Arena México 60th Anniversary Show | ||||
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Arena México as seen from the outside
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Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | |||
Date | April 29, 2016 | |||
Venue | Arena México | |||
City | Mexico City, Mexico | |||
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Aniversario de Arena México chronology | ||||
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The Arena México 60th Anniversary Show is an upcoming major professional wrestling show produced by the Mexican lucha libre professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ("World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) and took place on April 29, 2016, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The annual event commemorates the 1956 opening of Arena México, nicknamed "The Cathedral of Lucha Libre", CMLL's main venue and the largest arena ever built specifically for professional wrestling.
The showfeatured the finals of a three-week-long annual Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles tournament which saw the team of Místico and Mephisto defeat Carístico and Cibernético to win the entire 16-team tournament. On the undercard Rey Cometa defeated Cavernario, the reigning Mexican National Welterweight Champion in a non-title match.
In 1933 professional wrestling promoter Salvador Lutteroth held his first Lucha Libre show as Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ("Mexican Wrestling Enterprise"; EMLL) at Arena Modelo. Lutteroth would later move EMLL to Arena Coliseo, but that venue turned out to be too small in the long run and Lutteroth funded the creation of Arena México on calle Doctor Lavista #203, Colonia Doctores. on the intersection of Dr.Rafael Lucio, Dr. Carmona and Valle. The building was completed in 1956 and is to this day the largest arena built specifically for professional wrestling. The arena opened in April, 1956 and ever since then EMLL has celebrated the Aniversario de Arena México in April of each year. In 1991 EMLL was renamed Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ("World Wrestling Enterprise"; CMLL), only three years after it became the oldest, still-active professional wrestling promotion in the world. The 2016 version of the Anniversary show will be the 60th show, making it the third longest annual professional wrestling show, after the CMLL Anniversary Shows that began in 1934 and the Arena Coliseo anniversary show that began in 1944.