EMLL 10th Anniversary Show
EMLL 10th Anniversary Show | |||
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Promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre | | ||
Date | September 24, 1943[1][2][3] | ||
City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | ||
Venue | Arena Coliseo[2][3] | ||
Attendance | 10,000 (sold out)[1] | ||
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The EMLL 10th Anniversary Show (
This was the first Anniversary show to take place in the recently built Arena Coloseo that opened in April 1943 and was the first arena built specifically for professional wrestling in Mexico and the first sports building in Mexico to have built-in air conditioning.[4]
Production
Background
The 1943
Storylines
The event featured an undetermined number of 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] Due to the nature of keeping mainly paper records of wrestling at the time no documentation has been found for some of the matches of the show.
Event
Records of most of the early anniversary shows are not found, only one of the matches was documented.[2][7] The show was the first Anniversary Show to take place in Arena Coliseo, EMLL's new main building, replacing the aging Arena Modelo.[7] The main event of the 10th Anniversary show was one of the earliest Lucha de Apuesta ("Bet match") ever held. The Luchas de Apuestas concept had only been invented a few years previously, on July 14, 1940 and was considered a special attraction match.[8] The Apuesta match was the first such match on an Anniversary shows and one of the earliest of El Santo's career, with the victory over Bobby Bonales was one of the early victories that helped establish El Santo as a star in Mexico.[1][2][3][7][9] Following the match Bobby Bonales had to have all his hair shaved off as per the Luchas de Apuestas stipulation.[9]
Results
No. | Results Best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuesta , mask vs. hair match |
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References
- ^ a b c d e "10th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 24, 1943. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ^ ISBN 968-6842-48-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
- ^ a b c d Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
- ISBN 978-1-933045-05-4.
- ^ a b c "Lucha Libre: Conoce la historia de las leyendas de cuadrilátero". Santo (1917-1984) (in Spanish). Mexico. 2008. p. 54. Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre.
- ^ Acosta, Carlos (September 26, 2019). "Las jaulas y los Aniversarios del CMLL: Antecedentes de pasión". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved September 25, 2020.