EMLL 18th Anniversary Show

EMLL 18th Anniversary Show
Information
Promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL)
Date September 21, 1951[1]
Attendance 10,000[1]
Venue Arena Modelo[1]
City Mexico City, Mexico[1]
EMLL Anniversary Show chronology

EMLL 17th Anniversary Show EMLL 18th Anniversary Show EMLL 19th Anniversary Show

The EMLL 18th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) that took place on September 21, 1951 in Arena Modelo, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 18th anniversary of EMLL, which would become the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world.[2] The Anniversary show is EMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event.

Event

The event featured an undetermined number of professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines. Wrestlers portray either villains (referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or fan favorites (Técnicos in Mexico) as they compete in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes. 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.

In one of the verified matches Emilio Charles, father of Emilio Charles, Jr. defeated the legendary Murcielago Velasquez, who was nearing the end of his in ring career.[1][3][4][5] The show also saw Fernando Oses defeat Jalisco Gonzales.[1][3][4][5] In what would be a preview of many future matches between the two El Santo defeated Black Shadow in a regular match.[1][3][4][5] Lucha Libre pioneer Bobby Bonales, who had helped make EMLL popular in its early years defeated Cavernario Galindo who's days as a headliner still lay ahead of him.[1][3][4][5] NWA World Middleweight Champion Sugi Sito had won the championship at the previous year's anniversary show but was unable to hold on to it as challenger Enrique Llanes defeated him two falls to one to win the championship.[1][3][4][5][6]

Aftermath

EMLL stripped Enrique Llanes of the NWA World Middleweight Championship in early 1952, the exact reason why this took place has not been found documented.[6] El Santo and Black Shadow would face off in one of the most famous Lucha de Apuesta ("bet matches") just over a year later, with El Santo unmasking his opponent as a result of the match.[7]

Results

No. Results[1][3][4][5] Stipulations
1 Emilio Charles defeated Murcielago Velasquez Singles match
2 Fernando Oses defeated Jalisco Gonzales. Singles match
3 El Santo defeated Black Shadow Singles match
4 Bobby Bonales defeated Cavernario Galindo Singles match
5 Enrique Llanes defeated Sugi Sito (c)[6] Best two-out-of three falls match for the NWA World Middleweight Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "18th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 21, 1951. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  2. ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 128–132. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "Mexico: EMLL NWA World Middlweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. pp. 389–390. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  7. ↑ "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Black Shadow (in Spanish) (Mexico). July 2007. p. 32. Tomo I.