young promising talents like <strong>Penta<\/strong> <strong>0M<\/strong> and <strong>Fenix<\/strong> leaving, Mesias stayed with AAA until now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15935\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/Mil-Muertes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/Mil-Muertes.jpg 446w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/Mil-Muertes-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El Rey Network \/ Lucha Underground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He is still scheduled to appear in the LU vs. Impact Wrestling show in Wrestlecon but is unclear what other promotion he will work next. <strong>The Crash<\/strong> seems logical and he still in LU\u2019s 4th season. With a proliferation of Puerto Rican promotions in Florida appearing, it&#8217;s no secret that Banderas will be working more actively in that area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the only 4-time AAA Mega Champion, \u201cMes\u00edas\u201d Ricky Banderas, announced on social media that his 12-year run with Mexican wrestling promotion AAA had ended. He stated on his Facebook that a press conference was going to be held to announce his next plans. Banderas is from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and started as a Latino [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":15933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2,15,6],"tags":[678,145,2376,917,2375,226,1517,591,2377,137,1314,2374,588,1109,2378,989],"class_list":["post-15923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aaa","category-featured","category-lucha-underground","category-north-america","tag-aaa","tag-aj-styles","tag-cibernetico","tag-dr-wagner-jr","tag-el-hijo-del-perro-aguayo","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-iwa-pr","tag-jeff-jarrett","tag-l-a-park","tag-lucha-underground","tag-mesias","tag-mill-muertes","tag-sting","tag-texano-jr","tag-wsx","tag-wwc"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}