CMLL 68th Anniversary Show
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The CMLL 68th Anniversary Show (Spanish: 68. Aniversario de CMLL) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced and scripted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; "World Wrestling Council") that took place on September 28, 2001 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 68th 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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Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||
Date | September 28, 2001[1] | ||
City | Mexico City, Mexico[1] | ||
Venue | Arena México[1] | ||
Attendance | 10,500[1] | ||
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The show consisted of five matches, with the main event being a Lucha de Apuestas, elimination steel cage match where all seven competitors put their mask on the line, also on the line was the right to use the name Los Infernales, the winning team would claim the name. The competitors were Último Guerrero, Rey Bucanero, Tarzan Boy, Máscara Mágica, Mephisto, Averno and El Satánico. This was the first time a CMLL Anniversary Show featured a steel cage match.
The show featured a total of four Six-man tag team matches, including a match for the Mexican National Trios Championship where Olímpico, Mr. Niebla and Safari defended the championship against the Los Boricuas team of Gran Markus Jr., Violencia and Poder Boricua.