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Promotional poster for the event
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Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | |||
Date | March 2, 2012 | |||
Attendance | 12,000 | |||
Venue | Arena México | |||
City | Mexico City, Mexico | |||
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Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2012 (Spanish for "Homage to Two Legends") was an annual professional wrestling major event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on March 2, 2012 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The event paid tribute to CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth who is always honored at Dos Leyendas and to Bobby Bonales, a major CMLL wrestler from the 1950s and former holder of the NWA World Welterweight Championship. The main event of the show was a Lucha de Apuestas match with both competitors wagering their hair on the outcome of the match as Blue Panther wrestled against Negro Casas. The semi-main event featured the finals of the 2012 National Parejas Incredíbles ("Incredible Pairs") tournament as rivals El Terrible and Rush teamed together to face Atlantis and Mr. Niebla.
Since 1996 the Mexican wrestling company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) has held a show in March each year to commemorate the passing of CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth 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 El Santo, 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 Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico 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 2012 show was the 17th overall Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show.