EMLL 31st Anniversary Show

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EMLL 31st Anniversary Show
Promotion
Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
DateSeptember 25, 1964[1]
CityMexico City, Mexico[1]
VenueArena México[1]
AttendanceUnknown[1]
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The EMLL 31st Anniversary Show (

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

Production

Background

The 1964

company Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "Mexican Wrestling Promotion"; EMLL) holding their first show on September 22, 1933 by promoter and founder Salvador Lutteroth.[2] EMLL was rebranded early in 1992 to become Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ("World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) signal their departure from the National Wrestling Alliance.[3] With the sales of the Jim Crockett Promotions to Ted Turner in 1988 EMLL became the oldest, still-operating wrestling promotion in the world.[3] Over the years EMLL/CMLL has on occasion held multiple shows to celebrate their anniversary but since 1977 the company has only held one annual show, which is considered the biggest show of the year, CMLL's equivalent of WWE's WrestleMania or their Super Bowl event. CMLL has held their Anniversary show at Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico since 1956, the year the building was completed, over time Arena México earned the nickname "The Cathedral of Lucha Libre" due to it hosting most of EMLL/CMLL's major events since the building was completed.[3] Traditionally EMLL/CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[3]

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.[4] 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

Of the five matches on the show, documentation of participants and results exist for only two of them. In the first of the matches

Rayo de Jalisco defeat NWA World Middleweight Champion Benny Galant to win the title for a second time.[1][5][6][7][9]

Aftermath

Rayo de Jalisco held the title until April 4, 1963 where he was defeated by René Guajardo, he would hold the title for a third time later in his career.[9]

Results

No.ResultsStipulations
1Tony López defeated Jorge Allende
Rayo de Jalisco defeated Benny Galant (c)
Best two-out-of-three falls match for the NWA World Middleweight Championship[5][6][7][1][9]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "31st Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 24, 1954. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  2. ISBN 968-6842-48-9
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    ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
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  4. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
    . featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
  5. ^ a b c d "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ a b c d Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  8. ^
    ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
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  9. ^
    ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
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