EMLL 33rd Anniversary Show (2)

Mexican professional wrestling promotion celebrated their 33rd anniversary with two professional wrestling major shows centering on the anniversary date in early to mid September. The second EMLL 33rd Anniversary Show took place on September 30, 1966 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico to commemorated the anniversary of EMLL, which over time became the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world. The Anniversary show is EMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event.

EMLL 33rd Anniversary Show #2
Mil Máscaras, teamed up with Black Shadow on the show.
Promotion	Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
Date	September 30, 1966[1]
City	Mexico City, Mexico[1]
Venue	Arena México[1]
Attendance	Unknown[1]
EMLL Anniversary Show chronology
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Production

Background

The 1966 Anniversary show commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the Mexican professional wrestling company Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "Mexican Wrestling Promotion"; EMLL) holding their first show on September 22, 1933 by promoter and founder Salvador Lutteroth.[2] EMLL was rebranded early in 1992 to become Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ("World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) signal their departure from the National Wrestling Alliance.[3] With the sales of the Jim Crockett Promotions to Ted Turner in 1988 EMLL became the oldest, still-operating wrestling promotion in the world.[3] Over the years EMLL/CMLL has on occasion held multiple shows to celebrate their anniversary but since 1977 the company has only held one annual show, which is considered the biggest show of the year, CMLL's equivalent of WWE's WrestleMania or their Super Bowl event. CMLL has held their Anniversary show at Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico since 1956, the year the building was completed, over time Arena México earned the nickname "The Cathedral of Lucha Libre" due to it hosting most of EMLL/CMLL's major events since the building was completed.[3] Traditionally EMLL/CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.[3]

Storylines

The event featured at least five 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. 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.

Event

The second 33rd Anniversary show saw a continuation of the feud between the team of Rene Guajardo and Karloff Lagarde and the team of Jerry London and Felipe Ham Lee. At the first 33rd Anniversary Show Guajardo had defeated Lee and London had defeated Lagarde in a series of Lucha de Apuesta hair vs. hair match. the two winners faced off in yet another Lucha de Apuesta hair vs. hair match, which saw Guajardo gain a measure of revenge on behalf of his tag team partner as Jerry London left Arena Mexico with his hair shaved off.[1][4][5][6]

Results

No.	Results[1][4][5][6]	Stipulations
1	Ray Mendoza won a match	Singles match
2	Raul Reyes won a match	Singles match
3	Dr. Wagner won a match	Singles match
4	El Santo and Rayo de Jalisco defeated Black Shadow and Mil Máscaras	Best two-out-of-three falls tag team match
5	Rene Guajardo defeated Jerry London	Best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuesta hair vs. hair match

References

1. "33rd Anniversary Show #2". Pro Wrestling History. September 30, 1966. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
2. "Los Lutteroth / the Lutteroths". Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. 2005. pp. 20–27. ISBN 968-6842-48-9.
3. Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 128–132. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
4. "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
5. "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
6. Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 7, 2010). "CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2012.