El Protector is an annual lucha libre tournament held by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) in January of each year. The El Protector tournament started in 2012 but was preceded in 2010 and 2011 by the Torneo Relampago de Proyeccion a Nuevas Promesas de la Lucha Libre ("Projecting a new promise lightning tournament"), a tournament with the same format and concept. The concept of the tournament is to team a young up-and-comer with a veteran and use the tournament to help showcase the younger talent, the young winner is often someone IWRG has plans for, although at times it has not always had the desired result. The tournament has always been held in Arena Naucalpan in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, the main arena of IWRG. A total of 66 different wrestlers have competed in the seven tournaments held so far with Veneno being the only wrestler to compete in all seven. Alan Extreme, Eterno and Trauma I are the only three wrestlers to compete both as a rookie and as a veteran in the tournament. X-Fly is the only wrestler to win the tournament twice, winning the 2012 tournament and the 2013 tournament as a veteran.
List of El Protector winners YearWinnersDateNoteRookieVeteran2010El Hijo del SignoDr. Cerebro2011Comando NegroScorpio, Jr.2012X-Fly2013Carta Brava, Jr.X-Fly (2)2014Electro BoySuper Nova2015MetaleonNegro Navarro2016Atomic StarHerodes Jr.2017Diablo Jr.Negro Navarro2018Villano V Jr.Rokambole Jr.
Dates, venues and main events EventDateVenueCityMain event 2010Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoEl Hijo del Signo and Dr. Cerebro vs. Comando Negro and Oficial 911 – 2010 Proyeccion a Nuevas Promesas tournament final2011Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoComando Negro and Scorpio, Jr. vs. Multifacetico IV and Trauma I – 2011 Proyeccion a Nuevas Promesas tournament final2012Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoImposible and X-Fly vs. Centvrión and Negro Navarro – 2012 El Protector tournament final2013Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoCarta Brava, Jr. and X-Fly vs. Eita and Negro Navarro – 2013 El Protector tournament final2014Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoElectro Boy and Súper Nova vs. Atomic Star and Eterno – 2014 El Protector tournament final2015Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoChicano and Danny Casas defended the IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship against Los Primos Dinamita (Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 and Universo 2000 Jr.)2016Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoAtomic Star and Herodes Jr. vs. Dragón Fly and El Hijo de Dos Caras - 2016 El Protector tournament final2017Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoImposible and Black Terry vs. Demonio Infernal and Negro Navarro - 2017 El Protector tournament final2018Arena NaucalpanNaucalpan, State of MexicoVillano V Jr. and Rokambole Jr. vs. Ram El Carnero and Trauma I - 2018 El Protector tournament final
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