EMLL 39th Anniversary Show (1)

EMLL 39th Anniversary Show #1
Information
Promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL)
Date September 29, 1972[1]
Attendance Unknown[1]
Venue Arena México[1]
City Mexico City, Mexico[1]
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Mexican professional wrestling promotion celebrated their 39th anniversary with two professional wrestling major shows centering around the anniversary date in September and October.The first EMLL 39th Anniversary Show took place on September 29, 1972 in, Arena México Mexico City, Mexico to commemorated the anniversary of EMLL, which over time became 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.

The first of the 39th EMLL anniversary shows featured an unknown number of matches, traditionally EMLL has five to six matches per show, but at times have had more or less and the total number has not been verified. EMLL held a tag team tournament to commemorate their 39th anniversary, which concluded at their Anniversary Show. Records do not indicate if the semi-finals or other preliminary rounds took place at the show as well, only that the finals were part of the event. The tournament saw El Solitario and Ray Mendoza team up to defeat the duo of Rene Guajardo and Alfonso Dantés to win the tournament and the trophy.[1][3][4][5]

Results

No. Results[1][3][4][5] Stipulations
1 El Solitario and Ray Mendoza defeated Rene Guajardo and Alfonso Dantés Finals of a tag team tournament

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "39th Anniversary Show #1". Pro Wrestling History. September 29, 1972. 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.