EMLL 55th Anniversary Show

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EMLL 55th Anniversary Show
Mexico City, Mexico[1]
VenueArena México[1]
Attendance17,000[1]
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The EMLL 55th 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.

The main event of the show was a

Lucha de Apuestas ("Bet match) where both Máscara Año 2000 and Mogur wagered their masks on the outcome of the match, with the loser being forced to take off his mask at the end of the show. Mogur had unmasked As Charro at the previous year's anniversary show and put his mask on the line once again. The show also featured a match for the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship and a match for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship
as well as an undetermined number of other matches.

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] Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[6]

Storylines

The event featured at least three 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 the rest of the show.

The main event storyline saw Mogur attacked repeatedly by rudo

Los Hermanos Dinamita; "The Dynamite Brothers") while Mogur would team with various EMLL tecnicos. Bestia Salvaje won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship from Águila Solitaria on September 3, 1988, only four weeks before the Anniversary show.[8] EMLL deemed El Hijo del Santo as the next challenger for the title, who at the time was six years into a career that would see him become one of the top names in Lucha Libre only a few years later. The American Ken Timbs, better known as Fabuloso Blondy when he worked in Mexico put his NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship on the line against one of EMLL's top names, Lizmark
. Fabuloso Blondy had actually won the NWA Championship from Lizmark on March 20, 1988 and was embroiled in a long running feud with him at this point in time, where this championship match was simply the next stage of the storyline.

Results

No.Results
Lucha de Apuestas mask vs. mask match[10][11][4][12]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "55th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 30, 1988. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  2. ^
    ISBN 968-6842-48-9
    .
  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 September 28, 2012.
  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. ^
    ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
    .
  9. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
    .
  10. ^ "Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre". Máscara Año 2000 (in Spanish). Portales, Mexico. November 2008. p. 36. 17.
  11. ^ "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Máscara Año 2000 (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico. September 2007. pp. 24–25. Tomo III.
  12. ^ Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  13. ^ "1988 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 10, 1989. pp. 2–28. issue 1864.
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