EMLL 22nd Anniversary Show
| EMLL 22nd Anniversary Show | |||
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| Promotion | Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) | ||
| Date | September 16, 1955[1] | ||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | ||
| Venue | Arena Coliseo[1] | ||
| Attendance | 10,000[1] | ||
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The EMLL 22nd Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) that took place on September 21, 1955 in Arena Coliseo, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 22nd 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 only two confirmed matches for the show the masked Halcón Negro ("Black Falcon") faced off against the unmasked Cavernario Galindo ("Galindo the Caveman") in a Lucha de Apuesta, or "bet match" where risked his mask and Galindo risked his hair on the outcome. The match saw Halcón defeat his opponent, two falls to one, and thus forced Galindo to be shaved bald after the match.[1][3][4][5] The other confirmed match saw El Santo defend the NWA World Middleweight Championship against long time rival, Black Shadow. The feud between the two had started years earlier and had seen El Santo unmask Black Shadow in 1951.[6] Santo successfully turned back the challenger, keeping the Middleweight Championship.[1][3][4][5][7]
Results
| # | Result | Stipulation | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Halcón Negro defeated Cavernario Galindo | Best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuesta mask vs. hair match[1][3][4][5] | |
| El Santo (C) defeated Black Shadow | Best two-out-of three falls match for the NWA World Middleweight Championship[1][3][4][5][7] | ||
| (C) Refers to the champion going into the match | |||
Aftermath
El Santo would retain the NWA World Middleweight Championship for over another year, until losing the title to Rolando Vera on October 19, 1956.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "22nd Anniversary Show". ProWrestlingHistory. September 16, 1955. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ^ Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizare and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 128–132. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b c d "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL" (in Spanish). The Gladiatores Magazine. September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Encyclopedia staff (July, 2007). "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". Black Shadow (in Spanish). Mexico. p. 32. Tomo I.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2006). "Mexico: EMLL NWA World Middlweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. pp. 389–390. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
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