Fantastica Mania 2019

Promotional poster for the third and fourth shows of the tour, featuring both CMLL and NJPW wrestlers

## Information

### Promotion

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
New Japan Pro Wrestling

### Date

January 11, 2019
January 12, 2019
January 13, 2019
January 14, 2019
January 16, 2019
January 18, 2019
January 20, 2019
January 21, 2019

### Attendance

1,082 (Jan 11)
1,090 (Jan 12)
801 (Jan 13)
1,607 (Jan 14)
1,015 (Jan 16)
1,526 (Jan 18)
1,560 (Jan 20)
1,582 (Jan 22)

### Venue

Edion Arena Osaka #2 (Jan 11)
Texport Imabari (Jan 12)
KBS Hall (Jan 13)
Gifu Industrial Hall (Jan 14)
Makuhari Messe (Jan 16)
Korakuen Hall (Jan 18-21)

### City

Osaka, Japan (Jan 11)
Ehime, Japan (Jan 12)
Kyoto, Japan (Jan 13)
Gifu, Japan (Jan 14)
Chiba, Japan (Jan 16)
Tokyo, Japan (Jan 18-21)

***Fantastica Mania* 2019** was a professional wrestling tour, co-produced by the Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion and the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion. The tour took place between January 11 and 21, 2019, with shows taking place in Osaka, Ehime, Kyoto, Gifu, Chiba and Tokyo. The 2019 shows were the nineth time that NJPW and CMLL co-promoted shows in Japan under the *Fantastica Mania* name. With eight shows, the 2019 tour was the second longest in *Fantastica Mania* history, with the first being in 2017. The shows featured six to seven matches each, including one to one match contested for a championship owned by CMLL.

## Background

The 2019 *Fantastica Mania* tour was the ninth year in a row where Japanese wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promoted a series of shows in Japan alongside their Mexican partner promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

The tour was officially announced on October 27, 2018, along with the CMLL wrestlers taking part in the tour. Included were returning wrestlers Angel de Oro, Atlantis, Bárbaro Cavernario, Carístico (who had previously take part of the event as Místico), Cuatrero, Dragon Lee, El Terrible, Gran Guerrero, Místico, Okumura, Sansón, Soberano Jr., Titan, Último Guerrero and Volador Jr., and the debuts of Audaz, Atlantis Jr., Flyer, Forastero and Templario. Also announced for the tour was CMLL ring announcer Ivan. The tour also featured the in-ring debut of Atlantis's son, Atlantis Jr., who worked every show on the tour.

The shows took place in Osaka, Ehime, Kyoto, Tokyo and for the first time in Chiba and Gifu, all hosted the Fantastica Mania events. The shows would air through NJPW's internet streaming site, NJPW World. Also announced was the CMLL Family Tag Tournament for the last nights of the tour. The tour also presented a memorial to the late Black Cat, who died of an heart attack on January 28, 2006.

The full card for the tour was released by the two promotions on January 8. The tour would include one title match, contested for a championship owned by CMLL. On January 21, Nueva Generacion Dinamitas (Cuatrero, Forastero and Sansón) would defend the Mexican National Trios Championship against Atlantis, Angel de Oro and Titan.

El Desperado, Sho and Yoh all competed under the ring personas they used during their training excursions with CMLL. El Desperado reprised his role as Namajague, CMLL's version of the Japanese folklore demon Namahage. Sho and Yoh, collectively known as Roppongi 3K, worked under the names Raijin and Fujin respectively. In the tour's last night, on January 21, the characters from the Japanese movie "My Dad is a Heel Wrestler" faced in a special tag team match, with the team of Dragon George (Kazuchika Okada) and SweetGorilla Maruyama (Togi Makabe) defeating the team of Gokiburi Mask (Hiroshi Tanahashi) and Ginbae Mask (Ryusuke Taguchi).

## Results

### January 11

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### January 12

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### January 13

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### January 14

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