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Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (2004)
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Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (2004) (

Mexico City, Mexico. The event was to honor and remember CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth, who died in March 1987. This was fifth March show held under the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas name, having previously been known as Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth. Starting in 1999 CMLL honored not just their founder, but also El Santo, the most famous Mexican professional wrestler ever.[2] The name of the annual March event would later be shortened to just Homenaje a Dos Leyendas after CMLL had a falling out with El Santo's son El Hijo del Santo
, with the event honoring a different wrestler along with Lutteroth.

The main event was

L.A. Park and Shocker to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship. The card was rounded out with three Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match
and a "lightning match", a match with one fall and a 10-minute time limit.

Production

Background

Since 1996 the Mexican

Mexico City, Mexico, which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".[4] Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, which means the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas shows replace their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[4]
The 2004 show was the ninth overall Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show and the last dedicated specifically to El Santo.

Storylines

The Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show featured six 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.[5]

The selling point of the 2004 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show was the storyline feud between the tecnico team of

Lucha de Apuestas or a "Bet match" where the losing team would both be forced to have all their hair shaved off after the match.[1][6]

The semi-main event of the show was a match for the

Los Guerreros del Infierno ("The Infernal Warriors") consisting of Rey Bucanero and Último Guerrero. The match was the first title defense of the new champions, 5 days after they won the titles, and also one of the few times they two actually teamed up together as they had not formed a regular tag team prior to winning the titles.[1]

Homage to Salvador Lutteroth and El Santo

Main articles: Salvador Lutteroth and El Santo

In September 1933

Arena Mexico, which became known as "The Cathedral of Lucha Libre".[3][4] Over time EMLL became the oldest wrestling promotion in the world, with 2018 marking the 85th year of its existence.[7] Lutteroth has often been credited with being the "father of Lucha Libre", introducing the concept of masked wrestlers to Mexico as well as the Luchas de Apuestas match. Lutteroth died on September 5, 1987.[3] EMLL, late CMLL, remained under the ownership and control of the Lutteroth family as first Salvador's son Chavo Lutteroth and later his grandson Paco Alonso took over ownership of the company.[8]

The life and achievements of Salvador Lutteroth is always honored at the annual Homenaje a Dos Leyenda' show and since 1999 CMLL has also honored a second person, a Leyenda of lucha libre, in some ways CMLL's version of their

lucha films. El Santo, real name Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (September 23, 1917 – February 5, 1984), was an active wrestler from 1934 until 1982, who also starred in over 50 lucha films between 1958 and 1982. Through his popularity and the roles he played in his films, El Santo became a Mexican folk hero and became a symbol of Mexican wrestling across the world.[2][9] During his career, he mainly wrestled for Empresa Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico where he won the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship,[10] Mexican National Middleweight Championship,[11] Mexican National Tag Team Championship[12] with Rayo de Jalisco, Mexican National Welterweight Championship,[13] NWA World Middleweight Championship and the NWA World Welterweight Championship.[14] He is said to have popularized professional wrestling in Mexico just as Rikidōzan did in Japan[2] or like Hulk Hogan did in the United States. Guzmán's son followed him into wrestling as El Hijo del Santo, or the 'Son of Santo'. In 2018, WWE inducted him into their Hall of Fame in the Legacy category.[15]

Aftermath

The storyline between Perro Aguayo Jr. and Los Hermanos Dinamita did not end with the Luchas de Apuestas match, in fact they continued a prolonged storyline that stretched into the following year, drawing in Perro Aguayo, Sr. in the process. The Aguayos defeated Los Hermanos Dinamita in the main event of the 2005 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas event, with Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000 once again having their hair shaved off as a result of the loss.[6][16] The defeated Tag Team Champions Shocker and L.A. Park did not team up on a regular basis after their loss, while Los Guerreros del Infierno would hold the title until July 25, 2004 (128 days) before losing them to Atlantis and Blue Panther.[1]

Results

No.Results
Lucha de Apuestas, Hairs vs. Hairs match[6]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Número Especial – Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2004". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. 91.
  2. ^
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  3. ^
    ISBN 968-6842-48-9
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  4. ^
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  5. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3
    . featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
  6. ^ a b c "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Cien Caras (in Spanish). Mexico. June 2007. p. 47. Tomo I.
  7. Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online
    . Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  8. ^ Meltzer, Dave (September 8, 2008). Wrestling Observer Newsletter - September 8th 2008.
  9. ISBN 968-6842-48-9
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  10. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
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  11. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
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  12. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
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  13. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
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  14. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
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  15. ^ "2018 WWE Hall of Fame legacy wing inductees are .... | PWInsider.com". www.pwinsider.com. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  16. ^ Ocampo, Jorge (March 21, 2005). "El Perro se va triunfante". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). pp. 5–8. issue 101.
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