Lasting four seasons and 127 episodes, the El Rey network cult favorite Lucha Underground fused Lucha libre and grindhouse filmmaking to create one of the most innovative pro wrestling shows on television. It would showcase lucha luminaries like Rey Mysterio Jr. and Blue Demon Jr. as well as wrestlers from the independent scene and Mexico’s biggest lucha promotion, AAA. Ultimately, it would introduce fans to future WWE and AEW stars like Pentagon Jr., Fenix and Isaiah “Swerve” Scott via great matches.

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Lucha Underground also became known for its approach to storytelling, which utilized cinematic backstage segments as well as themes involving crime and the supernatural to tell pro wrestling stories that more “grounded” wrestling promotions rarely touch outside of, like Undertaker matches. So here are ten of the craziest stories in Lucha Underground.

10 Some of the Wrestlers Are Undercover Cops

Viewers spend Season 1 rooting against The Crew, a trio of criminals who do the bidding of Lucha Underground proprietor Dario Cueto.

Eventually, we find out a shocking revelation about Crew member Cortez Castro: he’s actually an undercover cop who infiltrated Lucha Underground to keep tabs on Dario Cueto. To make this storyline even crazier, his partner decides he wants in on the fun and ends up joining LU as a wrestler, too.

9 Killshot’s Missing Friends

Fans who don’t necessarily follow the indies may have seen NXT star Isaiah “Swerve” Scott before without even knowing it. On Lucha Underground, he was Killshot, a gun-themed masked wrestler and former soldier who deals with his troubled black ops past by fighting supernatural luchadors in an underground fighting ring.

In season 3, his past comes back to haunt him when one of his old war buddies follows him to the temple: Dante Fox, played by fellow indie wrestling standout AR Fox. Crazy aerial maneuvers ensue.

8 Black Lotus Triad

Played by former WWE developmental wrestler Angela Fong, the mysterious Black Lotus starts out as a woman driven by revenge against Dario Cueto, only to become his bodyguard when she crosses a line by murdering the original El Dragon Azteca.

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In season 3, we learn that Black Lotus is also leader of a group of ninjas called the Black Lotus Triad -- played by Japanese joshi stars Kairi Sane, Io Shirai, and Mayu Iwatani -- who attack Pentagon Dark and subject him to an episode-long gauntlet match, and win.

7 Seven Aztec Tribes

Lucha Underground’s backstory involves the existence of seven ancient Aztec tribes who battled for supremacy, making LU not only a revival of that tradition but also a way to locate the descendants of those tribes. For example, Underground protagonist Prince Puma is referenced as a direct descendent of one of those tribes.

What initially becomes a motif soon becomes actual mythology, as more tribes resurface like the Rabbit Tribe and the Snake Tribe. Others are merely hinted at or not as developed as others, thanks to the show’s untimely end.

6 423-Get-Fame

Basically a jobber in season 1, SoCal wrestling journeyman Famous B develops a gimmick in season 2 that basically amounts to Jimmy Hart with used car salesman energy. We often see cheesy retro-style commercials where he offers his services, with the vague promise that he’ll make you famous if you just call the phone number 423-GET-FAME.

As the gimmick goes on, it becomes clear that Famous B has no ability to make anyone famous, but rather just aligns himself with progressively more famous luchadors. In the fantastical world of Lucha Underground, a guy attempting boilerplate wrestling manager hucksterism is the most insane thing of all. Doesn’t he realize he could be killed?!

5 Sexy Star vs. The Moths

Sexy Star is one of the big heroes of Lucha Underground, a luchadora who seeks to overcome and surpass her traumatic past by working hard to reach the top so she can inspire the girls and women who watch her wrestle.

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This ends up coming into play in a feud with Marty “The Moth” Martinez, a hanger-on who wants a chance to fight in the Temple but turns out to be a total creep. Eventually, Martinez and his equally creepy masked sister Mariposa kidnap Sexy Star, reopening past wounds and forcing her to play out her triumph over trauma in front of a crowd of wrestling fans.

4 Literally Everything About Mil Muertes

If you loved The Undertaker, you’d LOVE Mil Muertes. A similarly supernatural undead monster man, Mil Muertes is controlled by the mysterious Catrina using a magic rock recovered from the earthquake that killed Muertes’ entire family.

He frequently takes on opponents in Grave Consequences, a casket match where if you get put in the casket, Dia De Los Muertos figures take you away, and you die for real. At one point, he loses a Grave Consequences match and gets put on display in a glass case by the hunter-themed luchador King Cuerno.

3 Matanza Cueto

Dario Cueto, the authority figure of the show, is immediately shown as having ulterior motives in addition to being a shady businessman who runs an underground fighting ring for fun. Those ulterior motives involve his brother Matanza, a bloodthirsty luchador who Dario keeps in a cage and leads around with a mysterious key.

Matanza’s backstory is wild -- he killed their abusive mother and was trained by their father to be a brutal underground fighter, among so many other things. Also, Matanza has murdered several characters on the show and is the host body for an Aztec god.

2 Pentagon’s Dark Master

Pentagon Jr. was a known commodity in AAA, but got famous with American fans thanks to Lucha Underground. A skeleton ninja who can’t stop breaking people’s arms and is constantly pissed off, in season 1, we see Pentagon doing the bidding of some mysterious dark master.

This culminates in a match with wrestler-turned-color-commentator Vampiro in the season 1 finale event, Ultima Lucha. One of the nastiest bouts ever put on television, the Pentagon Jr. vs. Vampiro “Ciero Miedo Match” is not only violent and bloody, but it ends with an incredible revelation: that Pentagon’s dark master was Vampiro all along. And their story doesn’t even end there!

1 Aerostar and Drago

In season 1, AAA wrestlers Aerostar (an astronaut) and Drago (a dragon) are placed in a Best of Five series where, after some great matches, Drago eventually comes out on top. The rivalry results in friendship, and in the cinematic final scenes of the season, we find out that Aerostar can actually travel to space and Drago is actually a fire-breathing dragon.

If that weren’t enough, in Season 2, the pair end up feuding with LU jerks PJ Black in Jack Evans, resulting in a “Nunchuck Match” where the Japanese weapons are strategically placed in locations all over the temple. That’s right -- Lucha Underground is a show where an astronaut and a dragon are best friends and teamed up to fight guys with nunchucks.

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