Octagon Shoot Steals Octagon Jr.'s Mask

[Big Red Machine]

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

There was a really strange incident this past week involving the original Octagon (Juan Escalera, 55) and AAA’s new Octagon Jr., 21. Octagon Jr. was at a restaurant over the weekend promoting a show for the CaraLucha promotion. He was doing a signing in front of a lot of kids and families when Octagon came out of an SUV with his wife, kids and three bodyguards who the belief is were armed (there have been conflicting stories on that). Octagon was having this recorded. He started yelling at Octagon Jr. for using the name and stealing his gimmick while Octagon Jr. said he was just doing his job. Octagon then grabbed his mask and pulled it off, and Octagon Jr. ran off so nobody would see his face. This was definitely not an angle for the promotion, but it was Octagon shooting his own publicity stunt and the video ended up on the ESPN Mexico web site. Octagon kept cutting a promo on Octagon Jr. for his own camera. One of the promoters tried to stop him but Octagon’s bodyguards stepped forward to stop him. Octagon was then asked to leave, and went back into his SUV with his family and left with the bodyguards. Octagon Jr .left the signing quickly. The promoter has said he will take action against Octagon, claiming trespassing and robbery (the robbery apparently is from stealing the mask). The promoter said that if Octagon has a problem, he needs to take it up with AAA. AAA owns the rights to the name and gimmick. The promoter was furious noting that there were young kids at the signing and they saw the bodyguards with guns and were terrified. Dorian Roldan tweeted that AAA stands behind Octagon Jr. and called Octagon unprofessional for pulling the stunt and claimed they were looking to take action on assault charges. Octagon then went on Twitter and re-tweeted messages supporting him. Most in the industry in Mexico were very negative toward Octagon, but obviously there are fans sympathetic to him since to them, he is Octagon. Later, he gave a half-hearted apology to ESPN Mexico, but then went on Twitter, taking back his apology and saying negative things about Flamita and AAA, saying that he would debut his own real Octagon Jr. very soon, perhaps as early as next week. He denied the story that his bodyguards were armed, although the CaraLucha promoter insists they were armed and said that’s why nobody tried to get between them and stop Octagon when he came out and made a scene. Octagon had tried to claim ownership of the name as recently as two months ago, but it was denied because AAA owns all rights to the name and gimmick

[cero2k]

this is the video of the thing, i understand Octagon's perspective since AAA offices didn't ask him, but to take it out on Flamita and unmask him in public is disgusting, if the old man has a problem, go talk to Peña and Roldan.

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Octagon also as retaliation presented his kid as "El Hijo de Octagon" like if it mattered, highly doubt that kid has half the talent that Flamita has

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There's been a bunch of tweets about the situation, bunch of old timers supporting Octagon, AAA offices and younger talent supporting the fact that Octagon did wrong and should take it to court if he really has a problem, and not take it out on Flamita