Juicio Final (1970)
Juicio Final (1970) (Spanish for "Final Judgement" 1970) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 11, 1970, 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.
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| Promotion | Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre | ||
| Date | December 11, 1970 | ||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Venue | Arena México | ||
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The focus of the 1970 Juicio Final show was a four team tag team tournament featuring the teams of La Ola Blanca (Ángel Blanco and El Solitario), Mr. Koma and Shibata Yama, Coloso Colosetti and Rene Guajardo, Aníbal and El Santo. In the main event Colosetti and Guajardy defeated Ángel Blanco and El Solitario to take the tournament. The show featured five additional matches.
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 1970 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][6] | Stipulations | |
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| 1 | Leo López defeated Greco | Singles match | |
| 2 | Rey Medina defeated Rafael Valenzuela | Singles match | |
| 3 | Índio Jerónimo defeated Chucho Villa | Singles match | |
| 4 | Vick Amezcua defeated Humberto Garza | Singles match | |
| 5 | Dr. Wagner defeated Danny Rodríguez | Singles match | |
| 6 | La Ola Blanca (Ángel Blanco and El Solitario) defeated Mr. Koma and Shibata Yama | Tag team tournament semi-final match | |
| 7 | Coloso Colosetti and Rene Guajardo defeated Aníbal and El Santo | Tag team tournament semi-final match | |
| 8 | Coloso Colosetti and Rene Guajardo defeated La Ola Blanca (Ángel Blanco and El Solitario) | Tag team tournament final match | |
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References
- "EMLL Super Viernes". Wrestling Data. December 2, 1955. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Centinela, Teddy (July 2, 2015). "En un día como hoy... Rene Guajardo y Coloso Colosetti vencedores del cuadrangular en la Arena México". Super Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 21, 2019.
- "Quien honor mercer" (in Spanish) (948). Box y Lucha. p. 28. Retrieved October 22, 2019.