CMLL 73rd Anniversary Show
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) | |||
| Date | September 29, 2006[1] | |||
| Attendance | 17,000[2] | |||
| Venue | Arena México[1] | |||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | |||
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The CMLL 73rd Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on September 29, 2006 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The show consisted of six matches, with the main event being a Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask match between Místico and Black Warrior. It also featured five Six-man tag team matches, including the final match in a tournament for the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship. The event commemorated the 73rd anniversary of CMLL, the oldest professional wrestling promotion. in the world.[3] The anniversary show is CMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. The 73rd anniversary show was transmitted live on Pay-Per-View, something only a few anniversary shows before this one had been.
Production
Background
The 2006 CMLL Anniversary Shows commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the Mexican professional wrestling company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) holding their first show on September 22, 1933 by promoter and founder Salvador Lutteroth.[4] CMLL, originally known as Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ("Mexican Wrestling Company"; EMLL) it would change its name to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in 1992 to signal their departure from the National Wrestling Alliance.[5] With the sales of the Jim Crockett Promotions to Ted Turner in 1988 CMLL became the oldest, still-operating wrestling promotion in the world.[5] Over the years 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 CMLL's major events since the building was completed.[5] Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[5]
Storylines
The event 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.
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dark Angel, Lady Apache and Marcela defeatd La Amapola, Hiroka and Princesa Sujei | Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match | 05:45 |
| 2 | Alex Koslov, Averno and Mephisto defeated El Felino, El Sagrado and Último Dragón | Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match | 11:34 |
| 3 | Blue Panther, Dos Caras Jr. and Rey Bucanero defeated Kenzo Suzuki, Marco Corleone and Olímpico | Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match | 18:37 |
| 4 | Dr. Wagner Jr., Groon XXX and Negro Casas defeated Los Perros del Mal (Damián 666, Halloween and Mr. Águila) | Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match | 12:37 |
| 5 | Los Guerreros del Infierno (Atlantis, Tarzan Boy and Último Guerrero) defeated Los Perros del Mal (Perro Aguayo Jr. and Héctor Garza) and Shocker | Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match for the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship | 13:17 |
| 6 | Místico defeated Black Warrior | Lucha de Apuestas mask vs. mask match. | 17:30 |
References
- General result sources
- "75th Anniversary Show". ProWrestlingHistory.com. September 19, 2008. Retrieved September 29, 2007.
- Ocampo, Jorge (October 8, 2006). "Místico súpreme!". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). issue 178.
- Specific sources
- 1 2 3 Arturo Rosas Plata (September 28, 2007). "Las celebraciones pasadas...". Ovaciones (in Spanish). Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Ovaciones, S. A. de C.V. p. 18. Número 20998 Año LX. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
- ↑ "CMLL 73rd Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 29, 2006. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 128–132. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ↑ "Los Lutteroth / the Lutteroths". Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. 2005. pp. 20–27. ISBN 968-6842-48-9.
- 1 2 3 4 Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 128–132. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.