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EMLL 18th Anniversary Show
The EMLL 18th Anniversary Show ( es, 18. Aniversario de EMLL) was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) that took place on September 21, 1951, in Arena Modelo, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 18th anniversary of EMLL, which would become the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world. The Anniversary show is EMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. The EMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual professional wrestling show, starting in 1934. Production Background The 1951 Anniversary show commemorated the 18th 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. EMLL was rebranded early in 1992 to become ''Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre'' ("World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) signal their depar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consejo Mundial De Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Co., Ltd. (CMLL; , "World Wrestling Council") is a ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion was previously known as ''Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre'' (''EMLL'') (''Mexican Wrestling Enterprise''). Founded in 1933, it is the oldest professional wrestling promotion still in existence. CMLL currently recognizes and promotes twelve "World Championships" for various weight divisions and classifications, six national level and six regional level championships. The Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Anniversary Shows, CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual major show, starting in 1934, with the CMLL 87th Anniversary Show being the most recent. CMLL also regularly promotes major events under the names ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' ("Homage to two legends"), ''Sin Piedad'' ("No Mercy"), ''Sin Salida'' ("No Escape"), ''Infierno en el Ring'' ("Inferno in the Ring") during the year. CMLL has promoted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestling Match Types
Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called "concept" or "gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling. Some gimmick matches are more common than others and are often used to advance or conclude a storyline. Throughout professional wrestling's decades long history, some gimmick matches have spawned many variations of the core concept. Singles match The singles match is the most common of all professional wrestling matches, which involves only two competitors competing for one fall. A victory is obtained by pinfall, submission, knockout, countout, or disqualification. Some of the most common variations on the singles match is to restrict the possible means for victory. Duchess of Queensbury Rules match A Duchess of Queensbury Rules match is a singles match contested under specific, often disclosed rules is replaced by a title usually meant to sound traditional for one combatant. A wrestler challenging another wrestler to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugi Sito
Francisco Javier Mar Hernández (December 4, 1926 – May 4, 2000) was a Mexican professional wrestler and promoter, known by the ring name "El Orgullo de Oriente" ("The pride of the Orient") Sugi Sito. He was born in Guanajuato to a Mexican father and Chinese mother. In the 1950s, Sito left Mexico and gained a measure of great success wrestling in the United States, especially the Houston, Texas area. In the early 1970s, Sugi Sito and Chin Lee worked for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling as a tag team. Sito later returned to Mexico where he became a wrestling promoter. Professional wrestling career Francisco Mar was trained by Rolando Vera for his professional wrestling career and made his debut in 1943. He adopted the ring name "Sugi Sito" to play off his mother's oriental ancestry, making him an instant ''Rudo'' during World War II. Sito's career highlights in Mexico came in the early part of the 1950s, as he was working for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL). On September 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NWA World Middleweight Championship
The NWA World Middleweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) between 1939 and 2010. For most of its existence, it was defended in the Mexican ''lucha libre'' promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), who called it the ''Campeonato Mundial Peso Medio de NWA''. As it is a professional wrestling championship, its holders were determined by promoters or promotions, not by athletic competition. The official middleweight limits in ''lucha libre'' are to , but this rule is broken when convenient.One example of the weight limits being ignored was El Satánico holding the title, despite weighing . The championship was created as the "World Middleweight Championship" in early 1939, by Salvador Lutteroth, owner of Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL). He awarded it to Gus Kallio, a five-time National Wrestling Association World Middleweight Champion, nicknamed "The King of the Middleweights" in the United States. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavernario Galindo
Rodolfo Galindo Ramirez (September 27, 1923 – July 19, 1999) was a Mexican luchador and film actor, best known by his ring name Cavernario Galindo (Caveman Galindo), who was active in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre from the 1930s to the 1990s. Well known for inventing La Cavernaria (a Modified surfboard hold), a commonly used submission hold in modern Lucha Libre. Biography Ramirez was born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico. As a young boy he would survive a car accident that would leave him with noticeable facial scars for the rest of his life.Madigan, Dan, Mondo Lucha a Go-Go: The Bizarre & Honorable World of Wild Mexican Wrestling, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2007, Galindo made his debut as a wrestler in 1938 at the age of fifteen under the name Ruddy Valentino. He would also wrestle as Ruddy Galindo before taking up the name that made him famous. His slight build combined with his brawler style of fighting made it unlikely that he would find much success in Mexican lucha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Bonales
Roberto Aceves, (September 25, 1916 – June 26, 1994), better known under the ring name Bobby Bonales, was a Mexican '' luchador'', or professional wrestler who was active during the early days of ''Lucha Libre'' in Mexico, making his debut in 1934. Aceves son Daniel Aceves is an Olympic medal winner in Greco-Roman wrestling. As Bonales Aceves held several championships including the NWA World Welterweight Championship, the Mexican National Middleweight Championship and the Mexican National Lightweight Championship. In recent years Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) has honored Bonales on several occasions. Known as ''La Maravilla Moreliana'' ("The Marvel from Morelia"); Bonales innovated the ''Topé Suicida'' wrestling moves. Professional wrestling career Roberto Aceves was born in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico but at the age of 8 his family moved to Mexico City. By the age of 14 Aceves began training to become a professional wrestler and made hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Shadow (wrestler)
Alejandro Cruz Ortiz (May 3, 1921 – March 8, 2007) was a Mexican Luchador (professional wrestler), known worldwide as Black Shadow ( es, Sombras). Cruz's mask vs. mask match against El Santo in 1952 is generally considered one of the most important matches in the history of Lucha Libre. Cruz often teamed with Blue Demon, working as a tag team called "Los Hermanos Shadow" (the Shadow Brothers), even though the two were not related. He was nicknamed ''El Hombre de Goma'', translated as ''The Rubber Man'', due to his elasticity and flexibility in the ring. Biography Cruz's original ambition was to be a musician but because he lacked the talent to earn a living from it he turned to professional wrestling. He had been a lifelong fan, and began training for a professional wrestling career in 1941. Professional wrestling career Cruz made his professional debut on June 21, 1942, against Rito Romero losing his debut match. Initially he was billed as "Jungla" Cruz, named after a pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Santo
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (23 September 1917 – 5 February 1984), known professionally as El Santo or in English The Saint, was a Mexican luchador enmascarado (Spanish for "masked professional wrestler"), actor and folk hero. He is one of the most famous and iconic Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of "the greatest legends in Mexican sports". His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in lucha films and comic books telling fictionalized stories of El Santo fighting for justice. He starred or co-starred in at least 54 movies between 1958 and 1982. During his career, he mainly wrestled for Empresa Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico where he won the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship, Mexican National Middleweight Championship, Mexican National Tag Team Championship with Rayo de Jalisco, Mexican National Welterweight Championship, NWA Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murciélago Velázquez
Jesús Velázquez Quintero (February 22, 1910 – May 26, 1972), better known under the ring names El Murciélago EnmascaradoLiterally translated as "Bat", Murciélago was a legendary fighting bull whose amazing fighting spirit during a corrida in Córdoba, Spain on 5 October 1879 led to its his life being spared, becoming a byword for gallantry and indomitable courage in the Spanish-speaking world. and Murciélago Velázquez, was a Mexican '' luchador'' (or professional wrestler). Velázquez was the fourth wrestler in Mexico to wear a wrestling mask and the second Mexican to work as an ''enmascarado'' ("masked wrestler") in the history of ''lucha libre''. He became the first wrestler in Mexico to be forced to unmask, losing a '' Lucha de Apuestas'' (or "Bet match") to Octavio Gaona, creating the most prestigious match type in ''lucha libre''. He once held the Mexican National Middleweight Championship and after his retirement was the head of the Mexico City boxing and wrestl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Charles
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Emilio may refer to: * Emilio Navaira, a Mexican-American singer often called "Emilio" * Emilio Piazza Memorial School, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State * Emilio (given name) * ''Emilio'' (film), a 2008 film by Kim Jorgensen See also * Emílio (other) * Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a variant of the given names Emil, Emilio and Emílio, and may refer to: * Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor *Aimilios Papathanasiou, Greek sailor * Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist *Emilios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a face (babyface) is a heroic, "good guy" or "fan favorite" wrestler, Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Book, booked (scripted) by the Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Promotion, promotion with the aim of being cheered by fans, and acts as a protagonist to the Heel (professional wrestling), heels, who are the Villain, villainous antagonist or "bad guy" characters. Traditionally, they wrestle within the rules and avoid cheating (in contrast to the villains who use illegal moves and call in additional wrestlers to do their work for them) while behaving positively towards the Referee (professional wrestling), referee and the audience. Such characters are also referred to as blue-eyes in Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom, British wrestling and ''técnicos'' in ''lucha libre''. The face character is portrayed as a hero relative to the Heel (professional wrestling), heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains. Not everything a face ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in ''lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and pretty much any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior that will get the job done." To gain heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise taking advantage of their opponents outside the bounds of the standards of the match. Others do not (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
