page_title: CMLL International Gran Prix (2008)
section_title: Event
hierarchical_section_title: CMLL International Gran Prix (2008) / Event
caption_attribution_description: English: Ultimo Guerrero at the last match at a CMLL lucha libre event part of Festival Día de Reyes Territorial Obrera Doctores in Mexico City
context_page_description: The CMLL International Gran Prix (2008) was a lucha libre, or professional wrestling, tournament produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre that took place on the July 25, 2008 CMLL Super Viernes show in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, CMLL's main venue. The 2008 International Gran Prix was the eleventh time CMLL held an International Gran Prix tournament since 1994 and the last one held until the 2016 tournament was announced.
  The International Gran Prix tournament featured a 16-man Torneo Cibernetico elimination with a team representing Mexico facing "Team International", a combination of foreign wrestlers that worked for CMLL at the time and six wrestlers from Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Alex Shelley of Team International eliminated Último Guerrero as the last man to win the tournament. The International Gran Prix tournament took place on the same night of the finals of the Leyenda de Plata tournament where Místico defeated Perro Aguayo Jr. to win that tournament.
context_section_description: The opening match of the show was a best two-out-of-three-falls tag team match featuring four wrestlers from CMLL's Mini-Estrella division as the rudo team of Pierrothito and Universito 2000 faced off against the tecnico team of  Niño de Acero and Pequeño Ninja. The first two falls were split between the teams in less than five minutes, with the third and deciding fall lasting longer than the first two combined. After 11 minutes, 32 second Pierrothito pinned Pequeño Ninja to win the match for his side. The second match of the night was the only Best two-out-of-three-falls six-man tag team match of the show, normally the most common match type in Lucha Libre. For the match Dragón Rojo Jr., El Satánico and Virus won the first fall when Los Bombardieros (Flash and Stuka Jr.) were forced to submit to Satánico and Virus. In the second fall the third tecnico, Mictlán, pinned Dragón Rojo Jr. to further the ongoing storyline between the two. In the third fall, the rudo team was by disqualification when Dragón Rojo Jr. intentionally unmasked his Mictlán in plain view of the referee. Unmasking an opponent during a match is an automatic disqualification in lucha libre.
  The third match of the night was the International Gran Prix tournament. Christopher Daniels was originally scheduled to be part of "Team International" but was replaced with Johnny Devine due to a TNA storyline where Daniels supposedly had been fired from the company. The sixteen-man torneo cibernetico match lasted almost a full hour, officially timed at 57 minutes and 37 seconds from the opening bell to the last elimination. For the first eighteen minutes of the match Team Mexico and Team International members took turns facing off in the middle of the ring, allowing all sixteen wrestlers to show off their skills before a single man was eliminated from the tournament. Rey Bucanero gave Team Mexico an advantage when he pinned Alex Koslov 18 minutes, 5 seconds into the match. The next three eliminations were all from Team Mexico as Averno (by Sonjay Dutt), Volador Jr. (by Jay Lethal) and Rey Bucanero (by A.J. Styles) were eliminated. The fifth elimination of the night happened just over thirty minutes into the match as Sonjay Dutt was pinned by Héctor Garza. Five minutes later Último Guerrero took advantage of the referee being distracted to his Styles' with a low blow, allowing Guerrero to pin A.J. Styles evening the sides between the two teams to five-a-side. Further eliminations followed with Dos Caras Jr. (by Marco Corleone), Jay Lethal (by Dr. Wagner Jr.), Johnny Devine (by Shocker) and Héctor Garza (by Corleone) brought the numbers down to six in total, three on each team.
  At this point, Team International's Sabin and Shelley took advantage of their well-developed teamwork, having worked together as the Motor City Machine Guns since 2006, by double-teaming Dr. Wagner Jr. to allow Shelley to eliminate the Doctor over 47 minutes into the match. Just over a minute later Shocker and Último Guerrero countered one of Corleone's high flying moves to pin and eliminate Corleone from Team International. A double Superkick to Shocker allowed Shelley and Sabin to eliminate him, leaving Último Guerrero as the only member of Team Mexico. Último Guerrero was able to pin Chris Sabin, leaving only himself and Shelley. In the closing moments of the match, Último Guerrero managed to pin Sabin, eliminating him from the match. Minutes later Alex Shelley locked in a submission hold, then pulled Guerrero's mask off in the process out of view of the referee. The hold and Guerrero's attempts to cover his face led to Último Guerrero submitting to the hold moments later, giving Alex Shelley the victory and the International Gran Prix trophy. After the match Último Guerrero challenged Alex Shelley to a Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match", where Shelly would risk his hair against Guerrero's wrestling mask. Shelly said he would think about it and would give Guerrero an answer after he had a chance to relax.
  The main event for the 2008 Leyenda de Plata tournament was a singles match between CM
caption: Último Guerrero, the last man eliminated in the International Gran Prix tournament
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