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for "Final Judgment") was a

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(CMLL) that took place on March 17, 2000 in

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. The show was produced with the tag line, Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (

for "Homage to Two Legends:

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and

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") to honor and remember CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth and El Santo, the most famous Mexican wrestler ever. This was the tenth time that CMLL used the name "Jucio Final" for one of their major shows. The show featured six matches in total with the main event of the show being a ''

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'', mask vs. mask match between

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in a match that has been called "The biggest Apuesta match of the decade". The match was voted the 2000

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in the

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. The show featured four additional matches, including two Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team matches, a singles match and a 16-man ''

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Production

Background

Since 1996 the Mexican wrestling company ''

'' (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) has held a show in March each year to commemorate the passing of CMLL founder

who died in March 1987. For the first three years the show paid homage to Lutteroth himself, from 1999 through 2004 the show paid homage to Lutteroth and

, Mexico's most famous wrestler ever 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

which is CMLL's main venue, its "home". Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, which means the ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' shows replace their regularly scheduled '' Super Viernes'' show. The 2000 show was the fifth overall ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' show. The show was also billed as ''Jucio Final'' ("Final Judgement"), an event name or tag line that CMLL has used intermittently since the mid-1950s. 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

which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".

Storylines

The ''JuicioFinal'' show featured six

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feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either

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(referred to as ''rudos'' in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or

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(''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.

Results

;Torneo Generación XXI order of elimination

References

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