Juicio Final (1996)

Juicio Final (1996) (Spanish for "Final Judgement" 1996) was the name used for two major professional wrestling shows, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The shows took place on December 6 and December 15, 1997 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The shows served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena México, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host Circo Atayde. The shows replaced the regular Super Viernes ("Super Friday") shows held by CMLL since the mid-1930s.

Juicio Final (1996)
Negro Casas, who did not lose his hair in the main event, but did not win the match either
PromotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
DateDecember 6, 1996[1]
(aired December 7, 1996[2])
CityMexico City, Mexico
VenueArena México
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The December 6 main event was a three-way Luchas de Apuestas, or bet match, between El Hijo del Santo, Negro Casas and El Dandy. In the main event El Hijo del Santo ended up defeating El Dandy, forcing El Dandy to have all his hair shaved off. The show included three additional matches.

Production

Background

For decades Arena México, the main venue of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), would close down in early December and remain closed into either January or February to allow for renovations as well as letting Circo Atayde occupy the space over the holidays. As a result CMLL usually held a "end of the year" supercard show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal Super Viernes show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name "El Juicio Final" ("The Final Judgement") for their year-end supershow.[3][4] It is no longer an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All Juicio Final shows have been held in Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".[5]

Storylines
See also: professional wrestling

The 1996 Juicio Final shows featured a total of six professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that play the part of the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they perform.[6]

Results
No. Results[1][7][8] Stipulations
1D Olimpus and Ultramán Jr. defeated Lynx and Reyes Veloz Tag team match
2D Máscara Mágica, Olímpico and Ringo Mendoza defeated Cadaver de Ultratumba, Espectro Jr., and Mogur Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match
3D Brazo de Plata, Dos Caras, and Silver King defeated Black Warrior, Rambo, and Rey Bucanero by disqualification Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match
4 Atlantis, La Fiera, and Lizmark Jr. defeated Los Guapos (Bestia Salvaje, Emilio Charles Jr., and Scorpio Jr.) by disqualification Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match[2]
5 Negro Casas defeated El Hijo del Santo Loser advances singles match[2][9]
6 Negro Casas defeated El Dandy Loser advances singles match[2][9]
7 El Hijo del Santo (mask) defeated El Dandy (hair) Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. hair match[2][9]
  • D – indicates the match was a dark match

References
  1. "1996 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 10, 1996. pp. 2–28. issue 2280.
  2. "CMLL on Televisa". CageMatch. December 6, 1996. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  3. "EMLL Super Viernes". Wrestling Data. December 2, 1955. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  4. Salazar, Fernando (May 31, 2019). "Juicio Final nos ha regalado Luchas de Apuestas emblematicas" [Juicio Final has provided some emblematic bet matches]. Record (in Spanish). Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  5. 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.
  6. Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperColins Publisher. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
  7. "CMLL Súper Viernes - Juicio Final 1996". Wrestling Data. December 1, 1996. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  8. Meltzer, Dave (December 16, 1996). "Mexico Results December 6, 1996". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. p. 14.
  9. "Luchas 2000". El Hijo del Santo y sus Victimas (in Spanish). Juárez, Mexico: Publicaciones citem, S.A. de C.V. pp. 8–11. Especial 30.
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