Gringo Loco’s The Wrld On Lucha 2026: Nice, Simple Insanity
Gringo Loco’s Wrld On Lucha 2026
Date: April 17, 2026
Location: Horseshoe Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Commentators: John Mosley, Veda Scott
This is one of those shows where you can probably get the concept just based on the title. The show will feature a bunch of lucha style matches, which should make for an entertaining card. I’m not sure how it is going to be that much different than a lot of what you see on these other shows as lucha is rather popular but let’s get to it.
Gringo Loco narrates the opening video, talking about his love of lucha libre and how this is about the style at its best. Welcome to its world.
Opening video, which seems to be a standard GCW video.
Rafael Quintero vs. Resplandor vs. Jimmy Lloyd vs. Dulce Tormenta vs. Devon Monroe vs. KJ Orso
Orso runs his mouth to start and gets kicked in the face before the bell. Monroe snaps off a poisonrana and the ring is mostly cleared until Orso comes back in to poke Resplandor in the eye. That earns him a rather springboardy armdrag to the apron, where Orso hits a brainbuster. Quintero comes back in and gives Orso a running elbow, only to get suplexed by Lloyd.
Monroe grabs a flipping facebuster so Tormenta comes in for a butterfly backbreaker and a clothesline. Orso crotches Tormenta on top and goes for her mas, only to get super hurricanranaed down by Monroe. Tormenta is back up to dive onto a pile, leaving Quintero to hit a corkscrew dive from the top. Back in and Resplandor’s double moonsault gets two on Orso and Moore grabs a tornado DDT on Lloyd. Tormenta powerbombs Resplandor into Quintero in the corner. A Blue Thunder Bomb connects but Orso hits a double stomp to pin Tormenta at 9:35.
Rating: C+. It was a bunch of insanity but as usual, you can only get so much out of having this many people flying around. That was the case here, with Orso being a fairly obvious winner as he was the only one really hyped up at the beginning. As usual, I get why there are so many people in these things and why they exist, but they’re far from my favorite.
Video on Julissa Mexa, who is on a roll lately. Now she gets some better competition.
Thunder Rosa vs. Julissa Mexa
Rosa rolls away from Mexa to start so Mexa takes the leg out and cranks on the leg a bit. A dragon screw legwhip has Rosa in more trouble but she gets up and hammers away. Rosa’s headscissors into the ropes has Mexa reeling but she sends Rosa outside for the running flip dive. They fight into the crowd with Rosa firing off some chops and it’s time to get back inside.
Mexa avoids a shot and dances a bit, only for Rosa to knock her down as well and dance right back. Rosa sends her into the ropes for some running dropkicks, followed by something like a tabletop superplex. Mexa catches her on top though and it’s a flipping fall away slam. Rosa isn’t having this and grabs the over the shoulder piledriver for the on 10:31.
Rating: C+. Well that happened. Mexa was introduced, presented as a big deal, and then lost to a bigger name in a match that was just ok. It was far from bad, but I’m not sure why they made such a big deal out of Mesa before having her lose like this. Rosa is a star, but that’s all I know coming out of this.
Mexa’s Boys/Briyante Jr. vs. Mala Fama/Rey Horus
That would be Noisy Boy/Spider Fly and Latigo/Toxin. The Boys and Briyante waste no time in knocking the other three to the floor for the big running dives. Back in and Fly spins around Latigo and sends him out to the floor. Noisy headscissors Toxin out as well but gets hurricanranaed by Horus. Briyante comes in and gets stomped down by Mala Fama, who are sent back outside.
Another set of dives is cut off and Horus chops Briyante to the floor. A double spinebuster drops Noisy and Horus gives Fly a UFO splash for two. Briyante is back up with a moonsault to the floor and Fly follows with a running flip dive of his own. Back in and Briyante’s frog splash gets two on Toxin, followed by a six man Tower Of Doom for the huge crash. Latigo fails on three straight attempts at a nip up until Fly helps him up. Well that was nice of him. Back in and Horus gives Noisy a super victory roll for the pin at 11:58.
Rating: B. This was more what I was expecting from the show with six talented stars flying around and going nuts with one big spot after another. It worked out rather well with mostly non-stop action. Mala Fama has shown up around the weekend a few times now and they’re not bad at all for what they’re doing as a heel lucha team. Keep an eye on them.
Post match respect is shown and money is thrown.
Galeno del Mal vs. Jack Cartwheel
The idea is that Cartwheel has never been able to beat Mal. Cartwheel, who is about six inches shorter, gets shoved away a few times to start and a running forearm puts him down as well. Cartwheel gets in a kick to the chest and sends him outside, where Mal pulls a dive out of the air. Back in and Mal kicks him in the head, followed by a hard chop in the corner.
They go outside with Mal dropping him off a single shot to the face. Cartwheel gets a running charge and tries a dive over the steps, only to get caught and swung into them. Back in and Cartwheel low bridges him to the floor for the running tornado DDT. A spinning slingshot elbow connects back inside. Cartwheel hits a springboard Phoenix splash…and has hurt his arm so the match is called at about 7:05.
Rating: C+. It’s hard to rate a match like this as they were just starting to roll when everything stopped. Hopefully Cartwheel is ok as that’s a terrible thing to see. It was a nice story going as Cartwheel was trying to slay the giant and I’m curious about where it was going before the injury.
Arez/Gringo Loco/Vengador vs. Hyo/Kzy/Yuki Yoshioka
Loco armdrags Kzy down to start and they flip up to a standoff. They run the ropes until Loco tells him to stop, meaning it’s gyrating time. Arez and Yoshioka come in, with the grappling sending Yoshioka into a rollup for a near fall. They both miss dropkicks and flip to their feet for another standoff.
Now it’s Hyo vs. Vengador and Hyo takes his straps down, only to pull them right back up. They shake hands, but Vengador doesn’t let go, meaning it’s time to run the ropes. Vengador knocks him down and hands it off to Loco, who goes up top for a gyrating split legged moonsault. Hyo gets slammed into a sitout powerbomb and a brainbuster drops him again. Yoshioka is powerbombed too and a toss into a DDT makes it worse.
Kzy fights out of the corner but gets thrown into Loco’s super sitout powerbomb (that looked GREAT). Arez kicks Kzy down again but Hyo is back in for a running headscissors and double stomp to Loco. Yoshioka hits a big springboard dive to the floor and Arez gets caught with a sitout fireman’s carry slam. It’s Loco back up with the save but Hyo gyrates right back at him for a change.
They fight to the floor and Yoshioka tries a sunset bomb on Arez to no avail. Instead Loco and Arez break up stereo moonsaults so Vengador can hit a running flip dive of his own. Back in and Hyo takes the straps down again for a middle rope cutter to Arez. Loco is up with some kind of a double crucifix bomb (commentary doesn’t know how to describe it either), leaving Vengador to hit a pop up cutter on Hyo. Loco’s moonsault is good for the pin at 18:54.
Rating: B+. Awesome match here, which shouldn’t be a surprise given who was in there. They were just going nuts with one spot after another here and you could tell how much Loco was putting into the big match on his own show. The Dragon Gate guys were more than doing their thing and I had a heck of a time watching this one.
Post match, respect is shown.
We recap El Desperado vs. Vipress. They’re both into death match stuff and they’re having a death match. Sometimes it’s that simple.
Vipress vs. El Desperado
Death match but they actually go with some grappling to start. With that not working, it’s already time for chairs. As in a lot of chairs. Back in and Vipress sends him right out to the floor and follows, only to get sent into the chairs. With Vipress’ head in a chair, Desperado blasts her with another chair.
A door is set up at ringside and they go back inside, with Desperado’s superplex being turned into one from Vipress. Desperado belly to back suplexes her into a brainbuster for two and goes up again, only to be shoved down through the door. Back in and something like a pumphandle Blue Thunder Bomb gives Desperado two and they’re both down.
They forearm it out until Vipress is knocked down but she hurricanranas him for two. A Deadeye gives Desperado two but Vipress is back with a Canadian Destroyer for two more. Desperado’s tombstone gets another two and it’s time to throw in a bunch of chairs. Angel’s Wings onto the chairs finish Vipress at 15:32.
Rating: B-. The match wasn’t exactly a classic but my goodness what a relief that they didn’t go insane. The weapons used here were nothing more than a bunch of chairs and a single door. Other than that it was a clean match and I had a good enough time with it. While not exactly great and I’m not sure why it was the main event, it could have been much worse.
Veda Scott: “We’ll catch you next time! Which is in like two hours!”
Overall Rating: B-. While this show might not have been some all time classic, it was the kind of show that flew by and had some entertaining action. That’s all it was supposed to be and the six man tags were both rather good. There’s nothing must see on here but if you want something a little easier to watch, you’ll have a fine time.
Results
KJ Orso b. Resplandor, Rafael Quintero, Jimmy Lloyd, Dulce Tormenta and Devon Moore – Double stomp to Tormenta
Thunder Rosa b. Julissa Mexa – Over the shoulder piledriver
Mala Fama/Rey Horus b. Mexa’s Boys/Briyante Jr. – Super victory roll to Noisy Boy
Galeno del Mal b. Jack Cartwheel via referee stoppage
Arez/Gringo Loco/Vengador b. Hyo/Kzy/Yuki Yoshioka – Moonsault to Hyo
El Desperado b. Vipress – Angel’s Wings onto a pile of chairs
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