cmll held a tournament to determine the next cmll world light heavyweight champion starting on january 22, 2013, and the finals were held the following week. the first round of the tournament was a 16-man "torneo cibernetico" elimination match, with the last two men in the match qualifying for the finals the following week on january 29. the "torneo" featured two teams of eight wrestling against each other; team a consisted of delta, el felino, la máscara, mephisto, mr. águila, rey escorpión, stuka jr. and volador jr. and team b consisted of atlantis, blue panther, diamante, euforia, maximo, morphosis, psicosis and sagrado. the match came down to team a's rey escorpión and volado jr. versus team b's euforia. escorpión pulled off volador jr.'s mask and threw it to rival euforia, causing euforia to be disqualified, which meant that escorpión and volador jr. qualified for the finals the following week. on january 29, rey escorpión defeated volador jr. in the finals to become the 13th overall cmll world light heavyweight champion.