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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
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| Los Infernales | |
|---|---|
| Stable | |
| Members | Averno Euforia Mephisto |
| Name | Los Nuevo Infernales |
| Former members | El Satánico MS-1 Pirata Morgan Espectro Jr. Belcebu Masakre MS-1 Jr MS-2 II Último Guerrero Rey Bucanero Tarzan Boy Máscara Magica Nosferatu Virus (Unofficial) Hechicero |
| Debut | 1983[1][2] |
Los Infernales (Spanish for "the Infernals") is a Mexican professional wrestling group, called a stable. The stable was created in 1984 and consisted of El Satánico, MS-1 and Espectro Jr. A later version where Pirata Morgan replaced Espectro Jr. is considered the "classic" Infernales team that helped popularize the "Trios" team concept in lucha libre. MS-1, Satánico and Pirata Morgan were both the first Mexican National Trios Champions and the first CMLL World Trios Champions.
A later version of Los Infernales, Los Nuevo Infernales became the stable known as Los Guerreros del Infierno after they turned on Satánico and formed a rival stable. The current version of Los Infernales consists of Euforia, Mephisto and Averno.
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In the early 1980s the trios concept became very popular in Mexico, spearheaded by the trio called Los Misioneros de Muerte ("The Missionaries of Death") who worked for rival promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA). EMLL decided to create a trio of rudos (villains in lucha libre) to capitalize on the popularity of the trios phenomenon. MS-1, El Satánico and Espectro Jr. were chosen to form Los Infernales ("The Infernals").[3] Due to various injuries Espectro Jr. was forced to retire from wrestling all together, leaving Los Infernales one man short. Satánico and MS-1 were briefly paired up with a wrestler called Belcebu ("Beelzebub") but the trio just did not work well together (allegedly only lasting for 2 matches).[4]
Belcebu was replaced with Pirata Morgan and the trio of MS-1, Satánico and Pirata Morgan quickly became one of the most successful Trios of its time.[5] In March 1985 Los Infernales participated in a tournament to determine the first ever Mexican National Trios Champions; Los Infernales defeated the two teams in the preliminary rounds to qualify for the finals.[6] In the finals Los Infernales defeated Los Brazos ("the Arms"; El Brazo, Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) to become the first ever Mexican National Trios champions.[7] That match was just the first match in a long running Inferlanes/Brazos storyline that would run off and on over the next decade. Los Brazos won the initial feud when they defeated Los Infernales for the Mexican Nations Trios Title on December 8, 1985.[7] In October 1986, Pirata Morgan left the group to form a new group called Los Bucaneros, in his place Los Infernales recruited Masakre to be their third member. On March 20, 1987, MS-1 and Masakre teamed up to defeat Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000) to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship, starting a feud with Los Hermanos Dinamita.[8] while MS-1 and Masakre worked as a tag team, Satánico focused more and more on singles competition, which meant that Los Infernales made fewer appearances as a trio.[3] MS-1 and Masakre defended the Mexican National Tag Team titles for just over a year until losing them to Atlantis and Ángel Azteca on April 6, 1988.[8] El Satánico left Los Infernales to focus on his singles career, while MS-1 and Masakre began arguing, then fighting after the two of them lost the tag team titles thus ending Los Infernales. MS-1 and Masakre faced off in a series of matches, culminating with a headline Luchas de Apuestas match at Arena Mexico that MS-1 won.
In the early 1990s Los Infernales reformed, reuniting MS-1, Satánico and Pirata Morgan. The trio participated in the tournament to crown the first ever CMLL World Trios Champions. Los Infernales won the tournament, defeating Los Brazos in the finals to become the first ever CMLL World Trios Champions on November 22, 1991.[7] Former Infernales member Masakre had formed his own group, Los Intocables ("The Untouchables") consisting of himself, Pierroth Jr. and Jaque Mate ("Checkmate"). Los Intocables were immediately paired with Los Infernales to create a rudos vs. rudos storyline, playing off both the championship chase and the history between the two groups. On March 22, 1992 Los Intocables won the CMLL World Trios Title, however Los Infernales got the final victory in their feud as they defeated Los Intocables for the championship on September 20, 1992.[7] After the storyline with Los Intocables ended Los Infernales renewed their rivalry with Los Brazos, facing off in several main events that drew sell-out crowds all over Mexico. On April 6, 1993 Los Brazos won the CMLL World Trios Title from Los Infernales; a victory that only helped increase the intensity of the rivalry. The Infernales / Brazos feud did not end with a conclusive victory for either side but rather slowed down and then stopped when Los Infernales split up in the mid 1990s. Both Satánico and Pirata Morgan left CMLL for periods of time to work for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, CMLL's main rival and in 1996 MS-1 left CMLL for good.
After leaving CMLL MS-1 became a wrestling promoter, promoting shows in smaller arenas around Naucalpan, while also forming a new Los Infernales trio on the Mexican Independent circuit, teaming with his son who wrestled as "MS-1 Jr." and "MS-2", who was often played by various local wrestlers and not one specific person.[5] By the end of the 1990s MS-1 quietly retired from wrestling.
In the late 1990s Satánico reformed Los Infernales, recruiting the nephew of Pirata Morgan, Rey Bucanero and Último Guerrero to form Los Nuevo Infernales ("The New Infernals").[3] The trio won the Copa de Arena Mexico Tournament in 1999, but did not win any titles. After working together for just under a year Bucanero and Guerrero turned on Satánico, kicking him out of Los Nuevo Infernales, replacing him with Tarzan Boy.[9] Satánico formed his own Infernales, the storyline was that he used his "satanic influences" to turn Rencor Latino into Averno ("Hell")[10] and Astro Rey Jr. into Mephisto[11] to form Los Infernales and fight Los Nuevo Infernales.[3] When Tarzan Boy was injured, Los Nuevo Infernales brought in Máscara Mágica to bolster the group.
The storyline between Los Infernales and Los Nuevo Infernales came to a head when the two teams, seven men all together, faced off in a steel cage match where the winners would earn the right to the name "Los Infernales" and the last man in the cage would lose either his mask or his hair. On September 28, 2001, at the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show, Satánico's team won the right to the Infernales name and forced Máscara Mágica to unmask.[12] After losing the match Guerrero, Bucanero and Tarzan Boy became known collectively as Los Guerreros del Infierno ("The Infernal Soldiers"). On June 23, 2002, Satánico, Averno and Mephisto defeated the trio of Mr. Niebla, Olímpico and Safari to win the Mexican National Trios Championship. Los Infernales would only hold the Trios title for approximately three months before losing it to La Familia de Tijuana (Damián 666, Halloween and Nicho el Millonario).[13] Averno and Mephisto turned on Satánico shortly after the title loss and formed their own group known as La Trada del Terror ("The Trio of Terror") along with Ephesto.[3]
In 2007 Satánico reformed Los Infernales for the second time, teaming with young wrestlers that had recently been repackaged to more "heelish" images, Nosferatu and Euforia. The trios did not approach the success of the previous incarnations of Los Infernales, working mainly lower to mid-card matches; the group intended to give the two young wrestlers more ring experience and further training under Satánico. In 2009 Satánico announced that he was reducing the number of shows he would work to focus on his wrestling school, as a result Los Infernales teamed up with Virus as the de facto leader of Los Infernales when Satánico was not around. On November 19, 2009, CMLL unveiled a new group called Los Cancerberos del Infierno ("The Infernal Cerberi") which both Virus and Euforia were members of. With the start of the new group, Los Infernales quietly disbanded.[14]
on September 24, 2021, at the CMLL 88th Anniversary Show, Satánico reformed Los Infernales for a third time, in the aftermath of Hechicero defeating Último Guerrero for the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship. Although Hechicero does not usually have anyone second him, he made an exception for Satánico, because of his long running rivalry with Guerrero. Post-match, Hechicero accepted Satánico's invitation to join Los Infernales, alongside Euforia and Mephisto.[15] He led the team to winning the CMLL World Trios Championship on September 3, 2022 at the annual Noche De Campeones event. That same year, Averno returned to CMLL after a stint in AAA and occasionally teamed with the group as an associate member.
On June 2, 2023, Los Infernales started arguing during a title defence, causing them to lose the match and the trios championships. Hechicero immediately quit the group in frustration,[16] starting a rivalry that culminated in him taking Euforia's mask in a Lucha de Apuestas match at the CMLL 91st Anniversary Show. After Hechicero's exit, Averno was absorbed back into the team as a full-time member and de-facto leader. This version of the team in-turn regained the CMLL World Trios titles at the 2024 Noche De Campeones show on September 27, and lost them the following May to a revived El Sky Team led by Averno's eternal rival Mistico.
This decade also saw the introduction of a Las Infernales team of luchadoras, who shared the common trait of being trained by Satánico: Dark Silueta, Zeuxis, Lluvia & Valkiria.[17]
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Los Infernales (Spanish for "the Infernals") is a Mexican professional wrestling group, called a stable. The stable was created in 1984 and consisted of El Satánico, MS-1 and Espectro Jr. A later version where Pirata Morgan replaced Espectro Jr. is considered the "classic" Infernales team that helped popularize the "Trios" team concept in lucha libre. MS-1, Satánico and Pirata Morgan were both the first Mexican National Trios Champions and the first CMLL World Trios Champions. A later version of Los Infernales, Los Nuevo Infernales became the stable known as Los Guerreros del Infierno after they turned on Satánico and formed a rival stable. The current version of Los Infernales consists of Euforia, Mephisto and Averno.
Los Guerreros Laguneros (Spanish for "The Warriors from the Lagoon") is a professional wrestling stable based in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The stable was created in 2001 and has, since its inception, been led by Último Guerrero and has been the top rudo ("heel") stable in CMLL. Los Guerreros Laguneros currently consists of Último Guerrero, his younger brother Gran Guerrero and Stuka Jr. The group originally was created as a splinter group of Los Infernales founded by Último Guerrero, Rey Bucanero and Tarzan Boy. The group initially used the "Los Infernales" name until they were forced to change their name in 2001. At that point the group adopted the name Los Guerreros del Infierno ("The Infernal Warriors"). When Atlantis joined the group in 2005 they adopted the name Los Guerreros de la Atlantida ("The Warriors of Atlantis"), which was used interchangeably with the "Guerreros del Infierno" name. In 2011 Atlantis departed the group and it was renamed Los Guerreros Laguneros, referring to the fact that all members of the group were from the Comarca Lagunera area of Mexico. Since its inception various members of the team have held the CMLL World Tag Team Championship and the CMLL World Trios Championship as well as several individual championships. From 2004 until 2007 Los Guerreros were associated with Pandilla Guerrera ("Gang of Warriors"), a lower ranked group of wrestlers.
The CMLL World Trios Championship (Campeonato Mundial Trios de CMLL in Spanish) is the primary professional wrestling three-man tag team championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council") since 1993. Before the CMLL World Trios Championship was created, the Mexican National Trios Championship was the primary Trios championship in CMLL; since 1993, the Mexican National title has been relegated to a secondary championship compared to the CMLL World Trios Championship. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules. The first champions to be recognized by CMLL were MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico (a team known as Los Infernales; Spanish for "The Infernals") who defeated the team of El Brazo, Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata (known collectively as Los Brazos; Spanish for "The Arms") in the finals of a 16-team tournament. The current champions are El Sky Team (Máscara Dorada, Místico and Neón). They won the titles by defeating Los Infernales (Euforia, Averno and Mephisto) at Viernes Espectacular on May 16, 2025, in Mexico City, Mexico. they are the 37th team overall to win the championship. There have been 37 overall championship reigns; in total. La Ola Amarilla ("The Yellow Wave"; Okumura, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Taichi) held the championship the shortest time, at 14 days. Black Warrior, Blue Panther and Dr. Wagner Jr. hold the record for the longest single reign of any team, but due to the uncertainty of when the championship was vacated it can only be verified that they held them for a minimum of 1,141 days. Dr. Wagner Jr.'s four reigns combine to 2,051 days, the highest of any wrestler. Los Infernales and the team of El Hijo del Fantasma, Héctor Garza and La Máscara (Collectively known as Los Ángeles Rebeldes; "The Rebel Angels") are the only two trios to have won the title twice; Héctor Garza also holds the record for most individual reigns, with five reigns as part of four teams. The championship has been vacated six times, either because one or more members of the team left the promotion or because a team split up; each time a tournament was held to determine the new champions.
The CMLL World Trios Championship (Spanish: "Campeonato Mundial de Trios") is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico. The title has existed since 1991 and is contested for by teams of three wrestlers. The first champions were Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones"; MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico) who won a tournament on November 22, 1991. Since then 28 trios have held the championship. The current champions are El Sky Team (Máscara Dorada, Místico and Neón). They won the titles by defeating Los Infernales (Euforia, Averno and Mephisto) at Viernes Espectacular on May 16, 2025, in Mexico City, Mexico. The championship has been vacated on four occasions, each time leading to CMLL holding a tournament to determine new champions. Only two teams have held the title on more than one occasion, Los Infernales and the trio of Héctor Garza, Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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