CMLL Día de Muertos (2020)

The CMLL Día de Muertos (2020) (Spanish for "Day of the Dead") is an upcoming professional wrestling supercard event, scripted and produced by the Mexican Lucha Libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), held to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration. The shows will take place on October 30, 2020, in CMLL's main venue, Arena México, in Mexico City, Mexico. Traditionally several wrestlers will wear the traditional Día de Muertos face and body paint for the Día de Muerto event. From around the mid-point of each show, the losing wrestlers will be dragged to El Inframundo ("The Underworld"; in actuality, a side entrance in the arena) by a group of wrestlers dressed up as minions of the ruler of the underworld. This will be the seventh year that CMLL celebrates the Día de Muertos in such a manner.

CMLL Día de Muertos (2020)
PromotionConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
DateOctober 30, 2020[1]
CityMexico City, Mexico
VenueArena México
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As part of the shows Sansón will defend the Rey del Inframundo ("King of the Underworld") championship that he won at the 2017 Día de Muertos show and successfully defended on the 2018 and 2019 shows.

Production

Background

The October 31, 2014 Día de Muertos show was the first of Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's Dia de los Muertos ("Day of the Dead") celebrations in 2014 and began a tradition of CMLL holding a major show to celebrate the Latin American holiday. As part of their Dia de los Muerte celebrations CMLL admitted all kids in costumes for free for the show.[2] CMLL held a second Dia de los Muerte celebration on Sunday November 2 as well. Both shows included the Edcanes, CMLL's ring girls and various wrestlers dressed up in traditional Día de Muertos garb. In 2014, CMLL also turned the basement of Arena México into a haunted house attraction before each show.[3] CMLL has held one or more shows to celebrate the holiday annually since 2014, with 2020 marking the seventh year in a row.[4][5][6][7]

Storylines

The 2020 Dia de Muertos shows will feature a number professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. 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.[8]

At the 2017 Día de Muertos show, Sansón outlasted El Cuatrero, Diamante Azul, Forastero, Hechicero, Mistico, Soberano Jr. and Valiente in a torneo cibernetico elimination match to become the first ever Rey del Inframundo ("King of the Underworld").[9][10] While Sansón was given a championship belt to symbolize his victory it is not a championship, but a tournament trophy that is not defended outside of the annual tournament in the vein of CMLL's Leyenda de Plata or Leyenda de Azul tournaments.[11] The following year, at the 2018 Día de Muertos show Sansón successfully defended the Rey del Inframundo championship against Templario.[4][5][6] In 2019 Sansón defended the Rey del Inframundo championship for a second time as he defeated Star Jr.[7]

Matches
No. Matches* Stipulations
1 Chamuel & Guapito defeated Atomo & Microman Best two-out-of-three falls tag team match
2 Audaz, Espíritu Negro & Rey Cometa defeated Dark Magic, Okumura & Vangellys Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match
3 Reyna Isis (c) defeated Lluvia Best two-out-of-three falls Singles match for the Mexican National Women's Championship
4 Ángel de Oro, Forastero & Niebla Roja defeated El Soberano Jr., Negro Casas & Titán Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match
5 El Terrible defeated Euforia Best two-out-of-three falls match for the CMLL Rey del Inframundo Championship
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • *Card subject to change

References
  1. VideosOficialesCMLL (September 26, 2020). "CMLL Octubre" (in Spanish). YouTube. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  2. Redaccion (October 22, 2014). "Doble festejo del Día de Muertos en el CMLL". MedioTiempoo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  3. Redaccion (October 29, 2014). "Recorrido de 'espanto' en la Arena México". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  4. Rosas Plata, Arturo (November 3, 2018). "Sansón, bicampeón del inframundo". Ovaciones (in Spanish). Archived from the original on November 4, 2018. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  5. "Sansón se mantuvo como Rey del Inframundo en el CMLL". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. November 3, 2018. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  6. Lizarraga, Alfonso (November 3, 2018). "Sansón continúa como campeón del Inframundo". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  7. @VideosOficialesCMLL (November 1, 2019). "Lucha Libre Viernes espectacular dia de muertos de Noviembre de 2019 funcion completa" (in Spanish). YouTube. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  8. 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
  9. Dark Angelita (November 10, 2017). "CMLL: Una mirada semanal al CMLL (del 2 al 8 de noviembre de 2017)". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  10. Valdés, Apolo (November 4, 2017). "Sansón se proclamó el primer Rey del Inframundo en el CMLL". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  11. "El CMLL realizará segunda edición torneo Rey del Inframundo". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. October 24, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
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