Head trainer of French Professional Wrestling Organisation touring Mexico
WrestleMap recently heard from El Matador, a Portuguese wrestler who’s currently based out of France and working as the head trainer at the French Professional Wrestling Organisation. El Matador reached out to discuss some details about a current excursion he’s on in Mexico. As a site that focuses on international pro wrestling, one of our favorite things to cover is wrestlers traveling around the world.
El Matador shared a recent experience with us that we thought was cool and unique and worth sharing with our readers here. He recently wrestled at an event in Villa Guadalupe Xalostoc, a village located in the State of Mexico, that was organized by the town’s mayor. The event wasn’t affiliated with a local promotion, but instead, was a one time spot show.
El Matador, for his part, wrestled in a best of 3 falls trios tag match. His team consisted of Robin and Guerrero Maya from the CMLL, one of Mexico’s major Lucha Libre promotions. They took on the team of CMLL veterans Nitro and Rey Bucanero, and Antoine St. Brice.
El Matador poses for the camera
El Matador’s team would go on to win the bout after losing the first fall but taking the second two. Being able to add a win against a lucha legend like Rey Bucanero to your record is definitely a pretty cool achievement.
El Matador is set to remain in Mexico until the end of May and plans to wrestle on more events while he’s in the country. Thanks to El Matador for sending over this info and good luck to him the rest of this month!
May 7 Update: El Matador was invited to the May 7th show at Arena Coliseo, CMLL’s home arena. There, he met up with CMLL luchador Nitro and the two posed for some photos as they are both members of the group Mafia Française.
May 12 Update: El Matador will be competing on an event promoted by Lucha Libre legend Rey Bucanero. The show is set for Saturday, May 21st at Arena Rey Bucanero in Mexico City. At the event, Matador will be teaming with French wrestler Antoine St. Brice in a tag team match against Ganicus and Sangre Taurina.
May 15 Update: El Matador wrested in a trios match at the Rey Bucanero Arena on a private show in a one fall match. He teamed with El Furia and Blue Win and they took on ABC, Perseo and Antoine St. Brice. Matador’s team took the victory after all three wrestlers rolled up one of their opponents in a small package for the pinfall.
Then, on May 14th, El Matador made his CMLL debut at at the Auditorio Miguel Barragan in the city of San Luis Potosi. In his debut match, he teamed with Stuka, Panterita del Ring and Templario against Rey Bucanero, Nitro, Okumura and Antoine St Brice. Matador’s team would go on to win the best of three falls match by taking the second and third fall.
El Matador poses with his teammates from his CMLL debut match on May 14, 2022.
May 21 Update: El Matador was busy on May 21, wrestling two matches for two different promotions.
His first bout of the day came while competing at Arena Rey Bucanero in Ecatepec for Rey Bucanero’s promotion. Matador teamed up with Frenchman Antoine St. Brice to take on Ganicus and Sangre Taurina in a tag team match. El Matador and his partner came out of this match on the losing end of things.
Then, for his second match of the day, El Matador competed for Mexican promotion WFS at the Arena Aztahuacan in Santa Maria Aztahuacan. In this bout, Matador teamed up with Antoine St. Brice and Darketo in a triple threat trios match. They took on the teams of Rock Star 1, Rock Star 2, and Acolito del Diablo and Xibalba, Radiante and Majestic. El Matador and his team lost this match as well, with El Matador being forced to submit to Rock Star 1 and Rock Star 2 pinning Antoine St. Brice simultaneously.
El Matador provided some photos from the Rey Bucanero show that you can see below.
May 29 Update: El Matador, Antoine St. Brice and Nitro spent some time at Arena Mexico doing some promo work for CMLL.
