CMLL 76th Anniversary Show
The CMLL 76th Anniversary Show (Spanish: 76. Aniversario de CMLL) was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on September 18, 2009, in Arena Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. The show celebrates the anniversary of the founding of CMLL, originally known as Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre. This year is the 76th anniversary of CMLL, the oldest professional wrestling promotion. in the world. The anniversary show is CMLL's biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual professional wrestling show, starting in 1934.
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Místico, main event winner | |||
Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) | ||
Date | September 18, 2009 | ||
City | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
Venue | Arena Mexico | ||
Attendance | 18,000 | ||
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The show featured six matches, with the main event being a Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. hair match between Místico and Negro Casas. The second featured event is an eight-man, or Atómicos match featuring a team of Mexicans facing a team of Japanese wrestlers. Team Mexico consists of Último Guerrero, Atlantis, Black Warrior and Héctor Garza. Shocker was originally scheduled to be part of the team but in the days leading up to the event, he was quietly replaced with Atlantis without announcing why. Team Japan consisted of Jushin Thunder Liger, who had traveled to Mexico for the match, No Limit (Yujiro and Naito), who had been in Mexico for several months to gain experience and finally CMLL regular Okumura. The event also featured three regular Six-man tag team matches, a six-man Mini-Estrella match, and a women's tag team match.