EMLL 10th Anniversary Show
| EMLL 10th Anniversary Show | ||||
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 The mask of El Santo, which was on the line in the main event | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre | |||
| Date | September 24, 1943[1][2][3] | |||
| Attendance | 10,000 (sold out)[1] | |||
| Venue | Arena Coliseo[2][3] | |||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | |||
| EMLL Anniversary Shows chronology | ||||
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The EMLL 10th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL, later renamed Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, CMLL) that took place on September 24, 1943 in Arena Coliseo, in Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the tenth anniversary of EMLL, which would become the oldest still active professional wrestling promotion in the world.[4] The Anniversary show is EMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. This was the first Anniversary show to take place in the recently built Arena Coloseo that opened in April, 1943 and was the first arena built specifically for professional wrestling in Mexico and the first sports building in Mexico to have built in air conditioning.[5]
Background
The event featured an unknown number of professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines. Wrestlers portray either tecnico ("Good guys") or rudo ("Bad guy") characters. Being a professional wrestling event matches were not won legitimately through athletic competition; they are instead won via predetermined outcomes to the matches that is kept secret from the general public.
Records of most of the early anniversary shows are not found, only one of the matches was documented.[2][6] The show was the first Anniversary Show to take place in Arena Coliseo, EMLL's new main building, replacing the aging Arena Modelo.[6] The main event of the 10th Anniversary show was one of the earliest Lucha de Apuesta ("Bet match") ever held. The Luchas de Apuestas concept had only been invented a few years previously, on July 14, 190 and was considered a special attraction match.[7] The Apuesta match was the first such match on an Anniversary shows and one of the earliest of El Santo's career, with the victory over Bobby Bonales was one of the early victories that helped establish El Santo as a star in Mexico.[1][2][3][6][8] Following the match Bobby Bonales had to have all his hair shaved off as per the Luchas de Apuestas stipulation.[8]
Results
| No. | Results[1][1][2][3][6][8] | Stipulations |
|---|---|---|
| unknown | El Santo defeated Bobby Bonales | Two out of three falls Lucha de Apuesta, mask vs. hair match |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "10th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 24, 1943. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Various (2005). "Los Lutteroth / the Lutteroth". Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. pp. 20–27. ISBN 968-6842-48-9.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
- ↑ Lourdes Grobet, Alfonso Morales, Gustavo Fuentes, and Jose Manuel Aurrecoechea (2005). Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Trilce. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-933045-05-4.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Lucha Libre: Conoce la historia de las leyendas de cuadrilátero". Santo (1917-1984) (in Spanish) (Mexico). 2008. p. 54. Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre.