Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2016)
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | |||
| Date | March 18, 2016[1] | |||
| Venue | Arena México[1] | |||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | |||
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Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2016) (Spanish for "Homage to Two Legends") is an upcoming major professional wrestling event that will be produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and is slated to take place on March 18, 2016. The show will take place in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, CMLL's home venue. The 2016 event will be the 21st event in the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas series of shows. The event will pay homage to CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth, who is always honored at Dos Leyendas, and will also pay homage to Lizmark who died on December 15, 2015.[1] No matches have been announced yet.
Production
Background
Since 1996 the Mexican wrestling company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) has held a show in March each year to commemorate the passing of CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth who died in March 1987.[2] For the first three years the show paid homage to Lutteroth himself, from 1999 through 2004 the show paid homage to Lutteroth and El Santo, Mexico's most famous wrestler ever[3] and from 2005 forward the show has paid homage to Lutteroth and a different leyenda ("Legend") each year, celebrating the career and accomplishments of past CMLL stars. Originally billed as Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth, it has been held under the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas ("Homage to two legends") since 1999 and is the only show outside of CMLL's Anniversary shows that CMLL has presented every year since its inception. All Homenaje a Dos Leyendas shows have been held in Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".[4] Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, which means the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas shows replace their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[4] The 2016 show will be the 21st overall Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show. The second Leyenda honored at the 2016 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas will be Lizmark.[5]
Storylines
The event will feature an undetermined number of professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "El CMLL homenajeará a Lizmark". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. January 31, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
- ↑ "Los Lutteroth / the Lutteroths". Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. 2005. pp. 20–27. ISBN 968-6842-48-9.
- ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "Okay... what is Lucha Libre?". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- 1 2 Madigan, Dan (2007). "El nacimient de un sueño (the birth of a dream)". Mondo Lucha A Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 41–50. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- ↑ "Lizmark en el Homenaje a Dos Leyendas" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. February 4, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2016.