EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show

EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show
Information
Promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
Date September 21, 1956[1]
Attendance 17,678[1]
Venue Arena México[1]
City Mexico City, Mexico[1]
EMLL Anniversary Show chronology

EMLL 22nd Anniversary Show EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show EMLL 24th Anniversary Show

The EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) that took place on September 21, 1956 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 23rd 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. The show was the first Anniversary show to take place in the recently built Arena México, having only opened to the public in April 1956.

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.

The 23rd Anniversary Show was the first to take place in the newly constructed Arena México, EMLL's new main venue. The event drew a crowd of 17,678 spectators in total.[1] The headliner of the event was a best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuesta mask vs. mask match, the most important and prestigious match type in Lucha Libre. For this match two of the top masked wrestlers in Mexico faced off as the golden masked El Gladiador took on the silver masked El Santo. In the end El Santo further cemented his iconic status as he defeated El Gladiador. Following the match El Gladiador removed his golden mask and revealed that his real name was Luis Ramirez Romero. He became the first of many wrestlers to lose their mask at in the building referred to as the "Wrestling Cathedral of Mexico".[1][3][4][5]

Results

No. Results[1][3][4][5][6] Stipulations
1 El Santo defeated El Gladiador Two out of three falls Lucha de Apuesta mask vs. mask match

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "23rd Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 21, 1956. 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 "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  6. ↑ "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.