EMLL 27th Anniversary Show
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| Promotion | Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) | |||
| Date | September 23, 1960[1] | |||
| Attendance | 13,000[1] | |||
| Venue | Arena México[1] | |||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | |||
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The EMLL 27th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) that took place on September 23, 1960 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 27th 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.
Espectro I was forced to retire a year prior at the EMLL 26th Anniversary Show due to a neck injury. At the time he held the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship, which was vacated after Espectro I's retirement. EMLL held a long tournament with the finals of the tournament being the only verified match on the 27th Anniversary Show. The tournament came down to Ruben Juarez defeating Ray Mendoza to lay claim to the championship.[3][4][5][6]
Results
| No. | Results[1][3][4][5][6] | Stipulations |
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| 1 | Ruben Juarez defeated Ray Mendoza | Tournament final for the vacant Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "27th Anniversary Show". Pro Wrestling History. September 23, 1960. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: National Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. pp. 391–392. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.