CMLL 66th Anniversary Show

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CMLL 66th Anniversary show
Mexico City, Mexico[1]
VenueArena México[1]
Attendance15,000[2]
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The CMLL 66th Anniversary Show (

professional wrestling promotion in the world. The Anniversary show is CMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl
event. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual professional wrestling show, starting in 1934.

The show consisted of seven matches, with the main event being a

Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask match, immediately after the tag team match. Atlantis and Villano III defeated Mr. Niebla and Shocker, forcing Mr. Niebla and Shocker to wrestle each other in the final match of the night. The show also featured three Six-man tag team matches, a four against three handicap match and a tag team match.[1]

Production

Background

Arena México, CMLL's main venue and location of the Anniversary Show

The Mexican

company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) started out under the name Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ("Mexican Wrestling Company"; EMLL), founded by Salvador Lutteroth in 1933. Lutteroth, inspired by professional wrestling shows he had attended in Texas, decided to become a wrestling promoter and held his first show on September 21, 1933, marking what would be the beginning of organized professional wrestling in Mexico.[3] Lutteroth would later become known as "the father of Lucha Libre" .[4] A year later EMLL held the EMLL 1st Anniversary Show, starting the annual tradition of the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Anniversary Shows that have been held each year ever since, most commonly in September.[5]

Over the years the anniversary show would become the biggest show of the year for CMLL, akin to the

magnitude 8.0 earthquake. EMLL canceled the event both because of the general devastation but also over fears that Arena México might not be structurally sound after the earthquake.[5][8]

When Jim Crockett Promotions was bought by Ted Turner in 1988 EMLL became the oldest still active promotion in the world.[6] In 1991 EMLL was rebranded as "Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre" and thus held the CMLL 59th Anniversary Show, the first under the new name, on September 18, 1992.[5] Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[7]

Storylines

The event featured five professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[7]

Results

No.Results
Lucha de Apuestas mask vs. mask match[5][9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "66th Anniversary Show". ProWrestlingHistory. September 24, 1999. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
  2. ^ "CMLL 66th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 24, 1999. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  3. ^
    ISBN 968-6842-48-9
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  4. ^ "Wed. Update: Flair in Boston, ratings, Anniversary, White on HHH, DGUSA star on Smackdown, Orton". Figure Four Online /Wrestling Observer. September 21, 2011. Archived from the original on November 27, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
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  7. ^
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    . featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
  8. ^ "52nd Anniversary Show". ProWrestlingHistory. September 19, 1986. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  9. ^ a b Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  10. ^ "Tecnicos – Shocker". Fuego en el ring (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
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