EMLL 7th Anniversary Show
EMLL 7th Anniversary Show | |||
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Promotion | Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre | ||
Date | September 12, 1940[1][2][3] | ||
City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | ||
Venue | Arena Modelo[1] | ||
EMLL Anniversary Shows chronology | |||
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The EMLL 7th Anniversary Show (
Production
Background
The 1940
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 two of the matches are documented.[2][7] In the first documented match Firpo Segura and Gorilla Macias teamed up to defeat Tony Fellitto and El Tigre Ray Ryan.[1][2][3][7] This match was one of the earliest tag team matches promoted in Mexico, tag team wrestling had not become popular until the 1930s in the United States and was slowly becoming a regular occurrence in Mexico.[8] In the main event Tarzán López defended the Mexican version of the World Middleweight Championship (Later given the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) brand) against John Nemenic marking the first time a "world title" was defended on an anniversary show.[1][2][3][7]
Results
No. | Results Tag team match | |||
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2 | Tarzán López (c) defeated John Nemenic | Two-out-of-three falls match for the World Middleweight Championship[9] | ||
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References
- ^ a b c d e f "7th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 12, 1940. 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". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
- ISBN 978-1-5502-2683-6.
- ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.