49th Anniversary of Lucha Libre in Estado de México

49th Anniversary of Lucha Libre in Estado de México
Official poster for the event depicting the main event competitors
Information
Promotion	International Wrestling Revolution Group
Date	December 4, 2011
Venue	Arena Naucalpan
City	Naucalpan, State of Mexico
Event chronology
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The 49th Anniversary of Lucha Libre in Estado de México was celebrated by a major professional wrestling show produced and scripted by the Mexican lucha libre promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; sometimes referred to as Grupo Internacional Revolución in Mexico) and took place on December 4, 2011 in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico (Estado de México). The event commemorated the sport of lucha libre becoming allowed in the State of Mexico, with the first lucha libre show held in the state taking place on December 1962. Over the years IWRG has on occasion celebrated the anniversary, although not consistently holding an anniversary show every year.

The main event was a special best two-out-of-three-falls eight-man tag team match between a team that represented wrestlers who used to work for the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) and a team of wrestlers that all used to work for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) at one point. Team "UWA" (Canek, El Brazo, Head Hunter A and Negro Navarro) defeated Team "CMLL" (Lizmark Jr., Rayman, Rayo de Jalisco Jr. and El Texano Jr.) two falls to one. The show featured four additional matches.

The history of lucha libre, or professional wrestling in Mexico goes all the way back to the early 1900s where individual promoters would hold shows on a local basis in various Mexican states. In 1933 Salvador Lutteroth created Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL; Spanish for "Mexican Wrestling Enterprise") and in subsequent years took EMLL to a national level. In the 1930s and 1940s various Mexican states (as well as Mexico City, which is a federal district and not part of any state) began to create lucha libre commissions, often as an extension of the existing boxing commissions, responsible for overview of lucha libre in each state, licensing wrestlers and ensuring the rules were being enforced. In the State of Mexico lucha libre was not officially sanctioned until late 1962, with the first lucha libre show in the state held in December 1962.