History Awesome / LuchaUnderground

** Drago vs. Hernandez in a lumberjack match. Which becomes Hernandez vs Drago and everyone. None of the crowd dares to hit Drago when he's outside the ring, but Hernandez got his ass whooped left and right, and at one point getting the poison mist while doing a suicide dive to ouside the ring, and [[FightingWithChucks nunchakus]] on his head, courtesy of Drago. Considering how much of an asshole he has been in the past episodes, it is SOOO well deserved.

** Also meta awesome for Dante Fox, who wrestled the trios match from "2 weeks later" on his hideously cut up back the DAY after this match was taped, and apparently was taking bumps at his wrestling school all day the next day as well.

* A meta one for the promotion itself. It got nominated for an Emmy. A FREAKING EMMY!!!

* In a meta example Lucha Underground is now greenlighted for a third season and it just had one episode out of season 2 already finished!

* Another meta example. Luis Fernandez-Gil is an actor that had mainly had only bit parts in TV shows or movies. In his first year in the wrestling business, portraying Dario Cueto, he received the Wrestling Observer's Best Non-Wrestler Award, which has been won in the past by Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, Wrestling/PaulHeyman, and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin[[note]]in his post-retirement role as "Sheriff of Raw", of course[[/note]]. He would then win it again the next year.

* March 18, 2015: '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icvizxc3UB0 GRAVE CONSEQUENCES]].''' A casket match between [[IHaveTheHighGround Fenix]] and [[TheDreaded Mil Muertes.]] Over fifteen minutes of some of the most brutal action you'll see in a ring.

** If you listen closely (pretty hard with the crowd going apeshit), you can hear Vampiro scream "[[HolyShitQuotient Ohhh Shiiitt!!]]" and then ''tearing off his headset and running around the ring'' in shock and awe.

** Mack treats Mundo to a '''''leaping piledriver off the ring apron through two tables.''''' [[{{HSQ}} "Holy shit!"]] doesn't even ''begin'' to cover it!

* Another meta example. Luis Fernandez-Gil is an actor that had mainly had only bit parts in TV shows or movies. In his first year in the wrestling business, portraying Dario Cueto, he received the Wrestling Observer's Best Non-Wrestler Award, which has been won in the past by Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, Wrestling/PaulHeyman, and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin[[note]]in his post-retirement role as "Sheriff of Raw", [[CaptainObvious of course]][[/note]]. He would then win it again the next year.

* Another meta example. Luis Fernandez-Gil is an actor that had mainly had only bit parts in TV shows or movies. In his first year in the wrestling business, portraying Dario Cueto, he received the Wrestling Observer's Best Non-Wrestler Award, which has been won in the past by Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, Wrestling/PaulHeyman, and Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin[[note]]post-retirement, [[CaptainObvious of course]][[/note]]. He would then win it again the next year.

* Pentagon Dark defends The Lucha Underground Championship in Aztec Warfare IV, and utterly dominates, eliminating almost half the combatants by himself in route to retaining the Championship.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IkIJJbwQY Angelico's dive onto The Crew]] to save Ivelisse during the Final match of the Trios Tournament.

** Matanza entered at #1 as proof of his dominance, and for most of the match he was steamrolling through the roster much like he did at Aztec Warfare II, but the time and the work of the other wrestlers eventually got to him, and a sunset flip powerbomb from ReyMysterioJr caused Matanza to be pinned for the first time ever.

* Thanks to the aid of Melissa Santos and [[FaceHeelTurn Mariposa,]] Fenix survives a terrifying match to finally make Marty "The Moth" Martinez pay for his sins, by not only defeating him at Ultima Lucha Tres, but shaving his head as well.

** But the even bigger moment was after Mil Muertes had won, and seemingly claimed the gauntlet. He slams his newly empowered fist into the mat, killing the lights...but then the lights come back. And the Man of a Thousand Deaths is in the cross hairs of someone he thought he got rid of last Ultima Lucha.....[[HesBack KING CUERNO.]] [{RoaringRampageofRevenge Cuerno viciously beats down Mil, and steals his Gauntlet.]]

** But the even bigger moment was after Mil Muertes had won, and seemingly claimed the gauntlet. He slams his newly empowered fist into the mat, killing the lights...but then the lights come back. And the Man of a Thousand Deaths is in the cross hairs of someone he thought he got rid of last Ultima Lucha.....[[HesBack KING CUERNO.]] Cuerno viciously beats down Mil, and steals his Gauntlet.

* Cueto Cup Quarterfinal between Prince Puma and Dante Fox, with Fox more than holding his own against Puma
* Mil Muertes vs Jeremiah Crane in a wild and chaotic brawl with Mil ambushing Crane during his entrance, Crane stacking chairs onto Mil and whacking him while he's stuck and ending with Mil catching Crane's leap into his Flatliner finisher

* What makes that episode more awesome? The fact that it was Kairi Hojo, Mayu Iwatani, and Io Shirai, who each have mile long resumes and outrageous in-ring talent. Pentagon took on three wrestlers who are considered to be ''three of the best wrestlers in the world'' (according to Dave Meltzer), male or female, and he managed to beat two of them and give the third the fight of her life.

* Pentagon vs. the Black Lotus Triad, specifically the portion of the match that pitted him against Hitokiri. Brutal is an understatement. They brawled everywhere, used chairs and electrical cords as weapons, [[https://gfycat.com/FilthyAcclaimedChinchilla Hitokiri hit an amazing crossbody off the roof of Dario Cueto's office]], and to top it all off, she countered Pentagon's feared Package Piledriver (which he'd used to set her partner Yurei up for the armbreaker) into a Destroyer to pin him. And then he had his arms broken by Black Lotus and Dragon Azteca Jr.
** Earlier in the night, at the climax of Pentagon's first match against Doku, she sent him down to the mat and hit him with a ''spectacular'' flying elbow drop from the top rope. Encouraged, she went for another one, only for Pentagon to ''catch her arm in a submission'' as she dropped, converting it into the armbreaker for the win.
** After that, in the close of the match with Yurei, she goes off the turnbuckle and gets caught IN MID AIR by Pentagon, before suffering the package piledriver.

* From Season 3, Episode 2: Killshot vs. Marty "The Moth" Martinez in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G528k2-bPOY Weapons of Mass Destruction match]] (where any weapon is legal). Both men took an insane amount of punishment and kept on fighting an incredible and vicious battle, with special credit going to Marty since he got busted open early and had a mask of blood for much of the fight.

* Ultima Lucha Night One: The whole of the tournament for one of Dario's unique opportunities was amazing, and Son of Havoc winning it was as well. But THEN the opportunity's revealed: Havoc must choose either a quarter million dollars, or a guaranteed title shot at Ultima Lucha Tres. Havoc, with no hesitation, picks the title shot, saying no amount of money means more to him than the Lucha Underground championship.

** After {{No Sell}}ing The Mack's Stunner, Matanza grabbed him from behind and delivered a German Suplex so ''devastating'' it would have made Wrestling/BrockLesnar wince. From the way Mack's legs flopped about after he impacted, for a second you'd be forgiven for thinking Matanza had ''killed him'' outright!