Promo Uses La Parka Image, LA Park Won't Attend Worlds Collide

The original La Parka, now known as LA Park, said he will not appear at next Friday's WWE x AAA Worlds Collide event in Las Vegas after promotional material mistakenly used his image to advertise an eightman lucha match. WWE unveiled the full card during SmackDown on Friday, September 5, and the error prompted the veteran luchador to post on social media on September 6 that he would not be taking part in the September 12 show at The Pavilion at the Thomas and Mack Center.

WWE's SmackDown graphic promoted an Eight-Man Lucha Showcase billed as featuring La Parka alongside Mascarita Sagrada, Octagon Jr. and Nino Hamburguesa against Joaquin Wilde, Cruz Del Toro, Lince Dorado and either Mini Abismo Negro or Abismo Negro Jr, depending on different listings. The image, however, depicted the original La Parka who rose to prominence in WCW during the 1990s and now wrestles under the name LA Park. LA Park wrote on X and Facebook, "You already know how they always put me up there to confuse people, but it's not me. Well, the one in the image is me, but I'm not going to go."

WWE and AAA appear to have intended the match to feature the current La Parka character, introduced by AAA in March...