page_title: AAA When Worlds Collide
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: AAA When Worlds Collide / Background
caption_attribution_description: Eddie Guerrero at a SmackDown! taping in Tacoma, WA on February 10, 2004.DSCN6696.JPG
context_page_description: When Worlds Collide was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event that took place on November 6, 1994, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. It was scripted and produced by the Mexican lucha libre company Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, now known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, and their American partner, International Wrestling Council. The show was produced by the technical staff of World Championship Wrestling. WCW Executive Vice-President Eric Bischoff had helped AAA secure the show to be broadcast by American pay-per-view providers, marking the first time a non-US-based wrestling promotion was shown live on US PPV television. The show was broadcast in both English and Spanish. Chris Cruise and Mike Tenay called the action in English, while Arturo Rivera and Andrés Maroñas handled the Spanish announcing. This event also marked Tenay's first commentating role in professional wrestling. It is one of the few pay-per-view events not made available for streaming on the WWE Network service.
context_section_description: The event featured five professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
  The driving storyline behind When Worlds Collide was the emergence and dominance of a group known as Los Gringos Locos, who had become the top rudo group in AAA. Initially after joining AAA, Eddie Guerrero had teamed up with El Hijo del Santo to form a tag team known as La Pareja Atomics "("The Atomic Team"), with AAA booker Antonio Peña invoking the fact that their famous fathers, Gory Guerrero and El Santo, had formed a very successful tag team in the past. The Los Gringos Locos storyline began as Art Barr started to convince Guerrero that he was in the shadow of Hijo del Santo, just like his father had been in the shadow of El Santo. The storyline tension between the tag team partners was bolstered by the fact that Guerrero and Hijo del Santo did not get along behind the scenes, but teamed up because it made sense business-wise. After some prodding by Barr, Guerrero turned on his partner and joined with Barr to form a team that became known as La Pareja del Terror ("The Terror Team"), but also earned the nickname Los Gringos Locos after a commentator stated that "those Gringos are Loco".
  With the turn, Peña wanted the team to play up their "Americanness", with Barr and Guerrero wrestling in red, white, and blue gear and the two reminding the audience that the "American way" was better, as they cheated their way to victory. El Hijo del Santo received backup in the form of Octagón, a very popular masked técnico who had starred in several Lucha Libre Films in the past. The feud between the two teams would evolve into Barr and Guerrero recruiting other wrestlers, most importantly Konnan, who up until joining Los Gringos Locos was one of the most popular técnicos in Mexico. They were also joined by Madonna's Boyfriend, Black Cat, and Chicano Power, forming what was the first real "stable" in Mexico.
  Guerrero and Barr focused on Hijo del Santo and Octagón, using Los Gringos as backup whenever they needed them. On November 5, 1993, Hijo del Santo and Octagón defeated La Pareja del Terror to become the first team to hold the AAA World Tag Team Championship.
  On July 23, 1994, La Pareja del Terror won the tag team titles, with the storyline being that the duo had paid off the referee to call the match in their favor. The referee, known as "El Tirantes" (the Suspenders), became a rudo referee from that day on. The "theft" of the tag team championship led Hijo del Santo and Octagón to lay down what is considered the ultimate challenge in Lucha Libre, a Lucha de Apuestas, or bet match. For the match, Hijo del Santo and Octagón would "bet" their masks against the hair of Barr and Guerrero, a challenge that La Pareja del Terror eagerly accepted, and the match was set for the When Worlds Collide show in Los Angeles.
  The other Los Gringos Locos-related storyline started when Konnan joined sides with Barr and Guerrero, switching from being a tecnico that was highly favored by the crowd to being a hated rudo, as he turned on his long-time partner Perro Aguayo in a match against Los Gringos Locos in August 1994. The storyline played off the fact that years previously, Perro Aguayo had forced Konnan to unmask when he pinned Konnan in a Luchas de Apuestas match in CMLL. Konnan and Aguayo would face off several times over the following months, often as the captains in six-man tag team matches, most of which ended with inconclusive outcomes and both wrestlers hitting each other with chairs and other objects. On August 6, 1994, on a show called Night of Champions in the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Konnan teamed up with Jake "The Snake" Roberts to defeat the team of Aguayo and Vampiro Canadiense in two straight falls. After the 
caption: Eddie Guerrero (in 2004) part of La Pareja del Terror
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