Juicio Final (1974)

Juicio Final (1974) (Spanish for "Final Judgement" 1974) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 13, 1974, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena México, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host Circo Atayde. The shows replaced the regular Super Viernes ("Super Friday") shows held by CMLL since the mid-1930s.

Juicio Final (1976)
PromotionEmpresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
DateDecember 13, 1974
CityMexico City, Mexico
VenueArena México
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In the main event Dr. Wagner and Ringo Mendoza defeated the team of Ángel Blanco and Coloso Colosetti in a best two-out-of-three falls match, which forced Ángel Blanco and Coloso Colosetti to have all their hair shaved off due to the Lucha de Apuestas stipulation. In the fifth match of the night Aníbal successfully defended the NWA World Middleweight Championship against Adorable Rubí. The show featured four additional matches, including the team of Alfonso Dantés and TNT defeating Cien Caras and Enrique Vera in the semi-main event. The outcome of the first three matches have not been confirmed, only that they were advertised.

Production

Background

For decades Arena México, the main venue of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), would close down in early December and remain closed into either January or February to allow for renovations as well as letting Circo Atayde occupy the space over the holidays. As a result, CMLL usually held a "end of the year" supercard show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal Super Viernes show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name "El Juicio Final" ("The Final Judgement") for their year-end supershow.[1][2] 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 Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".[3]

Storylines

The 1974 Juicio Final show featured seven professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that play the part of the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they perform.[4]

Results
No. Results[5] Stipulations
1D El Polaco vs. Marrio Rocca (winner unknown) Singles match
2D César Silva vs. Manuel Robles (winner unknown) Singles match
3D Paco Pardinez vs. Chino Chow (winner unknown) Singles match
4D Goro Tanaka vs. Raúl Reyes (winner unknown) Singles match
5 Aníbal (c) defeated Adorable Rubí Singles match for the NWA World Middleweight Championship
6 Alfonso Dantés and TNT defeated Cien Caras and Enrique Vera Tag team match
7 Dr. Wagner and Ringo Mendoza defeated Ángel Blanco and Coloso Colosetti Best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuestas, hair vs. hair match[6]
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • D – indicates the match was a dark match

References
  1. "EMLL Super Viernes". Wrestling Data. December 2, 1955. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  2. Salazar, Fernando (May 31, 2019). "Juicio Final nos ha regalado Luchas de Apuestas emblematicas" [Juicio Final has provided some emblematic bet matches]. Record (in Spanish). Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  3. Madigan, Dan (2007). "El nacimient de un sueño (the birth of a dream)". Mondo Lucha A Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 41–50. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  4. Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperColins Publisher. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
  5. Centinela, Teddy (December 14, 2014). "En un día como hoy... El segundo FMLL... Aníbal, gran campeón". Super Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  6. "Luchas 2000". La Dinastia Wagner (in Spanish). Juárez, Mexico: Publicaciones citem, S.A. de C.V. p. 18. Especial 23.
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