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3. The Lucha Libre Brick Attack
On November 19, 2018, in a match against El Cuervo for Lucha Libre Boom, Angel o Demonio threw a brick against his opponent's head. This was no WWE-style "cinder block" that disintegrated upon impact. Cuervo was lucky to escape alive.
In what was almost an astonishing and grotesque irony, the incident unfolded in a Casket match. The gimmick, of course, was very nearly all too literal. Demonio was interviewed after the fact, and after first blaming the incident on his bad aim somehow contrived to suggest that Cuervo deserved it.
Angel o Demonio was indefinitely suspended by the Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission, but he resurfaced on the scene a month later, and because pro wrestling will always remain a disgusting carny racket somewhere or other, Ciudad Juarez's Arena Juarez promoted the show around Demonio's newfound notoriety, literally using a still from the incident when promoting their next show on Facebook.
This show wasn't outlawed; the Commission allowed him back. He was blackballed for 34 days, which is brutally oxymoronic, but in another strange beat of a complex story, his peers welcomed back. He was very well thought-of. The brick became his gimmick; in a worked angle, he even threatened Penta El Zero Miedo with it three months after the fact in tremendously poor taste.
Demonio died of COVID-19 in 2021.