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115-492: On September 27, 2019, founding member Rush and his father La Bestia del Ring announced their departures from CMLL. On December 14, Rush announced that he would be forming a new group, La Facción Ingobernable (Spanish for "The Ungovernable Faction"), which has since been featured in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), Ring of Honor (ROH), and All Elite Wrestling (AEW). On March 24, 2021, CMLL announced

230-509: A Lucha de Apuestas ("bet match"), forcing him to have his head shaved. In late 2014, Rush began sporadically teaming with his former El Bufete del Amor stablemate Marco Corleone . When Rush broke two bones in his ankle in November, Corleone took his place by La Máscara and La Sombra's side, becoming the fourth member of Los Ingobernables . Corleone remained a member of Los Ingobernables even after Rush's February 2015 return. While he

345-691: A Winner takes all four-way tag team match for both their old title and the ROH World Tag Team Championship , which was won by the Guerrillas of Destiny. From May to June 2019, both Bushi and Takagi took part in the Best of Super Juniors tournament. While Bushi would fail to advance in Block B with 12 points (with six wins and three losses), Takagi won block A by winning all nine of his matches and scoring 18 points; this set up

460-634: A pareja ("partner") to witness his match against Hiroshi Tanahashi , contested for Tanahashi's contract for a shot at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome . At the October 12 event, Takaaki Watanabe , making his NJPW return after a two-year overseas learning excursion, was revealed as Naito's pareja as he attacked Hiroshi Tanahashi during his match with Naito. Watanabe's outside interference

575-621: A Dos Leyendas , Pierroth lost his mask to Diamante Azul in a Lucha de Apuestas . After losing the Pierroth mask Muñoz began using the name La Besta del Ring ("The Beast of the Ring"), although some promotional material still referred to him as "Pierroth" for a while afterwards. After his mask loss Bestia del Ring became involved in a storyline feud with fellow rudo Vangelly over Vangelly's desire to join Los Ingobernables , which

690-420: A match initially scheduled for Rey de Reyes , he partnered El Hijo de L.A. Park and Blue Demon Jr. (as Rush El Toro Blanco and Bestia del Ring were unable to work the event), where they were defeated by Los Psycho Circus ( Psycho Clown , Monster Clown and Murder Clown ). Post-match, L.A. Park and Blue Demon Jr. brawled with each other, continuing their feud from earlier in the year. Rush also began teasing

805-418: A much better showing, defeating Suzuki-gun in a six-man tag team match. Later in the night, Both Sanada and Naito defeated Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb respectively in singles matches. On Night 3, LIJ defeated Pro Wrestling NOAH's , Kongoh stable. Following Wrestle Kingdom 16, Naito was announced as the first challenger to Kazuchika Okada's IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. He received his title shot on

920-626: A new group in CMLL called Los Boricuas where all members either actually were from Puerto Rico or pledged their allegiance to Puerto Rico as part of the storyline. Muñoz adopted a new name, Poder Boricua (Puerto Rican Power), a new storyline nationality and ring gear adorned with the Puerto Rican flag. As part of Los Boricuas he would at times team with El Boricua, Bulldog, Gran Markus Jr. , El Hijo del Pierroth , The Killer , Mastin, Nitro , Rico Suave , ' Veneno and Violencia . Poder Boricua

1035-565: A new member of the ROH branch, and at Final Battle , this was revealed to be La Bestia del Ring. On September 4, 2021, it was announced that Dralístico had joined La Facción Ingobernable , alongside his father and his brothers. On October 9, at Héroes Inmortales XIV , Dralístico and Dragon Lee challenged Los Lucha Bros ( Fénix and Pentagón Jr. ) for the AAA World Tag Team Championship , after they had retained

1150-476: A new record for most victories within the same block, as well as a new record for most points scored at the tournament (not counting the original 1988 tournament which used a different point system). He eventually lost in the final against Block B winner Will Ospreay on June 5, marking his first defeat in New Japan as a singles competitor. The match received considerable acclaim, with Dave Meltzer giving it

1265-500: A new version of La Facción Ingobernable. Los Ingobernables de Jap%C3%B3n Los Ingobernables de Japón ( ロス・インゴベルナブレス・デ・ハポン , Rosu Ingoberunaburesu de Hapon ) ( Spanish for "The Ungovernables of Japan" and often spelled without the accent as Los Ingobernables de Japon in English-speaking countries), also shortened to L.I.J. or Los Ingos , is a Japanese professional wrestling stable , based in

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1380-634: A partner was pinned. He would quickly form a tag team with Bushi; they competed in the Super Junior Tag Tournament , advancing to the final at Power Struggle where they lost to Roppongi 3K in a Three-way tag team match also involving Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado of Suzuki-Gun. At Wrestle Kingdom 13 , all five active members of the stable won titles: Naito regained the IWGP Intercontinental Championship from Jericho, Evil and Sanada won

1495-611: A pectoral muscle injury. On May 4, 2021, at Wrestling Dontaku 2021 , Takagi unccessfully challenged Will Ospreay for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (which Ibushi had created after winning the Heavyweight and Intercontinental from Naito, unified them into NJPW's new top title). However, after Ospreay suffered a neck injury during the match and vacated the title, Takagi faced Kazuchika Okada (originally Ospreay's next challenger) for

1610-534: A rare five and three-quarter out of five rating and calling it "the best junior heavyweight match I’ve ever seen and one of the best matches in any division"; it would go on to be Takagi's final match and only singles loss in the Junior Heavyweight division. At Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall , Naito regained the IWGP Intercontinental Championship from Ibushi, Evil and Sanada failed to capture

1725-532: A record of five wins and two losses, tied with block winners Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma, but failed to advance due to losing to Makabe and Honma in the head-to-head match. On December 10, Hiromu Takahashi joined Los Ingobernables de Japon . Takahashi had recently returned to NJPW from a three-year overseas learning excursion, during which he mainly worked for CMLL. On the same show, Bushi, Evil and Sanada defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan , Yuji Nagata and NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion Satoshi Kojima in

1840-408: A record of three losses and six wins, one of which came over the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada. Sanada, who won the head-to-head match against Evil, finished in the middle of the block with a record of four wins and five losses. On August 13, Naito defeated Kenny Omega in the final to win the 2017 G1 Climax. With Naito now fully embraced by the over 10,000 people in attendance,

1955-497: A record three NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship reigns for Bushi, Evil and Sanada, including a fourth reign for Bushi and Evil with Takagi. In addition to working with CMLL, Bushi has also held the CMLL World Welterweight Championship . Also within the company, Titán was also the first official non-Japanese wrestler to join the stable; overall twenty-nine title reigns took place within

2070-464: A regular basis with Misterioso, Jr. and Sagrado to form a regular trio. In early 2015 it was officially acknowledged as working under the name La Comando Caribeno with both Misterioso, Jr. and Sagrada adopting the imagery of the Puerto Rican flag in their ring gear. On March 18, 2016, Pierroth joined his son Rush's Los Ingobernables stable by helping him defeat Máximo Sexy in a Hair vs. Hair Lucha de Apuestas . On March 17, 2017, at Homenaje

2185-804: A rivalry with the Taguchi Japan stable over all three of their championships. Naito went on to successfully defend the Intercontinental Championship against Taguchi Japan members Michael Elgin and Juice Robinson , while Takahashi defended the Junior Heavyweight Championship against their stablemates Dragon Lee , Kushida, and Ricochet. Meanwhile, Bushi, Evil and Sanada exchanged the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship with members of Taguchi Japan multiple times. They first lost

2300-473: A single block where Bushi finished with 8 points, meanwhile Takahashi got through to the final with 14 points and defeated El Desperado to win the tournament for a second time. On January 4, 2021, at Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 1, Bushi was one of the final four who emerged from the New Japan Rambo as a winner and would face Toru Yano , Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens the next night on Night 2 for

2415-532: A singles match between the two on November 13, where Rush was victorious. After the match, the two founding members of Los Ingobernables made peace with each other. It later turned out that this was La Sombra's final CMLL match as on November 19 it was announced that he had signed with WWE . During the February 19 Super Viernes show, Rush, La Máscara and Corleone faced Atlantis, Valiente and Rush and Corleone's former Bufete del Amor partner Máximo Sexy in

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2530-466: A six-man tag team match, after which Bushi made a title challenge against Kojima and his championship partners David Finlay and Ricochet . On January 4, 2017, at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome , Bushi, Evil and Sanada defeated Finlay, Ricochet and Kojima as part of a four-team gauntlet match , which also included the Bullet Club trio of Bad Luck Fale , Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi and

2645-449: A six-man tag team match, when Rush allowed Volador Jr. to pin himself, reaffirming his previous invitation for Volador to join Los Ingobernables . In December, Evil and Sanada won their block in the 2017 World Tag League with a record of five wins and two losses, advancing to the final of the tournament. On December 11, they defeated Guerrillas of Destiny in the final to win the tournament. Six days later, Bushi, Evil and Sanada lost

2760-421: A six-man tag team match. After failing to get along with his partners throughout the match, Corleone stood up for Máximo as he was being brutalized by Rush and La Máscara, leading the two to turn on him and kick him out of Los Ingobernables . On March 18 at the 2016 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas , Rush defeated Máximo Sexy in a Hair vs. Hair Lucha de Apuestas with help from his real-life father Pierroth , who became

2875-575: A spot in the following night's main event, where he would face IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada for both titles. On the second night on January 5, he defeated Okada, becoming the first person in history to hold both titles and winning the main event of Wrestle Kingdom for the first time in his career, while Bushi, Evil and Takagi defeated four other teams in a Gauntlet match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship , making both Bushi and Evil record-tying four time holders of

2990-468: A tag-team match, as post-match Titán was invited to the faction by the LIJ members. Dave Meltzer wrote on his Wrestling Observer Newsletter that prior to the formation of L.I.J., Naito was known as "something of a genius in the ring for his ability to lay out matches", but noted that "something didn't click", calling his reception "a combination of some fans booing, and some apathy". However, after copying

3105-497: A teamup between the Los Ingobernables and Los Ingobernables de Japon stables for the previous year's tournament, but the CMLL wrestlers had been busy and unable to participate. Naito and Rush finished the tournament on December 7 with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the final due to losing to block winners Guerrillas of Destiny ( Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa ) in their final round-robin match. The following day, Evil and Sanada finished their block with

3220-484: A title match on December 19, where Bushi defeated Dorada with help from his stablemates to bring Los Ingobernables de Japon its first championship. Bushi lost the title back to Dorada during the CMLL and NJPW co-produced Fantastica Mania 2016 tour on January 22, 2016. On February 20, at the NJPW and Ring of Honor (ROH) co-produced Honor Rising: Japan 2016 event, Los Ingobernables de Japon helped Jay Lethal retain

3335-496: The 2017 Best of the Super Juniors , Kushida. Later that same event, Naito lost the IWGP Intercontinental Championship to Hiroshi Tanahashi. The following month, three members of L.I.J. took part in the 2017 G1 Climax ; Naito in block A and Evil and Sanada in block B. Naito won his block with a record of seven wins and two losses and advanced to the final of the tournament. Meanwhile, Evil finished third in his block with

3450-474: The COVID-19 pandemic . Eventually, the company resumed its activities with the 2020 New Japan Cup , which begun on June 16, 2020, with the winner receiving a title shot against Naito for both of his titles. Bushi, Takagi, Evil, Sanada, and Takahashi would all participate in the tournament, with the latter three making it to the semi-finals, where Takahashi was defeated by Okada while Evil defeated Sanada. During

3565-577: The G1 Climax . Despite being a clean-cut babyface , Naito was soundly rejected by NJPW fans and his win over Tanahashi was booed. NJPW had pegged Naito as their next top babyface star, but seeing how the fans were reacting to him, the company changed their course of action and announced a fan vote to decide whether the planned IWGP Heavyweight Championship match between Naito and Kazuchika Okada or an IWGP Intercontinental Championship match between Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi would main event

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3680-624: The KOPW 2021 trophy. Takahashi went on to defeat the Super J-Cup winner El Phantasmo to earn himself a match against Taiji Ishimori the champion the next night for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship . Naito was unsuccessful in defending his IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships, as he went on to lose to Kota Ibushi in his second defense. On January 5 at Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 2, Bushi

3795-453: The Los Ingobernables concept he had seen in Mexico, Naito, according to Meltzer, became "more and more popular for being different", with L.I.J. dress clothes, shirts and masks becoming "the cool wrestling merchandise". According to former Bullet Club leader Kenny Omega , L.I.J. took over Bullet Club's status as "the hottest thing around". When Naito won the 2016 MVP award for Wrestler of

3910-565: The Los Ingobernables de Japon , who had debuted earlier in the week. The match featured outside interference from both Naito and Michael Elgin and ended with Bushi defeating Kushida to bring the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship to Los Ingobernables de Japon . On September 25 at Destruction in Kobe , the stable won another title, when Naito defeated Elgin for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. Bushi lost

4025-649: The New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion and led by Tetsuya Naito . An offshoot of the Mexican stable Los Ingobernables from the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion, the group was formed in November 2015 by Naito, Bushi and Evil , but came to also include Sanada , Hiromu Takahashi , Shingo Takagi , Titán and Yota Tsuji . Through NJPW's working relationship with other companies, they have also appeared in CMLL and in

4140-491: The ROH World Championship in a match against Tomoaki Honma. Following the match, both Lethal and his manager Truth Martini joined the stable. While this marked Martini's only appearance as a member of Los Ingobernables de Japon , Lethal continued making sporadic appearances as part of the group over the following months. On March 12, Naito, with help from both Bushi and Evil, defeated Hirooki Goto in

4255-538: The World Tag League , failing to advance to the finals, after finishing with 16 points. Bushi and Takahashi entered the Best of the Super Juniors in November, Bushi failed to advance to the finals after finishing with 10 points, unlike Takahashi, who topped the block with 15 points. In the final, Takahashi defeated Yoh to win his second consecutive Best of the Super Juniors tournament. In the same month, Takagi avenged his G1 loss to Zack Sabre Jr, by retaining

4370-477: The character Comandante Pierroth or simply Pierroth as a successor to the original Pierroth Jr. He has previously worked as Dr. Kent , Poder Indio , Poder Boricua , Poder Mexica and Toro Blanco . Muñoz, as La Bestia del Ring, was part of the Los Ingobernables ("The Ungovernables") stable with his son Rush and El Terrible until late 2019. He was initially brought into CMLL in 2001 as

4485-615: The tecnico duo, forcing Poder Mexica to unmask and reveal his real name, Arthur Muñoz. He remained in CMLL until 2003 where he left the promotion and dropped the "Poder Mexica" character, reverting to the "Toro Blanco" character on the Mexican independent circuit . Over the subsequent years Muñoz worked less in the ring and focused more or raising and training his sons for a professional wrestling career. His oldest son, William Arturo Muñoz made his wrestling debut in 2008 and when he signed with CMLL in 2009 Muñoz accompanied his son for his introduction, making it clear that Rush (Wiliam's rig name)

4600-640: The American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion. Despite being smaller in numbers than full-scale factions such as Bullet Club or Chaos , Los Ingobernables de Japon has established itself as one of the most prominent and most popular stables in NJPW. Members of the stable have held the top title in the company four times: three reigns as IWGP Heavyweight Champion for Naito, and one reign as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion (the Heavyweight Championship's successor) for Takagi. As part of

4715-673: The CMLL Grand Prix saw Ángel de Oro on Team Mexico and Hiromu Takahashi on Team Rest of the World. The rivaling Ingobernables members fought in the match and Takahashi would pin Oro, eliminating him from the match. In April 2016, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter wrote that the Los Ingobernables concept of having Rush, once a babyface rejected by Arena México crowds, turn heel and "embrace

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4830-520: The Chaos trio of Jado , Will Ospreay and Yoshi-Hashi , to become the new NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Later that same event, Takahashi defeated Kushida to become the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion. Tetsuya Naito's successful defense of the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi marked a clean sweep for L.I.J., who left Wrestle Kingdom 11 holding three championships. Following Wrestle Kingdom 11, L.I.J. entered

4945-531: The D Block, after losing to El Phantasmo, thus finishing on 6 points. In the C Block, Naito defeated Sabre Jr to top the C Block, however, lost to Will Ospreay in the semifinal round. In July and September, Takahashi and Takagi made their debuts on NJPW's US show, NJPW Strong . Back in Japan in October, at Declaration of Power , Los Ingobernables de Japon added a new member to the faction, when Titán helped fend off Francesco Akira's attempt to unmask Bushi, during

5060-515: The G1 Climax 31 tournament. Unlike the year prior, Sanada failed to win the B Block, finishing with just 8 points. In the A Block, in his opening match against Zack Sabre Jr, Naito suffered a legitimate knee injury and was forced to vacate his following matches, thus finishing bottom of the block with 0 points. Takagi narrowly failed to win the A Block, which was subsequently won by Kota Ibushi, after finishing with 13 points. Sanada and Naito entered

5175-516: The G1 Climax, Jay White received a title match for Naito's IWGP Intercontinental Championship at Destruction in Kobe, where Naito lost the match and title. In November 2019 at Power Struggle , after Bushi unsuccessfully challenged Will Ospreay for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, Hiromu Takahashi made his return after sixteen months of absence, challenging Ospreay for a future title match at Wrestle Kingdom 14 , which Ospreay accepted. His return match took place on December 19, 2019, during

5290-473: The IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Okada's Chaos stablemate Tomohiro Ishii . Following the match, Okada, who had earlier in the event defeated Sanada, intimated that he wanted a title rematch with Naito. Also in May, Bushi took part in the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors . Although he failed to advance from his block with a record of four wins and three losses, Bushi scored a major win in his final match of

5405-638: The IWGP Heavyweight Championship. At Wrestling Hinokuni , Naito defeated Minoru Suzuki to win the IWGP Intercontinental Championship . He eventually lost the title to Chris Jericho at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall . At the G1 Special in San Francisco , Takahashi successfully defended his title against Dragon Lee, but suffered a broken neck during the match, resulting in him becoming inactive and having to vacate

5520-503: The IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships with the help of Bullet Club. At Sengoku Lord on July 25, Takagi successfully defended his NEVER Openweight Championship against El Desperado , while Takahashi was unsuccessful in capturing the Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles from Evil. On August 1, NJPW stripped Bushi, Evil and Takagi of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship due to Evil claiming in

5635-550: The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship back to Kushida on November 5 at Power Struggle . Later that same event, Evil defeated Katsuyori Shibata to become the new NEVER Openweight Champion . Evil lost the title back to Shibata ten days later in Singapore . The following week, three members of the stable entered the 2016 World Tag League with Evil and Sanada teaming together, while Naito partnered with CMLL wrestler and original Los Ingobernables member Rush . Naito had planned

5750-691: The IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating Guerrillas of Destiny and The Young Bucks, and Bushi and Takagi won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship by defeating Kanemaru and El Desperado and Roppongi 3K. On February 2 at The New Beginning in Sapporo , Bushi and Takagi retained their titles against Kanemaru and El Desperado, while Evil and Sanada retained their titles against Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr. , and Naito retained

5865-469: The Intercontinental Championship against Taichi . All five champions lost their titles during the following two months, with Evil and Sanada losing their titles to Guerrillas of Destiny on February 23 at Honor Rising: Japan 2019 , Bushi and Takagi losing theirs to Roppongi 3K on March 6 at NJPW's 47th Anniversary Show , and Naito losing the Intercontinental Championship to Kota Ibushi On April 6 at G1 Supercard ; also at G1 Supercard, Evil and Sanada lost

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5980-529: The Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion, worked a tour of CMLL, during which he joined the Los Ingobernables stable . Upon his June return to NJPW, Naito continued representing Los Ingobernables , adopting the villainous attitude associated with the stable, using the fans' rejection of him as a catalyst for the change. In the weeks leading to October's King of Pro-Wrestling event, Naito began teasing bringing in

6095-503: The Mexican National Trios Championship to Casas' La Peste Negra stable . Meanwhile, longtime técnico La Sombra also began experiencing negative fan reactions due to his rival Volador Jr. 's recent turn to the técnico side. The two storylines came together on April 25, 2014, when Rush, La Máscara and La Sombra first attacked Volador Jr. and then the trio of Casas, Shocker and Mr. Niebla . Though

6210-563: The NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Guerrillas of Destiny and Bad Luck Fale in their fourth defense. On January 4, 2018, at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome , Evil and Sanada defeated the Killer Elite Squad ( Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer ) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the first time. In the main event of the show, Naito unsuccessfully challenged Kazuchika Okada for

6325-501: The Puerto Ricans. In mid-2002 Muñoz changed his ring name again, becoming "Poder Mexica" ("Mexican Power"), complete with ring gear adorned with the Mexican flag. As part of his storyline against Los Boricuas he teamed up with Mr. Mexico for a Luchas de Apuestas , or "bet match", where Poder Mexica put his mask on the line and Mr. Mexico risked his hair on the outcome of the match. On July 14, 2002 Veneno and Violencia defeated

6440-465: The Road to Tokyo Dome event, 530 days after his last match, with he and Bushi losing to Ospreay and Robbie Eagles . Wrestle Kingdom 14 was highly successful for Los Ingobernables de Japon ; on the first night on January 4, 2020, Takahashi defeated Ospreay to become a three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, while Naito regained the IWGP Intercontinental Championship from Jay White , therefore gaining

6555-459: The Tag Team titles from the Guerrillas of Destiny, and Takagi defeated heavyweight Satoshi Kojima ; after his win, Takagi announced his decision to move to the Heavyweight division and declared himself an entrant for the G1 Climax . At the G1 Climax, Evil and Sanada competed in Block A while Naito and Takagi competed in Block B, but all four failed to reach the final. After defeating him during

6670-623: The World Heavyweight title at Power Struggle . At Wrestle Kingdom 16 , Los Ingobernables de Japon had a poor showing on night one, losing in a six-man tag team match to United Empire, early in the night. After this, Takahashi failed to capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship once more, after losing to El Desperado. Finally, in the main event, Shingo Takagi , lost the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, to Kazuchika Okada. On Night two, LIJ had

6785-462: The Year from Tokyo Sports , the magazine called Los Ingobernables de Japon a phenomenon that had ushered in a new era. Naito's win ended a five-year run in which the award had been won by either Hiroshi Tanahashi or Kazuchika Okada. The following year, Naito became the fifth wrestler to win the award in consecutive years. L.I.J. also gained fans outside of professional wrestling. Teruo Iwamoto ,

6900-718: The back to Taichi and Sabre Jr at Wrestle Grand Slam in Tokyo Dome , ending their reign at just 14 days. The event also saw Takagi defeat Tanahashi to retain the World Heavyweight Championship and the return from injury of Takahashi, who set his sight on the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship once more. At Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome , Takahashi failed to recapture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship from Robbie Eagles , although Takagi retained his World Heavyweight Championship against Evil. Following this, Takagi, Sanada, and Naito all entered

7015-451: The event, Naito once again failed to defeat Okada. In May, Bushi and Takahshi, entered the Best of the Super Juniors tournament . Bushi failed to advance to the finals, finishing with 8 points in the B block, however Takahashi topped the A block with 12 points, advancing to the finals. In the finals, Takahashi once again defeated El Desperado, to win the Best of the Super Juniors tournament for

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7130-572: The final day of NJPW New Years Golden Series, however failed to capture the title. On the night prior to this, Sanada defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi, the capture the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship , capturing his first NJPW singles championship and bringing the championship to the stable for the first time. Similarly, during the Golden Fight Series tour, Takagi defeated Taichi, to win

7245-441: The final to win the 2016 New Japan Cup . With the win, Naito earned the right to challenge for a title of his choosing and chose to face IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada. On April 10 at Invasion Attack 2016 , Sanada debuted as the newest member of Los Ingobernables de Japon , helping Naito defeat Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016 , Naito made his first successful defense of

7360-449: The final with Naito finishing second in his block with a record of six wins and three losses, while Sanada and Evil both finished with records of four wins and five losses. Naito was victorious over Evil in the head-to-head match between the two stablemates. During the tournament, Naito scored a win over Michael Elgin , which put him in line for a shot at Elgin's IWGP Intercontinental Championship. On August 20, Jay Lethal's association with

7475-593: The five singles titles). At The New Beginning in Osaka on February 9, Takahashi successfully defended his title against Ryu Lee (who had injured him and put him out of action for sixteen months in July 2018 ), while Naito successfully defended both of his titles against Kenta ; both Takahashi and Naito then agreed to face each other in a future match. However, the match never came to be, as New Japan Pro Wrestling temporarily ceased all its activities in late February due to

7590-656: The forefront as the crowd reaction to him grew more and more negative, leading to him eventually being dubbed "the most hated wrestler in CMLL", despite still officially being a técnico . Rush then formed a partnership with La Máscara , with whom he went on to win the Mexican National Trios Championship and the CMLL World Tag Team Championship . Rush then started storyline rivalries with Negro Casas and Shocker , as part of which Rush, La Máscara and Titán lost

7705-479: The held of La Bestia. After several matches between the two sides, they all signed a contract for a Luchas de Apuestas match as the main event of CMLL's 2019 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas event. On March 15, 2019 Los Hermanos Chavez defeated Los Ingobernables two falls to one, forcing both El Terrible and La Besia del Ring to have all their hair shaved off. On September 27, Rush and La Bestia del Ring announced their departures from CMLL, effectively putting an end to

7820-566: The latter had lost his mask to Rush's real-life brother Dragon Lee . Though it was initially left unclear as to what this meant for Los Ingobernables , La Máscara eventually rejoined the stable, once again becoming its third member, following Rey Escorpión's departure from CMLL. On March 17, 2017, at Homenaje a Dos Leyendas , Pierroth lost his mask to Diamante Azul in a Lucha de Apuestas . On May 22, CMLL publicly fired La Máscara because of an incident, where his family had destroyed Último Guerrero 's car over backstage politics. With CMLL owning

7935-535: The legacy of the junior heavyweight division that Liger had started. At The New Beginning in Sapporo on February 1, Takagi defeated Hirooki Goto to win the NEVER Openweight Championship , making him the first person to hold both NEVER titles at the same time and the second current double champion in Los Ingobernables de Japon with Naito, and giving Los Ingobernables de Japon five of NJPW's eight titles simultaneously (including four of

8050-611: The line. In the end, following outside interference from both La Máscara and Rush, La Sombra was victorious, becoming a double champion. On June 13, Rush and La Máscara lost the CMLL World Tag Team Championship to Casas and Shocker. The rivalries both culminated on August 1 at El Juicio Final , where La Sombra lost the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship back to Volador Jr., while Rush defeated Casas in

8165-406: The main event. On November 7 at Power Struggle , Takagi regained the NEVER Openweight Championship from Suzuki, while Naito successfully defended both the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships against Evil, making their win–loss record for 2020 tied with two wins each. During November and December, both Bushi and Takahashi participated in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament in

8280-461: The mask and name. Muñoz was introduced as the masked "Comandante Pierroth", leader of La Comando Caribeño ("The Caribbean Commando") consisting of himself, Pierrothito, Pequeno Violencia, La Comandante and Zeuxis . The group existed more in name than as an actual team, there were no regular size male competitors for Comandante Pierroth to team up with for matches. During 2014 Comandante Pierroth, sometimes billed simply as Pierroth, began teaming on

8395-416: The masked character Poder Boricua to be a part of Los Boricuas . When he returned to CMLL in 2013 as "Comandante Pierroth" he led his own version of "Los Boricuas", called La Comando Caribeño with Pierrothito , Pequeno Violencia , La Comandante and Zeuxis . Three of Muñoz' sons have followed in his footsteps and became professional wrestlers, all working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL),

8510-403: The match (as he was seemingly unconscious when it happened), when Naito came out to congratulate him on his win, Evil attacked him, turning heel and being soon joined by the other members of Bullet Club, establishing himself as a member of the stable and the first member of Los Ingobernables de Japon to ever leave the stable. At Dominion the following day, Evil defeated Naito to capture both

8625-576: The match, it was announced that Rush, La Bestia del Ring, Killer Kross , L.A. Park and Konnan were forming a new version of LFI. The following day on December 15 at ROH 's Final Battle Fallout , Rush introduced the American branch of LFI, including himself, Dragon Lee , Kenny King and Amy Rose. Early 2020 saw two members leave the stable. La Máscara left in January, after Nación Lucha Libre closed down. Killer Kross ended up not representing LFI in

8740-439: The members billed as equals, however, CMLL fans perceived Rush as the leader of the group. Following the official formation of Los Ingobernables , members of the trio continued their rivalries with Casas, Shocker and Volador Jr. On June 6, La Sombra faced Volador Jr. in a double title match, where the former's NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship and the latter's NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship were both on

8855-538: The names "Pit Bull I" and "Pit Bull II" Muñoz trained under world-renowned lucha libre trainer Diablo Velasco before making his in-ring debut in 1994. Initially he worked under the ring name "Dr. Kent", a generic doctor character in a white mask, white trunks and white tights in the tradition of Dr. Wagner . In subsequent years he would work as "Toro Blanco" (Spanish for "White Bull") and later on begin working for CMLL as Poder Indio ("Indian Power"), another enmascarado character. In 2001 Pierroth, Jr. formed

8970-635: The negative", had made him a "far more effective headliner". La Bestia del Ring Arturo Muñoz Sánchez is a Mexican luchador , or professional wrestler who is best known for his time performing Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), portraying a rudo ("Bad guy") wrestling character La Bestia del Ring . He is the father of wrestlers William Arturo Muñoz González (aka, Rush ) and masked wrestlers Dralístico and Dragon Lee , and often teams up with one or more of his sons. Muñoz has worked under various ring names during his career, working under

9085-507: The newest member of Los Ingobernables . On April 8, La Máscara defeated Ángel de Oro to win the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship . On May 13, the three Los Ingobernables members were defeated by TGR ( Rey Bucanero , Shocker and El Terrible ) in a six-man tag team match, after which Rush and Pierroth turned on La Máscara and attacked him. After being saved by TGR, La Máscara announced he

9200-426: The oldest works under the ring name Rush , his younger son works as Dralístico (fka the second Místico) and his youngest son made his debut in 2014 as Dragon Lee . Three of Muñoz' brothers have also been involved with professional wrestling for a number of years, his brother Javier Descalza Coronado wrestled as Franco Columbo and then became one of the lead trainers for CMLL and his younger brothers work under

9315-555: The original stable. On October 31, 2019, Rush and La Bestia would appear in Nación Lucha Libre , reuniting with former stablemate La Máscara . The trio dubbed themselves La Facción Ingobernable (often abbreviated as LFI - based on the Los Ingobernables name from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ). On December 14 at AAA 's Guerra de Titanes , Rush El Toro Blanco teamed with Blue Demon Jr. and Rey Escorpión to defeat Psycho Clown , Dr. Wagner Jr. , and Drago . After

9430-400: The promotion's biggest event of the year, Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome . The fans voted Nakamura and Tanahashi to main event the show with Naito and Okada relegated to semi-main event. After failing to capture the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from Okada, Naito would remain a step below the top spot in NJPW. During the summer of 2015, Naito, through a working relationship between NJPW and

9545-469: The provisional Provisional KOPW championship , bringing another title to the stable for the first time. In March, all LIJ members entered the New Japan Cup . Bushi was eliminated early by Will Ospreay in round one, who similarly defeated Sanada, by referee stoppage, in round 3. Takahashi defeated established heavyweight wrestlers, such as Minoru Suzuki and the then NEVER Openweight Champion EVIL, but

9660-420: The re-establishment of the group, dubbed Los Nuevos Ingobernables (Spanish for "The New Ungovernables"), led by El Terrible . Throughout his career in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Rush had been presented as a técnico or a "hero" character, but who had also occasionally showed villainous rudo tendencies during his matches. In mid-2013, this part of Rush's storyline was once again brought to

9775-500: The record fourth time and the first ever 3-time consecutive winner. Takahashi received his IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match at NJPW Road, but failed to win the championship from Taiji Ishimori. In June, Sanada returned at Dominion 6.12 in Osaka-jo Hall , failing to defeat Will Ospreay for the vacant IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship. Later in the month, Takagi and Takahashi were announced to be competing at AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door , however, shortly after Takahashi

9890-457: The rights to the Los Ingobernables name, La Máscara went on to form his own unofficial version of the stable on the Mexican independent circuit, dubbed Ingober Independientes , with his cousin Máximo, who had been fired alongside him, and former Los Ingobernables member Rey Escorpión. Shortly thereafter, Rush and Pierroth began teasing a new third member of Los Ingobernables . At the same time,

10005-468: The ring, and left in February when he accepted a contract with WWE . The AAA branch was further affected by Mexico's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic , so Rush El Toro Blanco and L.A. Park resumed their long-running feud on Twitter over the next couple of months, potentially setting up a hair vs. mask match. However, this was ignored by AAA, and L.A. Park represented the stable at Triplemanía XXVIII . In

10120-510: The stable came to an end, when Naito and Evil abandoned him during a six-man tag team match at an ROH event in Las Vegas, Nevada . On September 17 at Destruction in Tokyo , Bushi received a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, which he had earned with the win over Kushida during the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors. Bushi was accompanied to the match by a new unidentified member of

10235-686: The stable, Naito also held the IWGP Intercontinental Championship a record six times and was the first wrestler to have held both the Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles simultaneously. The other accomplishments of the stable include two IWGP Tag Team Championship reigns and two G1 Tag League wins for the tag team for Evil and Sanada and one tag reign for Naito and Sanada, six IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship reigns divided between Bushi and Takahashi, one IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship reign from Bushi and Takagi, one IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship reign from Sanada, four NEVER Openweight Championship reigns from Takagi, and

10350-440: The stable, Ángel de Oro won La Copa VIP in 2021 and Ángel de Oro and Niebla Roja won together the CMLL World Tag Team Championship in January 2022. On July 1, 2023, at CMLL, Los Nuevos Ingobernables would face the team of Tetsuya Naito, Bushi, and Titán representing Los Ingobernables de Japón in a 2 out of 3 falls match. Los Ingobernables de Japón would be victorious, kindling a rivalry between both splinter groups. On August 18,

10465-435: The stable. Tokyo Sports cited L.I.J. ' s impact on NJPW as one of the main factors in the magazine naming Naito the 2016 Wrestler of the Year , a feat he repeated the following year. In June 2013, Tetsuya Naito returned to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from a legitimate anterior cruciate ligament injury . Two months later, Naito defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi in the final to win NJPW's premier singles tournament,

10580-432: The three effectively became rudos , with CMLL dubbing Rush and La Sombra in particular as the two most hated men in the promotion's recent history, they refused to acknowledge themselves as such, instead calling themselves "técnicos diferentes". The trio was originally dubbed Los Indeseables ("The Undesirables"), before being renamed Los Ingobernables ("The Ungovernables"). Officially Los Ingobernables had no leader with

10695-597: The title over Jinetes del Aire ( Hijo del Vikingo and Laredo Kid ). On October 27, ROH announced that they would be releasing all talent from their contracts and going on hiatus following their Final Battle event on December 11. This marked the end of the group's ROH branch. On April 28, 2022, Vangellys joined the group. On March 24, 2021, CMLL announced the formation of a new version of Los Ingobernables , dubbed Los Nuevos Ingobernables , which would see Ángel de Oro and Niebla Roja join El Terrible. As part of

10810-402: The title to Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi and Ryusuke Taguchi on January 5, then regained it on February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka , then lost it to Tanahashi, Taguchi and Ricochet on April 4, before regaining it again on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2017 . On June 11 at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall , Takahashi lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship to the winner of

10925-528: The title. On October 8, 2018, at King of Pro Wrestling , fourteen years- Dragon Gate veteran Shingo Takagi made his surprise NJPW debut as L.I.J. ' s sixth member, teaming up with Naito, Bushi and Sanada to defeat CHAOS. Takagi would go on to compete in the Junior Heavyweight division, and would stay both undefeated in singles matches and overall unpinned and unsubmitted until June 2019; during this period, he suffered only three defeats in 72 consecutive matches, all of which were tag team matches in which

11040-578: The title. In other matches the second night, Sanada failed to capture the British Heavyweight Championship from Zack Sabre Jr. (making him the only member of the stable not to leave Wrestle Kingdom as champion), and Takahashi teamed up with Ryu Lee to defeat Jushin Thunder Liger and Naoki Sano , in what was Liger's retirement match ; after pinning Liger to win the match, Takahashi vowed to him that he would continue

11155-486: The tournament on June 6 by defeating reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Kushida , causing him to miss the final of the tournament. On June 19 at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall , Naito lost the IWGP Heavyweight Championship back to Okada, ending his two-month reign in his second defense. From July 18 to August 13, Naito, Evil and Sanada all took part in the 2016 G1 Climax , with Sanada wrestling in block A and Naito and Evil in block B. All three failed to advance to

11270-401: The tournament, Evil displayed a more aggressive behavior, notably cheating during his matches and injuring Yoshi-Hashi before their match in the quarterfinals in order to secure an easy win; In the final on July 11, Evil defeated Kazuchika Okada thanks partly due to an interference by Bullet Club members, who attacked Okada. Although Evil did not appear to notice Bullet Club's involvement in

11385-537: The two began being accompanied by a man wearing a La Sombra mask. In September, Rush and Pierroth, with CMLL's blessing, began taking independent bookings with The Crash promotion, where they reunited with former stablemate La Máscara. On February 23, 2018, El Terrible joined Los Ingobernables . The Universal Championship was the start of a storyline between Los Ingobernables (El Terrible and La Bestia del Ring) and Los Hermanos Chavez ( Ángel de Oro and Niebla Roja ), as El Terrible cheated to defeat Niebla Roja with

11500-520: The vacant title on June 7 at Dominion 6.7 in Osaka-jo Hall , where he defeated Okada to win the title, marking his first time winning NJPW's top title and making him the first member of Los Ingobernables de Japon to win the World Heavyweight title. On July 11, 2021, at Summer Struggle in Sapporo, Naito and Sanada defeated Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.) to capture the IWGP Tag Team Championships, however, they lost

11615-540: The wake of his departure that he had "no interest" in defending the title with his former Ingobernables stablemates. On August 29 at Summer Struggle in Jingu , Takagi lost the NEVER Openweight Championship to Minoru Suzuki , while Takahashi lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship to Taiji Ishimori , and Naito won the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships back from Evil in

11730-473: The win was seen as a conclusion of a four-year arc, which started with Naito's rejection by NJPW fans following his 2013 G1 Climax win and led directly to the creation of Los Ingobernables de Japon . In late 2017, Bushi and Takahashi started teaming regularly in NJPW's junior tag team division. On November 12, Los Ingobernables de Japon made their first appearance in Mexico, when Naito and Takahashi returned to CMLL to team with Rush. The three were defeated in

11845-463: Was a regular on the low-to-mid card, especially in Boricuas trios matches. Poder Boricua, Gran Markus, Jr. and Violencia unsuccessfully challenged for the Mexican National Trios Championship but lost to the team of Mr. Niebla , Olímpico and Safari . In early 2002 Poder Boricua and Gran Markus, Jr. left Los Boricuas and turned tecnicos (wrestlers who portray the good guys), fighting against

11960-494: Was announced to be taken off of the card, due to suffering from a fever. Therefore, Takagi was announced to be competing in a six-man tag-team match, teaming with Darby Allin and Sting against Bullet Club's El Phantasmo and The Young Bucks , in which Takagi pinned Phantasmo to win the match. The following month, Sanada, Takagi and Naito entered the G1 Climax 32 tournament . In the B block, Sanada finished middle of his block, with 6 points. Takagi narrowly missed out on topping

12075-425: Was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Takagi. Takagi and Naito then both advanced to the semifinals, to face Zack Sabre Jr and Kazuchika Okada respectively. Takagi was defeated by Sabre Jr, however, Naito was able to avenge his loss earlier in the year, by defeating Okada. In the finals, Naito was defeated by Sabre Jr. In the aftermath of the tournament, it was announced that Sanada had fractured his Orbital bone and

12190-479: Was now an independent alongside his two sons, Rush and Dragon Lee, who had been fired by CMLL. On October 31, 2019, Rush and La Bestia would appear in Nación Lucha Libre , reuniting with former stablemate La Máscara . The trio dubbed themselves La Facción Ingobernable (based on the Los Ingobernables name from CMLL). On December 14 at AAA 's Guerra de Titanes , it was announced that Rush, La Bestia del Ring, Killer Kross , L.A. Park and Konnan were forming

12305-431: Was quitting Los Ingobernables and challenged Rush to a Lucha de Apuestas . Afterwards, Rush announced Los Ingobernables would continue with him and his father as its only two members. On June 27, after weeks of teasing an alliance between Rush and Rey Escorpión , Escorpión abandoned his Los Revolucionarios del Terror stable and officially joined Los Ingobernables . On September 2, Rush and La Máscara reconciled, after

12420-406: Was rejected by both Bestia del Ring and Rush. The storyline built to a "hair vs. hair" Lucha de Apuestas match between the two as part of the 2017 Universal Championship finals show , which ended with Vangellys both defeated and shaved bald as a result. On February 23, 2018 El Terrible joined Los Ingobernables , teaming with Bestia del Ring and Rush for trios matches. The Universal Championship

12535-407: Was stopped by Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata , which led to Tanahashi defeating Naito to retain his contract. In a post-match interview, Naito gave Watanabe his new ring name, "King of Darkness" Evil. On November 21, Naito and Evil entered the 2015 World Tag League . During the opening night, Bushi , making his return following an injury, debuted as the new third member of the group, which

12650-499: Was subsequently dubbed Los Ingobernables de Japon . Naito and Evil ended up making it to the final of the World Tag League, before losing to G.B.H. ( Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma ). On the day of the final, December 9, Bushi offered Máscara Dorada a spot in Los Ingobernables de Japon . After being turned down, Bushi attacked Dorada, unmasked him and stole his CMLL World Welterweight Championship belt. This led to

12765-407: Was the son of Toro Blanco and played up the second-generation wrestler. Rush would wear ring gear similar to his father and actually earned the nickname "Toro Blanco". He would later also be acknowledge as the father of Dragon Lee, later known as Místico as well as the second Dragon Lee. In 2013 CMLL introduced a version of Pierroth, paying the original, retired owner of the character for the use of

12880-640: Was the start of a storyline between Los Ingobernables (El Terrible and La Bestia del Ring) and Los Hermanos Chavez ( Ángel de Oro and Niebla Roja ), as El Terrible cheated to defeat Niebla Roja with the held of La Bestia. After several matches between the two sides, they all signed a contract for a Luchas de Apuestas match as the main event of CMLL's 2019 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas event. On March 15, 2019 Los Hermanos Chavez defeated Los Ingobernables two falls to one, forcing both El Terrible and La Bestia del Ring to have all their hair shaved off. On September 29, 2019, Muñoz announced that he had left CMLL and

12995-399: Was therefore required to relinquish his US championship, which he did at Hyper Battle , ending his first reign at 49 days. At the same event, Takahashi was defeated by Evil, who retained the NEVER Openweight Championship. Due to his semi-final win, Naito earned another shot at Okada's IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestling Dontaku , as he had retained the title against Sabre Jr. At

13110-498: Was touring CMLL in May and June 2015, La Sombra's New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) tag team partner Tetsuya Naito was made the fifth member of Los Ingobernables . Upon his return to NJPW, Naito formed his own Los Ingobernables offshoot group, named Los Ingobernables de Japón . On September 18, La Sombra was unmasked after losing to Atlantis in a Lucha de Apuestas at the 82nd Anniversary Show . In early November, Rush and La Sombra began having issues with each other, which led to

13225-460: Was unsuccessful in becoming the KOPW 2021 Provisional Champion as he was pinned by Yano. Takagi went on to retain the NEVER Openweight Championship against Jeff Cobb , Sanada defeated Evil in a special singles match and Takahashi was successful in defeating Ishimori to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for a fourth time. However, Takahashi had to vacate the title once again after suffering

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