CMLL 78th Anniversary Show

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CMLL 78h Anniversary show
Mexico City, Mexico
VenueArena México
Attendance8,400[1]
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The CMLL 78th Anniversary Show (

professional wrestling promotion in the world. CMLL's anniversary show is their biggest, most important show of the year, comparable to the Super Bowl for the National Football League or WrestleMania for WWE
. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual professional wrestling show, starting in 1934.

The main event of the show was a

Máximo, Blue Panther and Negro Casas had left the cage. El Felino pinned Rey Bucanero, forcing Rey Bucanero to stand in the middle of the ring as his hair was shaved off. The show featured three additional matches, including the first round of 2011 Leyenda de Plata
tournament.

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.[2] Lutteroth would later become known as "the father of Lucha Libre" .[3] 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.[4]

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.[4][7]

When Jim Crockett Promotions was bought by Ted Turner in 1988 EMLL became the oldest still active promotion in the world.[5] 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.[4] Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[6]

The 78th Anniversary Show was the fourth time CMLL held a steel cage match as the main event of their Anniversary Shows, previously holding them on their 68th, 74th and 77th Anniversary Shows.[8][9][10]

Storylines

The event featured four 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.[6]

Event

For the

Metro, Rey Escorpión and Sangre Azteca.[11] The first wrestler was eliminated about seven minutes into the match when Fuego pinned Hijo del Signo. He was soon followed by Diamante, Fuego and Rey Escorpión who were all eliminated in quick succession. For the next elimination Metro had help from Sangre Azteca to pin Virus, giving their team the numbers advantage. Moments later Máscara Dorada pinned Sangre Azteca, evening the sides. Next followed the eliminations of Olímpico, Metro and Máscara Dorada. Facing off against both Dragón Rojo Jr. and Jushin Liger, Mephisto cheated to eliminate Dragón Rojo Jr. but could not overcome the veteran Jushin Linger who pinned Mephisto after he performed a Brainbuster on Mephisto, winning the match.[11]

For the main event steel cage match CMLL imposed a five minute period where no one would be allowed to climb out of the cage, forcing them to fight it out. During the ten minute grace period

Máximo. then Blue Panther and finally Negro Casas climbed over the top. This left El Felino and Rey Bucanero as the last two wrestlers in the match. At this point the rules changed so that it was no longer escaping the cage that mattered, but defeating their opponent by pinfall or submission. Near the end of the match Bucanero tried to perform a top rope Huracarrana move, but El Felino managed to reverse it, performing a super power bomb slam on Rey Bucanero instead. Moments later El Felino pinned Rey Bucanero while illegally putting his feet on the bottom rope to increase his leverage.[12] Afterwards Rey Bucanero stood in the middle of the ring. allowing the official CMLL barber to shave all of Rey Bucanero's hair off as the cage was disassembled.[12]

Aftermath

After the main event Rey Bucanero stated that he felt like he was the moral winner of the main event since El Felino had to cheat to defeat him, vowing that it was not over between the two.[13] For his part El Felino stated that after pinning Rey Bucanero he should now get a match for the NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship that Bucanero held at the time.[13] Despite pinning Bucanero, El Felino was never given a match for the NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship.[14]

After winning the torneo cibernetico portion of the 2011 Leyenda de Plata tournament Jushin Liger faced Volador Jr., who had also won a torneo cibernetico, on the following week's Super Viernes. In the end Volador Jr. pinned Jushin Liger to win their match two falls to one and claim the Leyenda de Plata tournament.[15]

The undercard feud between Los Rayos Tapatío and Hombre Bala Jr. and Super Halcón Jr. continued throughout the fall and winter, ending with Los Rayos Tapatío losing a Lucha de Apuestas on January 1, 2012 after which they were forced to unmask.[16]

Results

No.Results
Lucha de Apuestas, "hair vs. hair" match.[17]
Cage match order of escape
# Name[17]
1 Rush
2 Mr. Águila
3 El Terrible
4 El Texano Jr.
5 Héctor Garza
6 Máximo
7 Blue Panther
8 Negro Casas

References

  1. ^ "78th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 30, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  2. ^
    ISBN 968-6842-48-9
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  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
    .
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
    . featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
  7. ^ "52nd Anniversary Show". ProWrestlingHistory. September 19, 1986. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  8. ^ "68th Anniversary Show". ProWrestlingHistory. September 28, 2001. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
  9. Super Luchas
    . Retrieved September 19, 2009.
  10. Super Luchas
    . Retrieved September 4, 2010.
  11. ^ a b c González, Fernando (October 1, 2011). "Lyger por la Leyenda de Plata". Récord (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  12. ^ a b c d González, Fernando (September 30, 2011). "Rey Bucanero fue rapado". Récord (in Spanish). Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  13. ^ a b "Descalabro para TRT – Bucanero Peleon". CMLL Gaceta (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. October 1, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  14. ^ "NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship". Cagematch.net. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  15. ^ Rodríguez, Édgar (October 8, 2011). "Volador Jr. se llevó la plata". Récord (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
  16. ^ "Imagen: Hombre Bala Jr y Super Halcon Jr destapan a los Rayos Tapatios I y II". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 1, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  17. ^ a b Acosta, Carlos (September 26, 2019). "Las jaulas y los Aniversarios del CMLL: Antecedentes de pasión". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved September 25, 2020.
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